£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

@Springchickpea

‘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.

Totally agree with this.

It's lots of pieces of a jigsaw that are not making a pretty picture.

And I voted for this shite 🤦🏼‍♀️

Couldn't give a shit. Strange that's it's in the paper and even more strange that anyone should care (IMO)

Not giving a shit is one thing but questioning why it's a story in the first place. How depressing that this is the level of intelligence for some of the population 😭

It's just beyond me why people 'don't give a shit'. I would like to know what they would give a shit about?

It's attitudes ike that, that means apathy in anything our Government does is unquestioned.
Scary.

*apathy TO anything

.”.. but had to be shamed into providing free school meals to families living in poverty. And who paid for them? Should the PM be accepting generous gifts (c £780 per week!!!) without declaring them? Influence and favours in return, making the govt beholden to their paymasters? If it was bundles of cash in brown paper bags would it still be "fine"?”
This ^
But don’t worry, he isn’t paying WE are!

@NewMatress

Rich man buys expensive food shocker.

There doesn't seem to be any suggestion that "we" have paid for it . They do need to sort out the Tory donor thing though.

It seems he is not rich though, clearly, so it is really 'desperate man in position of power has expensive food bought for him by mystery donor'

Who would want to eat daylesford food exclusively for 8 months ,
I’ve been a few times to their shop on Pimlico, nothing looked fresh.

Daylesdord is overpriced crap.

Dreadful. The flat redecoration, the holiday, the food. He seems to have zero integrity. So un-statesman like.

End child food poverty petition debate in parliament on 24 May. Hope an opposition MP raises the Daylesford bung in this context. Let's see. Fear it's a faint hope.

@midsomermurderess

It's not a matter of 'not bring good enough'. It's silly and irritating.

If you find stuff on MN silly and irritating you are in the wrong place my friend. What makes you so special?

@FinallyFluid

There are a pair of them in it, but the best comment I read somewhere called her Carrie - Antionette. That made me chortle.

It doesn’t make me chortle at all, it’s pure misogyny Blame her for his behaviour

There is an expression, whose origin I do not know, "our own dear queen" - the style of my post was simply a parody of that. Sorry if you don't like it midsomermurderess but there we are. Our sentiments about the issue under discussion are broadly similar however.

I think they are both dreadful. Symonds is not responsible for Johnson's bad behaviour but she is responsible for her own. It is not misogyny to consider her lacking in propriety alongside Johnson.

The allusion is to "How very different is the home life of our own dear queen" which seemed appropriate in the Daylesford context.

And I agree that Carrie is equally culpable - she's the worst kind of champagne environmentalist. She should have known it was inappropriate and "Alex" should have too.

@picturesandpickles

I think they are both dreadful. Symonds is not responsible for Johnson's bad behaviour but she is responsible for her own. It is not misogyny to consider her lacking in propriety alongside Johnson.

Yes they are BOTH dreadful but she does seem to get more than her share of the blame. Theres a subtle “she made him do it, poor man” in a lot of the press reports.

Boris's foodbank
(The only acceptable handouts according to the elite, are the ones mired in corruption and secrecy 😉).

They appear to deserve one another and thus be well matched. 'Another couple saved'.

I actually feel bad for Lulu Lytle, I bet that’s not the kind of publicity she wants for her business, she spent years building a very elusive brand, only for Boris and Carrie to make it sound John lewisy

Boris lies
Boris doesn't give a monkeys about anything much apart from number one and will do as he pleases to promote that end.
Shocked. No.
Pissed off the people keep voting for this.
Salt for slugs? Yes, very.

That he was cavorting with Carrie while his then wife was being treated for cancer raised my eyebrows.

There is nothing honorable about him.