Parliament Vote (21/10/20) Labour asks for School Dinners for children: England
 

The prime minister has stated
£1,000 added to Universal Credit per year.
That's a no from him.

Labour want School Dinners
to carry on in the holidays.

A LibDem MP bought it up.


A few Conservatives are going to vote with Labour at 7PM.
But will they get enough votes to win today?

The Tories turning down the chance to feed children? I am so shocked and not at all used to that party lacking basic empathy!

The Prime Minister
claims the increase in the Universal credit
covers it

He claims everything nearly is covered by it.
IF you can get it and whenever you do.
At times it is obviously the help required.

This vote though is penny pinching to the lowest degree.
Not that I'm surprised he's against it.

How is it that universal credit didn't cover this in term times.
Also who finances universal credit.

Yes the taxpayer so why be so difficult messing about like this with children's welfare.

Will they Win the Vote?
They need all the SNP to help
and more Conservatives to vote with Labour

****ing hell, the amount of obese kids about, they could do with skipping a meal.

I assume those ones
are the rich kids

No I doubt it.
Despite many Con MPs thinking this should be done.

Few will risk or want black marks put against them by Johnson and Cummings, for following their conscience.

Tbh free school meals should be all year round anyway.

And also parents who cant feed their kids need prosecuting for child abuse.

Why are people have kids they cant even afford to feed.

Pathetic!

This attitude is awful

You do not know their situation.... they could have lost their jobs, times are tough :shrug:

Get another job then?

Life is hard, I know. Get on with it and stop expecting ****.

Those parents have run out of cash.

It’s 2020... getting a job is not that easy and simple anymore and luck may not be on their side:shrug: do you realise how many stages you have to go through to get a job now?

I think you'll find you're wrong there arista - poorer kids are more likely to be overweight because good quality food is expensive, junk is cheap, and also poorer kids are less likely to have physical extracurricular activities (which are also often not cheap - my daughter's stage school is over £100/month for example).

Sadly kids from low income families - if they don't have a sport (or if sport groups are cancelled/postponed) - are quite likely to end up overweight.

How can you be this unaware of the effect Covid is having on the economy :joker:.

OK
some rich kids are fat

What colour is the sky in your world? It's not always that simple, and we can't all be as rich and well-travelled as you and michael21 :rolleyes:

They could go together, it would be a Netflix sensation.

Sadly Labour has lost this vote

Ayes :261
Noes :322


Majority:61

Disgraceful.
This government has sunk to being even lower than low.
Gutless backbenchers as good as robbing from children.

This should never be forgotten and I hope it won't be either.

Not feeding less well off kids is peak Tory, we’re in the gutter folks

Very Valid Points

But
Slick Liam
there are Charities that can help.

There shouldn’t be the need for charities to feed children in one of the richest countries in the world