Top bloke.
The Tories have handled this terribly. A lot showing their true colours again.
I wonder what would happen if we could have an election this year?
+1
Very impressive chap!
He should be congratulated. I await his character assassination in the ring wing press. It also underlines the governments priorities; first response is NO CHANCE followed by massive u turn when someone with any morals or depth points out the obvious right answer.
I saw him being interviewed during a footie tournament a couple of years ago, along with some of his peers (including Jesse Lingard and Raheem Sterling).
Every single one of them came across so well, as well adjusted, thinking young men, that it went some way to changing my opinion of footie players generally.
I say that as a grumpy old man, with a low opinion of footballers (fed, no doubt, by a few "bad apples") and I now applaud these guys for standing up for things they believe in and care about.
Was reading on news about him, certainly not your stereotypical football, good on him!
I wonder what would happen if we could have an election this year?
The pigshit thick scum would vote the tories in again (with the help of the selfish of course)
But on your main point... yes Marcus well done that man.
good on him
Excellent stuff, good man.
Regarding the Tories, I thought Grant Shapps (or whatever name he's currently using) let slip something interesting on This Morning today. When questioned on financial assistance for both furloughed and self-employed workers, he was keen to point out how the government has "gone out of its way" to put measures together etc.
Sounds minor doesn't it, but think about it - isn't protecting vulnerable people not EXACTLY what a government should be doing, therefore not in the least "out of its way"?
Yes, well done Marcus.
Showing johnson and his clown circus what a moral conscience looks like in action.
How will they attempt to spin this massive u-turn?
Initial response was that councils could cover costs out of £63 million allocated previously; now a new £117 million is made available.
So the £63 mill would have covered c50% of costs IF ALL of it had been extended to cover the free school meals scheme through summer hols; what about other commitments it was intended to support?
Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher.
I'm not sure if today's spineless/even-less-prinicpled Tories are better or worse.
he was keen to point out how the government has “gone out of its way” to put measures together etc.
They haven't gone out of their way to help people who run their own Ltd companies etc. but that shouldn't detract from what this post is about. Marcus Rashford, well done sir!
I’m not sure if today’s spineless/even-less-prinicpled Tories are better or worse.
I was discussing this the other day. IMO they are worse.
Thatcher at least worked hard. BJ does the least he can get away with.
Yep, fair play to him. Big efforts have also been made by Premier League players, led by Jordan Henderson, to donate millions to the NHS.
I’m not sure if today’s spineless/even-less-prinicpled Tories are better or worse.
Worse. They don't even have a set of (admittedly shitty) principles that guides their evilness, they're all just naked and cynical opportunism.
Sounds minor doesn’t it, but think about it – isn’t protecting vulnerable people not EXACTLY what a government should be doing, therefore not in the least “out of its way”?
That sounds a lot like Socialism to me!
The purpose of a Tory Government is to line its own pockets, preferably by exploiting the vulnerable, as that makes them feel good.
Great to see someone putting their money where their mouth is. Also good to see someone stay true to their roots and talk so openly about their own upbringing and how they themselves relied on free school meals.
Anyway... that's all well and good, but the really important question is...
Is he fit again for Friday? 😉
Good on him, cracking work.
Tories have played this terribly but then why should anybody be surprised by this.
James O'Brien made a good point earlier on when he pointed out that the people who bang on about immigration and looking after our own are the same people who seem to object to looking after vulnerable kids, i.e. actually looking after our own.
I guess what they mean by looking after our own is looking out for yourself.
The Tories really are deplorable.
James O’Brien made a good point earlier on when he pointed out that the people who bang on about immigration and looking after our own are the same people who seem to object to looking after vulnerable kids, i.e. actually looking after our own.
The Daily Mash nailed this a few years ago:
We need to look after our own first, say people who would never help anyone
I guess it is currently relevant to discuss also how footballers are represented in the media, working class inner city kids with inner city accents, frequently black, the media love to portray them as thick and undeserving of success, this is one of the things with BLM, to realise our biases which are based on conditioning by society and media.
Yet you barely have to dig below the surface to find out as a group, actually how much they frequently do for charity, to support the areas they grew up in and local children's hospitals etc, in fact it is now usually considered as part of the job. Far more than the city traders, investors and the real power brokers who own politics.
