You say you advocate free education because you got a full grant because your mum was so poor and obviously no fees then but how do you think kids living in poverty due to tory austerity will be healthy or well educated enough to benefit from that?
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I never said my mum was poor. I said I qualified for a full grant. I oppose the end of maintenance grants & rise in fees. I don’t believe the child of any responsible parent in this country goes hungry.
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You said you were entitled to a full grant because your mum didn't earn enough, you also said she wasn't a single parent?
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Not earning enough isn’t the same as being poor.
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I take it then it was just calculated on your mum's earnings?
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Yes. It was a LONG time ago, Emma. Grants were the norm then. What exactly is the point you are trying but failing to make?
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I feel I am making a very clear point, the grant was based on earnings of your parents. It's not a hard question to answer. Nothing has changed fraud has always been fraud.
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Jesus Christ. Yes, I was entitled to and for a full grant. You didn’t have to be “poor” to get a grant then. You had to have low earnings. Not the same thing. What is so complicated about this?
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Is she trolling? It's hard to tell. She normally speaks shit at the best of times...
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No, she's trying to raise awareness of things that actually matter
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That's what I'm saying. Why is she using sarcasm in her tweet when she could get straight to the point that women are disappearing in Iran for removal of the scarves. The inflated salary of a BBC exec pales into insignificance against a brave act like that.
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That’s why she was saying it ffs
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Fully aware of that, however, as this is a very serious issue, affecting all people in Iran, maybe it would be better for JHB to use her fan base and get the serious message out re Iran rather than sarcastic pithy tweets. Or dont you care about people in Iran, Robert?
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Yes I do and so does Julia, your channelling your anger in the wrong direction friend
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I am not, but i would certainly prefer to see more being done about the Iran situation.
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It certainly would be refreshing for "certain feminists" to stand up for the Iranian women throwing off the forced headscarf. But it might be deemed "Islamophobic" or something. But they stay quiet.
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Who are the "certain feminists" of which you speak? Genuine question.
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The type who are usually scared to approach hard conservative Islam. This mainly amounts to the hard left of politics. They will push the "it's their choice" all of the time while even ignoring Muslim women who don't want it pushed on them.
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Care to name any names? I'd agree with you that it would be strange to call yourself a feminist and then not care about women who were forced to dress a certain way against their will. Of course, it's another thing if a woman chooses to dress a certain way, right?
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The "it's their choice" thing is a conundrum and some have simply taken that path in their argument. But Iran is an example of the opposite. And the fact that it is sometimes religiously demanded outside of choice is often ignored.
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