Free school meals were sometimes the only times we ate as children - the school holidays were intensely stressful for kids and parents alike: parents don’t want to limit their kids eating, but also relying on charity is fraught with problems.
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Kids came back to school after holidays visibly thinner. My friends parents always had me round to dinner, friends didn’t know why their mums always got the biscuits/ice cream out if I came over, but was popular at least. But you shouldn’t be worried about food & money at 6.
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Don’t fully remember the details, but after Labour came into power we were sent watermarked coupons in addition to FSM that could be exchanged for milk/eggs/bread. Feeding people in poverty for you in gov is cheap, and stops later costs
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It’s fully within the power of govts to end child poverty. It saves suffering immediately, & long term improves mental and physical health, development and attainment. You [can] stop child poverty, it won’t collapse the economy. Do your job, stop demanding Marcus do it for you.
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He's quite something, and not in a good way.
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Yep, this Aberfan disasterhttps://twitter.com/huwbbc/status/1318693695294754816?s=20 …
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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat. Amartya Sen Poverty and Famines An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, p. 1 (1981).
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“I am merely an MP, how dare you suggest I may have the power to campaign to feed children”
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Everyone knows the real power lies in how many followers you have on Twitter. That's why I bow to our mighty overlord of 124 million followers, Barack Obama
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He wants to see UC boosted but hasn't tried too hard to change it. Empty rhetoric as usual.
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What's the betting if it was debated, he would vote against an increase in UC?
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