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Hey infants, fuck you for being born poor, and girls, fuck you for being born female. Ooh, and fuck all of you for wanting physical health, and joy in arts.
I think they're removing free school meals for those who can afford it, as P1-5 seem to all get them. Which is how it works in the rest of the UK. You only get them if you need them (the criteria from my experience has been quite wide, there was a time I was eligible for it but my mum didn't feel like it was the morally right thing to do because we could actually afford it)
However removing the free period products is disgusting
for those who can afford it,
Yeah 2 issues with this.
Free school meals was not restarted as a fiscal support measure. It was designed to help ensure children get at least one healthy meal a day. Unfortunatly having an income in no way ensures parents know how to provide healthy nutrition. Infants being the age where healthy growth is most dependent on such things.
Second while above is true. It is also far from unheard of for young inexperienced parents to be above poverty income wise but suffer debt issues etc.
Old farts like me. Remember news of research from the 1950s to 80s, when all under 10yo children were given free meals at schools. Then this was cancelled in the 80s by thatcher. It was learned that the number of children not having a healthy meal in a day increased. This lead to nutrition issues and health issues in a sizable number of children treated by the NHS.
That's a good observation, actually.
Labour doubling down on "Sir Kid Starver" is certainly a look.
Odd behaviour from a Labour government, what's going on?
Starmer is going on.
Why do they always go after the most vulnerable first. Sickening.
love how this came out the same day rachel reeves admitted to accepting free sabrina carpenter tickets
Fuck Labour.
This strikes me as bluffing between the DfE and Treasury.
"Oh, you want me to make 15% savings cuts do you? Here's what that looks like:"
In the hope that the Treasury backs down to at least some extent.
Just a correction. That particular15% demand. Was ordered to come from administrative costs. Basically firing civil servents. Not cuts to services provided. Reeves is still trying to deny its austerity. By taking direct decisions on cuts to actual services provided to the public.
The gov is claiming employment os civil services expanded drematically since covid. No idea if that is true. But the desperate attempt from 2 govs in a row to redefine words like austerity dose not fill me with trust. I feel the urge to disinfect anything that comes out of their mouths atm.
I presume they will lumber on for however many years or decades, but they were done a long time ago.
Offering nothing but a fake opposition to neo-liberals is just harmful. They won't just merge with the Conservative party, but that is the honest thing to do.
And now we have Andy Burnham, literally an officer of the conservative party until he left college now being touted as the next leader of the Labour party. There is literally no option for people to vote for. Implicit in the acting of voting is the giving of consent. If you give consent to this fake Tory v. Tory choice you do not have a right to complain when you get neoliberalism playing out, more cuts, and the UK steadily falling down the ranks of wealthy nations.
There is literally no option for people to vote for.
Lib Dems. Greens.
Fucking "Reform" was a party made a week before the election* and they got like a third of the fucking votes.
Seems the british public is capable of supporting third parties, but only when they are fucking bananas.
*exaggeration
Farage was on telly for years prior to the brexit referendum. Despite having mp's the green were not.
The lib dems campaigned on proportional representation and cutting tuition fees in 2010, then immediately scrapped those ideas when they got into coalition government.
Please don't waste my time, thanks.
So? Nothing stopping someone who's currently on telly or from them getting on telly or youtube.
Also, Farage was on LBC.
Apparently Reform has been imploding lately.
good.
They still got 4,117,610 votes, 3rd most votes, but not seats, thank god.