So you have money left at the end of the month? Enough for a holiday, for Christmas? Chances are if you are a season ticket holder at a UK football club you do. Even if this is the case, and if you have a full time wage coming into the house, you’ll have noticed the cost of living a normal, socially-connected, life in the UK is not cheap.
Housing, travel, energy are all expensive. If you want to get or keep a job, a mobile phone is increasingly necessary. If the only wage coming into the house is low, or if you are bringing up a family, or if you are unwaged, or on your own with kids, you’re struggling. The heating will be rationed, Christmas is an annual worry you save for 11 months of the year, holidays are something other families talk about.
Life is miserable for many families, demeaningly so.
I heard a politician last week suggest food banks have burgeoned in recent years due to them being better advertised. I respectfully disagree. Food poverty exists across the UK, alongside heating and housing poverty. People eat toast, a tin of beans or a plate of chips as their main daily meal. Sometimes this is not even an option.
If you’re on a limited wage or keeping a family together on benefits your money will be gone before the next payment is in the bank, pretty much every week or month. You put the heating up during the cold spell last month and have now paid the bill. There’s will be no money for several days and there’s no food in the house. What do you do?
Fortunately food banks exist, not because they are a well marketed business success story, because hundreds of thousands of people in towns and cities across the country have no food before the next tranche of money arrives.
The Penny Dinners Brother Walfrid provided to kids in the east end of Glasgow, which Celtic were started to fund, resonate today. This is why today, on the 100th anniversary of Walfrid’s death, you are asked to bring a bag of provisions along to Celtic Park. That food is your way of paying into the social fund that gave you Celtic. There is a possibility that collectively, you will achieve something magnificent for some of the poorest families in Scotland.
While you’re in a listening mood, CQN’er Tommy Melly, an integral part of TeamOscar, is running the Great Edinburgh Run on Sunday for Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance. He’s also doing the Glasgow 10k in June and the Great Scottish Run in October, all for NCCA. You can do your bit in memory of Oscar, and for those kids who fight on, here.
Have a great day at the football, I hear the banners on the stadium at the top of Celtic Way will be worth photographing.
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Tell me timbhoy2 is Declan.
For all you guys late to the party or just didn’t fancy forking out well earned cash….
Breaking Bad is being shown on the new (to UK) channel Spike tonight @11pm.
Freeview 31. Sky 160 and freesat 141.
Njoy csc
TIMBHOY2
Thatcher cut the baws off the working man by gifting them the chance to own their own council house. Nae chance of going on strike if yer married wi kids and a mortgage.
These things don’t apply to me,I could down tools tomorrow but nobody would notice. Or care.
Point is,we’re screwed.
BMCUWP
I am building a house for my wifes parents and my retirement home. Trying to convince Mags Mc Gill to come as well. 3 years max in Europe then I retire.
HH
TALLYBHOY
Make it Friday morning and I’ll call you back,mate.
This season when it finishes Celtic will have had 4 Saturday 3 o clock kick offs at home.
NegAnon2
11:26 on
15 April, 2015
Are you concerned that people will have less money to put towards food banks after the reduction to the ST price (it’s still a reduction on what I paid previously) is cut?
AWE NAW
Similar to my oul’ pal. Good luck with it. I wish you well.
Especially if you drag Mags along. I give it a fortnight.
ernie lynch
11:32 on 15 April, 2015
I can’t help wondering if the exponential growth of the betting industry might be partly responsible for the growing need for food banks.
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Aye. The Gambling Act of 2005, sole responsibility of the Labour government at the time.
Another blow struck for the cause of the proletariat.
HH.
Could win it at Pittodrie….
Apologies if already posted…..split fixtures
https://twitter.com/spfl/status/588286936638431233
Poor pitch at Tannadice but at least we aren’t going to Inverness again.
Winning the league at home is great but winning it at Pittodrie appeals to me…
HH
F.A.B. Virgil (WATRC)
11:47 on
15 April, 2015
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I responded TWICE in fan surveys……….What would make you give up your season books (had 2).
Moving KO’s from 3 on a Saturday was my response.
Celtic have obviously done the sums and prefer me sitting watching at home………they’ve had 2 more armchair fans for a season now………I’ve saved a fortune BTW.
raymac
11:47 on 15 April, 2015
not only is timboy2 a tim , his Da played for Celtic.
