dtp, on 19 June 2020 - 08:16 AM, said:
That's true. But it's what happens outside of schools that is the problem.
We have free school meals for those judged to need them. We also have free contraception but I sometimes wonder why some on benefits and lower incomes seem to have larger than average families. Kids are an expensive item and I was taught not to take on anything I can't afford.
And, I'm somewhat with Westbars here - educating some how to budget better might be worthwhile - food on the table should come before fags and booze.
Your pompous posturing over CFC or perhaps 'Boris' is one thing, but this is a despicable generalisation best left to the worst of the right wing rags. Contraception? Larger than average families? What are you suggesting - a quota of kids for folk on benefits? Forced sterilisation?
You sound like that eugenisist 'Boris' hired then refused to sack.
Even this government you view with the same polite deference you view Carson and Co admit millions are using food banks. Millions. Millions more are forced to seek support whilst working full time. Or at least it would be full time if employers didn't give them zero hours contracts. Infact the whole point of Marcus Rashford's campaign - for which you offer only the same grudging acknowledgement as 'Bob's Board' revelations - was that his own mum couldn't feed her family despite toiling every day to do so.
Yet you still refer to some sort of fag smoking, booze supping underclass putting their own ignorant habits before their overpopulated broods. What next - can't they eat cake?!
So who are these people? Where are they? What evidence do you have of them? Other than a few apocryphal stories harrumphed during after dinner brandies at a Rotary Club get together (see, we can all stereotype when we want, can't we).
Because I live on the outskirts of three council estates. One of the most deprived areas in Derbyshire, I understand. But what I see is a great many intelligent and honest people doing their very best in the face of challenges beyond their control. People who see a bottle of beer as an often unaffordable luxury.
So instead of lazy accusations why not let me introduce you to some? Why not have your pious prejudices overturned? Seriously, are you up for it?
At which point you could also explain why it's fine for a fifty five year old millionaire to sire an unknown number of heirs with a succession of different partners yet an unemployed father of four from Birdholme is subject to smears...
This post has been edited by The Earl of Chesterfield: 19 June 2020 - 10:23 AM