Which leader or pioneer 'snatched the milk'?

Zbeckabee

There are probably more than just one...But, it really SHOULD be Thatcher...Thatcher the Snatcher: "Margaret Thatcher snatched my milk. That notorious former education minister abolished free school milk in 1971, and then nine years later her government wiped out nutritional standards in school meals. As a schoolchild in the Seventies and early Eighties, I was one of the first generation to be affected by the Conservatives' view that the good of the nation's children had nothing to do with them." http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yvette-cooper-we-have-ways-to-make-children-eat-their-fruit-and-veg-709518.html Oct 13 09, 2:35 PM

Baloo55th

To give a view on this - a large number of the kids hated those smelly warm little bottles of milk. There was always a cheesy odour round them, and they got rather warm when stacked in the yard in summer. As to the 'nutritional standards', when there was only a choice of one thing for dinner, some of us suffered by being unable to eat it. On a day when liver and onions was followed by spotted dick, I ended up with boiled potatoes followed by custard. A friend of mine was a school cook who refused to serve liver and winter salad (amongst others). Her explanation to the inspector was that there wasn't any point in serving a nutritionally balanced meal that ended up in the swill bin. I am by no stretch of the imagination a Thatcherite, and nor were a lot of kids who were thankfully delivered from the smelly milk. (Source: personal experience) Oct 14 09, 5:07 AM