Times are tough. I’m a teacher, and even before the school year started we had kids coming up to the deputy head on GCSE results day telling her there was nothing to eat at home. This was 4 weeks ago, can’t even imagine how much worse it’s going to get.
My kid comes back from school and nursery really hungry. I thought it was the time of day they eat, but no, it’s that they’re not getting enough for the energy they use.
> In England, all infant schoolchildren are entitled to free school meals from reception to year two. But beyond that, only children whose parents earn less than £7,400 a year are eligible, and 800,000 children living in poverty are missing out, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
Holy Living Fuck.
Does UC top up those earnings to the National Living Wage?
This is outright, a fucking disgrace, to have to be a parent, and read this, in the same week that I have read that the caps for bankers bonuses have been removed.
But I am assured that the tory party is not literally the make children hungry party, I am assured of this by tory voters.
Don’t worry guys. I gave a bunch of money to a wealthy neighbour. That will sort it all out.
Children just have to open their mouth wide enough to receive the trickle down food.
Can you imagine what people voting in the Cameron/Brown/Clegg election of 2010 and those three centrist manifestos they all threw out to try to grab middle England would have thought if you told them that their tory vote for that fresh-faced Cameron bloke would lead to full blown trickle-down Reaganomics, workers using food banks, children from regular families going hungry, going cold, leaving the EU, BNP policies that would have been booed on Question time such as ~~deporting~~ sending migrants to Rwanda being adopted as *actual government policies* etc…
Honestly the childish part of me wants Labour to get elected on a super centrist manifesto and then quietly veer gradually towards the left to the point where we’re the most Socialist country in Europe in 12 years time as well.
Because that’s what they’ve literally done here only on the other side of the political spectrum. It was a long con job but a con job it has been.
I thought the plan was that kids can survive on the fumes of luxury cars – the ones the bankers and top earners can now buy more.
Don’t worry, Kwasi Kwarteng and his trickle-down economics are going to save us!
Yeah, but it’s only poor kids. They don’t matter. What is really needed is giving rich people tax breaks.
On a serious note, I really feel for these kids. They are suffering because of their parents stupidity. Despite everything that the Tory government does to make their lives worse, working class people continue to vote for them.
I’m not sure I can see a way past this, but it really highlights the problems with democracy.
I’m a teacher and this week a girl in my form had to come to me and tell me that her family cannot afford to buy her school shoes (she is a young carer).
This should never happen.
I don’t care how it’s done, I don’t care how much it costs, I don’t care a handful on benefits might “game the system”, I don’t care if I have to pay more taxes, just feed the fucking children.
Three meals a day, plus snacks. All well balanced, healthy, varied, and calorific enough to cover growth/energy levels. Every single day. Until, what, 16-18 years old? Until they finish education? Until they have a job?
Anybody who disagrees with this needs to take a good look at themselves in a mirror and consider what sort of a person they are. What sort of scumbag argues *for* letting kids go hungry?
Meanwhile we have record obesity levels which cause a third of all deaths.
It’s an old trope but it bears remembering – if you can’t feed em, don’t breed em.
Indeed, having a child is the least sustainable climate action, so we shouldn’t be pushing so many out.
Right, enough internet for today. This is making me even more depressed.
Heartbreaking. I’ll be setting up a go fund me for my local millionaire so the economy grows fast enough.
Eat the fucking rich.
Those children should get jobs and maybe they wouldn’t be hungry, bloody scroungers /s
“Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children”
DONT PANIC, EVERYTHING IS FINE, bankers bonus caps have been removed, so this will all fix its self.
Sorry but are parents not in any way responsible for this? It’s all well and good blaming the government but if I was a parent I’d skip a meal if It meant my kid could eat. Food is not expensive enough where it washes with me parents can’t afford it.
Failure of parents 😞 so sad, we should be removing these kids from their care!
Don’t worry, Liz Truss will give tax breaks to food companies and the food will trickle down!
Short term, teach people who are struggling how to make cheap meals, rice lentils etc. and bulk buy whole grains, tinned good etc. Long term, revolution….
You wouldn’t think we were the 5th richest country in the world would you
Welcome to the sixth largest economy on planet earth.
So how do we fix this? Everything has gone up in price and if we give more money in benefits it will likely get swallowed up on power bills, inflation and debts. Would a pre paid card that can be used in supermarkets for everything except alcohol and cigarettes be acceptable?
So long as it was contactless nobody would even need to know you were using it at the till.
