The SNP has pledged to expand free school meals to all primary school pupils in Scotland if the party retains power after the Holyrood elections in May, it would fund free breakfasts and lunches for all children in P1-P7.
The scheme would also run in the school holidays – not just term time.
The Scottish Conservatives announced a similar policy in September.
However the Scottish Greens said free school meals should be provided in high school as well as primary school.
SNP pledge free school meals for all primary pupils - BBC News
There is nothing wrong with free food for youngsters as an idea. In a rationally organized society, all food for everybody would be free. And not just food but all the necessities for a healthy life.
We in the Socialist Party ask you to reject taxation or direct charges as ways of providing free meals and free goods such as tampons and free NHS. Instead, we ask you to support free access to these vital needs as well as to all other needs, like food, housing, public transport, household appliances and furniture, gas, electricity etc.
Nothing will have a monetary cost with real socialism. In fact, money, having no function at all, will be redundant. People will still work, but the purpose will then be for meeting society’s requirements.
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