That wasn’t my point, nor yours in your original Post Nor the thing that I was responding to from that post. How about you try that again and lose the whataboutism hun.

 

 

I shall not discuss my personal circumstances as they are nothing to do with the subject being discussed.

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

 

Hm, because if you have a starving child your first thought is "I must get some beer in". Sure there will be exceptions (amplified in the majority of the media who are on the side of the crony capitalists) but the majority will not- surely it would be a lot easier to just make Universal Credit more generous.

Hm, because if you have a starving child your first thought is "I must get some beer in". Sure there will be exceptions (amplified in the majority of the media who are on the side of the crony capitalists) but the majority will not- surely it would be a lot easier to just make Universal Credit more generous.

 

 

Yes I think all benefits should be far more generous.

 

So glad we agree on something at last. :)

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That bottom pic is disgusting and someone should send it to the PM and Williamson. A measly piece of carrot like that and how much is one carrot? A few pence. Should be at least a whole pepper and tomato or two.

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I shall not discuss my personal circumstances as they are nothing to do with the subject being discussed.

Except that it is when you chose to take pot shots at people who receive these parcels. Watch your words because it’s far for it to slide to go from free school meals being treated as you suggest to all benefit claimants (that means you) because that is how Tories Tory.

Why do they even half the pepper like?

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

 

Oh, I do love these moments where your mask slips.

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

 

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You do realise that this contract, bunged to Tory donors, has seen the rich profit from the tax payer FAR MORE than the odd person PERHAPS buying a packet of fags alongside food for their children, right? Your poor-bashing hypothetical is just that: hypothetical. The real, concrete facts are that poor families are being deprived of food needed to feed their families, and the rich are profiting from YET ANOTHRR Tory bung during a pandemic. It is shameful profiteering, and all so some far-right daily mail commentators can't bitch and whine in the comments about feeding poor children. They'd much rather the money went on something like, oh, I don't know, lower taxes for the obscenely rich, nuclear weapons, or champagne and restaurants for the obscenely rich and privileged disco citizens rotten Tory mps :) Feed our children and not the pockets of the Tory donors.

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It pains me that Piers Morgan is still one of the few journalists to ask 'difficult' questions and not move on until there is an answer.

 

Matt Hancock remains utterly terrible.

 

 

Omg this bunch of f*** ups aren’t even good at what they’re supposed to be good at. Why is it so difficult for them to admit that they made mistakes?

Omg this bunch of f*** ups aren’t even good at what they’re supposed to be good at. Why is it so difficult for them to admit that they made mistakes?

 

I think in his heart of hearts he doesn't believe he actually was wrong, that's why he wouldn't say it.

 

He really is a weapons-grade C U Next Tuesday.

In an interview with Iain Dale on LBC, former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, a Keir Starmer supporter, says she believes Boris or whoever is the Tory leader will win the next election.

 

She thinks Starmer's good but a sort of caretaker leader, like another Neil Kinnock really who won't become PM. I agree with her.

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In an interview with Iain Dale on LBC, former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, a Keir Starmer supporter, says she believes Boris or whoever is the Tory leader will win the next election.

 

She thinks Starmer's good but a sort of caretaker leader, like another Neil Kinnock really who won't become PM. I agree with her.

 

Given the boundaries will be redrawn between now and 2024 to advantage the Tories even more favourably, I'd say it was very likely. Especially if a new leader is in place by 2024 which I think they will be.

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Three members have now resigned due to the government creating a 'hostile environment' for LGBTQ+ people — the country really is going in an increasingly worrying and more socially conservative direction, as much as the Tories will pretend otherwise. Liz Truss doesn't have a clue.

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Their true colours coming out again it seems. This was their traditional view of it no matter what Cameron did regarding equal marriage, the hawks are back!

Their true colours coming out again it seems. This was their traditional view of it no matter what Cameron did regarding equal marriage, the hawks are back!

 

Exactly!! Remember the BBTory promoting Christian ninister views r.e marriage when Cameron went for marriage equality, or the right wing rags gleefully reporting on Tories or Dave Cameron's mam complaining about it? Nasty, nasty, vile party.

Their true colours coming out again it seems. This was their traditional view of it no matter what Cameron did regarding equal marriage, the hawks are back!

 

It definitely is. It really grinds my gears when I hear anyone say the Tories are responsible for equal marriage, despite the fact more of their MPs voted against it rather than for (139/132)

It definitely is. It really grinds my gears when I hear anyone say the Tories are responsible for equal marriage, despite the fact more of their MPs voted against it rather than for (139/132)

And it was Lynne Featherstone, a Lib Dem minister, who led on that, not Cameron.

Labour should have done it under Blair and not just tip-toed around it with civil partnerships, separate but equal. What even happened to those anyway - do they still exist but only for same sex couples?

Labour should have done it under Blair and not just tip-toed around it with civil partnerships, separate but equal. What even happened to those anyway - do they still exist but only for same sex couples?

Civil partnerships still exist and are now also available for mixed-sex couples. Realistically, I think the Blair government was right not to go for full marriage rights at the time. Public opinion changed a lot in between the two. Civil Partnerships were opposed by a majority of the electorate but the move to equal marriage had majority support.