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Pretty sure that is the literal definition of victim blaming.

responsibility != blame

It is a waste. Because the kids won't eat half the food.

Because half the food is sh!te. This scheme was rolled out to our kids school, and half the kids don't eat the stuff because it's pure crap.

In the rush to make it no sugar, no carbs, no fat and whatever other guidelines to make the food by, they've made it bland and tasteless, and pretty much the same thing every day. The lack of choice is unreal, one of my young lads, he's fussy enough, has pretty much has pasta 4 out of the 5 days because there's nothing else there he likes.

My eldest lad used to like the mash spuds and half chicken breast they used to get. They replaced the mashed spuds with new potatoes, and the breast with sliced chicken. Doesn't like it, nibbles the sliced chicken.

When it first started, the kids in the school, as a treat on a Friday, used to get a small portion of potatoe cubes/wedges and chicken goujons (the proper chicken breast ones) or sausages. Apparently that was too unhealthy, and now they have rice and veg or something like that. They've gone from everything been eaten on a Friday to half of it, if that.

Most of the parents have complained that the hot food is a waste of time and the kids don't eat it, and the just send in sandwiches and fruit anyway. Another complaint is why don't they do a simple bread roll once in a while? A roll with ham or cheese or lettuce in it?

I get the need for healthy eating and wanting every child to have one hot meal a day, but if you're going to make it impossible for the companies providing the food to make anything palatable, or give the kids a treat of potatoe cubes/wedges and goujons/sausages for only one day a week, then what's the point of the scheme.

I swear to God, they got the most anti-fat, anti-sugar, ant—carb health freak going and got them to make a list of things that that freak thinks should not allowed into a human body, and came up a menu of inedible sh!te for children.

I'm not saying it needs to unhealthy deli-counter levels of food, but the important thing for the kids is to actually eat the food, so maybe make the food that kids will eat. It doesn't have to be chips every day, but chips once a month, or goujons/sausages on a Friday, most parents will live with that.

The lack of common sense and understanding of children diets is simply astounding.

This scheme is just yet another example of very good and meaningful idea from our government, that is horribly executed due to a lack of basic common sense by "experts" to the point of massive financial waste.

Heartless, 5 young people have died.

Road deaths outrage is ridiculously exaggerated. What are numbers? 250-300 per year? I mean, the riskiest thing any person does on a daily basis is driving. It’s inherently risky. Less than one death per day is not an outrage.

Technically it's not deaths, it's killings. People don't just die by driving or cycling or walking, they get killed, usually by others, but also by themselves. Road killings are an order of magnitude higher than the murders, so it's natural to receive that much attention.

Can you imagine if plane and train crashes and ship sinkings were treated in the same way? Make an investigation but keep findings private.

Is that just motor vehicles or everything?

Back in 78, there were accidents in workplaces and construction that would barely make the news if at all, but would be intolerable now. Somehow road accidents get a free pass, like they're almost expected, unlike a workplace fatality.

They don’t claim to be neutral, and are also the world’s most influential, wealthy and connected country.

we have street lights, hi vis jackets etc for pedestrians and cyclists, less drink driving, better roads(for the most part), better in car safety (airbags, safety belts in the back seats), NCTs now, learner drivers not permitted to drive unaccompanied, and proper driving testing. That is what has been done correctly, to reduce the number of road deaths.