£27k on organic food from Daylesford - our dear PM

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What do we think of this?

Sorry it's the Mail - if anyone has seen it covered elsewhere please share the link, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9606217/Butler-smuggled-27-000-organic-takeaways-No-10-paid-wife-Tory-donor.html

I agree it is expensive .However I seem to recall it was the wife of a wealthy Tory Donor who supplied this? DM seem to castigate BJ on one hand ,expensive home decor ,pricey organic food .Yet are a very right wing paper! Time to make up their minds? Different PMs have different ideas .Loathed MT yet she made no changes to DS at all and kept well within her budget. likewise TM and DC .Whether or not he accepts food from Tory Donors presumably within rules ,He has at least allowed free school meals for the poorest children, after Marcus Rashfords excellent campaign .Got our Vaccine Levels to world class /envy of the free world, and carried on as PM even though he had been ill with Covid himself .Before anyone accuses me of being a Tory Voter ,I dont personally care for either JC or KS .Andy Burnham would have been a superb Labour leader IMO and I would have voted for him like a shot!

@ncgy

The problem isn't the food. The problem is who is paying for it 🤦‍♀️

Thought I was missing something but thank you!

Who is paying for 'some' of it.

Read the article

A very rich person’s equivalent of a food hamper when you’re ill. A nice gesture from Lady B. But £18,000? What was in those deliveries?

How can people not see that this, and the flat renovation is a problem.

Nothing in life is free. If he accepts undeclared gifts he is beholden to that person.

Didn't the media and the frothers learn from wallpaper gate? Voters don't really care. They like his policies, or at least hate them least of all the options. He's generallybseen to be doing a reasonable job. If he isn't then attack the policies stop these pointless, virtue signalling personal attacks there's so many now any genuine ones will be lost. These stupid personal attacks make it look like there's nothing genuine to attack they are backfiring badly with voters.

I am astounded that people think this is OK. It is part of a wider pattern where people like the Prime Minister accept gifts and funding and backing from ultra-wealthy "friends" who expect then to have laws and contracts go their way in return. It is a form of corruption.

Look at the PPE contracts etc that went to Tory cronies in "VIP lane" whilst ignoring solid British companies with experience and track record of manufacturing medical grade products. We have a government which has enabled cynical profiteering whilst shrugging and "letting the bodies pile high". Twenty. Seven. Thousand. Pounds. in 8 months.

Says who @Whinginadeville? I voted Tory in the past & I'm very disappointed in Boris for a number of reasons including this. I don't think it has to been an either/or.

@Caspianberg

Can you imagine the uproar if the prime minister was late to press conference as was stuck in a queue at Tesco.

Bozo has been late for pretty much every news conference yet. Shows the contempt he has for the public as well as illustrating his lack of organisation if he can't even attend a conference he's had arranged for him on time. Reminds me of my line manager who is also a selfish arsehole.

Oh, this is going to be on of those threads.

Can you imagine the uproar if the prime minister was late to press conference as was stuck in a queue at Tesco

No I genuinely can't

I can’t get worked up about this either. I’d imagine his job alone let alone him having covid badly and a new born saw him have little free time so he had food delivered.

Plenty of SAHPs are advised to get a cleaner, book childcare etc.

Accepting a gift from someone doesn’t make a person beholden to them.

This from March Tatler quoting the Daily Mail...

www.tatler.com/article/boris-johnson-carrie-symonds-daylesford-hamper-luxury-food-deliveries-downing-street

Accepting a gift from someone doesn’t make a person beholden to them.*

Parliamentary rules would disagree as would general corruption related measures. Any gifts must be disclosed by Boris is a register, this didn’t happen. That’s the problem.

The fact that people don’t get this when it has been repeatedly explained on this thread already perhaps illustrates why the electorate a large don’t care.

@BetterThanKleenex

I hate Boris, this isn't why. He's the PM, he can buy whatever food he likes. He's done much worse that should be focussed on, rather than what type of ready meal he and his family eat.

Yes he can, when he pays for it

‘PM gets posh food delivered from overpriced shop for rich people’ isn’t a particularly huge issue. I think the cost of the food is obscene but if he wants to pay for it then whatevz.

The issue is that this food has been gifted, they have collectively gone to great lengths to hide that fact. All gifts should be declared, just like any public servant. Once a month I have to record any ‘gifts’ I receive through work.

And when the PM has to be forced to do the right thing re: meals for children that’s a huge problem.

In isolation these stories aren’t super juicy, but they add up to a story about a man who wants to get as much as he can for free, and doesn’t care about whether his citizens can afford to eat.

If he doesn't have the money for organic ready meals he needs to budget properly.

He's a skint freeloader taking gifts from people who will expect something in return.

Parliamentary rules would disagree as would general corruption related measures. Any gifts must be disclosed by Boris is a register, this didn’t happen. That’s the problem.

Yep

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It’s another example of the Prime Minister accepting expensive freebies that he shouldn’t. Holidays, wallpaper, food. It’s cronyism. If there were nothing wrong with it the food deliveries wouldn’t have been put in unbranded bags.

meanwhile...

So what if he accepts bribes?

What is the issue? Surely it doesn't matter to a degree who donates what, but they should declare it. If he didn't why not? I suspect the real reason why not is that he is utterly incompetent but don't quote me on that.

Nauseating pair of liggers.

if it was OK, why go to so much trouble to hide the fact that Daylesford was donating the food?

Because then when it get's uncovered, as it surely will, it looks so much worse.

It's an issue because it came to him, at cost price, from a prominent party donor and he and his office went to lengths to conceal it. It dismays me that some people don't understand the issues here, the need for someone in Johnson's role not just to be, but to be seen to be, above being subject to influence by partydonors. It seems to be a mixture of stupidity, as here, and not caring because it's their tribe.