Grub Stake.
Gordon Brown has proposed that next year all pregnant women will get a one off £200 grant after the 29th week of pregnancy to buy and eat healthy food. Good idea Gordon except that you have got it all wrong.
The detractors of this scheme have crawled out of the woodwork with their objections with quotes like “the money is unlikely to be spent on healthy food but fags and booze.” They could well be right in some cases.
I am comfortable with the grant but what I am not comfortable with is when it is given. At 29 weeks it is far too late to start thinking about healthy eating. If unhealthy eating causes any damage to the unborn and it probably does to some degree, the damage will have been done by 29 weeks and few carrots and apples isn’t going to make any significant difference.
What our esteemed leader should have done is given the grant as soon as the pregnancy is confirmed so that the mother to be can embrace a healthy eating regime right away. Of course the mother could still use the cash on other things but that is her choice in the same way that the various child benefits are used.
There is one other point why giving the grant at 29 weeks is just about as ludicrous as you can get. Premature births. Just exactly how will healthy eating by the mother affect a premature baby?
Gordon Brown you are an idiot. Think with your brain and stop trying to buy votes. The public is not as gullible as you may think.
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