What they said about free school breakfasts
before it was Lib Dem/Tory policy to provide universal free lunches for infants:
THE
WELSH TORIES…
The Conservatives said children
were better off having breakfast at home with their families.
Tory
AM William Graham
said:
"This is not a moment to
celebrate. Free school breakfasts have been exposed as a sham.
"Labour's pre-election
gimmick was nothing more than an uncosted con designed to win cheap headlines
and deceive parents and children across Wales.
"It is abundantly clear
that the assembly government has been making it up on the back of a cereal
packet as it goes along."
Former Tory
education spokesman Paul Davies AM said:
"In such a
difficult financial climate this is money which could have been used elsewhere
within the education system rather than subsidising something that should be
the responsibility of parents.”
THE WELSH LIB DEMS…
Liberal
Democrat AM Peter Black said:
"The school breakfast
initiative, although quite useful, it's going to cost a huge amount of money
which might be better spent (if) the schools themselves had the choice of using
that money."
Speaking to the party’s spring conference in 2007, Kirsty Williams AM
attacked Labour and other parties for offering free giveaways rather than
substantial plans for education. In singling out the free breakfast initiative,
she declared it akin to “happy meal
politics – a free toy with every vote”.
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