Free school meals are such a small (from a financial and tax perspective) and feel-good issue that even libs support it. You have to be crazy to be against this, it is not like it costs a lot or there is some big demographic just clamoring for school meals to not be free.
It’s like with Thatcher and the free school milk she abolished
It’s not so much about the actual financials, it’s more about crushing people’s spirits, teaching them there’s no magic meal tree or whatever
the conservative project is purposely breaking government so they can point at how it doesn’t work
And the liberal project is to be so incompetent as to make everyone believe it.