The submotters provided groups of opinions but were not a democratic measure of opinion.

The commision recommendations would have made us less proportional – and worse than the original reccommedation.

They should have started with the most proportional system possible and only varid that if it could be shown that it would have a negative effect on democracy.

Self interested parties have had too much influence.

It sounds like something will be announced in the budget tomorrow that helps address this. Hopefully it will be targeted at those that need it most rather than dished out regardless of actual need or cause.

And knowing that apparently 80,000 kids go to school hungry doesn’t allow us to address the cause of that.

We have to target the causes of the problems. Just taking an abitrary number and dishing out more money won’t do that efficiently or affordably.

So the kids starve in the meantime? You call feeding hungry children “throwing free breakfasts at everyone? Nice.

That is an often quoted figure, but it’s based on statistics and does not measure how many kids go hungry. ”

Pete, You might as well ask to define what hunger is.

With 270,000 children living in poverty, doesn’t that alone concern you and give you pause for thought? I would have thought it does. You and other right wingers keep deflecting to this strange notion of precise statistics. (Even though Bennett refuses to conduct such a study.) Why? Because it gives you an “out” to do nothing, that’s why. I suspect even if precise numbers were provided, you’d next be asking “but how hungry is hungry?”.

Shame on you and your precious MP. You’ve lost my vote.