Unicef to feed hungry children in UK for first time in 70-year history

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  • December 16, 2020 at 11:04 pm #210873
    PartisanZ
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    UN agency will help fund food parcels for those affected by coronavirus crisis in Southwark, south London.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/16/unicef-feed-hungry-children-uk-first-time-history

    December 18, 2020 at 3:57 pm #210990
    james19
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    From the Daily Mirror on Twitter:

    December 18, 2020 at 4:00 pm #210991
    james19
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    “A disgrace” Is one response on Twitter, by Angela Rayner a Labour MP. Not sure if she has seen Jacob Ress-Moggs take on this?🤔

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    December 18, 2020 at 9:51 pm #211017
    james19
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    I didn’t watch his speech in Parliament, but then gave a short listen. I tweeted this:

    Children are starving in Britain. Yet Ress-Moggs  government won’t do anything, but it can find £16bn for the military!
    His Government totally ignored  the  U.N. Special Rapporteur,  on the UK Government’s Austerity measures, which it said: was cruel and adversely affected vulnerable groups!

    Ress-Mogg  attacks UNICEF for playing politics, that  they (UNICEF) should help people elsewhere, but he couldn’t give a damn one bit about them!
    His Government’s Foreign office has reduced UK overseas aid budget by £2.9bn and is facing billions (£15bn according to Downing Street) in cuts to many of these countries, which will make matters worse (if that’s possible) for those suffering from food shortages, food insecurity and hunger.

    Cut to UK’s overseas aid budget ‘not ruled out’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54977729

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    December 18, 2020 at 10:31 pm #211025
    L.B. Neill
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    Ress-Mogg attacks the UNICEF for playing politics, that they (UNICEF) should help people elsewhere, but he couldn’t give a damn one bit about them!

    This is nothing new- I lived in Britain for a short while as a kid.

    Being an Irish Catholic it was tough- and I remember the abject poverty many of my class mates experienced- bones like barbed wire threatening to rip through skin. I would have craved a UNICEF lunch back then.

    December 18, 2020 at 11:18 pm #211036
    alanjjohnstone
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    Newham London council can no longer finance its universal free meal scheme. Now only those eligible for free school dinners will get them, excluding many needy working poor and migrants.

    SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: Schools Ending Free Dinners For All

    December 18, 2020 at 11:33 pm #211040
    james19
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    Alanjjohnstone. Yes I did read that. 😢 The acronym USFM is confusing?

    This: the tweet is by someone who calls herself  a Socialist Democrat in her Twitter bio.

     

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