No, children have not "always" gone hungry in the school holidays. Food poverty was eradicated several decades ago. It has come back, and not only in the last 10 years.
"Learn to cook"? Cook what? And when, in the middle of the day? Most of the poor are in work, even before people are put on two thirds of the minimum wage.
Say it until it sinks in. They already cannot afford to buy basic ingredients, certainly not for three even very light meals every day.
And that is before they are put on two thirds of the minimum wage for the jobs that make it impossible for them to prepare lunches, because they are at work.
Nor could anyone accuse this Government of being frugal in general. It is a matter of where, and on whom, it splashes the cash, not whether it does so.
In any case, a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling inflation.
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