UK is Fucked
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- PhanLo0
The outrage
-- Don’t buy a house in farmlandGnash
- if you are not a farmer at allbrt44
- haha.. what a bunch of dick heads to complain about a farm vehicle. he should come back in summer and muck spread ever weekend.shapesalad
- what a cunt. i fucking hate moron townies who move to the countryside and then complain about countryside life.hans_glib
- oh no teh animals make noize! and smells! teh horror! and the broadband is so sloow! and why can't i get a signal on my phone??hans_glib
- fuck off back to your urban grime you floppy haired cunt.hans_glib
- lowimpakt5
Spending 100s millions on "food parcels" for people living in poverty where the allocated is £30 per person but the boxes have about £5 worth of food and the rest is taken as profit by the company whose CEO is a massive Tory donor is ALMOST peak Tory fuckery
This is a Free School Meals bag that has to cover 10 days
- What's the company?Morning_star
- lol, 2 potatoes ?i_was
- more info here
https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - The Tories need to be fucking destroyed. Every single one of them.face_melter
- company in questions is Chartwells
https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - To be fair, Chartwells were quick to respond and are now investigating. They're part of the large Compass Group.Morning_star
- You'd perhaps forgive them if stuff like this happened once or twice in unprecedented times, but it's been pretty much everything since the pandemic began.fadein11
- Absolute cunts. As if the amount of food wasn't agreed with ministers first.fadein11
- tO Be fAiR... no. There's no fair about this. People, multiple people, took the decision and thought this was ok.face_melter
- Do you think there was a fucking rogue food box saboteur and managed to get this through without anyone else noticing?face_melter
- Turns out (after talking with someone who has worked with Compass Group brands) that Chartwells used to be called Scolerest and were the epicentre of the...Morning_star
- ...Turkey Twizzlers/Shite Nutrition debacle that Jamie Oliver was behind a few years back. There are utter, utter profit driven cunts. So you're right...Morning_star
- ...face_melter there's no need to be fair .Morning_star
- if this is true it's an utter disgrace.hans_glib
- huge tory donor and CEO was on Cameron's Business Advisory Group...fadein11
- https://www.theguard…neverscared
- Would love to see what the chefs on Ready Steady Cook would come up with using these ingredients.shapesalad
- Sick.jtb26
- 10 days? Christ. Do you have food banks over yonder?jtb26
- People who would have been in the church rinsing folks cash 40 years back have realised charity work is easier to grift the poor without all the jesus stuff.PhanLo
- You should see their school meal substitutes - not even enough nutrition to support an adultSlashPeckham
- ffs makes Dickensian gruel look like a healthy optionNonEntity
- ^ I was going to say, what is it with you Brits and your penchant for Victorian-style abject cruelty, anyway? This is fucking jaw-dropping.Continuity
- ^ It's the 'British Establishment believing poor people will spend cash on booze and cigarettes... that's why these food parcels are being sent out like thisSlashPeckham
- It's a fucking embarrassment is what it is. But totally unsurprising from the current particularly toxic manifestation of the conservative party, Rees-Mogg isfadein11
- likely masturbating right now.fadein11
- Booze and cigarettes seem a pretty reasonable way to cope with the barbarism of the 'British Establishment', all things considered.Continuity
- ^ True but it almost never happens. During WWII the rations people were given were far better than this.. maybe because there was no profit motive..SlashPeckham
- In fact for the poorest people nutrition/health improved in WWII... this is far below that watermark. I fucking hate the tories!!SlashPeckham
- Is this related to what Marcus Rashford is doing? Or is he doing his own thing?stoplying
- Some Facts: hampers were put together last week based on the cost of a free school meal allowance - £2.34 per pupil per day (which is £11.70 a week) NOT £30Morning_star
