(02-03-2025, 10:54 AM)harm_less Wrote: The purpose and requirements of supplied school lunches, and Seymour's strategy and ACT's intents in disrupting the previous system, are two very different things.
It does rather smack of a 'chuck the peasants a crust' atitude...
I tend to the view that, if kids are hungry, you don't muck about waiting to find out who's voting for who or which govt did what, or who's an incompetent parent, who's struggling on an insufficent wage or benefit & going hungry on a regular basis so their kids can eat.
What you do is feed the blardy kids. Immediately.
Provide decent, nutrituous lunches for EVERY child at school, with the option to opt in or out easily because as we all know, circumstances can change. And because these are OUR kids, the cost shouldn't even enter into it, within reason.
And while we're at it, provide the exact same lunches for every sitting MP. Compulsory, except in cases of alleries etc. which will naturally be checked by a Dr.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)