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Marcus Rashford: PM climbdown over free meals in school holidays

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54841316

This week's U-Turn.

This government [emoji85]

1. The school meals in holidays issue is flagged up around Easter 2020. Didn’t we cover it in this thread?

2. Sensible people suggest meals should be provided to low income families. The government doesn’t act. Some Tory MPs are surprised.

3. Rashford gets involved, Tory MPs can’t believe the governments own goal as the Sun and tabloids pick up the story. Government u-turn.

4. Same thing occurs again! Government scores own goal by not ensuring low income kids don’t go hungry over winter, rashford gets involved.

5. Government u-turns but probably spends more of our money on a nuanced scheme just so they can try to save face.


The pattern is alarming. No wonder our test and trace doesn’t work, and out Covid respond was tardy and ineffective. With Trump gone you feel Boris is last era. Shame it will probably take years for them to drag the nation through Brexit and face re-election.



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And then the next day, the Times splashes on GCHQ's work to counter vaccine-related disinformation.

So it's obvious that public acceptance of the vaccine is a hugely complicated comms challenge: hostile state disinformation, organic anti-vax nonsense, mixed messages on efficacy and complicated rules re entitlement, will all jostle for messaging space. What's weird about hiring in someone a little more heavyweight than a BEIS press officer?
 
And then the next day, the Times splashes on GCHQ's work to counter vaccine-related disinformation.

So it's obvious that public acceptance of the vaccine is a hugely complicated comms challenge: hostile state disinformation, organic anti-vax nonsense, mixed messages on efficacy and complicated rules re entitlement, will all jostle for messaging space. What's weird about hiring in someone a little more heavyweight than a BEIS press officer?
Of greater concern is that someone wishes to create a fuss about: Source: "I don't know what they do."

Not knowing what they do is not the same as knowing they do nothing.
 
This government [emoji85]

1. The school meals in holidays issue is flagged up around Easter 2020. Didn’t we cover it in this thread?

2. Sensible people suggest meals should be provided to low income families. The government doesn’t act. Some Tory MPs are surprised.

3. Rashford gets involved, Tory MPs can’t believe the governments own goal as the Sun and tabloids pick up the story. Government u-turn.

4. Same thing occurs again! Government scores own goal by not ensuring low income kids don’t go hungry over winter, rashford gets involved.

5. Government u-turns but probably spends more of our money on a nuanced scheme just so they can try to save face.


The pattern is alarming. No wonder our test and trace doesn’t work, and out Covid respond was tardy and ineffective. With Trump gone you feel Boris is last era. Shame it will probably take years for them to drag the nation through Brexit and face re-election.



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The issue is there was the opposition

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I can't believe more isn't being made of this HK business and China in general, they've just banned anyone from being in the HK government if you threaten national security. More countries need to come together and put some pressure on them and look to shift supply chains and imports to other countries.
 
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