PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

well on the one hand ridiculous exchange rate but on the other hand nothing left to actually buy

London is many things but cheap it is not.

At least it's not fucking Oxford…

lads, lads, it's all fucking ludicrously expensive down your way

London is many things but cheap it is not.

― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 August 2019 13:47 (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Everywhere in Ireland costs the earth

yeah was gonna say

just noticed this offer in my local Coop: two pizzas and either a four bottle pack of Budweiser or Cola for £5. Squeezing that last bit of the cheap food + booze era for all it is worth before it all goes tits up, yes.

Looking at the menu for my local centra and yr basic Cadbury’s slabs cost €1.50! Wtf. But yeah, exchange rate means I’m not looking forward to going home next week.

That co op offer is making me fat(ter)

The pizzas aren't the best, but for that price they will do for me when I can't be arsed cooking. And even if you don't like bud it is fine for making beef stews.

Ha, I've been taking advantage of that offer ~a lot~ over the past month or so.

plax nv and gyac know the score

its why we pay our middle management civil servants so much

long may it last obv

It is insane how cheap decent prepared food is in the UK relative to anywhere else I’ve ever lived. Also the fact that Ikea in the uk does veggie hot dogs is a major quality of life issue.

Lol, I went to the press reveal of the IKEA veggie hot dog. It's one of the weirder experiences in my life. So much corporation speak about a 10 kr hotdog.

xxp I have to say I did not realise you could pre order a custom breakfast roll for a time of your choice, what a time to be alive

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/04/spudulike-closes-all-37-outlets-as-high-street-downturn-continues

levy presumably hit them for image rights

Spud-oo-licky closing?

buying a "cheap" bottle of wine in Ireland is always really depressing. I can also never understand how everyone always seems to have so much money there. You go to the pub and everyone's buying huge rounds!

sorry to report ikea veggie hot dogs are bad now. they changed the recipe : /

at the moment you can get 2 packs of frozen L McCartney 1/4lb mozzarella burgers for a quid. They make very nice cheeseburgers and aren't half bad at all for soylent green based burgers.

i'm sure they've ran out of the eponymous ingredient by now

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/future/images/a/ad/Infant_hybrid.png/revision/latest?cb=20140727140437

spud-u-dislike

xps yeah, supermarket wine was the thing that horrified us price-wise last time we were over; brands in the £6-7 range here were €11+. of course after Brexit we'll long for 2018 Irish wine prices...

I've never quite worked out Irish pay rates. an inlaw was earning 45k in her 1st entry-level admin job in Dublin several years back which made us go ???* but that side of the family always seems to land on its feet and be oblivious to their good fortune so I hesitate to assume it's representative

* our confusion was that this sounded like a lot, just to clarify, seeing as we had a conversation at cross-purposes with step-MIL along similar lines at one point, where we expressed surprise at someone (else)'s salary bcz it sounded high to us and she agreed with our surprise then said "that's terrible, how can anyone live on that?" uh... never mind

That's not exactly typical. Around 28k would be the norm

xxp

I wasn't allowed to call Andrew Bridgen the MP for North West Bullshitshire in the paper. But I can here...https://t.co/vZ88VB5qR6 pic.twitter.com/d99t26WIP4

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) November 17, 2018

I was thinking perhaps Walmart's new dissolution of holidays/overtime/bank holiday pay contracts were something they had planned to roll out in a post Brexit UK. Then they thought wtf just roll it out anyway.

"The new contract cuts holiday entitlement, slashes bank holiday and night shift pay, and introduces an any time, any place, anywhere culture which risks a hugely damaging impact on the predominately part time, low paid, female workforce, who need flexibility that works for them.

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Where are you reading this, calz?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-asda-workers-told-sign-16699823

the walton family are remarkably evil bastards

I missed this:

https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/26/residents-in-boris-johnson-s-ancestral-turkish-village-proud-of-his-election-as-uk-pm

Conversely, the inhabitants of Kallstadt deserve credit for having expressed embarrassment at Trump's election.

Yeah, Imagine being worth $170 billion and thinking "How can I get more?" xp

xp otfm.

I've written to Boris Johnson calling on him to reconsider the fitness of Sajid Javid to serve in the role of Chancellor pic.twitter.com/uEKqltCERQ

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) August 5, 2019

xp extremely greedy when I don’t recall that they ever withdrew from workfare placements

mcdonnell bringing the fire as usual

I've got an old friend who works at Asda. When he was a zero hours delivery driver for them they were the lousiest set of bastards he'd ever worked for. Then he got an unlikely promotion to a low level salaried position organising the drivers. He must have drank a fair bit of own brand kool-aid because since then he was taking a sadistic narc's relish in springing a driver he suspected of being a heroin addict with a surprise drug test. i told him he was a prick and as an ex-heroin addict himself he could have took a more constructive approach to the poor bastard. Anyway I texted him something about this and unsurprisingly he hasn't answered me yet. Fucking arsehole!

Downing Street confirms that £1bn of the £1.8bn 'new' money for the NHS is not in fact new at all. They're now trying to work out where the other £800 million came from. That may not be new either.

— oliver wright (@oliver_wright) August 5, 2019

🤡

contempt = palpable

M Hancock is such a pathetic simpering piece of shit, when this boris ship goes down, which won't take long by current indications, he will go back to the hideous obscurity he came from. I think it was the French religious icon painter Rouault who I first heard the expression "beautiful obscurity" from. This doesn't apply to ambitious little creepazoids like Hancock who will literally do anything to further his career.

just catching up with Today i take it? :)

not heard that yet, but from what I've read he's still trying to say this £1.8 bn is all new money ..

some more bad news for the economy’s debit column. funny can’t bring to mind many stories like this from the credit column, despite our ongoing “jobs miracle”

Tesco announces 4,500 job cuts across stores nationwide https://t.co/VMGYmWqz8F

— Charlotte Hughes. The Poor Side Of life (@charlotteh71) August 5, 2019

No10: It's "new money"

Whitehall source:
- Up to £1bn comes from surplus money NHS already generated, now re-allocated. Such surpluses often re-allocated in past.
- £800m not allocated yet - that'll happen in the "Autumn" (prob spending review)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5aa703315cfd796fe1ebc5af/1521924068336-LGL35053MY2MRVZ4BFUA/Thinking+gif.gif?format=1000w&content-type=image%2Fgif

Was listening to postman pat talking about his illustrious new Labour career. Talk about an absolute dearth of mystery wrapped up in a Dogshit sandwich.

He thinks his real legacy is his book because 500000 sorry arsed people bought it. Harrumph what a class a cunt

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/06/mps-thwart-boris-johnson-no-deal

lol we're all gunna die
So a no-deal exit has been Boris Johnson's plan from the very start, right? I'm not seeing enough media types saying that, in case I missed something. He and his cabal have no intention of trying to leave the EU with an exit deal in place as far as I can tell, and it's all going swimmingly for them right now. See you in Hell!

Brexit causing Toynbee and co to lose their minds again and doing fantasy politics unity government XI's from those that arguably got us here in the first place. Whose name has come out the centrist tombola this time? Margaret fucking Beckett, we are saved.