Reply With QuoteJust because you've got up the greasy poll a bit it's the age old story balls to poor and working class.Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
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I agree on switch of power, it has swung to far towards the employer, but I think that is changing as there is a low unemployment and a shortage of good staff.
Just because you've got up the greasy poll a bit it's the age old story balls to poor and working class.
Actually you can make a very good mackerel pate with relatively cheap ingredients. I make it quite often.
On the subject of fish, I always try to have a few tins of sardines in the house as they are cheap, good for you, great with salad and I really enjoy them. However, I went to two local supermarkets this week and neither of them had a single tin between them - it wasn’t a case of them not having a particular sauce flavour or oil, there were just no tins of sardines and yet I had the usual choices of sauce flavours and oils when it came to tinned mackerel.
In one of the supermarkets, its fruit and veg areas were about a third full and there were plenty of shortages with some other goods, whereas there was plenty of others you thought were “related” (e.g. soap powder and detergents for hand washing woolsns) where they’d have one, but not the other.
Now, I accept that the war in Ukraine is probably going to have an effect on what’s available in shops (it probably is already) and Covid must have contributed as well, but I’ve never known a year like this one for large swathes of certain products becoming unavailable for whatever reason.- it’s all very well some MPs telling people to buy cheaper food, but I wouldn’t have been able to make a sardine salad this week even if I’d wanted to because most of the ingredients I’d use were missing from my supermarket.
I find it hard to believe that I can’t get a tin of sardines because of Putin or Covid!
I disagree. And here's a Merseyside Labour MP smiling at a food bank donation stand too.
It's a twitter storm manufactured by those who seek to politicise the opening of a food bank that was done in accordance with how the volunteers wanted it - everyone was smiling
Check him out - grinning like a Cheshire cat
https://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/n...oppers-8220181
I wish.
The Tories freed up the use of foodbanks and made it easier for people to use them, so it is hardly surprising that their use has increased. However, a rise of 3900% cannot be put down to ease of use alone and points towards underlying structural issues in society. The left wing answer of benefits and redistribution via tax is just "foodbanks" provided for by the state, so that's not an answer to the underlying problem either.
both benefits and foodbanks are equally shameful in today's UK, but depending on where you sit on the political spectrum will determine whether you are for or against foodbanks and/or benefits. So whilst the party political acolytes from either side laud their own preference and denounce the alternative, both are equally culpable of missing the real issue at hand. But that's the level of maturity we come to expect from UK politics. All style, no substance. It is better to criticise your opponent that push forward your own policies.
We are in the midst of the greatest foreign affairs crisis since 1938, we have a cost of living crisis where people have to choose between eating and heating and we have a post Covid19 backlog of healthcare cases right across the UK including devolved administrations, but the single biggest political football this week has been about whether Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer had a beer or cake with work colleagues.
We get the system we deserve.
Yep. Certain unions had become too powerful and the irony being their disruption ushered in Thatcherism. It’s now gone too far the other way which of course will meet with Tory approval.
Not sure I agree with you about food banks. They were very few in number when Labour left office. It really is under the Tories that the numbers have hugely increased which indeed you have pointed out. I don’t blame Labour for any of that but they have been feeble and disunited in opposition and I do blame them for that. If they are not careful they will be out of office for more than 18 years. It was bad enough when that happened the last time around.
Your first sentence cracked me up, but I presume you mean this
https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...od-bank-claims
Do you have the stress and anxiety of your husband being on crap pay , bills coming through the letterbox or kids screaming ?
As far as I am aware you are a fairly well off semi retired chap . With a lot less pressure to put food on the table than a young mum .
She may be able to be taught how to knock up a pate but I think that's a touch cheeky to expect
I don't agree with much of your analysis but just picking up on the last para, have you asked yourself why Starmer and beergate has been headlining the last week?
