The awarding of government contracts essentially seems corrupt to me, yet it’s apparently legal and there isn’t the outcry in the media that it should warrant. The sums of money must dwarf the sums involved in the expenses scandal, but it does not get the same level of attention.
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[Food] Child food hampers
- Thread starter Worthing exile
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The awarding of government contracts essentially seems corrupt to me, yet it’s apparently legal and there isn’t the outcry in the media that it should warrant. The sums of money must dwarf the sums involved in the expenses scandal, but it does not get the same level of attention.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Poor people have to sit in a damp flat watching a cockroach crawl up the wall whilst eating shit day in day out according to IDS. God forbid if they have a spare room.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
The company has apologised and stated that the picture of the parcel did not meet their own specifications for what should be in the hamper.
It was on the BBC news.
Recidivist
Active member
A lot of the hoo-haa has come from the below image shared by "RoadsideMum" on Twitter, where she said it was 10 days of food for her 2 children and replaced £30 of food vouchers she would otherwise have received. There was then massed outrage on the basis that a) this is not enough food for the children, and b) it didn't represent £30 of value compared to going to a supermarket (she priced it up at Aldi at £5.22)
The provider, Chartwells, has since clarified that this is actually 5 lunches for 1 child and they billed the government £10.50, which includes the costs of distribution.
I think that without the "fake news" from Twitter this wouldn't have been half as much of a story.
I’be heard all the outrage from media, MPs et al too. It’s a great pity that so few people bother to check the facts before sounding off!
It’s pretty obvious that the government is scared of the “Rashford” effect so will say anything to get on the right side of public opinion, driven by social media?
As an aside, that looks quite a lot of food for 5 kids’ lunches to me! Depends, I guess, whether this is supposed to be a snack lunch or a full meal but looks to me like more than most children would eat in five days and/or, possibly, swap a few items for chocolates instead?
It’s a long time since I had school meals but my step-daughter would invariably take in a healthy(ish) lunch box, because it wasn’t cool (!) to eat the school meal.
The alternative would be to issue food vouchers or deal with it via Universal Credit (the government’s original preferred option, I believe).
If you do it that way, of course, you’re relying on parents to supply a good (nutritious?) lunch.
The libertarian in me says let parents get on with it. The cynic in me says look at the obesity crisis to assess whether that really works!
And yes, of course I’m generalising .......
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beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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were they reporting from primary source, or lazily replaying the tweets? i looked and couldnt find another source. its difficult because google gets polluted with the news. as far as i can tell the assumption comes from £30 vouchers being given last year.
Tells you all you need to know about a majority of the media. sad.
Seasider78
Well-known member
- Nov 14, 2004
- 5,940
So we punish the kids by starving them because their parents have had them without having sufficient money. Yeah that will teach them.
And yet they give out child benefit in cash to a majority of parents without a question.
I have no idea, I didn't look for any accreditations.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,314
Contractors skimming massively off the top is as despicable as it to be expected under this pure criminal shower of shit government
Indeed! Don't suggest to Boris it could be replaced with vouchers he's likely to take you up on it!
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Poor people are so stupid, I've got a private chef who could knock up 5 days worth of Michelin star food out of that.
If their own cooks aren't up to standard they should tell their assistant to find a better one
If their own cooks aren't up to standard they should tell their assistant to find a better one
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
You would have thought that they had quality control mechanism in place to ensure that this didn’t happen. You’d have thought that government department responsible would also have checked.
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Sshh! How dare you come in here posting facts when some people just want to be able to attack poor people making a fuss in peace.
Says their representitive tucking into a Fortum & Mason Hamper from his holiday home in the Cayman Islands
Everything alright then.
Poor people are so stupid, I've got a private chef who could knock up 5 days worth of Michelin star food out of that.
If their own cooks aren't up to standard they should tell their assistant to find a better one
THis is a very good point. Even my Valet has a Michelin star , amazing what he can knock up with what my chaufeur runs down, when Chefs orf on holiday or an procurement odyssey
Last weekend we had flame grilled mod on a bed of crushed Vespa with a blackberry and claret Jus.
Sounds like an irrelevance as it's back to the vouchers next week. However I was under the impression the idea was to replace the hot free school dinner which across a week includes pasta dish, jacket potato, roast dinner, curry and then fish on Fridays. The packages ive seen it would take quite a ready steady cook episode to achieve any of those
- Jul 10, 2003
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Don't panic, the £30/£10.50 mix up is explained in this article
Free meals firm at centre of outcry was run by Conservative party donor
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/free-school-meals-tory-donor-rashford-b1786501.html
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