It costs literally nothing to create the money to pay for free school meals. In our current economy it’s not paid out of tax, or borrowing. It’s created by the Bank of England. And it delivers happy, healthier children. And work. And well-being. And hope. 1/-
But only if we’ll create the money. And the government won’t do that. It won’t literally ask someone to make the entries in the computer that can create all the money needed to feed children in need. Or to keep their parents too, come to that. 2/-
Now ask yourself, if you knew that you could create all the money required to make sure no child in this country need be hungry, and that creating that money has no cost, why wouldn’t you create it?
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