Not sure what I think on the Child Benefit, kids aint it, so no problem with that but will it get spent on food or just line a landlords pocket or the utilitiy company coffers.
I’d have some sympathy for the idea if they hadn’t tried very similar things which had no impact. People like eating ****e. You could make a lettuce 1p and double the price of Dairy Milk and we aren’t all going to suddenly eat ten lettuces each per day and never touch chocolate. Politicians on both sides consistently do this crap which a half-decent AS Level Economics student could critique in about five minutes. But it’s a headline I guess.
I’d have more sympathy for it still if they funded subsidising healthy protein, veg etc. with the no doubt trillions we’ll get from Costa and KFC with this policy. But they’ll add 20p to Gary and Gariana’s bargain bucket and everyone will eat what they ate before.
It will genuinely help a lot of people. It’ll also go to people who piss money away on crap. Much like pension rises and anything else but it does sit a bit uncomfortably how much it’ll cost and how disproportionately weighted the benefit will be to people who have put little to nothing into the system.
