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TBH that wasn’t the point I was trying to make. As an aside, apparently trans women are already skewing female crime statistics.

Reeves and latterly Starmer reckoned continuing with the winter fuel payments would have.

So universal free lunches and breakfast clubs would cost twice what has been saved from the winter fuel allowance.

Shmmeee posted a paper showing the cost for universal free school meals at £2.5bn to which would have to be added some cost for the breakfasts. The winter fuel payment was £1.5bn. I am happy to agree with your last sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/24/prison-isnt-working-for-women-labour-says-as-it-unveils-plans-for-alternatives I wonder how this will be abused.

And the winter fuel payment was half that and yet keeping it would have crashed the economy.

I just don’t see £2.5bn as low cost, and that’s excluding the breakfast clubs. I suppose we will see how it will be funded in the budget, but if the £22bn black hole is real (ha ha)and the wfp not affordable, how can the fsm be?

TBH it’s the way they went about the winter fuel allowance that has pissed me off. Frankly, I don’t need it although it was nice to have. Had they addressed it in the budget, with a proper impact assessment, made clear it was a choice acknowledging it flew in the face of what they were saying...

I would humbly invite you to take responsibility for your own problems and don’t blame a previous generation.

Starmer’s approval rating is currently lower than Sunak’s.

There never seemed to be anyone far post or beyond against Swansea, which is where most crosses ended up going.

Christmas tat appearing in shops in September.

What benefits have I talked about enjoying? I have been made redundant three times and yet never claimed unemployment benefit. I was extemely rarely off sick despite working in a stressful job and have never claimed sickness benefits. I have hardly made use of the NHS. The only state benefit I...

It’s £1bn per year for universality for primary school children only, the paper says £2.5bn per year for all pupils, trebling existing spending meaning universal wfp would be 60% of the cost. What about the £22bn black hole? Perhaps Starmer’s return of the sausages will bring the cost down.

What’s the explanation for the shorter American kids?

What an utter twat.

Who is trying to stop kids getting fed? How have boomers created misery and hardship for those following? Boomers will all be dead soon enough. Who will you blame for your woes then?

It’s a bit chicken and egg, don’t you think? Im not arguing against food for children, I’m arguing about the state paying for it when parents should.

It’s the principle that millionaires children would qualify when they could, according to some on here, surely afford to pay for it themselves. And isn’t yet another state intervention abrogating parents of their responibility?