- Rashford campaigned for free school meals to continue in the holidays successfully. He most certainly has nothing to do with this awfulness.fadein11
- kingsteven0
UK ‘rejected offer’ of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow
Exclusive: ‘Standard’ proposal to exempt performers for 90 days was proposed, but ‘the UK said no’
- Bennn7
- ouch :Dsted
- Lol. HP Sauce is as wild as it getsPhanLo
- “Nah, we’re good”
*boils dessert*scarabin - The spices were to give to the Dutch in exchange for America. Stupid colonies. Have a mince pie.MrT
- I spent half a day shop hopping to find a bottle of this. Apparently worcester is not that popular in the uk, or so I was told. http://i.imgur.com/E…cherub
- Eventually my missus weaned me off the worcester and got me to like that malt stuff. So I doused my chips in malt instead.cherub
- I'm always on the lookout for L&P in Oz, usually in the foreigners' aisle. Most UK chippy vinegar is 'non-brewed condiment'. Get a bottle of proper stuff!MrT
- @cherub: that's total bollocks. you can find worcestershire sauce in supermarkets everywhere. an essential ingredient.hans_glib
- and hp sauce, branston pickle, piccallili etc (and mince pies) need a tons of spice, so ner.hans_glib
- Never get high on your own supplymilfhunter
- also. as a seafarer and island nation, all they could come up with is deep fried battered fish with chips and vinegar ? look at japan ffsd_gitale
- Out of interest, what's Canada's contribution to culinary extravagance - cheese curd and gravy on chips?Nairn
- I spend a month or so in Italy each year - food's great, if you like Italian. If you don't, well, you're stuffed, because that's all you're getting.Nairn
- The UK flattens India, rapes the land and subjugates the populace and the best they can come up with is Coronation Chicken.face_melter
- @face, which did evolve into baltis and chicken tikka masala to be fair so wasn't all bad (joke).fadein11
- Haggis is kind of spicy.PhanLo
- The descendants from the idiots of the past empire, are the upper class of the UK today, in the houses of Lords and Parliament, hence the continued fucking up.shapesalad
- @fade - but also, we have some of the best Indian food in the world. Even our average stuff from the local takeaway is more interesting than most countries haveNairn
- I'd say beyond Tikka Massala, pseudo-Balti and coronation fucking chicken, the one thing 'we've' added to the world is BIR Gravy. Total cultural osmosisNairn
- My Italian in-laws make a 'curry' that is literally just curry powder, cream and some [in my opinion] underdone onions. It's OK. What we had in the early 70s.Nairn
- oh nairn, I'm from B'ham, I know. I ate more curry growing up than English food (well not quite). I gave to simple examples, although baltis are fantastic herefadein11
- also in the right place.fadein11
- *twofadein11
- I guess my point was both dishes were invented by Indian immigrants here, they don't exist in india.fadein11
- (or Pakistani, Kashmari etc. if people get technical)fadein11
- God it's late, I am finally finishing work, hope any of that that made sense, knackered :)fadein11
- *correction - balti did not originate here, I've been lied to my whole life.fadein11
- Bluejam0
"It seems like some of the 'it's all over' and 'herd immunity' crowds are deleting their old tweets. It would be a real shame if someone had made a living timeline of their dangerous claims."
- Bluejam1
- Of all the ridiculous things he has said this has to be top 3. He is an elected troll.fadein11
- Watch the video of him saying it, it is obviously an attempt at humour. Most of the time this guy is an utterly, out of touch disgrace to humanity but getting..Morning_star
- ...all bent out of shape over an attempted joke is petty to say the least.Morning_star
- like I said an elected troll. And I'm sure the fishing industry aren't laughing.fadein11
- Who's bent out of shape anyway? Bluejam is clearly laughing at it and so was I.fadein11
- i was going to post this - another triumph of hope over expectation. well done everyonehans_glib
- I expect the UK fishing industry doesn't give a fuck, they've got increased quotas for 5 years and then complete control of UK waters after 2026.Morning_star
- yeah right...
