I hope labour picks up the free school meals as a national policy
Does anyone else remember when people were freaking out that Sadiq Khan was a Muslim and would destroy London?
He really proved them right by building cycle lanes and offering free school meals lol
Something else for tax payers to pay for. It won’t be for all children will it. All parents should feed their own children.
The parents who require this should have a log set up and make them pay extra council tax *when they are able*. Crazy we are paying for kids to be fed during bloody holidays.
What about everyone else. I can just about feed my kids, now I have to pay taxes to feed someone else’s too. He should invest the money from his clean air zone into free meals for all school children. Then, and only then might I say well done that man.
You’d think parents didn’t already get a shit tonne of money to feed their kids.
If you ignore everything else about the pros or cons of free meals and just focus on this question:
*What is the cheapest way to increase the efficiency of existing education spending across the UK? (i.e., tax money already committed)*
Then free **nutritious** meals is probably the number one thing across the entire UK that would yield the best return on investment.
It’s not a right wing Vs left wing issue. It’s a fundamental question of how efficiently you want your taxes to be spent. – to which the only answer is “as efficiently as possible”.
If you’re against free school meals for ideological reasons, you’re a twat.
This comment section didn’t disappoint. Stay classy people, remember it’s their fault they are poor.
I’m happy for my taxes to pay for this. Not free for many of us but free for kids in need is a good thing, just a shame it is needed.
I’ve just noticed how news sites tend to put his full name when it’s something negative even things he’s not directly linked to but for positive stories like this they use only his title in the headline
Glad this is happening though
Always good to see London’s taxes being spent on something actually helpful to the people that live here, but I have a feeling Karen and Gavin from Somerset are going to be incredibly angry about this policy, for some reason.
Wtf is with the comments – I’m against wasteful Government spending but this isn’t that. This is feeding children.
This is good, but it is worth bearing in mind that benefits like this have strict eligibility criteria.
Schemes like this usually give more help to the people who already qualify for help, but totally ignore the people who don’t quite qualify for any help at all.
There will be plenty of families who miss out on FSM because they earn just a few pounds a week above the limit. Prices have gone up for those families too, but they get no help at all.
Giving all the extra help to people who already get help, but no extra help to those who just miss out is easier, but ultimately it is lazy thinking.
Anyone want to start paying for the kids they have or just happy for the rest of society to be lumped with the bill
Other labour mayors should follow suit, like Manchester and Liverpool
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I hope labour picks up the free school meals as a national policy
Does anyone else remember when people were freaking out that Sadiq Khan was a Muslim and would destroy London?
He really proved them right by building cycle lanes and offering free school meals lol
Something else for tax payers to pay for. It won’t be for all children will it. All parents should feed their own children.
The parents who require this should have a log set up and make them pay extra council tax *when they are able*. Crazy we are paying for kids to be fed during bloody holidays.
What about everyone else. I can just about feed my kids, now I have to pay taxes to feed someone else’s too. He should invest the money from his clean air zone into free meals for all school children. Then, and only then might I say well done that man.
You’d think parents didn’t already get a shit tonne of money to feed their kids.
If you ignore everything else about the pros or cons of free meals and just focus on this question:
*What is the cheapest way to increase the efficiency of existing education spending across the UK? (i.e., tax money already committed)*
Then free **nutritious** meals is probably the number one thing across the entire UK that would yield the best return on investment.
It’s not a right wing Vs left wing issue. It’s a fundamental question of how efficiently you want your taxes to be spent. – to which the only answer is “as efficiently as possible”.
If you’re against free school meals for ideological reasons, you’re a twat.
This comment section didn’t disappoint. Stay classy people, remember it’s their fault they are poor.
I’m happy for my taxes to pay for this. Not free for many of us but free for kids in need is a good thing, just a shame it is needed.
I’ve just noticed how news sites tend to put his full name when it’s something negative even things he’s not directly linked to but for positive stories like this they use only his title in the headline
Glad this is happening though
Always good to see London’s taxes being spent on something actually helpful to the people that live here, but I have a feeling Karen and Gavin from Somerset are going to be incredibly angry about this policy, for some reason.
Wtf is with the comments – I’m against wasteful Government spending but this isn’t that. This is feeding children.
This is good, but it is worth bearing in mind that benefits like this have strict eligibility criteria.
Schemes like this usually give more help to the people who already qualify for help, but totally ignore the people who don’t quite qualify for any help at all.
There will be plenty of families who miss out on FSM because they earn just a few pounds a week above the limit. Prices have gone up for those families too, but they get no help at all.
Giving all the extra help to people who already get help, but no extra help to those who just miss out is easier, but ultimately it is lazy thinking.
Anyone want to start paying for the kids they have or just happy for the rest of society to be lumped with the bill
Other labour mayors should follow suit, like Manchester and Liverpool