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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 10:54:03 GMT
The issue of income distribution and relative poverty has been discussed ad infinitum. The need for food banks equally so, with suggestion that they are being abused and therefore the need overstated. Interesting then that the Government should come out with this. "Up to 1.5 million more children in England should get free school meals to help tackle a growing crisis of food poverty and unhealthy eating, according to a blueprint billed as the first national food strategy since war rationing." And "The author of the strategy, the Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby, said Covid-19 had highlighted stark economic, health and nutritional inequalities which are set to be made worse by the pandemic’s economic fallout. He warned that “the wave of unemployment now rushing towards us is likely to create a sharp rise in food insecurity and outright hunger”. The report also covers the impact of climate change and food labelling. Link to the media report on it here www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/29/huge-growth-in-free-school-meals-urged-to-tackle-food-poverty-crisisMakes you feel proud to be British doesn’t it? Putting the “Great” back in “‘Great’ Britain” In other completely unrelated news more profit than ever before is going in CEO’s pockets. And now here’s Gassy with the weather..... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 11:10:00 GMT
The issue of income distribution and relative poverty has been discussed ad infinitum. The need for food banks equally so, with suggestion that they are being abused and therefore the need overstated. Interesting then that the Government should come out with this. "Up to 1.5 million more children in England should get free school meals to help tackle a growing crisis of food poverty and unhealthy eating, according to a blueprint billed as the first national food strategy since war rationing." And "The author of the strategy, the Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby, said Covid-19 had highlighted stark economic, health and nutritional inequalities which are set to be made worse by the pandemic’s economic fallout. He warned that “the wave of unemployment now rushing towards us is likely to create a sharp rise in food insecurity and outright hunger”. The report also covers the impact of climate change and food labelling. Link to the media report on it here www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/29/huge-growth-in-free-school-meals-urged-to-tackle-food-poverty-crisisMakes you feel proud to be British doesn’t it? Putting the “Great” back in “‘Great’ Britain” In other completely unrelated news more profit than ever before is going in CEO’s pockets. And now here’s Gassy with the weather..... Gassy Member of the European Jet Set.😱😂 But to the point you make...yep. |
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Post by William Wilson on Jul 29, 2020 11:11:40 GMT
Four years working for the NAAFI in Germany. Does that count? Honary Member.....😀👍 Lost a weekend of my life in Detmold some while back....thanks to the AAC and not a few steins of frothy liquid. Probably wouldn’t last the first hour or two now.....🤪 Worked in Detmold. And Paderborn, RAF Gutersloh, Bielefeld. And many more. Was based mainly in Hohne. Had some great times up in Hamburg. Football, alcohol, loose women... what more could a man ask for? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 12:15:46 GMT
The issue of income distribution and relative poverty has been discussed ad infinitum. The need for food banks equally so, with suggestion that they are being abused and therefore the need overstated. Interesting then that the Government should come out with this. "Up to 1.5 million more children in England should get free school meals to help tackle a growing crisis of food poverty and unhealthy eating, according to a blueprint billed as the first national food strategy since war rationing." And "The author of the strategy, the Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby, said Covid-19 had highlighted stark economic, health and nutritional inequalities which are set to be made worse by the pandemic’s economic fallout. He warned that “the wave of unemployment now rushing towards us is likely to create a sharp rise in food insecurity and outright hunger”. The report also covers the impact of climate change and food labelling. Link to the media report on it here www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/29/huge-growth-in-free-school-meals-urged-to-tackle-food-poverty-crisisWhy do so many people continue to have kids if they cannot afford to raise them properly? I presume an assumption that the state will just pay for everything? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 12:59:07 GMT
