Daily Mail Cryptic 16245 Thursday...
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Let Them Eat...?
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MPs rejected the plea for free school meals to be given during holidays.
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Should be very good news for all the Answerbanks who think poor families spend too much on smoking, gambling, etc, so should get NO more handouts!
Let them eat cake! Or nothing.
Charles Dickens would not believe it.
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Should be very good news for all the Answerbanks who think poor families spend too much on smoking, gambling, etc, so should get NO more handouts!
Let them eat cake! Or nothing.
Charles Dickens would not believe it.
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I suspect, rather than that, it's whether the needy are already helped by society, so demanding they get more again is simply virtue signalling, even if one justifies it to oneself otherwise; or whether the needy are not already officially helped by welfare that ensures they are no longer as needy, or that the responsibility does not lie with the parents' to manage the little they have properly but for society to continually increase aid whenever it is called for. One lot seems to rely on the heart where the other prefers the head.
Alternatively, this ***...
"Meanwhile, Mr Bradley’s Conservative colleague Mark Jenkinson accused people of attempting to “score political points” as he claimed that in his constituency of Workington in a “tiny” minority of cases food parcels – not vouchers – are “sold or traded for drugs”"
Of course, as we all know, Gully doesn't do links, so here are all the lovely Tories. Wonderful folk, one and all...
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"Meanwhile, Mr Bradley’s Conservative colleague Mark Jenkinson accused people of attempting to “score political points” as he claimed that in his constituency of Workington in a “tiny” minority of cases food parcels – not vouchers – are “sold or traded for drugs”"
Of course, as we all know, Gully doesn't do links, so here are all the lovely Tories. Wonderful folk, one and all...
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It’s also, Chinajan, the fact that what is being demanded is SO DARNED SMALL!
Not foreign holidays, not free ‘designer’ rubbish, but a handful of chips and a couple of sausages!
I’m sure many here (and on the government benches) simply DON’T get the allusion behind the question.
For those who don’t, this is Wikipedia’s explanation:
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", spoken in the 17th century by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. [...] The quotation is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.
The answerbanker’s frivolous disregard maybe?
Not foreign holidays, not free ‘designer’ rubbish, but a handful of chips and a couple of sausages!
I’m sure many here (and on the government benches) simply DON’T get the allusion behind the question.
For those who don’t, this is Wikipedia’s explanation:
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", spoken in the 17th century by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. [...] The quotation is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.
The answerbanker’s frivolous disregard maybe?
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