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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Post split fixtures,
At least I now have no excuse to miss a Saturday medal this season.
EC67
LetsgetthathandicaprespectableCSC
Looks like Sky have set up the fixtures for a Pittodrie showdown..
Celtic fans flaunt litter laws
Celtic fans oppose plastic bag initiative
Old Firm fans fight poverty
Tabloids working feverishly on tomorrow’s headlines…
HH
Tom
All the best tae yer wee maw bud.
Sean.
NegAnon2
11:59 on
15 April, 2015
No.
We have a match tonight with a foodbank collection. It makes perfect sense.
It’s Paul’s blog. Perhaps he doesn’t really feel that the club keeping prices lower than they were 3 years ago is worthy of comment. If you do. Write about it. Set up your own blog (if you haven’t already). In less than an hour you could have your own portal up and running.
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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Or perhaps the binding need of 50″ TVs, X Boxes, 80 fags per day, sufficient quantities of alcohol and the odd tattoo – all of course the very staples of life.
Nice one Roy Croppie :)
DR headline…. “Police justifiably kettle gangs of maarauding Celtic fans,illegally marching about armed with bags full of tins”
HH
Excellent article today, Paul67.
In particular this line was tragically and beautifully poetic:
“That food is your way of paying into the social fund that gave you Celtic.”
Brilliant stuff.
Food bank items purchased, soup, lentil and tomato, rice, pasta, pasta sauce, tea. coffee and sugar.
Amazing that in this day and age when the politicians tell us we have never been better off that food banks still exist. Hopefully some poor family will enjoy the bits and pieces in the bag by tomorrow.
Just realised that if we get to the cup final I’ll be travelling back from San Diego arriving into Heathrow at 15.10 so buggered for getting to the game as it stands. Bloody work interfering with fitba again!
Raymac
yours is not much better mate. Glasshouses stones etc. up your game before you’re the next target for the witch burners.
HH
ernie lynch
12:18 on 15 April, 2015
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?
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Classic Commie whataboutery, with no relevance or relation to the subject matter.
Could you post any quotes from Jesus advocating slavery, racism, ethnic hatreds, war and genocide?
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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?
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Possibly, but I wouldn’t go using the thoughts of Adolf Hitler to do so, even if there were similarities between both sets of circumstances.
HH.
Tom McLaughlin
12:17 on
15 April, 2015
All the best with your mother. I spent a fortune in that cafeteria last when my mother was in the hospital for 5 months.
I just scroll by Neganon 2 posts but not so easy if your being attacked in them.
reminder
zico-maltese bhoys sister has a drop-off point for the local food-bank.
it’s the soapy bubbles launderette in barmulloch (HT will know it).
zico – does K still work there.
I used to hang about with her when we were teenagers but that was a wee while back – so don’t know if we’d recognise each other.
great post Paul.
AcunaHalaBala
12:25 on 15 April, 2015
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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Or perhaps the binding need of 50″ TVs, X Boxes, 80 fags per day, sufficient quantities of alcohol and the odd tattoo – all of course the very staples of life.
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Fags are certainly addictive, and alcohol can be, so they have that in common with gambling. Tattoos and telly aren’t addictive, not in the medical sense.
The difference between addiction to alcohol and tobacco and addiction to gambling is that there is a limit to how much one person can smoke or drink. With gambling the sky is the limit. That’s how Mr Masterton got his name after all.
The other difference is that consumption of alcohol and tobacco has fallen over the years, whereas gambling {and I wonder if you might have an interest to declare here} has increased year on year. That’s why I wonder if there might be a connection with the growth of food banks.. A causative connection.
Any recommendations for somewhere to watch the game in Douglas,Isle of Mann. I’ll pick up replies later.
Thanks.
ernie lynch
12:39 on
15 April, 201
Ernie, if one is engaged in watching all the tripe on TV, interspersed with forays on the X-Box, whilst smoking like a chimney and washing it all down with copious amounts of cider and attending the tattoo parlour on a weekly basis – is there any time left for gambling?
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
12:37 on 15 April, 2015
‘but I wouldn’t go using the thoughts of Adolf Hitler to do so, even if there were similarities between both sets of circumstances.’
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If the Pope can approve of the insight that Marx offers then so can I.
