Tory dependency argument and free school meals
Watching and reading the arguments Tory MPs put forward for voting against an extension of free school meals over the school holidays, there seems to be a common thread. Nearly all of them use the argument of dependency, that is relying on the state to provide for us rather than supporting ourselves through personal responsibility. These arguments are not new, "Booth and Rowntree found the greatest cause of poverty was not, as often believed, feckless shirking by the irrespon