Also a good interview with Troy Deanie the other day, bringing up the "look a squirrel" criticism from bojo and chums when covid was kicking off.
Was reading on news about him, certainly not your stereotypical footballer
Nail - head; you even used the right word "a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing"
Your average footballer probably doesn't fit a lot of people's stereotypical image of the average footballer.
What’s the betting this wasn’t exactly what Matt Hancock had in mind when he said footballers would ‘have to play their part’?
The Mash nails it yet again
****ing footballers have more claim to moral high ground than government
I'd take issue with the 'typical footballers' stereotype too. They get used as whipping boys by a sniffy establishment-defending media because they're generally working-class kids who have the temerity to earn loads of money. Becoming a premiership footballer also takes an incredible amount of hard work, dedication and determination, as well as talemt, and that undermines the Daily Mails portrayal of the working class as ****less layabouts who spend all day smoking lambert and butler in front of their huge telly's
Marina Hyde wrote an article about the governments shambolic handling of the Coronavius crisis and signed it off by saying 'at the end of the day it'll probably end up being Raheem Sterlings fault'
As for johnson being better or worse than Thatcher....worse by a huge distance; bereft of ideas, dim, no loyalty, an opportunistic liar, has no vision, no conviction, does not understand the meaning of hard work, scared of being challenged hence the sycophantic clown circus around him, visibly wears the 'entitlement' he thinks his background and education give him.
Arrogant, ignorant, odious, incompetent.
That should do for starters.
Well I'm glad the government are now making policy based on a letter from Marcus Rashford rather than only relying as they have up until now on the letters they have been receiving from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales.
You've got to admire Marcus as much as you have to despair at the fact that we now live in a country where it takes this to make sure kids can have one decent meal a day.
I’d take issue with the ‘typical footballers’ stereotype too. They get used as whipping boys by a sniffy establishment-defending media because they’re generally working-class kids who have the temerity to earn loads of money.
There's plenty on here that go along with that stereo typing.
Yet you barely have to dig below the surface to find out as a group, actually how much they frequently do for charity, to support the areas they grew up in and local children’s hospitals etc, in fact it is now usually considered as part of the job. Far more than the city traders, investors and the real power brokers who own politics.
Absolutely. I know one high profile player that has given 10% of his income straight to charity since his first professional pay packet. He has further charity involvement & has done a fair bit helping local causes & NHS workers during this pandemic.
Many clubs have some form of charity going - I've helped out a bit with the Palace For Life Foundation whose work in the community is amazing. The players not only help financially but many give a good chunk of their time to make projects work & to help local services such as Crisis & a number of food banks - it's most obvious what it means to those that are local lads too.
Perhaps more of them should take centre stage like MR did & we might see much more positive change in the UK.
Another very pointed article by Marina Hyde.
It's worth adding that when hancock was having a pop at footballers about taking a pay cut - and before cummings blocked ministers from appearing on GMB - piers morgan, yes him again - asked hancock if he would take a pay cut; lead by example and all that and follow the lead of NZs government, hancock laughed and said no.
Morgan then pulled him up for laughing at a serious subject.
Prior to CV19 I had no time for Morgan but his twitter feed is worth dipping into for him berating johnson and his acolytes; also v critical of trump.
It’s worth adding that when hancock was having a pop at footballers about taking a pay cut – and before cummings blocked ministers from appearing on GMB – piers morgan, yes him again – asked hancock if he would take a pay cut; lead by example and all that and follow the lead of NZs government, hancock laughed and said no.
You couldn't make it up, no effort to hide contempt for everyone except themselves.....
And yes Piers Morgan is looking quite angelic compared to the current crop of Tories, which is quite incredible....
I hate how Coronavirus results in my repeatedly agreeing with Piers Bloody Morgan
Joris Bohnson is now publicly praising Marus Rashford
He really is a totally shameless *!!!
This morning he was as good as telling him to * off!
Joris Bohnson is now publicly praising Marus Rashford
He really is a totally shameless ****!!!
Good quote about him "BJ is the sort of person who looks to see which way the wind is blowing and then shouts 'follow me'."
He stands for nothing except his own personal enrichment.
