Milk snatcher Thatcher

[PerfectYear321]

I'm on a bit of a high with the change of government and am looking back at my childhood to see what Labour governments did for my childhood as a poor, free school meals child.

I googled when the Tories got rid of milk for infant school kids and was shocked to find out it was 1971, seeing as I was born in 1977 🤔

I swear I had milk at school in the 80s: little glass bottles with a slim straw. Never drank milk at home but happily drank the milk the school gave me to enjoy with my friends. Am I tripping?!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/margaret-thatcher-regretted-snatching-milk-from-school-children-for-two-decades-a7500171.html

DS had free school milk along with free school meals for the first two years at primary which was fairly recently

I can remember getting school milk in 1977 for a few years then it just stopped. It was horrible, the cartons smelt of sour milk. My kids who have just left primary school were still getting milk throughout primary. We had to pay though. We are in Scotland

I fucking hated it!! It was either half frozen if the weather was cold, or nearly curdled if the weather was warm! I have never drank milk since!!

Hello, we are in 2024 now. Are you ok?

That's not what I'm asking, FFS

You do realise you don't get to control what people talk about 🤣

Yeah I don’t think people seem to understand that she was the longest serving Uk prime minster and there was probably a reason for that.

What I've learnt from a lot of these replies is that kids in Scotland get the option of milk. I'm assuming they know they don't have to drink it if they don't like it..And surely if they tell their teacher this then they won't be offered it the next time

FFS what are you asking then???

Sorry I responded to your rotten thread in the first place - so fucking rude!

Hello, we are in 2024 now. Are you ok?

Are you ok...? ?

They are trying to point out kids had milk at primary even fair it recently. As did my kids. Which is what you were asking...

I think the point about stopping milk was that many families had started to be able to afford milk so it wasn't as vital as before. The move was to providing fruit instead, being overall more beneficial overall

Yes my DS had it at Primary which was in the last 10 years.

why start a thread if your being rude to people? Sour milk lol 😂

I was asking if I imagined the fact that I was given milk at school, not whether you liked the taste 😵‍💫. You answered in an indirect way, so thank you 🤣

Done with you.

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My eldest had free school milk as part of the free school meals universally from reception to year 3 (ie irrelevant of earnings as not entitled to benefits etc so she doesn't get free school meals now)

So all the way through a conservative government 🤔

Piece of work!

Eugh those 1/3 pint bottles, stored in sunlight. Rank. Remember feeling like vomming every morning break 🤢

Well no, the only time the gap between the rich and the poor has ever narrowed was under a conservative Government. It was also Gordon Brown that royally screwed the economy by selling the entire nations gold reserves at International rock bottom prices.

Oh I know, lets talk about the strikes and riots and illegal international war that the last Labour Government got us into.

We were made to drink warm unrefrigerated milk out of little bottles with a straw. ILEA, in the 80s, so funded locally I guess. I absolutely hated milk. Still do to this very day! I swear if someone was allergic they still forced it on them. So Maggie's milk snatch would have been the only one of her policies I agreed with! Lol

I know, it was so horrible that I am having to hide this thread now, because of the disgusting memories that come back every time I see the thread title

Baroness Thatcher who encouraged thousands to borrow beyond their means; whose economy created negative equities, and the ultimate financial devastation for all those whose homes were repossessed?

It clearly states that she was Education Secretary when she did it.