Wyllow3
No, different issues.
Same idea.
It’s been a while so I will start us off…….whats for supper and why?
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“Half truths & many lies: Fact checking Kemi Badenoch”
(129 Posts)From punchng.com/half-truths-many-lies-fact-checking-kemi-badenoch/?amp
Here’s an extract:
Claim 1
According to Ms Badenoch…
“I grew up in a poor country, and I watched my relatively wealthy family become poorer and poorer despite working harder and harder as their money disappeared with inflation. I came back to the UK at age 16 with my father’s last £100 in the hope of a better life …”
Findings
“Multiple sources revealed that Kemi spent her early years in Lagos, Nigeria, where she attended the International School Lagos, a private institution, and graduated in 1996 before returning permanently to the United Kingdom at 16.
In a tweet dated January 22, 2025, a Lagos-based tax consultant, Kayode Okunola, accused Badenoch of distorting her family’s history to fit a narrative of hardship.
“Dear @KemiBadenoch, stop lying about your background. You were never from a poor family! Your grandmother, ‘Iya Ondo,’ was a prominent lace and damask merchant on Kosoko Street in Balogun Market. Your mum was a professor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Your dad owned his clinic, your uncle was a dentist, and your aunt was among the Nigerian students recruited from the USA to the Central Bank of Nigeria,” Okunola wrote.
“If you were poor, what happened to the rest of us who prayed to come from families like yours? Your claims mock the memories of those who genuinely struggled without the opportunities your privileged upbringing afforded you. Please stop!” he added.
In an interview with Sunday PUNCH, Okunola further shed light on the privileged status of Kemi’s family.
He said, “I knew her family well. My family and the Adegokes attended the same church—St. John’s Anglican Church, Aroloya, Lagos Island. Her grandmother, ‘Iya Ondo,’ was a renowned figure in Balogun Market, selling premium fabrics, which weren’t for poor people. Her father owned Iwosan Hospital in Surulere, and her mother was a prominent figure in the Physiology Department at the University of Lagos.
“In those days, only a select few could afford private schools like the International School Lagos, where Kemi studied. It was a school for the children of professors and the elite. Most of us attended government schools. Kemi’s claims of poverty are simply untrue. Her narrative misrepresents her background and mocks the struggles of genuinely underprivileged Nigerians.”
Well, well!
No, different issues.
We have
Fewer children onFSM, lower numbers with EHCPs than other local schools. All things that OfSTED are interested in.
I suspect it’s because we already have the set up for breakfast club, so not so much need for additional set up expenses, staffing etc.
Incidentally, I’m not against free breakfast clubs per se, but it’s funny to see the support for all families should get it compared with the better off pensioners don’t need WFA and parents, (not necessarily the better off but also those who may be struggling to do so) choosing to put their children in private education, must pay now pay extra.
A bit two-faced.🤷♀️
Locally just checked 3 and meet the criteria. It would be interesting to know why not the best choice in your area. It doesnt alter my feelings they are a good move!
The chosen schools are in targeted areas where the difficulties are greatest, and practically speaking means testing is not possible
That’s simply not true. Our school, in a “good” area, which has few “poor” children, has been selected as a trial school. Whereas several other schools in the area which would better fit the criteria, have not been selected.
Mamie
I think the point is that the breakfast clubs will also help to get children into school, especially from the poorest families. We know from years of research that regular attendance is one of the most important factors in educational attainment.
Yes, its not at all just about the food - its about socialising well, settling, from an early an age as possible. Thread after thread on GN has talked about the importance of early years intervention.
The idea that we should critique the scheme because some families could afford breakfast is not the point. The chosen schools are in targeted areas where the difficulties are greatest, and practically speaking means testing is not possible.
Poverty comes in many forms for this age group, and the time spent preparing for the school day (and later for work) in an orderly routine way is never wasted.
Equality in heating comes from all pensioners sitting down with heating, with no division between those who need it and those who do not.
M0nica
Equality in society comes from all children sitting down and eating together, with no dividison between those who pay and those who do not, those who need it and those who do not.
Well that is what they will be doing if they chose to go to breakfast club.
Equality in society comes from all children sitting down and eating together, with no dividison between those who pay and those who do not, those who need it and those who do not.
I think the point is that the breakfast clubs will also help to get children into school, especially from the poorest families. We know from years of research that regular attendance is one of the most important factors in educational attainment.
Thanks Mollygo
Primary so far, as far as I know. But if it’s a vote catcher, who’s to say it won’t be rolled out to cover the early teens-those children who are still too young to be left at home by themselves.
Mollygo
^Rollout of the Free Breakfast club scheme starts at the beginning for the summer term, a pilot project with 180.000 initially.^
Free for all children, regardless of whether their parents can well afford to pay.
Is that all ages or just primary schools?
growstuff
Mollygo
Those dastardly scrounging wealthy parents! How dare they accept?
🤣🤣🤣
Like those dastardly scrounging wealthy OAPs. Glad you realise it.
Oh yes! The irony of it hadn't eluded me.
(Hasn't stopped the OAPs from whinging though)
Hasn’t stopped the praise of making parents pay more for private schooling either.
Wealthy parents should pay more for education including meals, whilst getting free breakfasts and breakfast club places.
Of course, it makes perfect sense 🤣🤣🤣
Wyllow3
Rollout of the Free Breakfast club scheme starts at the beginning for the summer term, a pilot project with 180.000 initially.
I think settling the doctors strike broke a deadlock and the junior doctors definitely were right to get the settlement.
But it wasn't just NHS staff it was railworkers and several other groups as well. caving in and giving in to blackmail is not somethingto be proud of.
Mollygo
^Those dastardly scrounging wealthy parents! How dare they accept?^
🤣🤣🤣
Like those dastardly scrounging wealthy OAPs. Glad you realise it.
Oh yes! The irony of it hadn't eluded me.
(Hasn't stopped the OAPs from whinging though.)
Those dastardly scrounging wealthy parents! How dare they accept?
🤣🤣🤣
Like those dastardly scrounging wealthy OAPs. Glad you realise it.
I always remember that Profumo's offense was not that he slept with a woman who also slept with Russian spy, but that he lied about it. NOwadays we take it as given that politicians are economical with the truth
They'll need to rely on breakfast clubs after they've lost their ISA breaks, paid inheritance tax on their farms and all the other measures Labour is planning for them.
Mollygo
^Rollout of the Free Breakfast club scheme starts at the beginning for the summer term, a pilot project with 180.000 initially.^
Free for all children, regardless of whether their parents can well afford to pay.
Those dastardly scrounging wealthy parents! How dare they accept?
More in terms of Labour Plans - new criminal law measures.
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1345800-50-New-Crime-Fighting-Laws-unveiled
They have been targeted in the most deprived areas, but Mollygo I cant imagine how you would start "means testing" breakfast clubs in practice - never mind the time it would take,
but the way it would divide children up?
The intentions are also not just about the food. Its about socialising well and a stable start to the day, all aims posters on GN have been calling for in terms of early years development.
Rollout of the Free Breakfast club scheme starts at the beginning for the summer term, a pilot project with 180.000 initially.
Free for all children, regardless of whether their parents can well afford to pay.
Rollout of the Free Breakfast club scheme starts at the beginning for the summer term, a pilot project with 180.000 initially.
I think settling the doctors strike broke a deadlock and the junior doctors definitely were right to get the settlement.
Well, I certainly wasn't clapping for the NHS - and with good reason.
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