Years of austerity and everyone trying hard to do more with less, while our public services and safety nets were taken away. And this is all we have to show for it.
All while the rich got richer and richer and richer.
Yet, we’re told to blame each other…
Grayson81 on
Wouldn’t it be easier just to steal food from schoolchildren in Wimbledon?
FokRemainFokTheRight on
Milton Keynes must be pushing Brighton close for where people want a council home after London
PhantomSesay on
No child should have to starve in this country.
Free school meals should be mandatory for families that are on lower incomes.
Ok-Ship812 on
In work poverty is a particularly Tory hangover.
We’re going to let employers pay you so poorly that you will rely on benefits to exist, that way we can pass a massive tax payer funded bonus to the private sector.
That children are going hungry in Britain is a disgrace but without widespread reform across society of everything from taxation to employment, to the welfare state we are not going to change.
iamjoemarsh on
Stuff like this… is enough to make me think Mao wasn’t *completely* wrong.
Get those tory councillors who voted to increase their own expenses while refusing increased funding for free school meals. Put those lads in a “struggle session”.
AtillaThePundit on
Single most depressing thing I’ve read today, possibly all week. If only there was some way to redistribute money that rich people have , like a tax on their assets when they die , I know it’s a bit far fetched ,
HumbleOwl6876 on
Malnutrition in kids causes lifelong developmental issues. They’re iq is lower they’re weaker more likely to have mental and physical illnesses. The goverment in one way or another is gonna have to pay a fortune out of this Carrie’s on in care. This is such a short sighted and evil thing. This would save money in the long term and help kids but no budget blackhole can’t do it mate.
salamanderwolf on
It’s not just hunger. It will be the shame they feel if someone finds out, the anger they feel when they see school friends eating, and the lack of concentration they then have in classrooms.
Everything in society starts with the children and unfortunately, we’re still stuck with a Victorian mindset.
m4button on
This is just pure heartbreaking. I’m fucking devastated.
Full_Maybe6668 on
Im in my 50’s.
I grew up poor. Like second hand clothes and I can remember the first time I got shoes that were brand new.
But no-one went hungry in school time. No-one.
We should hang our heads in shame
voxo_boxo on
And yet there are still people that will happily vote Tory in the next general election.
ollie1roddy on
Source: “we’ve heard of”
Cost of living and its impacts are real, but this is a surprisingly baity headline from the BBC. There is no story here, it’s a body campaigning for underprivileged kids doing their job and throwing out some juicy quotes without substance.
Traditional-Job-4371 on
Do kids not get free school lunches in England? Fucking hell.
In Scotland they do. All of a sudden I feel better about paying £1500 for income tax a year up here.
ElvishMystical on
This country is developing an incredibly weird food culture.
Outside of schools you get fast food – burgers, chicken, kebabs, and more chicken. Meal deals if you find a small supermarket – sandwich or wrap, crisps and fizzy drink.
Go to a hospital and what do you find? In patients get decent food, but visitors and staff? Fast food, sandwiches and wraps.
Go on any high street and between the vape shops and betting shops you get fast food – pizza, chicken, burgers, chicken, pasta, maybe fish and chips, and more chicken. Meal deals in supermarkets – sandwiches and wraps, crisps and fizzy drinks.
Railway station or coach station? Same thing, fast food and meal deals.
And yet we cannot feed all our schoolchildren? Probably because it costs money and doesn’t make that much of a profit, not like fast food or meal deals. We have austerity, can’t be giving away stuff or investing money in people.
Yet we can shove fast food, meal deals, vape shops and betting shops in people’s faces at every available opportunity.
This country has lost its soul….. and its mind.
Just how sick and twisted do you have to be as a society to let school children starve because they don’t have money and shove fast food and meal deals in their faces outside school?
“Der…. make money, economic growth, make money, record profits, make money, cut costs, make money, slash funding, make money…” This is our national mindset.
VisenyaRose on
Fuck this country I swear. Free School Meals should be a generous scheme
kingzee123 on
That’s right keep giving Ukraine more money and spend more money on illegal immigrants
InTheEndEntropyWins on
I don’t really understand this. If you are poor you get free school meals.
cut the child benefit and give school meals for free to every kid as standard,
Problem sorted and less money spent on booze/tattoos, new nails, etc.
