""This is about denying children in schools music. When she was a junior education Minister, she denied them milk.""

Horseshit Willie.

That old chestnut has been discredited so many times I'm surprised you still subscribe to it.

1. The purpose of school milk was initially to supply calcium to prevent rickets.

2. That purpose had ceased to exist as early as 1970, as rickets was no longer a problem. Milk prices fixed by the Milk Marketing Board, had placed the purchase of milk within the capacity of even the poorest family.

3. Well before 1970, over half of all school milk supplied, was wasted. The kids, in the main, refused to drink it, and it was not uncommon for those kids who liked it to drink three or four times their share. (That in fact was happening back when I was at secondary school (1952-1957). In fact I often had three or four bottles which had been refused by others).

So, tell me what is wrong with discontinuing an initiative which has lost its purpose, and is being misused?

Or do you truly believe that waste is justified, as long as it is socialist waste?

If so, you must have loved Gordon Brown, but don't forget, it was uour money he wasted,...and mine, and every taxpayer's.

Don T.