Tory MP belittles Marcus Rashford
Merry Vole
Shipmate
in Hell
Can't quite believe I've just read this on BBC News website:
Natalie Elphicke apologised after GB News got the story that she had privately messaged friends that Rashford should have 'spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics'.
Of course the Tories would never play politics....
Natalie Elphicke apologised after GB News got the story that she had privately messaged friends that Rashford should have 'spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics'.
Of course the Tories would never play politics....
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(Like others, I think Southgate erred in putting young players on right at the end of the game just to take penalties)
I think @Aragwen has just donned a great big target on their back...
And Elphicke's criticism might have more validity if Rashford wasn't one of the cornerstones of his club's continued and repeated success, for which they reward him handsomely. Clearly, he can play football. Elphicke's abilities are definitely more questionable.
Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford have done far more this year for the young people in the country than the Government has, with Rashford's campaigns to get young people fed (it's still happening this summer holidays), and Sancho building a football ground for kids in South London. And the team were going to give a huge chunk of their prize money to NHS charities if they'd won.
Does he deliver boxes of food and advise the government? Serious, I've never heard of him.
That's okay, been a psychiatric nurse for many years so I am well used to being insulted.
It's obvious nonsense. It's completely clear that the time that Mr. Rashford spent on hungry children came out of the time that some of his colleagues spend on wine, women, and song, and not out of his practice time.
An uncharitable man might point out that Mr. Southgate is experienced at missing penalties
What is perhaps even more disturbing is that she appears to have a fan club.
I presume Natalie Elphicke works as an MP every hour of every working day then?
You can't practice flat out all day, it's to his credit that this is how he chooses to spend his *free* time.
The distinct impression given is that you and her would be happier if he was like footballers of old and spent his time picking up a drink/drug/gambling habit instead.
Parading your ignorance here is not really a good look. You are quite welcome to be as thick and stupid as pig shit if you want, but seeking to claim that as a positive is not really as good as you seem to think.
Elphicke has apologised for her "private" message. So she is allowed to say what she thinks if we, her employers, don't find out.
Politics is for all of us, woman. This is a democracy that is better than Athens, because it includes everyone. And even there, all those entitled to be involved were expected to be involved. Not criticised for criticising Pericles.
I used to want to go back to live in Dover. Not any more.
https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/12/tory-mp-sorry-jibe-marcus-rashford-euros-penalty-miss
Supporting anti-racism isn’t (shouldn’t be) a matter of politics but of sheer decent humanity.
I have no interest in football but I was brought up in 1960s South Africa and I know that sports boycotts and gestures have a huge effect on countries and people. To call it ‘politics’ is to diminish the importance of the horror of racism.
Alas, though, the Tories, along with their toadies and lickspittles, don't, won't, or can't understand it...
I would argue the biggest problems with politics are (1) the belief that it's a profession and hence something that us 'amateurs' have no business being involved in; and (2) the belief that it's a game.
So she's not only a complete jerk, she's emblematic of everything that's wrong with politics.
What useless role models politicians (or most of them) are. Articulate people, showing compassion, and doing something useful with their lives, are far better...
And the idea that succeeding in feeding children, where the Government had failed (not that it was particularly trying) is 'playing politics'? Interesting definition of 'playing' at something. Did the country really vote for a Government so that they could vote down - as they initially did - food for hungry kids? Is that the definition of 'real' politics?
Mind you. Elphicke has had a rough year. Her former Tory MP husband, self proclaimed 'naughty Tory' Charlie, was convicted last year for sexual harrassment and she had to do the 'supportive wife' thing. I hope nobody was unkind enough to say something like 'is it ungenerous to suggest that a wife should be spending more time perfecting her role as helpmeet to her husband than playing politics'? Elphicke herself clearly equates the loss of effectiveness in one area of life with an inappropriate engagement in another area. Maybe she really does know whereof she speaks?!
Put 'em all on the new royal yacht HMS Unnecessary, and send 'em all as far away as possible from our once fair shores.
...and push them away any time they come close to shore?
It would make a good fillum...in the Horror genre, of course.
Who is "all"?
Right. And you're going to replace them in Parliament with...?
I interpreted Bishop Finger's post as a more literary way of saying something like "I wish they'd all just fuck off and die." Not expressing an actual desire for the MPs to be forcibly removed from office.
With Marcus Rashford, obviously. No more Tory arses, and the children of the UK get all their square meals. What's not to like?
Exactly.
Good idea!
Mr. Rashford appears to be a well-meaning young man who is willing to listen to advice. Doesn't that make him rather overqualified?
Compared (of course) to the current gang of gobshites, yes.
It was the “Thank you for all our dinners” on a little yellow post it that brought a tear to the eye.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Well you need a Parliament. It just doesn’t have to be full of politicians in the professional sense.
Yes, I know - in my dreams...
https://skwawkbox.org/2021/07/13/breaking-england-teams-downing-st-reception-was-cancelled-because-players-refused-to-meet-johnson/
Good news!!