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

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.

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.

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

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

a considerable number of Iceland products are oven cook only iirc

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

yes tbf the WS is an exception

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

OMG LOL

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

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

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

tbf haddock beats cod any day

That's what you get in Scotland.

If it isn't this country is truly done.

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.

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.

jesus!

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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?

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, 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.

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

Trying to outflank Truss on the right, a desperate mug's game played poorly. Still, if Truss calls and fails to win a GE she could be out in the new year! Then they can do the leadership contest all over again. Not a hugely likely scenario I guess.

Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford so you would think she would be on the side of the scientists. But if she were in today's Conservative party, who knows.

Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford so you would think she would be on the side of the scientists.

HAHAHAHA! Her savage cuts to university research funding and abolition of tenure strongly suggest otherwise, Ward.

if I were a member of the Tory party my nose would be serious out of joint by the fact that the MPs had their ridiculous summer-long reality-TV style whittling contest to reduce the ballot to those two loons rather than sending out a ballot paper with all the original candidates on it.

Which perhaps serves to demonstrate why I'm not a member of *any* political party and it's likely to remain that way, I guess.

Fair enough!

There is such a huge chasm between what they suppose the deranged membership want to hear from them and what is required right now that I can't take this bizarre side-show too seriously. If either of them were dangerously stupid enough to commit to the *even more* hardcore fiscal conservatism they've been talking up at hustings then we are all fucked. But there is so much bare faced lying going on here, they are making Starmer's leadership campaign look honest.

I don't know if Sunak is stupider than Truss - that's not so much a low bar as a subterranean one - but his leadership campaign surely has been. It's possibly the worst political campaign since Bobby Gillespie's dad lost Govan to the SNP.

i like that he was the sole voice of reason in the room* but his comments were stricken from the record so there's no proof...

* although kids back to school was never the sensible option, those places are petri dishes. no point in isolating the general population if you're going to make the younglings they live with mingle with everybody else's younglings.

He:s cycled through so many right wing nutjob talking points I'm just waiting for him to get to bringing back hanging.