I can confidently say that I have never known such a universally popular policy as Islington Labour's proposal to give all under-11s free school meals. People from all walks of life, and from many different political backgrounds, all think it's a very good idea, and are quite happy to sign petitions calling for it to be introduced at once.
It was a dramatic and powerful victory for Islington Labour when we succeeded in overturning the Lib Dem administration's budget and passing our policy for Free School Meals. And the Lib Dems show their magnanimity in defeat by cooking up an amendment to the proposal to reduce the scheme to a 'trial' in six schools only, claiming difficulties with 'administration'. They managed to push this through at an overview committee by digging out a couple of non-elected voting members of the committee who hadn't voted on anything for years.
Talk about sour grapes. The LibDems hate our free school Meals policy and they will stop at nothing to try and sabotage it. They hate it because its so popular, it's true socialism, and it shows them that it's Islington Labour that has real, imaginative and progressive ideas about how Islington should be run.
We will be doing everything we can to re-instate our winning policy of free school meals for all children under 11. We will not be using dirty tricks to achieve it.
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