Milk Snatching - a growing art

[vetran]

Government considers cutting spending on free milk for under-fives | Society | guardian.co.uk

the "milk snatcher" label attached to Margaret Thatcher in 1971 when, as education secretary in Edward Health's government, she scrapped free milk for children over seven.

She had privately advised against the decision, and in her autobiography said she "had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit".

typical she was blamed despite doing it against her will.

And Labour started it

Edward Heath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As a result of the squeeze in the education budget, Margaret Thatcher acted on the late Iain Macleod's wishes by ending the provision of free school milk for 8- to 11-year-olds (the preceding Labour Government having removed it from secondary schools three years before), for which the tabloid press christened her "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher".[13]


but don't worry CMD is going for it again

Government considers cutting spending on free milk for under-fives | Society | guardian.co.uk

Launching a consultation on how the system might be changed, Anne Milton, the public health minister, said: "Milk has many benefits to children's health and is important for their development. We are committed to continuing to provide free milk for all under-fives.

"But the current scheme has not changed operationally since it began and costs have ballooned … Estimates show that modernising how the scheme operates could save as much as £20m each year."

Diane Abbott, the shadow public health minister, said: "There is real concern that this is window dressing for cruel cuts at the expense of children's health.

"Trying to cut the cost of this scheme may end up snatching milk away from the country's children, disproportionately affecting the poorest. In a recession, which has been made in Downing Street, when there is a squeeze on families, it is the wrong time for risks with our children's health."

I'm for it because Diane Abbot is against it!

[proggy]

Your posts remind me of a neo-nazi trying to convince a room full of Jews that Hitler was just misunderstood.

[sasguru]

Your posts remind me of a neo-nazi trying to convince a room full of Jews that Hitler was just misunderstood.

You really shouldn't expect too much in the way of intelligence from someone who can't spell his user name.

[vetran]

Your posts remind me of a neo-nazi trying to convince a room full of Jews that Hitler was just misunderstood.

oh? was that mud slinging? You sound like Stalin trying convince everyone capitalism is bad and tractor production is up. He murdered millions as well, Maggie despite her faults didn't murder anyone unlike B'liar etc.

I was just interested that her most famous derogatory nick name is bollocks.

[ZARDOZ]

Your posts remind me of a neo-nazi trying to convince a room full of Jews that Hitler was just misunderstood.

WHS or someone who was born after Thatcherism

[vetran]

WHS or someone who was born after Thatcherism

left school and started work under Thatcherism.

[amcdonald]

Funny how the left never go on about Gordon Brown being the pension snatcher

[gingerjedi]

BBC News - Baby milk rationed in UK over China export fear

A tub of 'follow on milk' was the only item Tesco failed to deliver yesterday.

[hyperD]

It would appear that the Chinese are sick of the taste of melamine.

Wish they'd be sick of brute-force attacks on my dedicated servers...

[Mich the Tester]

Funny how the left never go on about Gordon Brown being the pension snatcher

That's different. When Labour steal money it's for a good cause, like hiring some more lesbian outreach (why not inreach?) officers or invading Iraq on dodgy intelligence reports. When the Tories stop subsidizing school milk, it's to do something evil like reduce the debts that those very children will have to pay for for the rest of their lives without ever having had a say in whether that money should have been borrowed.

Mrs Thatcher was right on this one; socialists always run out of other people's money.