Derfel Cadarn Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Yeah. No way that food cost £30, unless they bought it from Wholefoods or Waitrose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 That food parcel, someone should be shot. On the positive (sort of) side. Deaths 'only 1250', and cases definitely seem to be dropping off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 from what I've heard on the radio since is the food in that picture is for 5 days and supposed to cost around £5 with £10 packing fee. and this is a temporary measure while they set up a food voucher system. 1. This sounds bullshit to me, its got to be easier and quicker to give out money or vouchers directly than set up food delivery. 2. That is over priced even if it cost £5. and the £10 packing is a joke. 3. that's not really enough for 5 days, they are supposed to get a hot meal (although as a scotch egg is a substantial adult meal to some I can see where the confusion comes in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said: Yeah. No way that food cost £30, unless they bought it from Wholefoods or Waitrose. You would get more nutritional and actual value sending macdonalds uber eats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 24 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: 21 minutes ago, Pebble thats Stubby said: from what I've heard on the radio since is the food in that picture is for 5 days and supposed to cost around £5 with £10 packing fee. and this is a temporary measure while they set up a food voucher system. Yeah, right! £5 - and how much change comes back? For 5 days? that'd last 2, and still not be remotely well balanced £10 packing fee? FFS, they could have just sent a supermarket online delivery round, with a £3 "packing fee" and some actual food in there. Hell, most supermarkets were doing exactly that free of charge back in October (or they were around here anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Which Tyler said: Yeah, right! £5 - and how much change comes back? £10 packing fee? FFS, they could have just sent a supermarket online delivery round, with a £3 "packing fee" and some actual food in there. Hell, most supermarkets were doing exactly that free of charge back in October (or they were around here anyway) pretty much my reaction. although with this government and who they seem to outsource stuff to I can well believe this is how they justify the costs. Still being charged £15 and not £30 makes it not AS bad for that box of crap and probably older stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Priti Patel, when asked to explain why, if this new Covid variant is more transmissible than the original, the rules for this lockdown are much less strict than last year, repeatedly refused to engage with the question. Also, nobody from the Government seems able to provide the public with a definition of 'local'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 A spoonful of tuna in a coin bag. JFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, Pebble thats Stubby said: not really the right thread for this, but anyone else hear a big bang about 15 mins ago? It shook my windows in Billericay Essex, also getting reports of my teammates hearing it in Basildon, Ongar, Wickford and Brentwood. or there was lots of smaller Bangs all about the same time over Essex? edit - Looks like it was 2 Typhoons sent to escort a plane from Germany that had stopped responding. I heard it in Cambridge as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Sonic boom from scrambled RAF fighter, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 19 hours ago, polishgenius said: In other news Marcus Rashford's had to go back to the puplit coz some of the food parcels delivered by the company the govt awarded the deliviries to look like this, for ten meals over two weeks that are supposed to be thirty quid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Will someone please punch me in the face, as I applaud Piers Morgan for holding this mob of morons and crooks to account. In the second video, all he had to say was, 'Yes, of course I regret it'. The pathological inability to own up to mistakes is pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Consigliere said: I think the Leader of the Opposition is being excessively trusting of the Prime Minister’s assurances here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Oh, look. It actually turns out that... Guidance written by the Department for Education suggests “general principles for putting together” parcels and, according to Labour, bears close resemblance to images seen on social media, including one loaf of bread, two potatoes, a tin of beans, three yoghurts and a bag of pasta. Key items missing from pictures of food parcels that are recommended by the government are two “tins of meat”, a litre of milk and a tin of sweetcorn, which Labour said it had calculated at 47p of food a day. Labour calculated, using prices from Tesco, that the government’s recommendations for a weekly food parcel would cost just over £7. Fresh U-turn over free school meals as Labour criticises guidance on parcels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karaddin Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 It's far from the biggest issue with those parcels but the use of non-food packaging for stuff like tuna is just appalling. Tesco small zip lock bags are literally 7p each and these vultures are spooning tuna into unsanitary coin bags? What the fuck? They'd be spending more on staff to cut veggies and rebag food into smaller portions than just giving people full packages. I'm with BFC on what should be done with these evil fucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 This is the main issue with the outsourcing model really. A lot of companies, and I've worked for them, are set up primarily to win pitches and contracts, over promise and under deliver. This is why you get situations like this where outsourced companies are much more concerned with doing the bare minimum (they haven't even managed that it seems). Probably also a product of this all being incredibly rushed and not planned, constant u-turning on issues and over promising from the governement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 It should be pointed out that Chartwells is a catering company. They're perfectly capable of delivering proper food packages, with proper packaging, proper portioning, thought given to how the contents fit together, and even consultation with the end users. They just didn't bother. It's difficult if not impossible to escape the conclusion that the problem here was that nobody cared enough. In Chartwells, in government, nobody involved made the effort. And in turn, it's difficult to escape the conclusion that this lack of care was influenced on some level by social prejudice about the people for whom this help was destined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stannis Eats No Peaches Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Are we sure the contract wasn’t awarded by Chris Grayling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, Stannis Eats No Peaches said: Are we sure the contract wasn’t awarded by Chris Grayling? well the contract was given to a catering company not a ferry company so unlikely to be a Grayling contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 27 minutes ago, karaddin said: They'd be spending more on staff to cut veggies and rebag food into smaller portions than just giving people full packages. For all their talk of avoiding waste of taxpayer money, conservatives will consistently spend more to avoid even the tiniest possibility that someone somewhere might get more than they ostensibly "deserve." Even when it's cheaper and more effective to just hand things out no questions asked. People should just be getting cash. Not even vouchers. Cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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