Quote Originally Posted by queenslandpie View Post
You use the example of Marcus Rashford a footballer getting involved in politics. What I see is politics trying to get involved in football. Mr Rashford comes from very humble beginnings and he is proud of them and what he has become - and rightly so. I don't see it as getting involved in politics so much as trying to give back to where he came from at its roots which is a noble cause. I believe he would have had the same opinion and fought the same fight regardless of who was in power. Politics on the other hand seems to want to use sport and in particular football currently to try and score a few cheap points. The recent racism fur rough is a typical example where the current executive has been made to look somewhat stupid by saying one thing and then flipping as required to appeal to public opinion. I don't think there is much more to it than that.
Queenie, there is Politics and there is Party Politics. Rashford is part of the former, but wisely staying out of the latter.