We could do with more young people being sociopolitically active like this, good for him
I still don’t get why this is controversial. Regardless of income, feeding kids well is always good.
I have faith the future generations will make things better!
Once again teenagers coming up with better policies than the government
We’ll also need to factor in the cost of stronger and higher fences around schools, to stop some parents throwing bags of fish & chips and McDonalds over at lunch times.
We pay / earn enough in tax as a country to be able to provide free school meals, should be implemented ASAP.
I see free school meals and raise you: Universal basic Income. Why offer school meals free at the point of service when you can instead simply GIVE poeple the money we need to survive. with it we can buy those school meals, and since UBI covers the cost of living, it would be effectively the same as free.
Also, to all of you work cultists and Rupert Murdoch cultists, go check up on what the Robots have been doing. Opportunities to earn a living are decreasing.
“Why should the poors get anything!” half these comments. Gross.
Just allow private schools to subsidise their meals (by the same value) and then all the rich people will get a direct rebate and will be less likely to oppose.
And so it should be.
Given that we keep seeing articles about how kids were obese and now basically starving due to their families being, shockingly, under huge financial stresses….why not?
At least we then know the kids are getting provided with meals that are known to be at least _somewhat_ wholesome, regular and not reliant on their parents/guardians.
Of course, that requires actually putting money towards the problem and I’d love to think whoever replaces the Tories will do a decent job of that part.
It’s better that some children go hungry than a single child from a middle-class family get a free school meal
Reality is lots of kids eat badly, don’t blame them, feed them properly and you’ve invested in a healthy and productive next generation.
I don’t understand if there are any con.
Children will not suffer hunger, so… Why not?
We could feed our own easily if we stopped giving billions to every other country. Not to mention the amount of money we spend on our migrant crisis.
Policy aside, how on earth is the youth parliament something that survived the cuts?
I really hope this will come to fruition
Too many kids fall through the cracks, I was one of them and no one noticed me not eating. I was so hungry while in school
It’s not like my parents didn’t have money, my mum’s cigarettes were just more important
There’s no such thing as a free meal, someone has to pay for it
With the amount of millionaires in the world, the UK and Canada (where I live) have enough money to fund universal school meals. I’d love to implement this if I had the funds. Sometimes this is the biggest meal of the day in a kid’s life.
That’s fine. Paid for by the taxes from people who have children. I don’t have children, I’m considering dumping broadband because of the cost increases. So how am I to afford to pay for someone elses children to eat.
Why is it such an insane idea that anyone earning under 100K might benefit from a program where the government funds free school meals. People earning over £8000 a year are still in abject poverty
Do you know what the responses to this post reminds me of? I saw a short video of a large demonstration a short while ago, these were ALL pro immigration people campaigning against shipping immigrants to Rwanda and the centres they are being housed in
The interviewer was asking protesters if they had a room that an immigrant could stay in and guess what everyone of them made pathetic excuses why they couldn’t house someone.
It’s OK for someone else to do it but it shouldn’t affect me
The fact that “kids should be fed by the people looking after them most of the day” is debatable is wild. Like it’s ensuring children don’t go hungry? What kinda twat is against that.
Better child nutrition means better outcomes for everyone.
Poor child nutrition can mean a lifetime of problems. For the individual and for the society that has to deal with those problems.
It seems to me that it would be simpler and cause less problems if we just made sure that children were fed. Rather than deal with the myriad of problems if we don’t.
Do we not have means tested free school meals anyway?
Universal free school meals will just be added to the already oppressive tax burden
The problem is cost. Who is paying for it.
Does it come out of the school budget there by probably leading to cuts else where, or do the government pay (not that any government has any money) or more accurately the tax payers.
I still remember when we all got milk in the mornings and a piece of fruit at nursery. That was universal!
Sign me up. I’m game for this.. I still remember my childhood where we don’t always get lunch… those were brutal especially in the colder times.
Feed our kids..
Seems such a no brainer – whatever the cost, offering breakfast, lunch and even dinner would generate so many benefits
Could also offer kids the chance to play sports till 5:30, especially if their parents are working
And day care – whatever the cost, just make it easily affordable
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We could do with more young people being sociopolitically active like this, good for him
I still don’t get why this is controversial. Regardless of income, feeding kids well is always good.
