Mealy-mouthed opposition
I am aghast at Labour's outburst at the Scottish Government's admirable move to implement free school meals for all five- to seven-year-olds (your report, 3 October).
Labour has indeed lost sight of its roots; it was after all Attlee's Labour government that first introduced free school meals for everyone and many of us back in the old days when Labour seemed to actually stand for the people that mattered, campaigned vehemently against Thatcher the Milk Snatcher and the Tories' 1980 Education Act, which saw the destruction of the universal provision of school meals in Britain. This blatant shift in Labour's policy and recent criticism of the SNP's free school meals policy is the very type of cheap political point-scoring that has over the past ten years seen those who campaigned under the banner of the Labour Party all those years ago to leave in droves.
CAROLINE WEINTZ
Stuckleckie Road
Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire
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