Did you know that if you dare to suggest that maybe, just maybe, parents should take some responsibility for feeding their own children, you’re now branded as “Far Right”?
Yes, welcome to Britain in 2025: where common sense is cancelled, and the taxpayer is guilt-tripped into funding breakfast clubs for everyone else’s kids, while many can’t even afford to have their own.
Let’s be clear: we are not talking about abandoning the vulnerable. Britain must look after its most disadvantaged. No decent society turns its back on the hungry. But when did “compassion” become synonymous with compulsory collectivism?
Because that’s what this is. Labour’s latest wheeze, free breakfasts for all children, is not charity. It’s not kindness. It’s the state barging into your kitchen, confiscating your toaster, and telling your six-year-old that toast now belongs to the Ministry of Breakfast.
What used to be a parent’s early morning ritual, whether it’s a humble slice of buttered toast, a lone Weetabix, or, heaven forbid, a chopped apple, is now being absorbed by the state. Why? Because Labour doesn’t trust you to do it yourself.
Instead, they’d prefer to tax you twice—once to pay out benefits, and then again to run a breakfast buffet in every school hall from Land’s End to Inverness. That’s not support. That’s a nanny state with a megaphone, shouting, “Don’t worry, mum and dad, we’ll handle it all for you—now back off.”
It’s no wonder so many working couples are delaying or abandoning the dream of having children. Who can afford it? Spiralling taxes, frozen wages, and now the surreal reality that you’re paying for strangers’ kids to be fed before you’ve even had your own coffee. It’s like being charged for a gym membership you’re not allowed to use because someone else needs the treadmill more.
Let us pose a radical question: is it still OK to expect parents to feed their children?
Is it still permissible in polite society to believe that bringing a child into the world carries some responsibilities, including ensuring that child has something to eat before heading to school?
Or is that “cruel”? Is that “elitist”? Is that… brace yourself… “Far Right”?
The truth is far simpler. Labour doesn’t just want to feed your kids. They want to brush their teeth, teach them what to think (and not how to think), and then send you the bill for the whole charade. This is cradle-to-clipboard socialism. Big Brother with a lunchbox.
And it’s not just inefficient. It’s dangerous. Every inch the state takes from parents is an inch taken from the freedom of family life. If the government raises your child, what’s left for you to do? Just clap politely at the school gates while Keir Starmer hands your daughter a soy-based snack and a pamphlet on “inclusivity in breakfast”?
No. Absolutely not.
It’s time for Britain to say: enough. Enough with the paternalistic power grabs. Enough with the virtue-signalling that uses your payslip as a blank cheque. Enough with being branded “far right” for believing in something as wildly radical as parenting.
Britain doesn’t need another layer of state intervention smothered over its families like cold porridge. It needs the dignity of responsibility, the freedom to raise one’s children without the government peering over the cornflakes.
So, to all the politicians who want to nationalise the kitchen table: we see you. And we say no.
Because when the state takes the spoon from your hand, it won’t be long before it’s feeding you ideology for pudding.
By Dorothy Lyons.
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