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‘VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI draws from Karl Marx’s theory of alienation in his forthcoming book on Jesus Christ to illustrate his point that the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan is still relevant today.
The reference to the 19th-Century German philosopher and founder of modern communism is found in chapter seven of Jesus of Nazareth, extracts of which were published on Wednesday by Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
“Karl Marx describes man’s alienation in a drastic way; although by limiting his reasoning to the material sphere he fails to reach the true depths of alienation, he nevertheless provides a clear image of the man who falls victim to the robbers,” Joseph Ratzinger writes.’
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Pope-quotes-Marx-in-new-Jesus-book/articleshow/1867889.cms
BTW This is neither the time or place but that misrepresents the Marxist concept of alienation, but hey, no one’s perfect.
acunahalabala
I pray you are never in need of a system into which you have paid.
Benefits are there for those who require them. Frequently they are not. Your attitude mirrors those who have,not those who don’t.
I wish you well. If you ever need help to fill in a form for benefits,there are plenty on here whose jobs will enable them to be of assistance to you.
Miss the last home game of the season as well during my USA trip!!!
Ernie
Poverty & need for food banks blamed on betting industry?!!!!
Give me strength!
So, poverty didn’t exist until the 1960’s when betting shops first appeared on our high streets?….DOH
Most families I know (who struggle through life financially) wouldn’t know what the inside of a bookies looks like, as they have no leasure money left, after paying for food, kids clothes, bills, etc.
And as someone else pointed out, I also know of folk who struggle with their rent – but who can pay SKY’s full package, own two 50″ TV’s, laptop, tablet, and latest mobile to hand.
And have a family holiday abroad in the summer paid off.
But let’s pick an easy target to blame, eh?
Unbelievable!
acunahalabala
My previous reply was to your first post.
I don’t wish to reply to your second as I would be barred from the site.
AcunaHalaBala
12:46 on 15 April, 2015
I might be wrong [though it’s unlikely], but you sound like a total arsehole of an individual.
No offence.
Do they collect for food banks in Eton ?
Some guy , Cameron, whom I’m sure was
educated at Eton , was spouting about life being good last night on the news.
RIP. The 96. YNWA.
How many bookies post on here?
Irony alive and well on cqn :))
[12:50PM, 15/04/2015] Jack O Friel: Dundee footballer electronically tagged after admitting kicking out at police officers and threatening to kill them. http://t.co/krQpu19LY0
[12:50PM, 15/04/2015] Jack O Friel: That’s funny as Paul McGowan canny play cause he has a 7pm curfew
Sitting nearly awwwww ready for the footie .
Is it time yet,is it time yet CSC.
Let the People Sing
turn up the volume :))))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&v=zhkdy0AOpaM
Bada,
That is sad, funny and mental all in the one story :)
Scanned the DR at Morrisons-some guy called Messi says he has a Celtic jersey,and would love to play at CP again,as it is the best atmosphere in Europe.
AcunaHalaBala
12:46 on
15 April, 2015
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See your party’s manifesto was released the day.
GM-I think that’s his 3rd polis assault…
ernie lynch
12:51 on 15 April, 2015
How many bookies post on here?
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How long is a piece of string?
Willie Maley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kI4ny-6Rn4
Me & the wee mhan singing loudly :)))
While discussing the gambling industry.
A noticeable difference between bookies in this country compared with Eire.
The staff working in Dublin’s Paddy Power & Boylesports betting shops are not preoccupied with giving free Tea & Coffee
to the punters.
Then again, Roulette gaming machines are
banned.Rightly so.
The legal crack cocaine of the modern world.
ernie lynch
12:51 on 15 April, 2015
How many bookies post on here?
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Bet it’s hunners
The Pope isn’t a Marxist though,as far as I’m aware.
You should post some Lenin or Trotsky sure, why not?
And I will continue to expose the rank hypocrisy of Communism each and every time that the opportunity presents itself.
HH.
What is the Scottish Governments strategy to reduce the need for foodbanks in the country?
They have ruled for what? 7 years?
Rich people get free prescriptions, free travel, free TV licences, free education for their kids, cold weather fuel allowances? They could tax high value home owners more?
Easier to blame others though eh? Canny go risking losing votes now.
Agent Green – I’ll give you 2/1 on that…..whoops outed