The issue of income distribution and relative poverty has been discussed ad infinitum. The need for food banks equally so, with suggestion that they are being abused and therefore the need overstated. Interesting then that the Government should come out with this. "Up to 1.5 million more children in England should get free school meals to help tackle a growing crisis of food poverty and unhealthy eating, according to a blueprint billed as the first national food strategy since war rationing." And "The author of the strategy, the Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby, said Covid-19 had highlighted stark economic, health and nutritional inequalities which are set to be made worse by the pandemic’s economic fallout. He warned that “the wave of unemployment now rushing towards us is likely to create a sharp rise in food insecurity and outright hunger”. The report also covers the impact of climate change and food labelling. Link to the media report on it here www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/29/huge-growth-in-free-school-meals-urged-to-tackle-food-poverty-crisisWhy do so many people continue to have kids if they cannot afford to raise them properly? I presume an assumption that the state will just pay for everything? There is a debate to be had on that topic. The trouble is it floats dangerously close to Eugenics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 13:04:32 GMT
Why do so many people continue to have kids if they cannot afford to raise them properly? I presume an assumption that the state will just pay for everything? There is a debate to be had on that topic. The trouble is it floats dangerously close to Eugenics. If having children is limited to how much money you have then the world is f**ked. The question should be why can't people afford to have as many kids as they want? Or why is it perceived that poor people are bad parents? I'd say bad politics. |
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Post by baggins on Jul 29, 2020 13:34:23 GMT
There is a debate to be had on that topic. The trouble is it floats dangerously close to Eugenics. If having children is limited to how much money you have then the world is f**ked. The question should be why can't people afford to have as many kids as they want? Or why is it perceived that poor people are bad parents? I'd say bad politics. Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? |
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Post by Marshy on Jul 29, 2020 13:57:39 GMT
If having children is limited to how much money you have then the world is f**ked. The question should be why can't people afford to have as many kids as they want? Or why is it perceived that poor people are bad parents? I'd say bad politics. Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? That is correct you are only allowed 3, one of each. |
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Post by baggins on Jul 29, 2020 14:41:50 GMT
Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? That is correct you are only allowed 3, one of each. Boy, Girl, Hugo? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 17:30:50 GMT
The issue of income distribution and relative poverty has been discussed ad infinitum. The need for food banks equally so, with suggestion that they are being abused and therefore the need overstated. Interesting then that the Government should come out with this. "Up to 1.5 million more children in England should get free school meals to help tackle a growing crisis of food poverty and unhealthy eating, according to a blueprint billed as the first national food strategy since war rationing." And "The author of the strategy, the Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby, said Covid-19 had highlighted stark economic, health and nutritional inequalities which are set to be made worse by the pandemic’s economic fallout. He warned that “the wave of unemployment now rushing towards us is likely to create a sharp rise in food insecurity and outright hunger”. The report also covers the impact of climate change and food labelling. Link to the media report on it here www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/29/huge-growth-in-free-school-meals-urged-to-tackle-food-poverty-crisisWhy do so many people continue to have kids if they cannot afford to raise them properly? I presume an assumption that the state will just pay for everything? It’s certainly an uncomfortable truth that times have changed, the cost of housing has gone through the roof (pun unintended) and so accordingly has the cost of raising a child. I think we are living in an era where having a child is not really a right any more and women should be thinking long and hard “is it fair on the child to bring them up in poverty” never mind the effect on the environment. The reason they continue to have kids is because their biological imperative makes them inherently selfish- their body tells them “I want a kid” so “I *will* have a kid” even though the child is likely to be highly disadvantaged. The issue I have is when the parents don’t stop at one and bring 2 or even 3 and 4 into a world where the parents are already unable to give the children they do have a comfortable lifestyle. There is a reality TV family with 22 kids, all borne by one woman! She is getting loads of help from the state because she had most of them before limits were brought in on how many kids you could claim child benefit for. It’s tricky because we have an ageing population and need more people coming through to bear the tax and state pension burden of tomorrow but by the same token it seems a lot of money is being paid out on housing benefit and family tax credits and the like to help support families who really should not have had as many kids as they have. Of course all this is easy to say as a childless person myself, but it’s been hard enough just steering my own course through life. I did want kids in my early 30’s but glad I’m glad as hell now that I never got the chance. |