https://www.thetimes…fadein11 - Yes. https://www.bbc.co.u…Morning_star
- did you even read the article above?fadein11
- anyway, we were laughing at Rees-Mogg, noone was bent out of shape.fadein11
- Apart from himfadein11
- No, the article was behind a pay wall. I watched the video though, which i assumed reflected what was in the articleMorning_star
- It doesn't at all, not sure why its in there as that is old and nothing to do with the content of the article.fadein11
- Weird first time I clicked I could read whole articlefadein11
- I'm not a Times subscriber ;)fadein11
- Oh, bugger. Well that explains it.Morning_star
- PhanLo3
- Socialism is ONLY for the richGuyFawkes
- Always has been!zarkonite
- this is an issue. high employment and people using foodbanks - doesnt add uptrooperbill
- PhanLo1
- oh that's so funny. Let me add, fucking funny, because putting the f word in tweet makes it more meme-able.shapesalad
- Do you hail from the 1910s or something, shapesalad?Nairn
- actually this is a misnomer we administered other countries with a pretty light touch. for example ghana (i think) only had 50 civil servantstrooperbill
- https://dictionary.c…Nairn
- Doesn't much matter how few civil servants a place has - what matters is what those few report back and what level of army and navy is sent to 'fix' things.Nairn
- britain's touch was SOOO light everyone that died was going to die anywaykingsteven
- PhanLo1
- "I'm Irish"
*glint*Nairn - trump has a golf course in co clare next to mayo, the inter county tension and flaunting of local angles in the local papers with this transition has been goldkingsteven
- my great grandfarther was a miner. doesnt mean i live down a holetrooperbill
- Dunno, you helped dig one by voting for Brexit...Nairn
- brits commit genocide in Ireland, kill 1m, exodus of 2 million irish in 8 years, 170 years of civil war later. "it was like working in a hole" - a britkingsteven
- Are you suggesting that his ancestor who was likely barely even a member of the working underclass bears responsibility for the actions of the English Elite?Nairn
- That's like having at a go at Auld MacMacDonald who was turfed off his ancestral land during the clearances by slave-compensated Scot's EliteNairn
- I do get annoyed by this lumping of all of Britain's historical sins upon her descendants by our aggrieved cousins in places like India or IrelandNairn
- Like - what the fuck did I do?
Or my antescendants?
They were getting the shitty stick too.Nairn - not at all, and i believe that's the point trooper was trying to make. but it takes a brit, in education + spirit to compare genocide as famine to labour.kingsteven
- "I'm Irish"
- shapesalad0
- 22 billion on a track and trace system that doesn't work. And the rest.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯PhanLo - I'm getting out of UK in next 5 years. I don't want sit there in Winter 2045, on minuscule pension, in a flooded shoebox house, under a lockdown.shapesalad
- for "spent" read "wasted"hans_glib
- good job we're out then or wed have spent double (you know what i mean)trooperbill
- or "spent" read "pocketed"SlashPeckham
- 22 billion on a track and trace system that doesn't work. And the rest.
- PhanLo0
- I bet he gets a warm welcomefadein11
- He'll be up for the panscones and to give Jackie Bird a quick pumping.face_melter
- fadein113
(not a fan of Momentum but this hits home)
- easy to do this in retrospecttrooperbill
- or just follow the science and examples of other nations.fadein11
- please tell me you aren't defending Johnson's handling of the pandemic?fadein11
- they fucked up. consistently.
https://www.theguard…Bluejam - essential reading trooperfadein11
- It’s incredible how long it took Bojo to lock the country down.Chimp
- yeah everybody in other countries is saying their governments are the best. We are so exceptional.NonEntity
- btw our government is shit obvs, but hardly needs obsessive restating tho...NonEntity
- Meanwhile Momentum think alternate means alternativeNonEntity
- flol at the reliance on the test and trace systemhans_glib
- @nonentity "hardly needs obsessive restating tho" eh?fadein11
- the facts are pretty brutal on their own - not sure the silly make-believe format helpsFax_Benson
- This is what happens when you vote for a racist, right wing English Nationalist who runs the most openly corrupt UK gov ever.mrAtor
- I don’t know who this guy is bu he looks like his wife doesn’t love him and he maybe has a drinking problemscarabin
- Ianbolton0
RE: Momentum video.
It's easy to say in retrospect that we could've/should've/would've done all this. I'm in no way defending this government as they have seriously fucked up, but being such a central hub for world capitalism it's understandable why the government did exactly what it did and proved yet again that the economy will always be put first over people's lives. We are fucked, because so many people are still saying to anyone being critical 'well how would you have done things better' - protecting the Conservatives yet again from any kind of scrutiny. I'm not a politician, or a scientific advisor so how the fuck should I be expected to know what to do - but if we're supposed to be the all powerful nation our Boris thinks we are, then these figures and the consistent lies and the spread of distrust in political rhetoric proves time and time and again that the UK is actually FUCKED. Who really can hold the Government accountable when on live TV he's saying "I'm truly sorry and I do take responsibility for all the deaths in this country" without any weight or meaning to those words?
- alas protecting the economy failed as well
https://www.bbc.co.u…fadein11
- alas protecting the economy failed as well