like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

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Lol

The government will be much diminished by the exit of @michaelgove and the loss of his formidable intellect. My @tortoise column https://t.co/ychsYpeTLu

— Matthew d'Ancona (@MatthewdAncona) August 22, 2022

xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link

it's been really moving to watch journalists rallying round one of their own over the last few days

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link

Useless cunts.

The Met Police issued the wrong pictures of missing student nurse Owami Davies, it has emerged.

CCTV images from a shop in Croydon of a woman they said was Ms Davies - they were of another woman.
https://t.co/oyBanLwsjb

— Megha Mohan (@meghamohan) August 22, 2022

xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link

Good.

BREAKING: 1,295 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday in 27 boats, the highest daily figure ever recorded.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) August 23, 2022

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link

Brits fleeing to Europe?

StanM, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link

it would be nice to live in a country where your energy bill suddenly going up by 160% with the looming threat of it quadrupling by April, is the kind of thing that sparks off riots and brings governments down. Or at least one with a democratic option to change a rotten corrupt system that is rewarding speculators at the expense of poor people dying this winter and everyone getting poorer. I go into a rage every time one of these mealy mouthed cunts is blaming it ALL on Putin.

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 10:34 (two years ago) link

Jack Monroe please note.

Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, has just told @LBC you can save £600 in energy every year if you buy low energy appliances like microwaves and batch cook for the week.

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) August 23, 2022

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link

what next, foraging tips. you can save £4k a year buy switching to a highly nutritious insect meal diet

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link

Save £100 a week by not eating! Will be a necessity when the food banks run out of food, as I believe is already happening.

ban golf courses (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link

If was a multi-millionaire boss of a frozen food chain I'd just simply shut the fuck up and try not to draw too much attention to myself. This is like a social conditioning campaign, if it's getting to the stage where low income people are being told cookers and heating are a luxury beyond their means - then it's time for some serious riots.

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link

Together, Iceland, The Food Warehouse and @UtilitaEnergy are here to help households save up to £604 a year by switching to more energy efficient cooking methods. #ShopSmartCookSavvy

#BuyOurFrozenShitLiveLikeAPauper

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link

This is the other -- more serious -- thing being talked about. Debt.

Got a bad feeling Truss will quickly go for the Energy firm's own plan, the "Tarrif Deficit Fund" which freezes bills for 2 years -but makes us all pay them back over 10 years. It stops the immediate emergency, but forces us all to take a 10yr mortgage out to pay for 2 yrs bills

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) August 23, 2022

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link

a considerable number of Iceland products are oven cook only iirc

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link

McCain's Home Chips is now becoming a food of the middle classes!

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

you could cook a batch of something from frozen meat/veg and processed sauces bought from Iceland and then heat the mess up in miserly portions in the old microwave.

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link

I presume that is the kind of philanthropy Mr Iceland is involved in

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link

cooking is an important thing for me and helps me maintain some level of sanity and improves quality of life and health and happiness. I feel attacked by these cunts.

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link

TBF Iceland have fresh produce (meat/veg/fruit), not a great selection or anything but it used to be a pretty economical way to shop for me until everything started fucking going up. It's certainly not as a grim as, say, Farmfoods, although that's a pretty low bar.

"Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link

I'm sure you can pick up some decent stuff there, but I can guarantee there would be more variety and it would be cheaper at local Asian supermarket. I'm more objecting to the social conditioning/commercial self interest angle here. These cunts plugging their shitty food retail brands/energy company with added condescension and advice on lowering standards disguised as philanthropic food education. They all should be guillotined.

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link

Iceland dude was a Corbyn-era Labour supporter and apparently it’s a good place to work, lots of school run-friendly positions (my neighbour worked there). Their £1 cheddar was exactly the right amount of cheese for my macaroni cheese recipe but most Icelands in London are by good veg stalls and Asian supermarkets.

put a VONC on it (suzy), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link

Iceland dude was a Corbyn-era Labour supporter and apparently it’s a good place to work, lots of school run-friendly positions (my neighbour worked there). Their £1 cheddar was exactly the right amount of cheese for my macaroni cheese recipe but most Icelands in London are by good veg stalls and Asian supermarkets.

put a VONC on it (suzy), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link

he's a multi-millionaire advising low income people that accepting lower standards of living is an acceptable outcome. I don't care if he supported Corbyn, he's still a class enemy!

calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link

I missed why LBC went to a wealthy supermarket boss for advice on this I guess.

nashwan, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link

i have absolute empathy for refugees from the war in Ukraine, but i've heard a lot of oral first hand accounts of their experiences on the news over the last months and i really can't remember hearing much or any similar coverage given to the experiences of refugees from other places

not sure if this is just my defective memory or

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link

Well, I did see a "story" involving a 'refugee' beating up a "ukranian" somewhere in "england"

Mark G, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link

a recent genre of Ukrainian refugee story on R4 I've heard a couple of times recently has been dark heart of middle England sounding "You and Yours" type callers complaining that the refugees they have taken in are not coughing up any money/acting very unreasonably/not smiling at their cat/leaving dirty plates about the house etc...

