Desperate schoolchildren caught filling pockets with food to avoid going hungry at home

[SirGalahad]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...choolchildren-caught-filling-pockets-13881509

What is going on in this country? The cuts have only pushed people into poverty - but for what benefit? Yet they want to cut further.

We are quickly unravelling all the progress made post the Wars - its truly shocking.

 

[noseall]

We bought a few bags full of groceries for a pupil at a local senior school yesterday. Some of the shoite the kids have to put up with is incredibly sad.

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

How sad is this as a nation in the uk 2017... this is something out of the Victorian age where kids went barefoot and hungry but its not only kids foodbanks are now struggling to cope and with xmas here will get worse... this could be anywhere in the uk...shame on you who voted for this lot to be in power

 

[noseall]

shame on you who voted for this lot to be in power

You will always have people that will fall through the net, so blaming the government is a bit daft. Some of these people don't now how to seek the help available to them and some are bone idle and some simply can't.
The kids bear the results of their parents' misfortune - that much is true.

 

[wwwebber]

You will always have people that will fall through the net, so blaming the government is a bit daft. Some of these people don't now how to seek the help available to them and some are bone idle and some simply can't.
The kids bear the results of their parents' misfortune - that much is true.

Exactly. Trying to shame voters in a democracy is just political point scoring and is quite sad in itself. The benefits in this country are still very generous and if kids are going hungry then I agree it's probably down to the parents and / or falling through a very generous net.

 

[HawkEye244]

Is funny though when you see someone saying they are poverty stricken with a flat screen telly and 20 + stone

 

[JohnD]

It's great to hear your country has a very generous net, wwwebber.

Which country is it?

In your country, how many weeks do people in need have to wait between asking for help and receiving it?

Here in the UK, we give £1.6 million a year to multibillionaire James Dyson, and even a parsimonious London council can find millions to subsidise an opera festival.

typing error corrected

 

[wwwebber]

It's great to hear your country has a very generous net, wwwebber.

Which country is it?

In your country, how many weeks do people in need have to wait between asking for help and receiving it?

Here in the UK, we give £1.6 billion a year to multibillionaire James Dyson, and even a parsimonious London council can find millions to subsidise an opera festival.

Some good spin there. The UK doesn't give £1.6 billion a year to multi-billionaire James Dyson, it's the EU who gives £1.6 billion a year to James Dyson's farm business via Common Agricultural Policy subsidies and is entitled to do so. In regards to the Opera thing, this is two years old and is no longer an issue.

 

[SirGalahad]

Some good spin there. The UK doesn't give £1.6 billion a year to multi-billionaire James Dyson, it's the EU who gives £1.6 billion a year to James Dyson's farm business via Common Agricultural Policy subsidies and is entitled to do so. In regards to the Opera thing, this is two years old and is no longer an issue.

Its £1.6m by the way. The fact that wasn't a egregious error is shocking.

 

[wwwebber]

Its £1.6m by the way. The fact that wasn't a egregious error is shocking.

Just replicated the error (typo ?) from another post but the sentiment of my response remains the same.

 

[SirGalahad]

Exactly. Trying to shame voters in a democracy is just political point scoring and is quite sad in itself. The benefits in this country are still very generous and if kids are going hungry then I agree it's probably down to the parents and / or falling through a very generous net.

Not when the incomes of the poorest has been cut and is still being cut. As to shaming - what about newspapers branding Judges and MPs as being against the people?

 

[JohnD]

"EU rules allow Member States to cut substantially so-called “basic payments” under the CAP to large landowners, such as most of those cited in the Greenpeace report, by applying an upper limit (ceiling). Nine Member States do so.

In the UK, such a ceiling is applied in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – with the resulting funds generated remaining in those regions for rural development projects.

The UK chooses not to apply a ceiling in England."

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheU...n-eu-rules-behind-payments-to-big-landowners/

Give money to the rich, give doughnuts to the obese.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[noseall]

Is funny though when you see someone saying they are poverty stricken with a flat screen telly and 20 + stone

Some of these kids just see misery the entire time they are in the home. You may attribute wealth to a flat screen tele and an x-box. However, these poor kids look at other children as more fortunate than themselves because they have both parents together, they have parents that don't drink (excessively) or take drugs, they take their kids on holiday or to sports functions, they show an interest in their schoolwork and attend parents evenings together. And they do all this irrespective of what they earn.

Poor old Hawk may die childless one day and will have missed an opportunity to see what life is all about.

 

[^woody^]

I suspect that teacher is the head of drama

 

[wwwebber]

I suspect that teacher is the head of drama

Haha, yes !

Whoever heard of school using their budget for charitable purposes ???. They're obviously getting too much money and the new formula will strip them of some of this and now the lefties are whining of "cuts". Those kids might also be stealing food because they're thieves and nothing more !. Poor journalism.