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Free school lunches scrapped as children pay price for causing recession

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blacksunday · 21/09/2015 09:49

BRITAIN’S infants will finally be made to pay for causing the financial crash of 2008.

Free school lunches are expected to be scrapped later this year as chancellor George Osborne punishes children for engineering the credit crunch by trading in high-risk, sub-prime mortgages.

He said: “By removing their free mash potato and lukewarm peas we send a strong message that free markets only succeed when managed responsibly.

“These children threatened the livelihoods of thousands of innocent merchant bankers who just want to be happy.”

Six year-old Tom Booker admitted: “The party’s over. In retrospect, it was wrong of me to claim free lunches at the taxpayers’ expense while running a Dubai-based hedge fund.

“Luckily, I’ve accumulated about £8 million in emerging market tech stocks so I should be able to afford a sad little hotdog and a box of Ribena.”

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/free-school-lunches-scrapped-as-children-pay-price-for-causing-recession-20150921102109

OP posts:
ReallyTired · 21/09/2015 10:48

At the moment the daughter or son of billionaire is entitled to free school meals while they are infants. The cut off for free school meals is far too low for older children. Believe it or not children don't stop bring hungry when they hit secondary. Maybe the threshold for free school meals should be raised so all that investment in infrastructure does not go to waste. (Of course secondary school would have to drastically update their Infrastructure to cope.)

sliceofsoup · 21/09/2015 10:42

What a load of shit OP.

I despise DC and GO as much as the next person. I think its a disgrace that MPs got a pay rise, and continue to receive expenses and subsidised food and drink, but taking away free school meals for all is not punishing infants for the recession. Hmm Bollocks like that does not help the left at all.

I am interested to know if they intend to bring back the means tested free school meals for the families on the lowest incomes. Does anyone know?

Isitmebut · 21/09/2015 10:33

As usual, complete and utter left wing b-o-l-l-o-k-s.

Government Spending Reviews if worthy the name, should both start with everything on the table and look at inefficiencies/savings.

Maybe if the recessionary,falling real earnings, economically unblanace UK, pre May 2010, would have responsibly HAD the well overdue Spending Round and began 'cutting out cloth' instead of putting up taxes to sustain the unsustainable - we might have have grown our economy far quicker.

The fact is, in most government departments not everything CAN go 'on the table', so say only 5% to 20% of that total annual budget can be cut/changed.

So the enhanced free school meals that I believe includes breakfast, which was a Clegg Lib Dem flagship policy within the coalition that began in May 2010, NOT A LABOUR ONE who were concentrating more on de regulating our banks prior to the late 2007 financial crash.

So school meals as not part of the fixed costs WILL be 'on the table' with other 'stuff'.

But if memory serves either in the 2015 Conservative manifesto of promises made during the general election, they said that they would PROTECT school meals.

In conclusion; IF repeat IF the Conservative government after the Spending Review DOES cut school dinners funding in any form they promised to keep, they deserve every bit of outrage thrown at them, from myself included.

Meanwhile those who rely on school dinners to ensure children get at least one healthy meal a day really don't need your ideologically sick and pig ignorant scare stories. IMO