Post #4272539

2026-07-31 08:43 UTC

#ReformUK = cruelty personfied. "A café owner who served up free meals to hungry children after food vouchers were removed has been told he will be reported to police by a Reform council leader. Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook in Hastings, stepped up after East Sussex County Council decided not to issue school holiday meal vouchers to struggling families over the summer. He has criticised the move, which he branded “shameless”, accusing the council of turning its back of children in poverty." #UK_politics https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-meal-vouchers-police-37494875

Replies (4)

@spytfyre@mastodon.scot 2026-07-31 09:03

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk It's his food he paid for. If he decides to give it away free to kids who can't pay, as they don't have jobs or a bank account, then the police can put the phone down while making sure the caller hears their laughter THEN the can send the car round to, as someone else already brilliantly said, charge them with wasting police time. Community service in the cafe feeding the kids and NOBODY ELSE

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@nini@oldbytes.space 2026-07-31 09:37

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk It's the petty villainy of it all, taking food from kids then saying they'll report someone who's trying to give kids food because they won't. It's cruel but it's just so pathetic to boot.

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@robchapman@ohai.social 2026-07-31 09:51

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk his business, he can choose who he gives a free meal to and who he tells to 'fuck off' It has nothing to do with the council, or the police...Reform politicians all need taking out with the trash

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@cmsdengl@mas.to 2026-07-31 09:58

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk Very GOP/Trumpian - have a harsh policy against the most vulnerable. Then use the mechanisms of the "establishment" against those who oppose those policies. Reform are very uncertain about which bits of the establishment they like and dislike.

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