Scumbag 'nasty party' MPs may later regret their vote !!!

This is the price scumbag 'nasty party' MP will pay for his vote against allowing children access to food over half-term break !!!

Tory MP banned from shop for life after he voted against free school meals

Yahoo Staff Writer
Oct 26th 2020 10:30AM
A Conservative MP has been banned from a shop for life after he voted against free school meals.

David Morris, the MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale in Lancashire, is barred from the Runners Centre on Kings Arcade in Lancaster, LancsLive reported.

A sign posted in the window reads: "David Morris MP is barred from entering this store for voting to starve children.

"Along with 322 other Conservative MPs he voted against extending free meals for kids."

Last week, MPs voted against a Labour call to extend free school meals in the half-term holiday by 322 votes to 261, with only five Conservatives rebelling.

The issue was raised in Parliament following a high-profile campaign by England and Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford.

The government extended the free school meal programme during the Easter holidays and again in the summer but has refused to do so again.

Ian Bailey, owner of the Runners Centre, told LancsLive: "For David Morris to vote against allowing the children meal credit to continue is just abhorrent when he himself will sit in Parliament and get subsidised meals within Westminster where he won't extend that privilege to anybody else.

"It's just completely wrong. So from that we banned him from this store."

Prime minister Boris Johnson said on Monday: "We don't want to see children going hungry this winter, this Christmas, certainly not as a result of any inattention by this government – and you are not going to see that."

He praised the work of Rashford but said he had not spoken to him since the summer.

Johnson said councils had been given extra money and Universal Credit had increased.

"We will do everything in our power to make sure that no kid, no child, goes hungry this winter during the holidays, that's obviously something we care about very much".

Johnson is facing a Tory rebellion over free school meals, and the Labour Party says it will bring another vote before Parliament before Christmas unless the government alters its policy.

Senior Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the government had "misunderstood" the public mood on free school meals.

Several councils have pledged to supply vouchers for children who need free school meals, while more than 2,000 paediatricians have signed a letter calling on the government to change its stance.

Johnson is under increasing pressure to U-turn on the policy, with The Times reporting he will make a partial climbdown by increasing funding for the poorest families over the Christmas holidays.

by more than 890,000 people.has been signed in Parliamentary bars and restaurants that offer them discounts petition calling for MPs to be stripped of their food subsidiesA

But cabinet minister Brandon Lewis defended the government and said providing help through councils was "the right way to do it".

He said the government had increased Universal Credit and allocated £63m to local authorities.

 

And another scumbag 'nasty party' MP who is feeling the ire of his constituents over the same vote !!!


Tory MP’s office garden covered in empty plates in school meals protest

PA
Oct 25th 2020 6:59PM
Dozens of empty plates were left outside a Conservative MP's office to protest over the party voting against plans to extend free school meals over holidays.

The protest was organised by the All Rise Collective, a group of inclusive feminist allies in the community, and targeted the constituency office of Southend West MP Sir David Amess.

Sir David was one of 322 MPs who last week voted against a Labour motion calling for the extension of free meals during the school holidays in England until Easter 2021.

Locals wrote messages on empty plates and left them outside the Southend West Conservative Association building on Sunday, with queues of people waiting to participate stretching down the street.


(Sadie Hasler)
"Quite a few of us are mothers in the group, the moment you start thinking too much about them ever being hungry, it's just heartbreaking," organiser Sadie Hasler, 40, from Southend told the PA news agency.

"The situations people find themselves in are just unbearable. The stigma that comes with maybe being a single parent, and trying to do the best thing by your child, and society just kind of constantly wants to keep elbowing you in the ribs for it."

The All Rise Collective shared their protest plan on social media on Saturday night, but were amazed to see the number of people already queueing the next morning.

"There's a massive underbelly of people that are absolutely horrified that we have two safe Tory seats," said Ms Hasler.

"We really just don't want to be invisible. We want people to know that they are being challenged. We're just trying to do a really simple peaceful protest that was visual that we could share.

"Last night it was quite strange. It was the first time in the whole of lockdown while defacing some plates with heavily black-markered anger that I switched off, and it was really cathartic and peaceful."


(Sadie Hasler)
The protest inspired others to take part in their area, 69-year-old social media user Robert Edge taking a solitary plate to the Eltham Conservative offices in south-east London.

"As an older person I am somewhat limited in my ability to show my displeasure at the way I feel the country is heading," he told PA.

"But the #emptyplate (protest) seemed a safe, peaceful and easy way to lobby the local Conservatives, some of whom I know are becoming disaffected with their PM. If I can help them become more disaffected I have done something."