School dinner thieves

 The Tories recently voted down a motion tabled by the Labour Party for children to continue to get free school meal (in England, a government funded deal initiated by the Tories in the first place) until Easter 2021

The plan was set about by a football player called Marcus Rashford who with a net worth of over £65 million wants to tell the government how to spend tax payers money. 

Now this is the same Marcus Rashford who plays for  Manchester United and paid himself just under £5k from his multi million pound company MUCS Enterprise LTD.....

Then gave himself a £950,000 directors loan. 

This means he avoids paying tax on that £950,000 and just pays tax on the £4950....so he really knows about a lot about tax avoidance ... but allow me to say this again ...he wants to tell the government how to spend tax payers money .... yes, yours and mine most of which comes from a pay packet we don’t earn from kicking a ball around a field and tax we pay without having a fancy accountant to help us find loop holes to avoid paying. 

Rushford also claims has has experienced going hungry when he was a kid and that’s why he is taking this so much to heart .....

Marcus Rashford was born on 31 Oct 97 and says he speaks from experience of child poverty and he himself went hungry as a child.... let’s stop and consider this ...

Tony Blair was Prime Minister from 2 May 1997 to 2007.

Gordon Brown was PM from 2007- 2010.

So, poor Marcus was going hungry for 13 years under a Labour government so it’s a bit hypocritical that Labour want to champion his case using the “Tories are bad” narrative 

Anyway ..... as you can expect since the Tories have voted this down the usual suspects are virtual signalling and baying for Tory blood accusing them of being cowardly mean tight fisted greedy bastards 

.....easy and lazy to say if you ignore the facts that Conservative Government Public spending is set to exceed one trillion pounds. This is the highest in British history by far. To suggest that the Conservative Government is mean is to misunderstand the word. The generosity is on a scale unimaginable before this year.

These critics are the same people who gobshited out that the Tories would sell out the NHS when they came into power ..... but actually they pumped record amounts into the NHS this year to protect it!.... but don’t allow that to distract from a scare story. 

As for the should the government start providing free meals .... well the tale of starving kids will always play on the emotions but don’t fall into the trap of being a useful idiot for shadow parties, universal credit has increased on average £1000 this year already, it’s still far from perfect but let’s concentrate on this, improving the benefits system to ensure those who need it most get it .....making for people reliant upon the state is never a good thing, there is a balance ...free school meals is a gimmicky ...maybe football players should be role models to get kids out side taking exercise in the fresh air and leave the parents to look after their own children, cloth and feed them.... if you were to point out a starving child to me and I’d happily feed him but where are these skinny wee bairns?  Living within your means may shock many parents as they may need to feed their kids instead of buying fags, iPhones and alcohol with the £1,000’s in benefits they already get but I’m not really seeing the starving kids we are hearing about in the U.K. scrambling around like urchins from a Charles Dickens novel, quite the opposite, we have the highest rate of child obesity in Europe. 

I also see this on the back of this (a kinda spin off) petitions going around for people to sign for the members of Parliament’s canteen not to be subsidised  .... totally agree with this as it’s an outrage they pay less for their fish and chips than you or I so I happily sign these .... thank goodness the Tories voted no to free school dinners so this real scandal of cut price lunch for high earning MPs employed by all parties has came to light. 

The Dragon Rises

 If I had a terrible flu, knew it was highly contagious but turned up at the office anyway then infected everyone.

The next week everyone apart from me is off work sick, coughing and sneezing and there is me, in the office getting loads of overtime off the back of everyone I have infected! 

There is the Chinese economy!! 

Industrial production alone  in China leapt 6.9 per cent in September — its highest level this year and the same rate as in December before the coronavirus outbreak.... as the rest of the world’s economy withers China’s grows.

Economic figures read that china’s economy is the only one in the world that will make a full recovery from the Covid virus — growing by 2 per cent while America’s falls by 5 per cent, the eurozone by 8 per cent and Britain by 10 per cent. The chief economist of the World Bank advises China is on track to become the world’s biggest economy by 2030. 

April this year I wrote the following on social media ...

“I don’t subscribe (at least not yet) to the theory that China released the Coronavirus onto the world as a biological weapon but strategically speaking if they did then it will be the biggest coup since Troy opened its gates and said “what a lovely big wooden horse”.... I have been recently reading about The Belt and Road Initiative which is a global development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 involving infrastructure development and investments in nearly 70 countries and international organizations in Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Within this program China provided loans to developing nations with mines & ports as collateral.

Now Covid19 will hinder those nations ability to repay the debt so then China will seize mines & ports globally in lieu of payment.

These mines & ports also serve as strategic military assets.  So with this is mind, it would certainly look as if when the world economy crashes China will have the most to gain and as such has won a “cold war” without a bullet being fired .... just by opening a Pandora’s box then cashing it’s chips in on a pre-played game of monopoly! 

Too far fetched to believe? Perhaps ... or not”

Now that we are almost into November the only comment I would add that that above posting from April would be that if you are in a war, stumble then mis-fire a round of ammunition which then goes and kills the enemy leading to a win .... would this not be counted as a victory?  

China history shows that it has never shied away from sacrificing its people for the good of its country, soon, in the not too distant future when China, the birth place of Covid, becomes THE dominant world power it will look back at these days of Covid as the game changer.