Marcus Rashford lobbying govt to help vulnerable children

The amount of benefit is more than generous to provide three square meals a day Ric unless mum and dad are not budgeting sufficiently. By that I mean priorities and so where as a parent do they lie. And your utility bill example comes after feeding the kids. Its a safety net and a good one at that. We can do some hypothetical calculi if you wish... Our country looks after our infirm, more so our disabled and our children that remain our countries future.

Absolutely stop foreign aid in inverted comas.. as my country men come before the overseas help and assistance. We come first...they come second.
I was on the dole for 4 years. It is not enough.
 
The amount of benefit is more than generous to provide three square meals a day Ric unless mum and dad are not budgeting sufficiently. By that I mean priorities and so where as a parent do they lie. And your utility bill example comes after feeding the kids. Its a safety net and a good one at that. We can do some hypothetical calculi if you wish... Our country looks after our infirm, more so our disabled and our children that remain our countries future.

Absolutely stop foreign aid in inverted comas.. as my country men come before the overseas help and assistance. We come first...they come second.
Have you ever had to feed, say, a family of five on Universal Credit? I suspect it’s not as easy as you suggest, especially once you start to factor in new clothes, shoes etc for the children amongst other essentials. All too easy to demonise the most vulnerable for “not budgeting sufficiently” rather than giving them the help they actually need.
 
I was on the dole for 4 years. It is not enough.
But I wager you still fed your kids. It's not enough mate and of that I agree but it is a safety net until such time as you can secure work. A balance has to be metered out wherbye those in gainful employement cannot be seen to be worse of than those not working. Universal credit means better off in work. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that.
 
But I wager you still fed your kids. It's not enough mate and of that I agree but it is a safety net until such time as you can secure work. A balance has to be metered out wherbye those in gainful employement cannot be seen to be worse of than those not working. Universal credit means better off in work. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that.
No I couldn't. I relied on moonlighting and charity.
 
Have you ever had to feed, say, a family of five on Universal Credit? I suspect it’s not as easy as you suggest, especially once you start to factor in new clothes, shoes etc for the children amongst other essentials. All too easy to demonise the most vulnerable for “not budgeting sufficiently” rather than giving them the help they actually need.
Ric I never said it was easy. You run this site so I credit you with more intellect than to label me as demonizing when clearly I am not. And to answer your question, yes but with 4 children. It sufficiently met our needs but we had to budget. Food came first, then the roof, then the utilities and if there was nothing else left then no one else got paid. The figures for a 5 child family on U.C btw currently exceeds minimum wage. If you want to help anyone out then help those on minimum wage by campaigning to raise it over the £10 threshold.
 
No I couldn't. I relied on moonlighting and charity.
I have no desire to ask of your particular circumstances on open forum. All I do know is that the government figures dictate they furnish sufficient to prioritize the feeding of children acceptably with nothing left over for luxuries
 
I have no desire to ask of your particular circumstances on open forum. All I do know is that the government figures dictate they furnish sufficient to prioritize the feeding of children acceptably with nothing left over for luxuries
I disagree from brutal experience during the credit crunch. Sweden has a very generous system and people still fill the jobs.
 
Ric I never said it was easy. You run this site so I credit you with more intellect than to label me as demonizing when clearly I am not. And to answer your question, yes but with 4 children. It sufficiently met our needs but we had to budget. Food came first, then the roof, then the utilities and if there was nothing else left then no one else got paid. The figures for a 5 child family on U.C btw currently exceeds minimum wage. If you want to help anyone out then help those on minimum wage by campaigning to raise it over the £10 threshold.
According to the latest figures, there are 4.2m children in this country living in poverty and you’re seemingly arguing against the government providing them with free school meals. I guess we’ll never agree on this, but I find your lack of empathy a bit depressing tbh. The actual cost of feeding them is relatively minor when you look at some of the sums being frivolously spent by the government elsewhere. Agree though that the minimum wage should also be raised. That’s a given.
 
I disagree from brutal experience during the credit crunch. Sweden has a very generous system and people still fill the jobs.

According to the latest figures, there are 4.2m children in this country living in poverty and you’re seemingly arguing against the government providing them with free school meals. I guess we’ll never agree on this, but I find your lack of empathy a bit depressing tbh. The actual cost of feeding them is relatively minor when you look at some of the sums being frivolously spent by the government elsewhere.
It's nothing. It's like 10 pence you find behind the settee. If the odd one takes advantage so what. Rees Mogg made 15million out of Brexit. He could pay.
 

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