Free School Meals for 5-7 years old - A brave move or just another bribe? [Merged Thread]

[BensGrandad]

I have been saying this for years but at long last Nick Clegg has said that his party are going to give a free hot meal everyday to all primary school children. The cost wll be £600m but I think that this should be partly deducted from child benefit paid and ensures that every child has a hot meal rather than the money be spent down the pub or in the bookies.

 

[Icy Gull]

Bugger I thought you'd sorted your Microsoft problem

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Because Clegg always delivers on his promises.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Clegg won't be in a position to do anything about this soon, so just more from the Windbag Party.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I have been saying this for years but at long last Nick Clegg has said that his party are going to give a free hot meal everyday to all primary school children. The cost wll be £600m but I think that this should be partly deducted from child benefit paid and ensures that every child has a hot meal rather than the money be spent down the pub or in the bookies.

No such thing as a free lunch...... Only two ways to pay for any government expenditure: taxes up or other benefits down. To be fair, you say that you're happy enough for child benefit to be reduced to pay for it. Turkey twizzlers all round then!

 

[Napper]

At last

Clegg is a henious man

 

[vegster]

Re: At last

No such thing as a free lunch...... Only two ways to pay for any government expenditure: taxes up or other benefits down. To be fair, you say that you're happy enough for child benefit to be reduced to pay for it. Turkey twizzlers all round then!

If you can get some halfway decent food down them it is a big step in the right direction. The cost would be subsidised by the reduction in future unemployment benefits, the future reduction in policing costs, the future reductions in NHS spending on dietary illnesses and by the increase in future income tax.

 

[GOM]

this is a coalition policy announced by the lib dems

 

[Stoo82]

As long as its a decent meal that kids will wont to eat.

A good policy.

 

[El Sid]

I have been saying this for years but at long last Nick Clegg has said that his party are going to give a free hot meal everyday to all primary school children. The cost wll be £600m but I think that this should be partly deducted from child benefit paid and ensures that every child has a hot meal rather than the money be spent down the pub or in the bookies.

So if it's deducted from child benefit it won't be free will it?
Not all parents on low income spend their time sobering up in Bet Fred.

 

[El Presidente]

Thinking of having more kids then BG?

Fair play to you for having lead in the pencil at your age.

 

[El Presidente]

As long as its a decent meal that kids will wont to eat.

Do you think it will help their speling (sic)?

 

[wellquickwoody]

Re: At last

As long as its a decent meal that kids will wont to eat.

A good policy.

Want dahling, want.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

This just won't happen. The Government want all schools to become academies. Academies unlike state schools do not have to follow any nutritional guidelines regarding what is served up to the kids. Clegg needs to look at his own rule book before making false promises.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I have been saying this for years but at long last Nick Clegg has said that his party are going to give a free hot meal everyday to all primary school children. The cost wll be £600m but I think that this should be partly deducted from child benefit paid and ensures that every child has a hot meal rather than the money be spent down the pub or in the bookies.

Primary school kids aren't allowed to spend money down the pub or in the bookies shirley?

 

[BensGrandad]

Primary school kids aren't allowed to spend money down the pub or in the bookies shirley?

Even when I was a child the family allowance enabled my dad to play darts on a Tuesday night as he was paid every Thursday night/Friday morning but I must admit it didnt stop me being fed good wholesome food. Times however have changed and I dont think there is as much put onto children of saying you must eat greens and other vegetables. Obviously it is an individual thing in each family but as an overall view I think that is correct and has been duly emphasized by Jamie Oliver.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Because Clegg always delivers on his promises.

True...like his promise to support boundary changes if he got his referendum on PR voting......

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Even when I was a child the family allowance enabled my dad to play darts on a Tuesday night as he was paid every Thursday night/Friday morning but I must admit it didnt stop me being fed good wholesome food. Times however have changed and I dont think there is as much put onto children of saying you must eat greens and other vegetables. Obviously it is an individual thing in each family but as an overall view I think that is correct and has been duly emphasized by Jamie Oliver.

I've no doubt you're right about vast amounts of family allowance ending up down the gobs/lungs of pig parents. Easiest thing in the world would be to issue family allowance in the form of vouchers that can be spent on anything other than booze and fags. Now THAT would be the killer vote winner. Apart from the pig parents who are definitely maybe statistically the least likely to vote in any case. Furk 'em.

 

[BensGrandad]

Clegg won't be in a position to do anything about this soon, so just more from the Windbag Party.

As said this evening could well be in league with Milliband if it suits his purpose and keeps him in a parlimetary job that he would never have without the need for a coaltion

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Firstly its infants not all primary.
Secondly that ballsack Gove recently said that all schoolkids will have school dinners, this is the start of it and will be paid for from benefits that the poor need and the rich can afford.
This is a tory policy, hidden under a coalition diguise and just announced by Clegg which on the face of it is good, but in reality will be deducted from the money that the less well off need.
But crap packed lunches should be banned.