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Finally ! Therese Coffey tells it like it is. If you need more money, work longer.

402 replies

SerendipityJane · 23/02/2023 17:28

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64745258

Hurrah for the voice of reason. Now this is the sort of person we need as Prime Minister.

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pigsinoodies · 23/02/2023 19:19

noblegiraffe · 23/02/2023 19:18

Please can all the subsidised food in the Parliament canteens be replaced with turnips?

Like the government have

LondonJax · 23/02/2023 19:20

We could get the kids to plant turnips in all the school playing fields, get them to harvest them and then the canteen can cook them up for school dinners. And there you go, free school meals for everyone. Just a bit of effort on the kids part.

And, as they still need educating, they can do it after school hours. Thereby solving the problem of what to do with the little darlings while mum and dad do their 80 hour weeks. Genius!

Maireas · 23/02/2023 19:20

@4plusthehound
Don't we have Tony Blair to thank for the minimum wage?

newnamethanks · 23/02/2023 19:20

Oh come on, lazy mums. Leave the kids at home when you go out to do your second job. Get a sack of turnips, give the kids a peeler each and tell them to peel the lot before they put themselves to bed. They could have one each before bedtime as a treat and tomorrows turnip dinner will be ready to cook when you get home from Job 1. Do this every night and you might earn enough extra money from Job 2 for half a dozen eggs or a couple of sausages once a week. You know it makes sense.

Dymaxion · 23/02/2023 19:21

@TheDogthatDug that does look lovely, I make DH eat vegtables by adding bacon, works a treat !

Wallaw · 23/02/2023 19:21

RubyTrees · 23/02/2023 19:18

There is a giant field in front of our house which was full of turnips until just last week when they were all eaten by hungry sheep.

Damn them 🐑

@RubyTrees

Those sheeples, always ahead of the curve!

AbsoluteYawns · 23/02/2023 19:22

blacksax · 23/02/2023 17:40

And these magic jobs are... where, exactly?

I am sick to bloody death of these fuckwitted Tories. They know sod all about what it is like for people working their fingers to the bone for NMW. They do not have a fucking clue what it is like in the real world.

Hear Hear.

JimMoriarty · 23/02/2023 19:22

SerendipityJane · 23/02/2023 18:49

No wonder the UK is in the state is is when people trying to help are treated with such disrespect.

Are you retired?

Choconut · 23/02/2023 19:23

Is it just me that struggles to even find turnips - and when I do they're soft and not actually up to much?

Thatcatisdrivingmenuts · 23/02/2023 19:23

Anyway, at least now were clear on what the Tories planned for us after Brexit! More work, and turnips! 😄

DotAndCarryOne2 · 23/02/2023 19:23

JimMoriarty · 23/02/2023 19:22

Are you retired?

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No, but her brain obviously is !!

cakeorwine · 23/02/2023 19:24

I don't think I even know what to do with turnips.

You couldn't make this up at the moment

jgw1 · 23/02/2023 19:25

Maireas · 23/02/2023 19:20

@4plusthehound
Don't we have Tony Blair to thank for the minimum wage?

Helpfully a previous poster or two has already debunked that myth on this thread, just scroll back a few pages.

Inkpotlover · 23/02/2023 19:25

OldChinaJug · 23/02/2023 17:44

I'm a teacher. I work 7.30 - 6pm at school.

I've got a first class degree and an MA.

I'm not on a low income - M5 - but I'm a single parent so a single income household.

I'd like to know her solution for me.

Well, clearly you should be leaving your children home alone to put in a few hours at another workplace, or sending them up chimneys for a few extra quid instead. Slackers!

Runaway1 · 23/02/2023 19:27

noblegiraffe · 23/02/2023 19:18

Please can all the subsidised food in the Parliament canteens be replaced with turnips?

Yes! Please start a petition

LakieLady · 23/02/2023 19:28

Wallaw · 23/02/2023 17:53

@OldChinaJug

So you're done by 6? That gives you a half hour to get to your second job. You do a quick 6 hour NMW shift, home by, say 1:30 am, a couple hours of sleep and then off to teaching! I don't know how old your child (children?) are but getting their own meals and themselves off to school will pay dividends in self-sufficiency later! Kids today are way too pampered. And just think of the money you'll save by not having time for an evening meal.

Good thing Therese isn't such a snowflake!

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Don't forget you'll pay tax and NI on the princely £69.50 you earn though, so you'll only end up with around £46.

And if you're poor, you're probably on UC, so they'll deduct 55% of that from your next UC payment. You'll be around £20 better off for grafting half the fucking night.

I wonder if Coffey would work 6 hours for £20?

Maireas · 23/02/2023 19:28

jgw1 · 23/02/2023 19:25

Helpfully a previous poster or two has already debunked that myth on this thread, just scroll back a few pages.

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Thank you, and sorry - couldn't be arsed scrolling.

Sunriseinwonderland · 23/02/2023 19:28

Fucking hell, I'm a medical professional, I work 6 days a week every week or I can't make ends meet. I'm tired beyond belief.
Now she wants me to eat turnips.
Our modern day Marie Antionette needs her head chopping off!!!

Longtimeloiterer · 23/02/2023 19:29

Christ no. What for...stating the bleeding obvious.

What else has she got to bring to the table as part from being utterly charmless.

MTIH · 23/02/2023 19:29

I'd be breaking the terms of my contract ( local government, education), for my one job, which states ‘and work as many hours as the service demands’.

I'd be sacked Therese!

Maireas · 23/02/2023 19:30

Sunriseinwonderland · 23/02/2023 19:28

Fucking hell, I'm a medical professional, I work 6 days a week every week or I can't make ends meet. I'm tired beyond belief.
Now she wants me to eat turnips.
Our modern day Marie Antionette needs her head chopping off!!!

You can't even make a bit of extra cash now as a medic selling body parts. It's political correctness gone mad.

HowardKirksConscience · 23/02/2023 19:31

Therese Coffey may well have private healthcare but when the cigar-smoking, wine-guzzling, turnip-shaped Tory has a stroke and expects to go to A&E after someone calls 999, it'll be the NHS she's using.

RubyTrees · 23/02/2023 19:31

Wallaw · 23/02/2023 19:21

@RubyTrees

Those sheeples, always ahead of the curve!

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Maybe they're smarter than we think!

PerkingFaintly · 23/02/2023 19:32

I recognise the username so I'm confident the OP is being sarcastic.

Can't bear to watch people getting even more stressed thinking she might be in earnest...

Flowers to everyone struggling.

Dymaxion · 23/02/2023 19:33

Can I just point out that sending children down the mines is no longer a feasible option, up a wind turbine however is a goer. They love a climbing wall and it would tick a lot of boxes in primary science ?