It’s the kids fault for choosing poor / bad parents I guess /s
If i was someone who served the children there food at school there’s no way i would let them go without it’s disgusting
It’s a cull of the poor to make room for the new poor.
I know of parents who don’t eat enough to feed their children. They were ashamed to tell or ask for help. Luckily they now have some community support. .
Don’t worry, the trickle down from the 45% tax bracket cut will feed these children, when hell freezes over.
We have, and have had for a very long time, enough resources to feed, clothe, house, and heat every man, woman and child in the country. The only reason we don’t is ideology. The same ideology that is going to make the planet uninhabitable. Time for a real change.
Wales have started rolling out free school meals for all students starting with Reception and Y1 this September. This will extend to all primary school children (up to and including Y6) over the next couple of years. Labour don’t get much right in Wales but this is a great move from them tbf.
Make this make sense to me – we have an obesity crisis in this country and yet apparently people are starving?
I don’t think there’s any actual deliberate dishonesty here but it just doesn’t ring true. Almost all my friends are on low paid jobs and making ends meet, so perhaps it’s the unemployed who are suffering most, but even then apparently our problem is an oversupply of labour.
I just don’t get it.
Jesus Fucking Christ. How and why is this happening, and why are we not protesting?! If we can’t feed our kids, can we even call ourselves a society at all?!
Over the years, things have got consistently worse, and yet we’re still paying the same taxes?
Or now, it seems all taxes will be abolished and by doing so, all public services, what little the government does do, will be stripped away.
How does any of this make any sense?!
I am very angry and very confused.
Please don’t tell me that the powers that be are hoping that the very rich will decide to give generously to the very poor?!
I used to hate weekends as a kid, because i didn’t think i would get fed. No child should go hungry there is nothing worse than going to bed hungry and not knowing if you will have anything to eat the next day either.
I hated the school holidays and hated school but i knew i got fed at school (free school meals FTW).
this was years ago, and it disgusts me that this is happening now, fucking disgraceful.
How much money did they just spend on that funeral?
And yet some people on askuk have the gall to say “why is everyone down on the UK on reddit, I’m doing fine in real life”
And the same nutters come out and start comparing us to a fucking warzone country like that’s a legitimate reason we should be grateful.
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Times are tough. I’m a teacher, and even before the school year started we had kids coming up to the deputy head on GCSE results day telling her there was nothing to eat at home. This was 4 weeks ago, can’t even imagine how much worse it’s going to get.
My kid comes back from school and nursery really hungry. I thought it was the time of day they eat, but no, it’s that they’re not getting enough for the energy they use.
> In England, all infant schoolchildren are entitled to free school meals from reception to year two. But beyond that, only children whose parents earn less than £7,400 a year are eligible, and 800,000 children living in poverty are missing out, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
Holy Living Fuck.
Does UC top up those earnings to the National Living Wage?
This is outright, a fucking disgrace, to have to be a parent, and read this, in the same week that I have read that the caps for bankers bonuses have been removed.
But I am assured that the tory party is not literally the make children hungry party, I am assured of this by tory voters.
Don’t worry guys. I gave a bunch of money to a wealthy neighbour. That will sort it all out.
Children just have to open their mouth wide enough to receive the trickle down food.
Can you imagine what people voting in the Cameron/Brown/Clegg election of 2010 and those three centrist manifestos they all threw out to try to grab middle England would have thought if you told them that their tory vote for that fresh-faced Cameron bloke would lead to full blown trickle-down Reaganomics, workers using food banks, children from regular families going hungry, going cold, leaving the EU, BNP policies that would have been booed on Question time such as ~~deporting~~ sending migrants to Rwanda being adopted as *actual government policies* etc…
Honestly the childish part of me wants Labour to get elected on a super centrist manifesto and then quietly veer gradually towards the left to the point where we’re the most Socialist country in Europe in 12 years time as well.
Because that’s what they’ve literally done here only on the other side of the political spectrum. It was a long con job but a con job it has been.
I thought the plan was that kids can survive on the fumes of luxury cars – the ones the bankers and top earners can now buy more.
Don’t worry, Kwasi Kwarteng and his trickle-down economics are going to save us!
Yeah, but it’s only poor kids. They don’t matter. What is really needed is giving rich people tax breaks.
On a serious note, I really feel for these kids. They are suffering because of their parents stupidity. Despite everything that the Tory government does to make their lives worse, working class people continue to vote for them.
