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Originally Posted by Thrombosis
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I remember getting the free milk at school, it was pretty disgusting - either watered down or about to go off or both. No great loss when it went imo - rationing had ended 30 years ago so there was no shortage of foodstuffs. As an aside I do remember getting an absolute rollocking from the headmistress at my school for saying 'Mrs Thatcher the Milk Snatcher'.
Regarding food banks, I agree it's truly awful that so many people need these today and I hold the Cameron/Osborne/Clegg regime partly responsible for their deeper-than-necessary cuts in response to the banking crisis that did so much damage to our country. I'm not sure socialism is the answer to that though - there are plenty of hungry people in Venezuela too.
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My kids dont get school dinners now either. Which is ok, they can have packed lunches but mate so many kids who families are poor now dont even get a school dinner. Who cares if its not ala carte, for some familes it was the only hot meal they got in a day.
How much did taking this away save the goverment? Not a drop in the ocean compared to the tax they dont pay or what they embezzle in expenses.
Between cuts like this and forcing to people into foodbanks its NO CONTEST to me who is on the side of the common man.
The amount of people who have to go cap in hand hungry in this country is clown shoes. We are supposed to be one of the most developed countries. Disgusting.