You aren't going mad, the UK media really is this shit. If you don't mind making yourself very angry I'd heartily recommend a subscription to Private Eye.

 

Yeah it looks good that magazine, although i have never read it, my university used to stock it when I went there.

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Could we be about to see the Tories IMPLODE.

 

Very satisfying if so - deserve to be out of power for a Century after this.

@1340777349932003328

 

Could we be about to see the Tories IMPLODE.

 

Very satisfying if so - deserve to be out of power for a Century after this.

Why would you want them back so soon?

@1340777349932003328

 

Could we be about to see the Tories IMPLODE.

 

Very satisfying if so - deserve to be out of power for a Century after this.

 

But they won’t, you English love the tories!

Today's lie:

 

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But don't worry, he's trying his best folks.

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How much do we think this government contract is worth?

I don’t think i have ever been so outraged by one of the Tory doner contract Bung. That is barely over a fiver in value

How much do we think this government contract is worth?

 

£425m and it was issued without going to tender so no doubt someone is making a nice tidy profit out of this. The very worst excesses of neoliberalism/crony capitalism.

 

It's just not acceptable!

 

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£425m and it was issued without going to tender so no doubt someone is making a nice tidy profit out of this. The very worst excesses of neoliberalism/crony capitalism.

 

It's just not acceptable!

 

Spot on. The way overt corruption and cronyism has become so normalised these days is what gets me.

 

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Half a pepper!

 

Absolutely disgusting. Is that in England only? Just asking as in my school, the council are putting money directly into the accounts of free school meals parents. You know, so they don’t have to ask for the pepper to be cut in half in the shop.

Looks like less than half a pepper to me!

 

It’s scandalous. Really should be front page bring down the government stuff but it barely seems to crack the surface for these charlatans

 

https://goodlawproject.org/news/young-vulnerable-suffer/

 

We see a consistent pattern – private companies are given huge contracts, they choose to scrimp on quantity and quality to maximise profits, and they leave vulnerable individuals and families facing impossible decisions about how to feed themselves and their children. And, whether because of cronyism, laziness or incompetence, Government chooses, again and again, to look the other way as shareholders get fat whilst vulnerable families go without...

 

...Kids from disadvantaged backgrounds – clinically extremely vulnerable adults – they all deserve better. And as taxpayers, we are entitled to answers. Why is our money going to private companies who are enriching themselves at the expense of vulnerable people?

 

The Good Law Project fighting the good fight.

Absolutely disgusting. Is that in England only? Just asking as in my school, the council are putting money directly into the accounts of free school meals parents. You know, so they don’t have to ask for the pepper to be cut in half in the shop.

 

 

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

 

That’s a very Tory response right there.

 

Vouchers that were used last year would be better that can only be spent on food items. Much better than these atrocious parcels.

 

And if we’re going to go there, there’s nothing stopping parents who aren’t eligible for free school meals to skimp on food and spend their money on luxuries but people never think about that.

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

Ah yes, because 1 in 10000 might by a bottle of vodka, let’s shaft millions of kids by giving them a fiver of food in unsanitary packaging IN A PANDEMIC and expecting them to make half a tomato and a third of a pepper go with 50g of pasta for a weeks lunches.

 

f*** off yeah hun. Reminder that you use U.K. taxpayers money to buy your booze so perhaps you, of all people as a serial benefits claimant, shouldn’t throw stones less they come back and hit you squarely in the face

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

Whereas allowing the companies to make massive profits is OK because at least the booze the directors buy will be fine wines and single malts.

Call me cynical but what's to stop a few parents and I only mean a few, not buying food but spending it on booze and fags? Better to give them the food directly I think or food vouchers that can only be spent on food or soft drinks.

 

Vouchers last year prohibited alcohol and tobacco from being purchased.

 

And no — you’re far worse than cynical.

Ah yes, because 1 in 10000 might by a bottle of vodka, let’s shaft millions of kids by giving them a fiver of food in unsanitary packaging IN A PANDEMIC and expecting them to make half a tomato and a third of a pepper go with 50g of pasta for a weeks lunches.

 

f*** off yeah hun. Reminder that you use U.K. taxpayers money to buy your booze so perhaps you, of all people as a serial benefits claimant, shouldn’t throw stones less they come back and hit you squarely in the face

 

For your information hun, I didn't think much to the food shown. I could do far better with £5, £10 or £20.

Edited January 12, 20214 yr by common sense

That wasn’t my point, nor yours in your original Post Nor the thing that I was responding to from that post. How about you try that again and lose the whataboutism hun.

Vouchers last year prohibited alcohol and tobacco from being purchased.

 

 

That's why I say vouchers are better than cash or the atrocious food parcels.