Labour plans to add 20% VAT to Private School fees.

I am puzzled what the 'Daily mail' has to do with my comments any more than 'Guardian readers'? Re crime - We have had these debates before, arguing whether crime levels go up or down. It all depends on how clever the police number accounting is. How many people now don't even bother to report anything to the police because they have given up on their response? Try telling your crime reduction stats to murder and knife crime victims in London? If you take a walk into any local council estate you will soon find your answer. The biggest volume crime is fraud (internet and phone based) drug dealing and theft.

I think the words needed in your post are 'SOME FAMILIES' are woefully incapable of cooking food from raw ingredients but that could extend to any family, not just those with little income. What is more common is that certain families have a higher dispensation to be chaotic, unruly and lawless in lifestyle, there is even less motivation or ideas of how to cook. This has a far greater effect on young people who merely copy their parent's behaviour. Ask any person which is the lawless household on their street and they will readily point them out.

All Government parties are as bad as each other, and there is little difference that can now be seen between them. Mainly due to reckless spending and a lack of public tax payers money being available.

Keep school kids in at lunchtime for vegetarian soups and wholemeal bread. That doesn't cost the earth.

#Hotpud
You only have to go into a typical town centre and look around to see people hobbling, obese, looking generally haggard or stooped over to see that we are pretty sick nation.

Well maybe that's just the state school kids feeding on chips and lard everyday! You also get kids who can't afford to buy a pen yet turn up in the newest Nike trainers retailing well over £150 (non branded options available) That is a food and activity choice made by parents.

I am puzzled what the 'Daily mail' has to do with my comments any more than 'Guardian readers'? Re crime - We have had these debates before, arguing whether crime levels go up or down. It all depends on how clever the police number accounting is. How many people now don't even bother to report anything to the police because they have given up on their response? Try telling your crime reduction stats to murder and knife crime victims in London? If you take a walk into any local council estate you will soon find your answer. The biggest volume crime is fraud (internet and phone based) drug dealing and theft.

I think the words needed in your post are 'SOME FAMILIES' are woefully incapable of cooking food from raw ingredients but that could extend to any family, not just those with little income. What is more common is that certain families have a higher dispensation to be chaotic, unruly and lawless in lifestyle, there is even less motivation or ideas of how to cook. This has a far greater effect on young people who merely copy their parent's behaviour. Ask any person which is the lawless household on their street and they will readily point them out.

All Government parties are as bad as each other, and there is little difference that can now be seen between them. Mainly due to reckless spending and a lack of public tax payers money being available.

Keep school kids in at lunchtime for vegetarian soups and wholemeal bread. That doesn't cost the earth.

#Hotpud
You only have to go into a typical town centre and look around to see people hobbling, obese, looking generally haggard or stooped over to see that we are pretty sick nation.

Well maybe that's just the state school kids feeding on chips and lard everyday! You also get kids who can't afford to buy a pen yet turn up in the newest Nike trainers retailing well over £150 (non branded options available) That is a food and activity choice made by parents.