Can we lay off this shit now its nauseating
HH
Dundee United v Celtic, Sunday, April 26 (12.30pm)
Celtic v Dundee, Friday, May 1 (7.45pm)
Aberdeen v Celtic, Sunday, May 10 (2.30pm)
St Johnstone v Celtic, Friday, May 15 (7.45pm)
Celtic v Inverness Caley Thistle, Sunday, May 24 (12.30pm)
All live on TV
Weeminger no I wasnt making a direct link.
I have no issues with Paul’s article but find it odd he focusses on this topic but hasnt mentioned the changes in SB prices.
Dont you?
Winning the league at Pittodrie, that’ll do me nicely..
That’s four games all season at 3 o’clock on a Saturday.
Neganon,
I find it odd you find it odd that Paul has mentioned the foodbank collection on the day of the collection.
“not only is timboy2 a tim , his Da played for Celtic.”
Awe naw.
And what does that prove?
So did bt’s ;p
ernie lynch
11:30 on 15 April, 2015
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
11:08 on 15 April, 2015
‘Karl Marx spent much of his time advocating slavery, racism, ethnic hatreds, war and genocide.’
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And when he wasn’t doing that he was murdering priests, raping nuns and butchering orphans.
And not in a nice way either.
He was altogether an unspeakable cad and bounder.
Mind you, that Gramsci was worse.
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Not funny.
The words of those two evil hypocrites, both written and spoken would eventually lead to mass murder on an industrial scale.
Plenty of priests were executed, many orphans were starved to death and others butchered. Nuns were raped.
Some of the consequences of their evil ideology, and the ideas that existed in their poisonous minds.
Pesky Commies.
HH.
Awe Naw–what shit? The writing style is very similar to the esteemed Declan. Declan’s posts were possibly the most looked-for on this forum. Wind your neck in.
kitalba/16roads
The period up until Ed the bruce was hung drawn and quartered is covered in ‘After Bannockburn.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05p3d0l
HH
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Auldheid,
could you possibly post a link to your essay ‘nimmo was duped’?
Thanks in advance.:-)
HH
joe_joe_john_bobby_teddy
If both ourselves and Aberdeen win the respective remaining games, we will be eight points ahead when we meet at Pittodrie. There will be two games left after that. I`ll let you work the last bit out yourself 0:-)
JJ
The ‘Bored’ will never be sacked if their ‘planted’ clique on here and, elsewhere is anything to go by….heaven help us……
…..oops…just lost the will to live again….
Klopp to leave Dortmund…two west of Scotland gardeners stand by their phones.
Weeminger
Tell me are Douglas and Barry still Directors at the cheats?:-)
HH
Kev J
Are you a plant for the rebellious ?
JJ
Thanks ATM.
Going to watch that now mate.
HH.
I will be donating to the Food bank tonight as I did the last time we had such a collection at Celtic Park but I am under no illusions that it will help solve the underlying problem.
JJ
Looking at the post split fixtures, I can see the ole ‘biased west coast media’ fully behind the Bhoys :)
CeltsaloneagainsteastcoastdominationCSC
South of Tunis
Are you around?
JJ
December 27th 2014 V Ross Co and the last Dundee utd game of the 4 are the only Sat 3pm K.Os we have had since Christmas last year,
ShockingCSC
Neganon2 –
Why are you dragging my name into an argument I had no involvement in, especially when I am not posting ?
I am in the cafeteria at Wishaw General Hospital having a bit of lunch and a wee break from my vigil at my sick mother’s bedside. I’ve been here since 8am. I logged in to see if the fixtures had been announced.
I’ll be logging off now. God willing I’ll be going straight from here to Celtic Park at about 6pm. All still being well I’ll get back to Edinburgh about midnight.
Feel free to continue to slaughter me in my absence for the major crime of disagreeing with you.
I have more serious matters to be concerned with.
Hail Hail.
Remember the 96,
96 souls like you or i
they went to see their team
they never came home,
They bent and tried to taint and smear
they failed
Truth will out.
justice for the 96
may they rest in peace
they will never be forgotten
Hail hail
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
12:06 on 15 April, 2015
Yep.
Marx and Christ certainly bear a lot of responsibility for the actions of their followers over the years. Or not, as the case may be.
We’ll agree on that.
But on the notion of cultural hegemony, do you think it provides any useful insight as an analogy for the treatment and behaviour of the huns?
have a great day Celts.
enjoy the game tonight.
bring a tin if you can
HH
An Tearmann
http://www.cqnmagazine.com/was-lord-nimmo-smith-duped/