Rashford said "millions of families across the UK lost a lifeline and a means of staying afloat" when the uplift was cut
Accepting the award from the University of Manchester, the footballer said removing the increase "could see child poverty rise to one-in-three children".The Department for Work and Pensions has been approached for comment.
Never actually heard Rashford speak, only ever his PR team.
Tell Rashford to pay his taxes and stand for election if he wants to lecture us.
Why not get the premier league to give UC recipients a huge discount on the overpriced gate tickets.
KarenJu62258050 WILL increase child poverty. It WILL!
BBC reporting - that's brilliant - at long last
It will do for sure we already have 9000000 people living in poverty and many at work struggling to buy the food and pay their bills
NEXT TIME HE ASKS FOR THE GOV TO SPEND MORE TAX, JUST THINK , Marcus only gets paid 5k a year , oooh ,,, hold on ....
Could? WILL.
Why do we listen to this two faced Blackman ranting on about the poor .He's laughing all the way to the bank with what he gets paid
A footballer doing what opposition MPs should be doing……political set up of this country is rotten to the core.
People have choices in this world, good choices or bad choices. There are so many one parent families, for whatever reason, it’s not good.
99% of footballers are thick as mince. Rashford’s not in the 1%.
They’re not cuts.
nottobeneutral He isn’t wrong !
No, it was a temporary uplift as was stamp duty & business relief, no govt would introduce temp measures again if they have to be permanent. Employer's shouldn't be allowed to use the govt to subsidise paying low wages & we know there are more jobs available than ever before now
MarcusRashford well done.
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Lets not forget legacy benefits e.g Jobseeker's Allowance didn't even get the £20 at all.
Marcus, I'm to proud of you. Your involvements in many ongoing threats we are facing is honourable like your recent awards. Continue, you have support of many as you are doing good. Blessings.
We'll do adult politics, or we'll devolve public policy to Greta Thunberg and Marcus Rashford. If social policy and economics are the KINDS of things that you can get PhDs in, then surely EITHER, i) you shouldn't be able to get PhDs in them, OR ii) Marcus's take is inadequate?
Noticed he didn’t give a credible answer to how this 6 billion pounds uplift would be paid for and no acknowledgment or understanding that people find this burden on the taxpayer unacceptable. Very naive.
And a little more to the right , you could have scored
This £20 was only while COVID was bad how did people manage before example a friend is on it smokes 60 a day and drives a jeep , what the fu+k and i could go on
We dont have child poverty in the UK. It's all made up by the socialist lefties to cost the country more money.
Some claimants will genuinely suffer hardship by this and I feel sorry for them. Others might just have to cut down on pub visits, £10 packets of 20 cigarettes a day, takeaways and TV subscriptions. 🤔
Tell you what mate if this isn’t good enough then put your hand in your pocket or even so leave this country.working men and women are to struggling like crazy.the welfare state has gone completely mad after all it’s only there to support whilst looking for work !! Not life
It’s not a cut it was a temporary hand out 🤔
Fantastic example of the young generation.
Quite astounding that people seem more outraged about this than they were about billions of £’s worth of their money handed out to mates of Conservative party members. The country’s screwed.
How many more times, its not a cut! It was a temporary measure. If Marcus is that concerned, perhaps he can subsidise all those people on his over inflated wages!
It was a temporary measure. Seems that some haven't quite grasped that!!
Shouldn’t have them if they can not afford to raise them
If you can't afford to keep a pet it goes to the rescue centre for removing. We could have the poverty children working in next, at the farms etc. British jobs for British people. The asylum seekers would help there too. Why do people have children they can't afford to keep?
Who?
It's not a cut. It was very clearly a temporary bit extra. Who does these peoples budgets? Save the extra for another day. Marcus where were you when maggie the milk snatcher was ruinining kids lives?
So are you now saying that those on universal credit were not already 'in poverty'?
rebeccagerman93 It will also not take away poverty. Let's invest in youth development, adult training, apprenticeship, encourage independence rather than this 20 quid. If childcare is issue implement child friendly work smart ventures. 20 quid is not the solution. Call me whatever I don't care.
Dr Marcus Rashford
Parents are responsible
There should not be a working poor or people relying on food banks; İt's a mismanagement and a disgrace. Rich stay wealthy & the poor get poorer. Absolute shambles.
The rest of us, who don't vote Tory and aren't up our own arses, have been saying that for ages! Why is it somehow revolutionary when a rich celeb says it?
Could? Will.
Just get a job it’s not hard, you have an interview you get the job it’s that easy lol
How about we address the roots of this problem. 1. Finish comprehensive school. 2. Do NOT have a child unless you are married. 3. Get a job.
Marcus Rashford? MARCUS RASHFORD?
Oh god not him again on his high horse
It’s not a cut. I wonder which one of his PR teams sent out this briefing 🤷🏼
See if he can persuade rich people to give him £6 billion a year to pay for as the government aren’t going to
Suddenly he knows everything !!
Wow!! That blew my fuckn mind btw. Keywords were CUT and COULD. Who would assume cutting someone's money could have negative impact on everyday things. He's going to get a knighthood for this insight now,though everyone with common sense could come to tht conclusion also.
He means relative poverty.
If sport stars stop using tax avoidance schemes & paid their tax like the rest of us..then maybe there won't be any child poverty..
Are we giving points for stating the obvious now?!
Hopefully they all become ultra privileged footballers like yourself
May be he would like to donate his mega salary or perhaps not avoid tax via his limited company instead...
So much ignorance in the replies 🙄🤦♂️
FFS MarcusRashford its not a cut, its the end of a temporary uplift. Maybe start talking to some of your football mates about not using Tax Avoidance schemes.