About a month ago Keir Starmer asked him to reconsider the decision to stop free meals but Boris refused, the only reason he has capitulated today is due to his fear of losing any more of his rapidly dwindling popularity - he doesnt give a flying **** about providing meals out of a sense of decency
Kthopkins stared down the bottom of the barrel today and decided to go deeper
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1272917139054374913?s=19
A very slow painful death is to good for that ****
Lol
https://twitter.com/WeahsCousin/status/1272871322935271424?s=19
Not sure it surprises me that a man who doesn't know how many children he has is worried about other children going hungry.
Still fair play to Marcus Rashford
Rashford had come out of this looking very good, and I'm expecting the Press to be looking for dirt to dish in return.
Most footballers are involved in local charity work, either on their own or part of the club. Several lower League clubs round here were delivering food parcels to vulnerable people, phoning those were isolated for a chat. Yes it's partly PR, more importantly it was the right thing to do.
Easy to forget that very few of these top players were born with a silver spoon - they've worked hard, risked a lot, to make it big. Sadly we only hear about ones who go off the rails.
I expect Cummings has his mates in the Sun, mail, Telegraph, Guido etc going thru rashfords bins right now
I hope this finally exposes Johnson, the country is in genuine strife & were seeing stronger leadership from Man U strikers than our own prime minister
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I’ve been so impressed with Marcus Rashford in all of this and I was “over the moon” for him and those 1.3 million children that he’s helped.
To be fair to BJ, he had only just heard about Rashfords campaign recently...... only today in fact...... 🙄
Good to see he’s got his finger on the pulse of national news and affairs...
What a crock of bullshite
Only heard about it today?
A likely story
He must genuinely think we’ve all just fallen out of a ****ing tree. It’s just an insult to everyone’s intelligence to be played for mugs to such an obvious degree. They’re not even bothering to pretend they give a shit
“gone out of its way” to put measures together etc.
Some have made a mistake on their SA form with HMRC and received nothing as a result. Revenue know that the claimant is self-employed but because they have completed the PAYE section "computer says no". There is a policy decision to shaft them all and then chase for missing class 4 contributions.
Great news. It seems he's been quite busy recently, apparently he's been learning sign language as he got asked to judge a poetry competition at a deaf school and the kids were doing PE with him on Cbeebies the other day!
I do wish however that these threads wouldn't just disappear into a slagging match rather than concentrate on the good thing that's happened. As he says:-
He’s now my favourite footballer.
I went to secondary school in a wealthy tourist/market town and stood in a queue of 2 for my strip of ‘tickets of shame’ on Monday morning in my half mast trousers.
Got something in my eye this afternoon..
The petition in support of Rashford's campaign had c260,000 signatures when johnson climbed down.
Does he really expect us to believe he wasn't aware of a petition of that size on a subject which was dominating the news?
Wonder if the OED will be amending the definition of turd to read johnson.
What's so impressive is the calm and dignified way he's gone about it, no shouting or yelling or just wanting to be right while claiming others are wrong. He's just said look there is a real problem here and I'd like you to take another look at it and see if you can't find a way to help.He seems to understand that what you actually need to do in life is get the people who are opposing you to agree with you not to grandstand your rightness to those who already agree with you.
avdave, that's why Rashford is demonstrably a much better person than johnson in rvery respect - behaviour, attitude, empathy and basic human understanding.
Only heard about it today?
A likely story
I absolutely believe he is that out of touch, sorry.
I don’t know why he would drop in a comment like that. Either way he looks bad - a liar or out of touch. If brains were dynamite, he wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
Fake account ^
The lies and propoganda have reached Trump levels already
Daniel Rashford
https://twitter.com/CSFarman/status/1273137561708498947?s=20
I found out today
https://twitter.com/fleetstreetfox/status/1273017312778600448?s=20
It might be a better short/medium term solution just to assume that anything this government says is a lie and everything it does is designed to screw over the population or line their own pockets.
And yes, I apprecaite it is a shame to think of a government like that.
Just read on the BBC that it is approx £15 per week per child. Is there any charity that we could pay into that would go direct to feeding children?
I pay into a similar one for children in Africa, but more than happy to do the same for this country.
My only niggle is that I’m not very trusting of charities. Would need to be completely transparent so we can ensure the money goes to where it’s needed.
WOODster the short answer should be by paying into society through general taxation. But that would be some kind of communist hell and Clearly beneath one of the richest countries in the world.
So given where we are the trusseltrust for food banks is a good place to start.
It's good to know we still have a functioning government, I'm just surprised it's a footballer, that's all