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Post by scoobydoogas on Jul 29, 2020 18:50:43 GMT
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Post by William Wilson on Jul 30, 2020 6:58:46 GMT
Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? That is correct you are only allowed 3, one of each. 3? One of each?? You don`t want to go writing that on Twitter. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 7:42:25 GMT
If having children is limited to how much money you have then the world is f**ked. The question should be why can't people afford to have as many kids as they want? Or why is it perceived that poor people are bad parents? I'd say bad politics. Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? 2 I think. Believe the global average was around 4 when the one child plan was introduced. The birthrate in europe is 1 now I believe. The next big export trade is expected to be people, so if the global birth rate drops as expected, china may put it back up to four! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 8:19:56 GMT
Isn't there a child limit in China, or somewhere like that? 2 I think. Believe the global average was around 4 when the one child plan was introduced. The birthrate in europe is 1 now I believe. The next big export trade is expected to be people, so if the global birth rate drops as expected, china may put it back up to four! Look at the forecast for Japan.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 8:28:48 GMT
This, a view from Ireland, made me laugh. "It’s this sense of political unseriousness that seems the most marked difference between the two places, and it says less about the “enviable beauty” of Ireland’s system than about Britain’s further slide into a fact-averse, consequence-free banana republic of malevolent toffs. This style of politics had ruinous effects on the Brexit referendum and the subsequent EU negotiations, and has now become criminally disastrous in a pandemic that’s costing many more lives in Britain than their nearest neighbour." 😂😂😂😂 Full article www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/29/ireland-utopia-neighbour-gurning-claptrapocracy-coronavirus-uk-mess |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 17:01:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 6:43:44 GMT
Very odd story with the suspected Tory MP rapist, seems like it has been covered up for a month by rees-mogg and another, and the MP hasn't been suspended. Reminiscent of the disgusting Jimmy Saville situation that was hushed for years, and probably Prince Andrew. It shows how corrupted the establishment is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53630497 |
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Post by scoobydoogas on Aug 3, 2020 11:16:42 GMT
Very odd story with the suspected Tory MP rapist, seems like it has been covered up for a month by rees-mogg and another, and the MP hasn't been suspended. Reminiscent of the disgusting Jimmy Saville situation that was hushed for years, and probably Prince Andrew. It shows how corrupted the establishment is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53630497Where exactly does it say that JRM has covered it up? The last paragraph of your link clearly states that he advised the claimant to contact the police. That is not covering it up. Whether or not there were internal questions being raised within the Tory party is not something that is likely to be disclosed. Also, if the claimant has gone to the police then what should the Tory party do until the police have decided whether there is a case to answer? They are hardly going to release names and suspend someone until the police have made a decision.
The only point you seem to have a case to moan about is that the Tory party have not suspended the MP now that he has been formally arrested on suspicion of rape. For what its worth I think he should have been suspended.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 13:40:28 GMT
Very odd story with the suspected Tory MP rapist, seems like it has been covered up for a month by rees-mogg and another, and the MP hasn't been suspended. Reminiscent of the disgusting Jimmy Saville situation that was hushed for years, and probably Prince Andrew. It shows how corrupted the establishment is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53630497Morality has never seemed to apply to the Tory party, Thatcher knighted paedophiles after all so we shouldn’t expect anything less now. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 13:42:53 GMT
This, a view from Ireland, made me laugh. "It’s this sense of political unseriousness that seems the most marked difference between the two places, and it says less about the “enviable beauty” of Ireland’s system than about Britain’s further slide into a fact-averse, consequence-free banana republic of malevolent toffs. This style of politics had ruinous effects on the Brexit referendum and the subsequent EU negotiations, and has now become criminally disastrous in a pandemic that’s costing many more lives in Britain than their nearest neighbour." 😂😂😂😂 Full article www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/29/ireland-utopia-neighbour-gurning-claptrapocracy-coronavirus-uk-mess“ a fact-averse, consequence-free banana republic of malevolent toffs” What a depressingly appropriate summation of modern Britain. |
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