The disgraceful position that the Tories in England have pursued over a refusal to provide free school meals over school holiday breaks for those who get them when at school is well known.
Tory MPs (with 5 exceptions) backed Johnson’s refusal to change the position in the Commons this week. Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner referred to one Tory MP as ‘scum’. She apologised. While what she said was true it was of course ‘UnParliamentary language’.
Full marks to Marcus Rashford for once again leading a school meals campaign and now that the Tories wont act, sorting out provision of meals anyway.
The Chartists in the 1830s and 1840s had a slogan for the rich who lived well,often not from their own labour but from exploiting others, while those who worked could not afford to eat.
It came from the New Testament but it resonates in the world of Boris Johnson still:
‘he that does not work, neither shall he eat’
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