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  1. "Understanding the vote on Free School Meals and why we have decided to it through a different mechanism:Here is a scenario to consider: Two friends, Steve and John.Steve previously was on a low income and their child qualified for FSM. However years have passed, they have done well at work and now earn £50,000 a year. That income has not been affected by COVID. His children still qualify for FSM, because having previously been on a low income that funding follows them throughout their time at school, because we've ensured that this is the case throughout the rollout of universal credit.John is self-employed and previously earned £25,000 a year. Their children do not qualify for FSM. They have significant fixed costs like a mortgage and car repayments, but due to COVID they have been working limited hours and are now earning less than half of what they did before, meaning they are struggling to pay the bills etc.If we just rolled out the Free School Meals proposals, Steve gets help despite earning a good income and not having experienced hardship due to COVID, whilst John who is really struggling on drastically reduced income gets nothing. It might sound good on the surface, but in truth it's not effective!Through our approach, giving funding to local Councils to assess and administer the right support directly, we can ensure that John’s family who are really struggling get not just help with food, but other help and guidance to access personalised support too.This is why Free School Meals is not a good mechanism to use. This is why Government has instead given money to local Councils, charities and community groups to offer help directly rather than a blanket national approach.This is why NOBODY voted against helping kids last week, we just voted to do it in a way that will reach more of those in need!!"
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  2. caught loads of goldfish today plus the bonus koi.
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  3. Jebus H Christ, you have to put up with his sort at work and then choose to read his dribble on here, that qualifies you for a free “donate £3 a month to Ken L” advert on Channel 5.?
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  4. Kippers now give me terrible farts and breath you could strip paint with so i (the mrs ) forbids them ,strangely smoked mackeral is fine . Got a couple of smokers but unused since i no longer sea fish ,the act of smoking made even pout edible (just) bought a barbi last year which allows fish or meat to be smoked up in the lid ,i must try it on the frozen somethings or other i have in the freezer (herring i think?) I bought a load but ran out of vacuum seal bags so 2 went in an ordinary ziplock bag with as much air removed as possible they got freezer burn in six months (and were donated to the local fox) the rest look fine showing going to the effort of vacuum sealing food is well worth it.
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  5. Perhaps if your millions of cheap labour went home the nurses could afford the rent
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