Government reject free school meals over October holidays

The "Red Wall" Tories were all parachuted in to run in seats that they were never expected to win, like putting one of the yoofs in the Carabou Cup team, to gain experience. Their loyalty is going to be unquestioning, they pretty much know by now that they will lose their seats in the next GE, their hope being that the next seat that they run for after that is in an area where they can be secure. Thus is their acquiescence assured.
 
Muttley said:
Let's just take a minute to praise the five Tory MPs with a conscience

Caroline Ansell (Eastbourne)
Robert Halfon (Harlow)
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley)
Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot)
Holly Mumby-Croft (Scunthorpe)

Proof that not all Tories are scum.
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Careful Mutley, the lady deputy speaker will be along in a minute to admonish you
 
Can anyone see a pattern here? Surely this cant be just coincidence?

North East MPs who voted to support the measure
Nicholas Brown (Newcastle East) - Labour
Alan Campbell (Tynemouth) - Labour
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central) - Labour
Mary Kelly Foy (City of Durham) - Labour
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) - Labour
Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West) - Labour
Kevan Jones (North Durham) - Labour
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck) - Labour
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields) - Labour
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle North) - Labour
Ian Mearns (Gateshead) - Labour
Grahame Morris (Easington) - Labour
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Central) - Labour
Kate Osborne (Jarrow) - Labour
Liz Twist (Blaydon) - Labour

North East MPs who voted against the measure
Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland) - Conservative
Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) - Conservative
Guy Opperman (Hexham) - Conservative
Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed) - Conservative
Peter Gibson (Darlington) - Conservative
Paul Howell (Sedgefield) - Conservative

the only Tory who didn't vote against was North West Durham's Richard Holden - he didn't cast a vote at all
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
And then there is this Tory MP In the Chamber this evening.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1318972934103367681
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I can't say on here how this makes me feel!! I was on free school meals as a child. Yes my Dad didn't take responsibility, he was an alcoholic, who subsequently lost his job and was imprisoned. My Mam and Dad divorced and she worked whenever she could to help us out but even that wasn't enough. I remember during the teachers strike all my friends going home and I was left at school for the whole of lunchtime (which, when you are alone, feels like forever). If it wasn't for my Grandparents helping out I don't know where she would have got the money to feed me and my brother through the holidays.
 
Finny, what happens with governments enacting change is they try not to effect too many of their core support at any one time. They do it stealthily and over time.

This, along with the rise in food banks and the targeting of those on benefits has and will be forgotten, unfortunately.
 
hewielewie said:
I can't say on here how this makes me feel!! I was on free school meals as a child. Yes my Dad didn't take responsibility, he was an alcoholic, who subsequently lost his job and was imprisoned. My Mam and Dad divorced and she worked whenever she could to help us out but even that wasn't enough. I remember during the teachers strike all my friends going home and I was left at school for the whole of lunchtime (which, when you are alone, feels like forever). If it wasn't for my Grandparents helping out I don't know where she would have got the money to feed me and my brother through the holidays.
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Not too dissimilar to my situation as a child Hewie, except no help from grandparents. We were lucky, you and I, we had one great parent, which is, unfortunately, more than some children have.
 
coluka said:
Disappointing but not unexpected. If I was Marcus Rashford, I would refuse the MBE in light of this decision. I now feel it was awarded as a typically cynical move by the Government to make themselves look good in the eyes of the public and hope it would shut him up when they withdraw the service a few weeks later. He has been cynically exploited, played like a Government puppet for a temporary good news story by Johnson, Cummings et al in my view.

My respect will rise even further for Rashford, were he to have the will to reject the ‘honour’ in light of recent events.
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I think this is the best post I've ever read on here. !00% agree with you Coluka.
 
Scotland - free school meals during Xmas hols

Wales - free school meals during Xmas hols

N Ireland - free school meals during Xmas hols

Tory England - let them starve
 
Pog we aint starving them, we are just refusing to nationalise them, very different thing.. Oh hang on a minute...
 
1finny said:
Just a bunch of nasty firkers who need booting out by the voters.
We should not forget this
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Artie Fufkin said:
Can anyone see a pattern here? Surely this cant be just coincidence?

North East MPs who voted to support the measure
Nicholas Brown (Newcastle East) - Labour
Alan Campbell (Tynemouth) - Labour
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central) - Labour
Mary Kelly Foy (City of Durham) - Labour
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) - Labour
Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West) - Labour
Kevan Jones (North Durham) - Labour
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck) - Labour
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields) - Labour
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle North) - Labour
Ian Mearns (Gateshead) - Labour
Grahame Morris (Easington) - Labour
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Central) - Labour
Kate Osborne (Jarrow) - Labour
Liz Twist (Blaydon) - Labour

North East MPs who voted against the measure
Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland) - Conservative
Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) - Conservative
Guy Opperman (Hexham) - Conservative
Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed) - Conservative
Peter Gibson (Darlington) - Conservative
Paul Howell (Sedgefield) - Conservative

the only Tory who didn't vote against was North West Durham's Richard Holden - he didn't cast a vote at all
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Seems teesside is no longer part of the north east?
 
The voting alone is disgusting enough. 6 rebels? Just 6? Feck me it's becoming less like a democracy and more like a dictatorship every day. If there are only 6 for something like this there'll be even fewer for less emotive issues that are still clearly morally repugnant. They should be ashamed.

As for some of the comments by some of them like the scumbag from Bassetlaw. Sickening.

The sad thing is it was all so predictable if people could be bothered to think before voting. Johnson and his government didn't exactly hide what they were like. Some of the country has the government it deserves. Shame about everyone else.
 
festa5 said:
The voting alone is disgusting enough. 6 rebels? Just 6? Feck me it's becoming less like a democracy and more like a dictatorship every day. If there are only 6 for something like this there'll be even fewer for less emotive issues that are still clearly morally repugnant. They should be ashamed.

As for some of the comments by some of them like the scumbag from Bassetlaw. Sickening.

The sad thing is it was all so predictable if people could be bothered to think before voting. Johnson and his government didn't exactly hide what they were like. Some of the country has the government it deserves. Shame about everyone else.
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I guess they're 'getting their country back', right?!
 
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