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Four years for murder?@Ten Bobsworth wrote:
M called round the other day. One of nature's real gems, is M. She calls every couple of months or so and we have a chat and a cup of tea. COVID says she can't come in at the moment so she sat on the front wall whilst we talked at a safe distance. Her son's murderer had been released from prison and was back living round the corner from M's house. He'd served two years of a four-year sentence for the murder.
He admitted to the killing but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Two blows to the head apparently. M's son was a bright lad at school and a talented footballer but he suffered from mental health problems later. When he started to sink into his depressive moods, M would try, unsuccessfully, to get him some in-patient treatment. It was hard to find and he'd take to drinking heavily. He was killed by somebody he drank with.
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Who made sure you ate? Government or parents?@Norpig wrote:Government should be ensuring kids can eat not footballers. Rashford has done a fantastic job and deserves nothing but credit.
We're all in this together eh Boris?
@Ten Bobsworth wrote:Who made sure you ate? Government or parents?@Norpig wrote:Government should be ensuring kids can eat not footballers. Rashford has done a fantastic job and deserves nothing but credit.
We're all in this together eh Boris?
Governments should make sure there are satisfactory safety nets.
Growing up in a one parent family when my Mum was sometimes out of work then both.@Ten Bobsworth wrote:
Who made sure you ate? Government or parents?
Governments should make sure there are satisfactory safety nets.
@Sluffy wrote:If they can find money to have new BMW's they have money to feed their kids.
@Natasha Whittam wrote:@Sluffy wrote:If they can find money to have new BMW's they have money to feed their kids.
Are you suggesting everyone on benefits has a brand new BMW?
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@Norpig wrote:You are both missing the point. A lot of the parents struggling now and even before Covid are in work but still can't make ends meet.
Would you rather they packed in work and relied solely on the Government?
I have to say i find both your attitudes on this quite sad and depressing.
@Norpig wrote:Such compassion Sluffy![]()
As i said before there are lots of people out there struggling even with jobs, Yes there may be people playing the system but if you'd rather the kids of those people went hungry then that's where we differ.
Do you think most of the people struggling really are splashing all their cash on phones. fags and the rest? Seems to me to be an argument or statement straight out of the Daily Mail and one that is not strictly true.
Do you really imagine the people struggling really want to have to go to foodbanks and get vouchers for food to feed their kids and put up with the shame they must feel?
I grew up in one parent family with a Mum who was often out of work and when she did have a job was usually a low paid factory job or waitressing. I only now can appreciate the lengths she went to to keep me and my Brother fed. If there had been foodbanks i'm pretty sure we would have been using them at certain points of my childhood.
@Norpig wrote:If you really believe any parent would be happy to send their kids to school hungry whatever the circumstances then you are very wrong.
There are good people out there doing all they can to feed their kids so being lumped in with the skivers is one more ignominy they need to put up with, good work Sluffy.
As for the community helping out, unless you've had your head up your arse for the last few days then you can see what's happening all across the country. The Government, who by the way won lots of seats up North and promised we were all in this together now decide to wash their hands of the issue and accuse Rashford of virtue signalling.
@Norpig wrote:I've never said it's all the Governments fault but they should be there to help out if needed and not rely on the good people of this country to do their job for them.
@Norpig wrote:And for the record a Labour Government would have done an awful lot more about this than the current Government.
@Ten Bobsworth wrote:there's something suspect about the emergence of a massively overpaid footballer as the champion, the conscience and the spokesperson of the needy and deserving.
@Hip Priest wrote:It's a good job that it's only these dreadful, scrounging, BMW driving slappers of mothers who play the system and cheat the government innit Sluff. I mean, if massive companies like Google, Starbucks, Amazon, Apple etc were allowed to start fiddling their figures and avoiding paying taxes then this country and it's Government really would be in a right mess wouldn't it.
I know some people are dead cynical and go as far as to suggest that the Tories always look after the interests of their mates in big business but I think that's just a heap of hooey, don't you?
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