Just been reading about budget cuts in the Times. Free school meals are going to be cut for 500,000 of the lowest paid. Ok so they haven't had free school meals yet but now are not going to. This will cost families earning less than £307 per week about £600 a year. What is galling is that families on benefits still get them. Even more of an incentive , for the low paid not to work and live on benefits instead. When will someone sort that out?
That said, I agree with government plans to question all government spending to determine whether it is needed, whether it is cost effective and whether the service would be better provided by the private sector. I always go back to America where private companies sponsor stretches of interstate, presumably paying for cleaning, maintenance etc. Why can't we do that here for starters?
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