Natasha Whittam wrote:I'm not sure how you take on the government (and win) on free school meals without being high profile.
You really have turned into a cynical old bugger.
Hardly surprising considering I was always a cynical young bugger too.
I think this world would be a much better place if people were more sceptical about what they see and hear from social media rather than swallowing it whole without question as most seem to do these days.
Fwiw I think young Rashford believed in the cause of free school meals but was cynically exploited by his agent to opportunistically cash in on him previously having to had to use free school meals and foodbanks as a kid growing up - when the issue arose recently.
There's no record of him having any crusade about free school meals and the growing number of food banks arising, before the Covid/free school meal issue arose - and precious little heard or seen of him since the high profile PR campaign of Team Rashford ended - with him receiving his MBE (and a whopping financial boost to his image rights company he is sole beneficiary of!).
Similarly Lineker likes to see himself as a lefty and people person but at the same time looking to avoid (evade?) paying £5m in income tax (to the public purse) by the manipulation of how he was paid by the BBC.
His heart my be in the right place but his wallet clearly means more to him though, I would suggest.
I've tried to explain once before, sometime ago on here, that if you go out of your way to push someone (in this case the government) sooner or later they will push back.
The result is that the 'gap' between the sides gets larger and larger - and the 'push back' from each side gets stronger and stronger.
That what's happened in society over the last couple of decades or so (is it a coincidence that this coincides with the advent of social media too? I think not...) we've become polarised and intolerant of the others position - just look at the massive divide in American politics, or the open hostility to all things Tory frequently found on social media.
It's an unhealth position we find ourselves in today and I can't see it getting better anytime soon.
I might well be cynical but unfortunately I'm a realist too.
As Churchill said, it is better to jaw, jaw than to war, war!
Did Lineker really need to liken the government to Nazi's?
Of course he didn't and he stirred up all this shit for the BBC for nothing.
Why do I say nothing - because the policy hasn't changed in the least has it - nor would it have ever done because a 'celebrity' has tweeted something to his 'confirmation' biased followers on social media to howl about.
That's the world we live in today but most people seem completely oblivious to it unfortunately.
Cynicism appears to have been almost totally replace by gullibility these days, it seems.
Monkey see, monkey do comes to mind for those on social media following their Confirmation bias 'guru's' like Lineker on there.