No, you're right, Julia. We should just allow the children to be punished for the sins of their parents especially since local government funding (the source of most funding aimed at parenting problems) has been slashed by 50%.https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/980843825009758208 …
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But children aren't being fed. You use arguments against the parents to justify inaction. So unless you're proposing an alternate policy that magically makes them better parents, you're in effect arguing for children to remain hungry coz it's their parents fault.
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No, I didn’t justify anything of the sort. I wouldn’t leave all these kids in homes where parents don’t care for them.
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But you haven't been arguing in favour of say not slashing local government funding by 50% in 7 years so that parents can be helped by local authorities have you? No, you just deploy 'common sense' when it's needed to defend a government that made children poorer & hungrier.
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Failing that you're defending a government that somehow made parents worse at being parents in the same 7 year period.
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Sorry Julia but I'm with Catherine. If every child in Britain doesn't get £££ and a free unicorn NOW then we're worse than the Dark Ages.
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Ok, yeah, you’re right, sorry about that.
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Surely chucking money at stuff is always the solution. Or have I got that wrong?
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I fully expect this Remainer was silent when Greek children were fainting, from hunger, in school as a result of EU enforced austerity, Julia!
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No I was too busy pointing out that Greeks crashed their economy by being feckless and debt ladened and that the EU bailed them out twice. Could have booted them out of the Union. Saved them instead.
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They should never have been enticed into your precious 'Union' in the first place. They cooked the books. Your overlords in Brussels knew it but couldn't resist their expansionist ambitions to the East!
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Greece isn't in the East. Greece is Southern Europe. They did cook the books but the EU didn't know it. The establishment and expansion of the monetary union was dealt with strictly due to the very real possibility of getting it very wrong. Especially if you ignore cooked books.
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It is to the East of Central Europe, no matter how South it is! At the time, only an idiot would NOT know they were a bad prospect. Ah, but wait, it is the European Union we're talking about here. Your defence of it would be admirable, if it wasn't so dangerous! Viva Brexit!
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Put simply if you give cash rewards for fecklessness then you're encouraging it.
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Most of these families are in work, have insecure jobs and are paid the minimum wage, nothing feckless about that, we have record employment so the assumption that these children come from families who don’t work simply doesn’t ring true
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The their parents can make sure they feed them. It's not the job of the state to do so.
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Many are in private rented accommodation whose rents are raising at record rates ..many have difficult decisions to make and I’m sure feeding their children is high on the list, I suppose you consider the presence of food banks as symbolic of fecklessness too
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Frequently in for e.g.: damp homes the the council pay through the nose for. Damp homes cause breathing problems closely followed in order of seriousness by chronic headaches, nausea and fatigue. Doesn't sound like a recipe for success does it?
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but spending £ on drug rehab, sex education, social housing, social workers might just have an effect........I don't feel the need to patronise anyone by asking them if they think this concept is too complex :)
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But they won't do that either. Even if they did it'd be too late for children starting to school right now to avoid set backs that are infrequently overcome whilst they're waiting for us to fix their parents enough to get three square meals a day.
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Swap child allowance for food vouchers ...job done
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