I have faith the future generations will make things better!
Once again teenagers coming up with better policies than the government
We’ll also need to factor in the cost of stronger and higher fences around schools, to stop some parents throwing bags of fish & chips and McDonalds over at lunch times.
We pay / earn enough in tax as a country to be able to provide free school meals, should be implemented ASAP.
I see free school meals and raise you: Universal basic Income. Why offer school meals free at the point of service when you can instead simply GIVE poeple the money we need to survive. with it we can buy those school meals, and since UBI covers the cost of living, it would be effectively the same as free.
Also, to all of you work cultists and Rupert Murdoch cultists, go check up on what the Robots have been doing. Opportunities to earn a living are decreasing.
“Why should the poors get anything!” half these comments. Gross.
Just allow private schools to subsidise their meals (by the same value) and then all the rich people will get a direct rebate and will be less likely to oppose.
And so it should be.
Given that we keep seeing articles about how kids were obese and now basically starving due to their families being, shockingly, under huge financial stresses….why not?
At least we then know the kids are getting provided with meals that are known to be at least _somewhat_ wholesome, regular and not reliant on their parents/guardians.
Of course, that requires actually putting money towards the problem and I’d love to think whoever replaces the Tories will do a decent job of that part.
It’s better that some children go hungry than a single child from a middle-class family get a free school meal
Reality is lots of kids eat badly, don’t blame them, feed them properly and you’ve invested in a healthy and productive next generation.
I don’t understand if there are any con.
Children will not suffer hunger, so… Why not?
We could feed our own easily if we stopped giving billions to every other country. Not to mention the amount of money we spend on our migrant crisis.
Policy aside, how on earth is the youth parliament something that survived the cuts?
I really hope this will come to fruition
Too many kids fall through the cracks, I was one of them and no one noticed me not eating. I was so hungry while in school
It’s not like my parents didn’t have money, my mum’s cigarettes were just more important
There’s no such thing as a free meal, someone has to pay for it
With the amount of millionaires in the world, the UK and Canada (where I live) have enough money to fund universal school meals. I’d love to implement this if I had the funds. Sometimes this is the biggest meal of the day in a kid’s life.
That’s fine. Paid for by the taxes from people who have children. I don’t have children, I’m considering dumping broadband because of the cost increases. So how am I to afford to pay for someone elses children to eat.
Why is it such an insane idea that anyone earning under 100K might benefit from a program where the government funds free school meals. People earning over £8000 a year are still in abject poverty
Do you know what the responses to this post reminds me of? I saw a short video of a large demonstration a short while ago, these were ALL pro immigration people campaigning against shipping immigrants to Rwanda and the centres they are being housed in
The interviewer was asking protesters if they had a room that an immigrant could stay in and guess what everyone of them made pathetic excuses why they couldn’t house someone.
It’s OK for someone else to do it but it shouldn’t affect me
The fact that “kids should be fed by the people looking after them most of the day” is debatable is wild. Like it’s ensuring children don’t go hungry? What kinda twat is against that.
Better child nutrition means better outcomes for everyone.
Poor child nutrition can mean a lifetime of problems. For the individual and for the society that has to deal with those problems.
It seems to me that it would be simpler and cause less problems if we just made sure that children were fed. Rather than deal with the myriad of problems if we don’t.
Do we not have means tested free school meals anyway?
Universal free school meals will just be added to the already oppressive tax burden
The problem is cost. Who is paying for it.
Does it come out of the school budget there by probably leading to cuts else where, or do the government pay (not that any government has any money) or more accurately the tax payers.
I still remember when we all got milk in the mornings and a piece of fruit at nursery. That was universal!
Sign me up. I’m game for this.. I still remember my childhood where we don’t always get lunch… those were brutal especially in the colder times.
Feed our kids..
Seems such a no brainer – whatever the cost, offering breakfast, lunch and even dinner would generate so many benefits
Could also offer kids the chance to play sports till 5:30, especially if their parents are working
And day care – whatever the cost, just make it easily affordable