I’m not sure I can see a way past this, but it really highlights the problems with democracy.
I’m a teacher and this week a girl in my form had to come to me and tell me that her family cannot afford to buy her school shoes (she is a young carer).
This should never happen.
I don’t care how it’s done, I don’t care how much it costs, I don’t care a handful on benefits might “game the system”, I don’t care if I have to pay more taxes, just feed the fucking children.
Three meals a day, plus snacks. All well balanced, healthy, varied, and calorific enough to cover growth/energy levels. Every single day. Until, what, 16-18 years old? Until they finish education? Until they have a job?
Anybody who disagrees with this needs to take a good look at themselves in a mirror and consider what sort of a person they are. What sort of scumbag argues *for* letting kids go hungry?
Meanwhile we have record obesity levels which cause a third of all deaths.
It’s an old trope but it bears remembering – if you can’t feed em, don’t breed em.
Indeed, having a child is the least sustainable climate action, so we shouldn’t be pushing so many out.
Right, enough internet for today. This is making me even more depressed.
Heartbreaking. I’ll be setting up a go fund me for my local millionaire so the economy grows fast enough.
Eat the fucking rich.
Those children should get jobs and maybe they wouldn’t be hungry, bloody scroungers /s
“Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children”
DONT PANIC, EVERYTHING IS FINE, bankers bonus caps have been removed, so this will all fix its self.
Sorry but are parents not in any way responsible for this? It’s all well and good blaming the government but if I was a parent I’d skip a meal if It meant my kid could eat. Food is not expensive enough where it washes with me parents can’t afford it.
Failure of parents 😞 so sad, we should be removing these kids from their care!
Don’t worry, Liz Truss will give tax breaks to food companies and the food will trickle down!
Short term, teach people who are struggling how to make cheap meals, rice lentils etc. and bulk buy whole grains, tinned good etc. Long term, revolution….
You wouldn’t think we were the 5th richest country in the world would you
Welcome to the sixth largest economy on planet earth.
So how do we fix this? Everything has gone up in price and if we give more money in benefits it will likely get swallowed up on power bills, inflation and debts. Would a pre paid card that can be used in supermarkets for everything except alcohol and cigarettes be acceptable?
So long as it was contactless nobody would even need to know you were using it at the till.
It’s the kids fault for choosing poor / bad parents I guess /s
If i was someone who served the children there food at school there’s no way i would let them go without it’s disgusting
It’s a cull of the poor to make room for the new poor.
I know of parents who don’t eat enough to feed their children. They were ashamed to tell or ask for help. Luckily they now have some community support. .
Don’t worry, the trickle down from the 45% tax bracket cut will feed these children, when hell freezes over.
We have, and have had for a very long time, enough resources to feed, clothe, house, and heat every man, woman and child in the country. The only reason we don’t is ideology. The same ideology that is going to make the planet uninhabitable. Time for a real change.
Wales have started rolling out free school meals for all students starting with Reception and Y1 this September. This will extend to all primary school children (up to and including Y6) over the next couple of years. Labour don’t get much right in Wales but this is a great move from them tbf.
Make this make sense to me – we have an obesity crisis in this country and yet apparently people are starving?
I don’t think there’s any actual deliberate dishonesty here but it just doesn’t ring true. Almost all my friends are on low paid jobs and making ends meet, so perhaps it’s the unemployed who are suffering most, but even then apparently our problem is an oversupply of labour.
I just don’t get it.
Jesus Fucking Christ. How and why is this happening, and why are we not protesting?! If we can’t feed our kids, can we even call ourselves a society at all?!
Over the years, things have got consistently worse, and yet we’re still paying the same taxes?
Or now, it seems all taxes will be abolished and by doing so, all public services, what little the government does do, will be stripped away.
How does any of this make any sense?!
I am very angry and very confused.
Please don’t tell me that the powers that be are hoping that the very rich will decide to give generously to the very poor?!
I used to hate weekends as a kid, because i didn’t think i would get fed. No child should go hungry there is nothing worse than going to bed hungry and not knowing if you will have anything to eat the next day either.
I hated the school holidays and hated school but i knew i got fed at school (free school meals FTW).
this was years ago, and it disgusts me that this is happening now, fucking disgraceful.
How much money did they just spend on that funeral?
And yet some people on askuk have the gall to say “why is everyone down on the UK on reddit, I’m doing fine in real life”
And the same nutters come out and start comparing us to a fucking warzone country like that’s a legitimate reason we should be grateful.