Here's Lee Anderson MP in action previously 😂 https://mobile.twitter.com/PickardJE...98239128805377
I used to have vesta curry and put it in bread and butter like a curry sandwich, that was decent to be fair
'twas a bit tongue-in-cheek, but yes, in the early 1990's the wife and I were delivering yellow pages in the evenings to make sure we could pay our monthly mortgage. But the point in question was about how people spend their money on food. If I go shopping with a list of ingredients for 4 days' meals it will probably come to £25 max for two of us. [excl. wine !]. You don't need to 'learn' to cook either, just look up on the internet. You can buy a chicken for £5, all the veg for another £5, and there's a roast dinner for 4/6, plus the fry up the next day. We're not posh, we just like home cooked food which tastes much much better than factory-made, and is less than half the cost.
Both sides are trying to score points over who can hold the moral high ground. The reason partygate came into the spotlight was most likely the same reason beergate came into the spotlight - the other side ensured such information was leaked to the press.
I mean it was a deliberate policy that brought food banks to the attention of those who may not have known their existence previously.
If that is all you took from what I write then its evident you're still focusing on the wrong things.
He missed the point really, the point was with labour in charge, we had a terrrible Winter of discontent, yes people can look back with nostalgia for that time, it's usually through rose tinted glasses because we were young and life seems better when you are young and still full of hope. Despite all that everyone was on strike and demanding more money and the economy was all over the shop not because of a World wide pandemic, or that they had just broken links with the EU, or a World wide Oil Gas fuel crisis and global shipping issues, or a War in Europe, but because of the way Labour were letting the unions run the country, and generally making a mess of the parts they were responsible for.
Well I thought the rest of what you wrote tied in with current Tory and Tory media thinking when it comes to trying to keep Johnson in a job, which seems to amount to trying to convince people that they’re all as bad as each other.
As for the other bit, an independent fact checking site says it’s not true.
What makes you think I want Johnson to stay in post given I have stated previously I think he should resign. And what makes you think current Tory thinking is Johnson should stay in post? Prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Johnson was facing a backbench revolt.
and make no mistake, most politicians are in it for themselves. There's very few who are truly munificent with entirely altruistic intentions. Tony Benn springs to mind, and maybe Dennis Skinner.
there we are then, it must be false if it says so on the internet.
Cost of living crisis.
2 million skipping meals.
Inflation at 10%.
Exports down by billions.
Food imports down.
Home-grown food rotting in fields.
Growth plummeting.
Recession imminent.
State borrowing 3x what Labour left.
Perfect time for this absolute shambles of a government to start a Brexit trade war.
Not well positioned , but there are some points to it that may help some , what we need is no foodbanks .
Thought his was good reply from Crabb, the Preseli Pembrokeshire Tory MP who was work and pensions secretary in 2016, tweeted:
“Conservatives tend to emphasise work, good budgeting/housekeeping, strong families etc as defences against hardship.
“Problem right now for many people is that ticking all those boxes still doesn’t keep their heads above water. Government has done a lot but more is required.”
If I was Labour or opposition MP's or media I woudl take up his challenge and visit and report on it , perhaps there maybe some grains of usefulness or lessons to be learned .
I had something similar for lunchI used to have vesta curry and put it in bread and butter like a curry sandwich, that was decent to be fair
a packet of sainsburies curry flavour noodles ( think super noodles but cheaper ) with some button mushrooms and very small bits of pineapple ( think a normal chunk cut into 3 ) and a chillie chopped up all in a Wrap, with a dollop of Mango chutney spread on the side of the wrap
That sounds ****ing rankI had something similar for lunch
a packet of sainsburies curry flavour noodles ( think super noodles but cheaper ) with some button mushrooms and very small bits of pineapple ( think a normal chunk cut into 3 ) and a chillie chopped up all in a Wrap, with a dollop of Mango chutney spread on the side of the wrap
I am not convinced 30p sausage and mash is possible but you can definitely eat a main meal for a quid if you don't mind a lack of variety. If you can go yellow sticker shopping at the right time, you can freeze some pretty good discounts and eat quite a varied diet for not much money.
That being said, covering up a cost of living crisis by blaming people for not being able to cook isn't a good look.
I cannot see how you can make a meal for 30p unless it is mass produced. Depending on where you shop, an apple alone can cost 30p.
Maybe they were all eating lembas bread.
It was random I give you that, didnt get all of the noodles in though
fairly decent taste though, some heat from the chilli, some sweetness from the mango chutney and pineapple
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