GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry is lashing out at what she clearly sees as one of the biggest problems facing England today – kids getting free toast at school.
Dewberry, who is a high earner at the far right channel and whose partner is the multi-millionaire former football chairman Simon Jordan, went on the attack after Keir Starmer said he was proud in the fact that “from April, 300,000 children will benefit from free breakfast clubs, putting money back in parents’ pockets”.
Dewberry wrote on X: “I too grew up in a working class family,” she wrote on X. “I was one of 6 & we often struggled to have enough food go around. My parents never saw it as the schools [sic] job to give me breakfast tho.
“These days, there are food banks & charities popping up left right & centre and a welfare system bigger than grannies [sic] bloomers… If parents genuinely aren’t feeding their kids breakfast, they should be looked into. But no, instead it’s yet another parental responsibility that will be handed over to the state as we high-five ourselves and pretend it’s ‘free’. Sometimes I despair.”
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Dewberry does not seem to have wondered how her own childhood, or her parents’ and siblings’ struggles during it, might have been positively impacted by a slice or two of free toast at school. Nor does she seem to care much about the problems faced by people with children who are taking on extra work or difficult shift patterns in order to make ends meet – ironically the very people her channel purports to represent.
Instead, she added: “We have created a culture where people are desperate for the state to assume parenting for them, often because they are too lazy to do it themselves…
“Many folk insist the scheme is essential so parents can go to work. In that case, why stop at breakfast, most parents don’t finish work circa 3pm, so why not tea too? Some parents work night shifts so hey, why not let kids sleep there also?”
Fortunately, at least Dewberry’s own child won’t be force-fed Kellogg’s Variety boxes at school among the hoi polloi. Her own entry at the speakers’ agency Gordon Poole, which represents her, says she “was earning a salary well over £150k before the age of 25” and her GB News salary, while unlikely to match the seven figures reportedly paid to colleague Eamonn Holmes, is likely to be north of what she was earning back then.
Her partner Jordan, meanwhile, is a former chairman of Crystal Palace who was once reported to be worth £75 million and now has a lucrative gig on Talksport’s mid-morning show.
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