I have heard interviews where they are talking about the experiences of non-white refugees from other countries, but mainly on obscure programs on the WS that not many in the UK will listen to.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 13:05 (two years ago) link

yes tbf the WS is an exception

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link

Reading about the Barrister strike:

“You know the courts might not work anymore, but as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.” pic.twitter.com/7uiRUtB4hc

— SimpsonsQOTD (@SimpsonsQOTD) August 24, 2022

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link

OMG LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkljnr88KE

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link

If this doesn’t start the Revolution I don’t know what will https://t.co/cyGvtsRSSD

— MARCUS. 🇧🇧🏳️‍🌈 (@marcusjdl) August 24, 2022

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link

tbf haddock beats cod any day

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link

That's what you get in Scotland.

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link

If it isn't this country is truly done.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link

I can confirm that Paul, the local fish 'n' chip meister was looking very glum tonight. But he always shoots me a very betrayed look when I haven't been to his shop for a few months. He does a special kids meal deal called an "Alfie" but his customer base is increasingly dying off pensioners and white van men. The younger and poorer working/non-working demographic are all fucked now.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link

hadn't been in a chippy for a few years until last week. was p taken aback to see that a piece of cod was £8!! had to settle for a small portion of chips at £3.10! could have sworn a similar size order of chips was £1.50 last time I was in.

oscar bravo, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link

jesus!

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link

fuck me i can still get small fish, chips and peas for £4 odd

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link

last I time I got cod here it was £4.50, but that was a few months ago.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link

Bloody hell even Toffs in Muswell Hill, the chippie for the middle classes, is cheaper than that!

ban golf (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link

it won't be much longer, that is guaranteed. The way shit is going there will be "cards only, we do not accept large wedges of banknotes" signs going up by the winter.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link

The best fish and chips I’ve ever had were from Perry’s in Lowestoft when I went there to meet a nice whippet breeder and choose Widget, plus a return visit when we came back two weeks later to bring him and his brother Zephyr back to London. £5.50 for cod and chips, albeit a ‘lunch’ portion - but I had enough leftovers to make chorizo home fries the next day with the chips and enough fish to reheat and do a gentrified Filet-O-Fish when I got back and found no obvious dinner options. The whippet is true to his home town and mithers me for chips from the Fryer’s Delight (still one of the better chippies in London).

put a VONC on it (suzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link

I reckon my local chippy would thrive in London. The proprietor is a qualified master chef and does artisan cakes and pies as well. Well he used to do them, it didn't seem to take off for him. He got the ultimate compliment off a pensioner once who told him he'd been to the best chippy in Scarborough last week, and it wasn't as good as his.

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link

I’ve got a good friend from Scarbados and that’s high praise.

put a VONC on it (suzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link

also he used to be the personal chef of the Duke of York and his horrible wife (bleurgh!) But there is no doubt about his culinary skills

calzino, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link

glad to have confirmed that I wasn't being completely out of touch to think £8 cod was p extreme. the delights of small village down south living. on the other hand if I lived in noodle vague's ends with £4 cod,chips,peas available I'd probably be in there 3x a week and even more overweight than I already am!

oscar bravo, Thursday, 25 August 2022 06:35 (two years ago) link

our local fish and chip shop is run by two extremely macho guys who I am sure are sneering and giggling at me in a way I haven't encountered since secondary school, fish tastes stale too, not fussed if they close tbh.

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 25 August 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/24/sunak-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-empower-scientists-during-covid-pandemic

going for the anti-lockdown vote. would thatcher've been anti-lockdown?

koogs, Thursday, 25 August 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link

The former chancellor added: “I was like: ‘Forget about the economy – surely we can all agree that kids not being in school is a major nightmare.’

“There was a big silence afterwards. It was the first time someone had said it. I was so furious.”

Wow he's as stupid as Truss after all.

nashwan, Thursday, 25 August 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link

Nashwan, I too had an indicator today that Sunak was as stupid as Truss. He was saying that Johnson let lockdown go on too long and that scientists had too much control over Covid decision-making.

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 25 August 2022 08:44 (two years ago) link

sorry, missed the link above, this is part of the same story, obvs.

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 25 August 2022 08:46 (two years ago) link


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