Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals
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Oh, I'm absolutely with you on that. This is one of the most shameful things I've seen in a very long time. Having to be forced to feed poor kids at a time of crisis then letting your cronies make some fucking huge profit by literally taking food away from hungry children. I'd string the fuckers up personally. Absolutely fucking despicable.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
The best reaction to this would be to post that picture of the box up each and every time someone positively mentions outsourcing, privatization, PFI, internal markets, the need to involve private expertize to "fix" wasteful government or basically any of the nonsense that has wrecked this country's economy over the past forty years.
It sums the situation up better than any well-written article, any impassioned speech, or in-depth report that I've seen or heard.
It sums the situation up better than any well-written article, any impassioned speech, or in-depth report that I've seen or heard.
Struwwelpeter
Earthling
But when you look at the fuckwits running the government, do you think any of the wrote a spec for the meals?
Humberto
Callooh! Callay!
The Tories would rather keep them 'just about' fed, that is in their view the correct impulse rather than to be seen as too 'generous' and 'rewarding failure' by adequately feeding hungry kids. The best part for them is that they can also profit from the misery they have caused whilst buffing themselves up that they are the workers/strivers/innovators, the ones with the moral fibre to 'make it' by e.g. exploiting hungry desperate families.
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ska invita
back on the other side
probably the most nutritious meal in a can you can get tbf
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
There's a veggie option as wellDelivered by Morrisons for £30
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Let’s be honest. A lot of folk are less likely to be outraged about their money being funnelled into the pockets of Compass bosses and shareholders than they would be if the story was about feckless types pissing direct payments up the wall rather than using the scheme to feed their kids.
You are right about the need to highlight what’s happening here. The problem is that our collective capacity to call this out, to demand action, to force the government and its private sector pals onto the defensive has dimmed. A lot of people seem to be resigned to it. It’s become normalised. It’s become so embedded that some people just assume it’s normal and what the private sector does. Not just in terms of school dinners either; in every facet of the economy and our lives. See for example PPE contracts during the pandemic, see our public services, see the fabric on which communities fucked over rely on etc etc
Another shining achievement of neoliberalism and its hegemony over lives.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Jail's too good for them. You get three square meals in jail. Leave them on some godforsaken rock in the north sea and let them eat seagull shit.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They tend not to issue it as it’s perishable and they need to cater for everyone
It makes sense. No corn beef or some such.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Some of these pics on social media must be fake, surely?
This one, for example:
This one, for example:
These for sure aren't Heinz, though I've seen quite a few pics with the Fray Bentos Meatballs aswell.
Attachments
I got that and spam in my April/may govt shielding boxes...
I'm due another this week if all the referrals happen
But I've just finished the typhoo from the last one., So it wasn't all bad. The tins of meaty stuff is going to somewhere useful once shielding stops again.
There was properly odd stuff in the boxes! A litre of burger king scrambled egg mix with a same day use by date; shedloads of cheap white carbs I can't eat, mouldy carrots and iirc a few biscuits
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I will l update you all on what the next delight contains, if it happens, even though it's not fsm related exactly...
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
The company says the cost is actually £10.50 and not £30.
So, teuchter, you're saying that what was offered was totally adequate and you don't care if children starve to death?
Rashford: Free school meals firm apologises over small parcel
Marcus Rashford says "we must do better" after raising concerns about free school meals packages.
www.bbc.co.uk
So, teuchter, you're saying that what was offered was totally adequate and you don't care if children starve to death?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Skipping meat for a meal won't kill you.
So that hamper is good value in that case then?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Erm, no... I didn't say that. There are plenty of criticisms that could be made about the pictured boxes, but not sure lack of meat in itself is a valid one.
What’s your point?
Anju
Well-Known Member
Absolutely. Also, just giving people random food and presumably expecting them to be grateful is wrong. I was just posting because I was curious whether they had tried to explain or justify the pointless insertion of a profiteering business between the funding and intended recipients.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
That meat isn't a necessary component of a meal, and not providing meat is not in itself a crime. It's healthier to eat little or no meat, providing the other components of your diet are good.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
You'd think it would be cheaper to give a kid a whole onion that to pay someone to chop onions into quarters and wrap them in cling film. Similarly opening tins of tuna and decanting them into cash bags.
Who even knows though. Nothing's so awful that it's beneath the standards of outsourcing companies.
Anju
Well-Known Member
Was just coming here to see if their private school meals had been posted yet, a few more:
Would be interesting to know what they charge for these compared to state school meals.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
probably similar
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Even at £10.50 (assuming its true) there's still a markup of 200% (even more since caterers will get bulk discounts) and I can't believe distribution doubles the cost either. Two further points. Firstly as a father of 4 I can assure you that wouldn't have fed any of mine for very long when they were little (especially Son who could eat like a carthorse). I wouldn't think that's acceptable for mine so I don't think anyone else should accept it either. Secondly apparently the woman who started this was entitled to £30 worth of food vouchers which she hasn't got. She's got £5.22 worth of stuff, Chartwell's have got £5.28 (more than her) and she has been fiddled out of £19.50. Whichever way you try and gloss over it, cheating kids out of meals is about as low as you can get.The company says the cost is actually £10.50 and not £30.
Rashford: Free school meals firm apologises over small parcel
Marcus Rashford says "we must do better" after raising concerns about free school meals packages.www.bbc.co.uk
So, teuchter, you're saying that what was offered was totally adequate and you don't care if children starve to death?
Thora
Differently Ethical
It was a bit fiddly - the school have to email a voucher, then you'd have to go to the voucher website and put in a code, select a supermarket, then they email you another voucher to take to the supermarket. It wasn't all supermarkets - no Aldi or Lidl iirc - and you have to use it at a checkout rather than self service or online.
I had an email from my kid's school this evening saying they're no longer doing the hampers and will be switching to vouchers, but it's a very last minute decision so please give them a few days. And if your child is expecting a free lunch in school tomorrow please send a packed lunch if you can as they're not sure what the food situation will be.
Thora
Differently Ethical
Also, the entitlement to free lunches seems to be for everyone who gets infant universal school meals (like me as I have a 6 year old) as well as those who get income based free school meals. When the school was offering hampers of food you needed to go and collect I didn't ask for one as we don't need it, but if they're offering vouchers I will take one. I wonder if the whole hamper idea was due to them wanting to keep the take up as low as possible.
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