This is meant to last a week, and the people sending this out get paid £30 for each package. Open contempt for the poor, note the tuna in a money bag.
https://twitter.com/mmtowns/status/1348767879450255364
OMFG THE 3 cm OF CARROT
CARROT
MF CARROT
500 YEARS OF BEING A COLONIAL SUPERPOWER AND THEY GIVE THIS TO THEIR POORS
Pretty sure they ate better while London was being continuously shelled by the Germans.
Presumably they have regressed to Victorian-era logic, whereby punishing the poor is supposed to incentivise them to get a job and sustain themselves.
Didn't work back then either
Haha, wow it must suck to live in a society with that mentality, really wild and totally different from all the fucking people that surrounds me, no sir, zero sight of that bullshit 👀
Looks at picture: Eh, it's not great but with a couple more ingredients you could make a meal out of it
Reads text: :anglo-burn:
I can't tell what is in the white bags, but what is this 800 Calories for the week? Even during the siege of Leningrad kids were getting an estimated 300-450 per day
It HAS to cost more money to slice and individually wrap those portions of vegetables than it would take to just send the whole thing.
Glad this was outsourced to private contractors since capitalism is so efficient.
It is the new replacement for school meals that the Tories have rolled out. The company (Chartwells) who got the comission has a Tory donor that used to be on David Cameron's business council as chairman.
Can't just give £30 to the parents directly though, they'd spend it all on booze and cigarettes. Joke of a country.
So I read this stuff is being done, at least in some areas, through Chartwells and CompassUSA. I've worked at universities that have Chartwells as the dining subcontractor, and those fuckers are some of the stingiest overcharging leeches in the world. They had a store of their own in-house foodstuffs like sandwiches, soups, salads, etc., that were all literally as expensive as just buying meals from the Chik-fil-A or McDonalds next door. Shitty cold ham sandwiches for $6.29 a piece, no drink or side included. Just the most awful prices I've ever seen outside of literal tourist traps. I caught a look at a shipping manifest they left on a counter while campus was closed, and saw they were upcharging the MSRP on chip bags by like 75%. Not the cost to them, the suggested MSRP.
Then these absolute fucking ghouls that pull literally MILLIONS in sales on campus per year have the gall to hem and haw about shelling out less than a quarter million to upgrade all their register equipment that's 15 years old and literally falling out of end-of-life support. This shit is sickening, but unsurprising given my previous experience with them.
don't forget about Sodexo and their rat droppings https://goldengatexpress.org/88015/latest/news/rat-droppings-found-in-shitty-eats/ https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/5/22/21267202/cps-aramark-sodexo-facilities-management-contract-chicago-public-schools
If you serve 600+ meals a day, you can have it cost 1.70 Euro per meal including labor cost. With good labor and "bio" produce it'll be +0.25 Euro and +0.15 Euro. This means a meal, a side, vegetables and a glass of water, including sometimes a fruit juice.
I still can't wrap my head around this. Why would this be better than direct relief per child? Are they that worried that poor people would get money?
My assumption it's just more privatization of what should be public functions. Whatever company is getting the 30 shillings, or whatever currency they have there, is just turning this into a profit making endeavor. A captive and hungry market. Happens in the states too. The school my wife teaches at outsourced their cooking to a private entity that provides shitty meals.
Thing is you don't even need to make a public function. Just give 30 pounds x4 a month per child in direct relief. Still no where near enough but that can cover food and even some clothing. This shit is fucking evil.
Some sort of supermarket voucher system was proposed, but then the government's donors and mates couldn't make a killing off of that.
Just give people money. Jesus it's that simple, I can't believe Canada is doing well in this regard, and there are fucking chuds and libs still screaming about govt handouts here.
Executives at Chartwells and Compass USA are Tory party donors and personal friends with people in the current government. It's corruption, pure and simple, with an added spiting of starving kids as a bonus.
The tories literally argued that parents would somehow trade vouchers for crack and prostitutes
Well, not like a literal king. But I can make a great chili, a pot pie, pasta and homemade sauce, tikka masala, drunken noodle, eggs for breakfast with potatoes. Still would likely have a bit left over.
My partner and I spend ~$100 every other week on groceries without particularly trying to get it all cheap. A little more intentional frugality and I bet I could shave it down.
half a tomato and not even a quarter of a carrot too? blimey
More like £5 spent and £25 pocketed. Probably more margin when buying in bulk too.
Meanwhile:
- https://mobile.twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1348924185146482688
- https://mobile.twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1348956930891505667
Someone in the replies made an interesting point:
Don't forget that Chartwells are providing food products split from original packets & subdivided, like bread & pasta, with no identifying labels or additional information, this is illegal & highly dangerous to anyone with an allergy? They will kill a child with these practices!
Also the meat is just in a bag and presumably not being refrigerated. It genuinely looks like some scooped out some canned tuna into a baggie.
This is shockingly bad food hygiene even ignoring everything else.
I doubt that a bag to put coins in is even foodsafe to begin with. I'm amazed at how shoddy this is.
Here is another example , where the tuna is in a takeaway milkshake cup and dry pasta in two styrofoam takeaway containers. There is no consistency in these packages, how hard is it to go out and get a roll of plastic bags to make it seem like you give a shit in the least rather than this? It is like they are doing it on purpose piss people off.
My first thought was "hope they get sued to death for this shit", then I realized that their profits most likely are already being parked on some island just off of Terf Rock.
How can libs not be radicalized by this horseshit? It is just so infuriating.
Holy shit, that's $52 Canadian.
I can survive on $52 a week, and eat fucking well. That's insanity.
The company the Tories contracted this scheme out to get paid £30 per child to provide this, its worth maybe £5 at a push ( and that's without factoring in bulk buying) they are pocketing more than £25 per child and leaving kids to starve. The government is fine with this as they didn't want to provide it in the first place and are only doing so as they got blasted for refusing to do so in the media. It's just another in a long list of Tory scams to get public money into their friends and donors hands.
No, they might spend on things.
It's much better to give it to Alan Von Schoobervitz III who'll leave it in twenty different accounts in the Canary Isles.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.
Several leading members of the Tory party including Boris Johnson were members of the infamous elite Bullingdon Club at school, where one of the initiation requirements was to burn a £50 note in front of a homeless person after offering them it.
What is this stuff? It looks like week old leftovers someone forgot in the fridge
