My football club was set up to feed hungry children
Thankfully, the supporters have not forgotten that fundamental truth.
Whatever awaits the Hoops on the field of play in the coming period the origins of Celtic means that they remain a club like no other.
The origins of the Parkhead club marks them out as different to the rest.
I’m sure young Marcus Rashford would get that.
As well as being an outstanding footballer, he is also a fine young man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW8F4RHWpx4
From the high of scoring this peach against PSG, he is now in “despair”.
Last night in the “mother of parliaments” a well-fed ensemble decided against providing free school meals to kids during the lockdown.
You often know a good person by the nature of their enemies.
You can watch it here.
In the age of online outrage overload, the man known on Planet Fitba simply as “Spencey” summed it up brilliantly.
When you find yourself outflanked on a humanitarian issue by Nigel Farage, then you really should have a word with yourself.
Yeah, that, Nigel Farage.
This one…
Anyone who voted against this entirely sensible plan should be shown the red card.
Like this dignified chap.
Of course, that isn’t how he wants you to think about his voting conduct, dear reader.
He clearly thinks that the rest of us cannot think back just four weeks!
I reckon you could spot his brass neck from space.
However, you certainly couldn’t mark it with any implement known to humankind.
A hungry child should press a button in all of us.
Sadly, some reach high political office who appear to have had a humanity bypass.
Of course, it isn’t just the Brits.
In terms of GDP per capita, the Republic of Ireland is ranked as one of the wealthiest countries in the OECD and the EU-27, at 4th in the OECD-28 rankings.
Consequently, this should NOT be happening in this state.
Here in Ireland, we appear to have learned little from our history under British rule.
We should be sick with shame.
An Irishman from Edinburgh warned that this might happen.
I read some time ago that anthropologists believe that the folk memory of an atrocity is 90 years-essentially three generations.
My grandmother in Mayo couldn’t speak about the Famine, and I remember as a young man asking her about it several times.
It was my history too, and I wanted to know about it.
Looking back, I reckon that it was just too upsetting for her.
She was only one generation removed from it.
According to the census of 1841 and 1851, a child was missing from the home that her father ( a Derrig) was reared in.
That boy was her father’s brother.
He was an infant in the 1841 census, and he wasn’t there in 1851.
Like so much of the history of An Gorta Mór what happened to that Irish child is lost.
What is undeniable that it was the time of “we are from Mayo god help us” and he never lived to adulthood.
The legislature that ruled over Ireland during those genocidal years last night decided that poor kids in England are not worth feeding.
Of course, on Planet Fitba we know of some special people who are constantly angry.
That must be a strange head live in.
However, the rest of us know when it is appropriate to feel that emotion rising up in ourselves.
Dear reader, that time is now.
Unforgivable.
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A cracking piece of deflection. NFL has once again shown he is a dud. An insipid display up to the point he saw the light and returned to a formation the players know. His cutting edge tactics have handed Sevco the lead and has shown them up, he will be lucky to hold onto the gig.
Ps none of my other posts are being printed, I wonder why? Could it be your love of the has been manager?
They really dont give 1 fuck do they …. phil thanks for the eye opener… will never read a tree again….
I will not talk to a Tory or a Tory voter and haven’t for some years. They are the scum of the earth.
Phil,
It’s a myth that Ireland is a rich small country. After all, if it were most people wouldn’t have to “stuff their GP’s mouth with gold” (to quote Ernest Bevin) just to see him/her. Or at least give the GP at least 50 Euro.
And talking about GDP figures for Ireland is misleading.
Even the the Irish Office of National Statistics knows that GDP growth in Ireland (pre-Covid) didn’t reflect the true economic health of the Republic since the profits of multinationals are repatriated. The better measure is Gross National Income, as the ONS acknowledges.
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Ireland is pretty well unique in Europe in having an unusually high number of foreign-owned businesses because they pay very low corporation tax (e.g. Apple/Google)-the problem is, the profits leave Ireland and do not contribute to the wealth of the country.
The EU is in the process of cracking down on what is essentially off-shore money laundering in Ireland for mostly US companies.
So time will tell. But tied to the Euro-good luck.
I suspect Marcus Rashford is a puppet for some politicians wanting to make a point.
The UK is screwed, massive debts, massive taxation, massive property bubble the whole thing is teetering on the edge meanwhile a multi-millionaire calls out for over stretched, over burdened, impovrished tax payers who can scarcely afford to feed their own children to feed everyone elses.
If Marcus Rashford is a decent man he’ll set up a charity and give it £50K a week to feed the hungry while living on just the other £150,000 he rakes in.
You can’t get blood out of a stone but you can steal the countries money for your own political gain.
Most European countries, correction-all European countries-will have massive national debts due to the decline in economic activity and for those which are paying furlough wages and other necessary benefits. The difference is that the UK has a currency with a Central Bank. Unlike the Eurozone.
So watch what is happening in Italy, the third biggest economy in the EU.
If you think there is a property bubble in the UK, you must be living in Mayfair.
If you dont think there is NOT a housing bubble in the UK then you must own a house ( a mortgage) or be a BTL investor….
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek83keNX0AMB8GE?format=png&name=small
…or be seriously deluded.
My parents ex-council house in Glasgow now needs an income in excess of £50,000 to buy it comfortably. Deluded is not the word, average wage in that area, circa £20K.
The house prices we saw in 2008 collapsed the banking system and the establishment made sure they didn’t correct with 0.5% IRs and QE. This has directly led to the mess the UK is in. Now house prices in many areas are double the bank collapsing levels of 2008 and no one asks how, or why.
Given what we are witnessing from Sunak et al I suspect a large bank has already collapsed hence why people are being “helped” instead of told to borrow money to see them through. The BoE said a few years ago they would not inform the public is another bank collapsed so as to “stop panic”…so they can ****ing rob people to bail them out more like, I think this is why we are seeing such generosity from a Tory chancellor to anyone in the UK who might have a bank loan.
“necessary benefits” as you put it are a wealth redistribution from the middle classes and poor to the rich, it is happening right now under peoples noses, trickle up as it were. You take from the middle classes, hand it to “the poor” who have little choice but to spend it, which then heads straight to the large corporations/banks.
Food is necessary
Shelter is necessary
Clothes are necessary
Heat from the cold is necessary
Show me where these tory ****s are handing those out for free ?
All they are doing is robbing tax payers of their hard earned to suit the rich while idiots clap for more and more. Currency collapse lies down this path, civil unrest and wars tend to follow.
Anyone clambering for cash hand outs are inadvertently handing cash to the rich, hammering the impoverished UK tax payers, and by proxy, their children and their grand children in one fell swoop.
Be careful what you wish for.
The only upside of any of this is that best case Sevco are well and truly doomed, worst case everyone else is too.
Mr. Smith:
If, without proof, you can write that Rashford is a “puppet” trying to “steal” for “political gain,” then all I can say is I feel sorry for your withered soul.
He’s not asking tax payers to feed everyone else’s child though, is he? That’s very disingenuous or misunderstood on your part. I’ll let you decide.
What he’s actually asking the government to do is spend revenues they already receive on feeding disadvantaged children as a priority. Given this is the same government that has thrown hundreds of millions at bad contracts since this pandemic started I don’t think asking to spend some of it on our nations future is a big ask in all honesty.
I tried to form some sort if coherent and sensible response to this post Phil. I can’t find the words unfortunately. This is too emotional.
Fuckin tory fucks. How dare you!!!
Scumbags to a man and woman!!!
Eat nowt to help out !