Free school meals and summer holidays

[McNewPants2013]

I was thinking about this today.

I will have an extra £10 per week dude to not paying for school meals, but if people are entitled to FSM I can see many families struggling to provide these extra meals at home.

Do you think that school canteens should open or the parents get extra money to cover the shortfall.

If they can afford to feed their kids but choose not to and buy fags instead then yes they are animals.

Food vouchers can be sold

Oh, that is shit. "Stop benefits of irresponsible absent fathers", said nobody ever

My XH has recently started his first job in thirteen years and the poor nice hard-working CSA bloke was so positive, sent out a payment schedule and everything. XH agreed but was in financial difficulty even while living with Mummy so it had to be renegotiated. I smiled and nodded at the promises and lo and behold, within a fortnight XH has "lost" his job and Mummy is giving him pocket money again. Sanctions? Pah! Mummy won't let him starve.

That was to IneedAyoniNickname. Good luck, lovely

Yes to food vouchers - and I dont believe there are many people with no money at all coming in so surely feeding the family would be top of the list?

Not if issued properly and exchanged in conjunction with photo ID.

Feeding kids top of the list, but the utility companies knly let you go so long without paying, you need electric to cook with, to keep the fridge cool and food fresh, to heat the water to wash the dishes. You need the roof over your heads to put the table under to eat at. The other bills might wait a month but when you are down to the bone month after month sometime you just dont have the cash for food.

Annie Food vouchers are already being misappropriated. Many corner shops will accept Healthy Start vouchers for fags and booze. FSM make sure that the food gets straight to a child tummy. We are saying that by extending that into the school holidays would prevent vouchers being misused.

I would agree that a parent who would buy fags over food for a hungry child is a shit parent, but what you say about sterilisation is eugenics.

So benefit recipients now have to show ID to buy food?

And of course it should be up to both parents in most circumstances - both should be responsible. As to the lack of foster carers etc that ia an issue which needs to be addressed, along with the fact that adoption is ridiculously hard in this country.

What's wrong with ID? I have to show ID every time I go into the bank and in plenty of other circumstances.

Think i'm going to have to leave this thread now.

So what is the alternative? For everyone to pay more into the system so parents can absolve themselves of responsibility? Sorry but screw that.

Were talking about buying food here president! And of course it would only be us scroungers that would have to prove we were entitled to the food!

FFS!

Thanks Audrina good luck to you too!

I just mean that showing ID is something that people doingn daily life - I really dont see the big deal. And I have not called ANYONE a scrounger....

So...to recap

Both parents should be responsible
A parent should budget properly
There should be more foster carers
Adoption should be easier
Parents should buy food not fags
Parents who struggle should have their children removed from their care
Food vouchers should be given instead of cash
A hungry childs parents should be neutered sterilised.

And if none of the above is happening, then what? Will you still turn your back? Will you still walk away?

I don't think that workhouses are an impractical solution by any means. Give it a couple of years and every town will have a large, empty building just waiting to be put to good use. They will just need to remove the, "NHS" signs.

Showing id for a financial transaction on a personal bank account or buying alcohol is applicable to everyone and is very different than having to prove yourself entitled to eat whilst advertising your status as a benefit claimant to everyone in the queue behind you and all the staff and anyone they decide to tell.