Don’t let the kids starve is basically the minimum I ask from the government tbh
If the Tories really wanted to stop socialism and therefore also revolution, during a time of great social and economic upheaval, one of the best things they could do to quell revolutionary fervour would be to guarantee food on the plate of every child.
This is why we introduced welfare states in the first place, to nip in the bud any communist sympathies. It’s no coincidence we got them almost right after Russian Revolution, and greatly expanded after WWII, when USSR was at its ideological zentith
Basically if you’re a conservative you ought support one nation polices. Otherwise you aren’t really a small c conservative, you just hate the poor and love money
Obviously parents should feed their own kids, but if we’ve got a massive wave of unemployment coming, which we clearly do, and most folk have still barely recovered in material terms to the ‘08 crash over a decade ago, just help them out ffs
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