You can buy 2 gary neville loafs of bread for 45p each on tescos, + a cheap pack of butter and some cheap ham trimmings and make 20 ham sandwiches for a whole month for about £3-4
This is laziness.
usdbdns on
Why is that ? We all receive child benefit . Sure!y that money should be feeding the children ?
dreadfulnonsense on
On the plus side, the billionaires have never been richer. Plus, have you seen all those woke people and trans people? Disgusting.
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Years of austerity and everyone trying hard to do more with less, while our public services and safety nets were taken away. And this is all we have to show for it.
All while the rich got richer and richer and richer.
Yet, we’re told to blame each other…
Wouldn’t it be easier just to steal food from schoolchildren in Wimbledon?
Milton Keynes must be pushing Brighton close for where people want a council home after London
No child should have to starve in this country.
Free school meals should be mandatory for families that are on lower incomes.
In work poverty is a particularly Tory hangover.
We’re going to let employers pay you so poorly that you will rely on benefits to exist, that way we can pass a massive tax payer funded bonus to the private sector.
That children are going hungry in Britain is a disgrace but without widespread reform across society of everything from taxation to employment, to the welfare state we are not going to change.
Stuff like this… is enough to make me think Mao wasn’t *completely* wrong.
Get those tory councillors who voted to increase their own expenses while refusing increased funding for free school meals. Put those lads in a “struggle session”.
Single most depressing thing I’ve read today, possibly all week. If only there was some way to redistribute money that rich people have , like a tax on their assets when they die , I know it’s a bit far fetched ,
Malnutrition in kids causes lifelong developmental issues. They’re iq is lower they’re weaker more likely to have mental and physical illnesses. The goverment in one way or another is gonna have to pay a fortune out of this Carrie’s on in care. This is such a short sighted and evil thing. This would save money in the long term and help kids but no budget blackhole can’t do it mate.
It’s not just hunger. It will be the shame they feel if someone finds out, the anger they feel when they see school friends eating, and the lack of concentration they then have in classrooms.
Everything in society starts with the children and unfortunately, we’re still stuck with a Victorian mindset.
This is just pure heartbreaking. I’m fucking devastated.
Im in my 50’s.
I grew up poor. Like second hand clothes and I can remember the first time I got shoes that were brand new.
But no-one went hungry in school time. No-one.
We should hang our heads in shame
And yet there are still people that will happily vote Tory in the next general election.
Source: “we’ve heard of”
Cost of living and its impacts are real, but this is a surprisingly baity headline from the BBC. There is no story here, it’s a body campaigning for underprivileged kids doing their job and throwing out some juicy quotes without substance.
Do kids not get free school lunches in England? Fucking hell.
In Scotland they do. All of a sudden I feel better about paying £1500 for income tax a year up here.
This country is developing an incredibly weird food culture.
Outside of schools you get fast food – burgers, chicken, kebabs, and more chicken. Meal deals if you find a small supermarket – sandwich or wrap, crisps and fizzy drink.
Go to a hospital and what do you find? In patients get decent food, but visitors and staff? Fast food, sandwiches and wraps.
Go on any high street and between the vape shops and betting shops you get fast food – pizza, chicken, burgers, chicken, pasta, maybe fish and chips, and more chicken. Meal deals in supermarkets – sandwiches and wraps, crisps and fizzy drinks.
Railway station or coach station? Same thing, fast food and meal deals.
And yet we cannot feed all our schoolchildren? Probably because it costs money and doesn’t make that much of a profit, not like fast food or meal deals. We have austerity, can’t be giving away stuff or investing money in people.
Yet we can shove fast food, meal deals, vape shops and betting shops in people’s faces at every available opportunity.
This country has lost its soul….. and its mind.
Just how sick and twisted do you have to be as a society to let school children starve because they don’t have money and shove fast food and meal deals in their faces outside school?
“Der…. make money, economic growth, make money, record profits, make money, cut costs, make money, slash funding, make money…” This is our national mindset.
Fuck this country I swear. Free School Meals should be a generous scheme
That’s right keep giving Ukraine more money and spend more money on illegal immigrants
I don’t really understand this. If you are poor you get free school meals.
https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals
cut the child benefit and give school meals for free to every kid as standard,
Problem sorted and less money spent on booze/tattoos, new nails, etc.
You can buy 2 gary neville loafs of bread for 45p each on tescos, + a cheap pack of butter and some cheap ham trimmings and make 20 ham sandwiches for a whole month for about £3-4
This is laziness.
Why is that ? We all receive child benefit . Sure!y that money should be feeding the children ?
On the plus side, the billionaires have never been richer. Plus, have you seen all those woke people and trans people? Disgusting.