Labour isn't working - Thread 16

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A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government. 💙

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Well seeing as we're all going to be skint this Christmas, better dig out my apron and recipe books. I can't be doing with online recipes and need my ingredients stained old books.

I'm skint now. I'm just dreaming about lights but I would to get rid of the LED ones. Well not get rid, but have a nice classy set of beautiful soft colours in exquisite cases. I am still in the world of the illustrations in the Night Before Christmas book. I used to stare for hours at those pages.

A few pages behind but the mince pies thing 🤢 my husband buys them in bulk (future PAYE tax dodge?) then freezes them. So he can eat them all year round. There is a full American fridge freezer in the garage for such shenanigans. He’s surprisingly not overweight. 😬 I can’t stand them!

Sir Keir Starmer threw his support behind Ms Reeves at Cabinet, telling ministers that the Budget, on Nov 26, would be “a very significant moment”. But he left little time to debate the controversial move before discussion was moved on.

Funny that.

I'm still alive. Getting into the retro Christmas vibes.

So: Brandy snaps with cream and maybe a glass of Bailey's. Certainly colcannon with a creamy prune sauce.

We also have smoked salmon slices with Irish wheaten bread.

Lots of defrosted frozen winter berries on merangue and a dollop of good vanilla ice cream.

Plus the obligitary clementine.

Just asking yes we will all be skint ,however we won't be bunged up and we also won't notice much as we drink are garage booze down

However as we set our shoulders to the wheel in yet another hideous dark winter of financial crisis, we can console ourselves that we will be making a minuscule dent in a never ending gargantuan black hole of debt .as we suffer.

I've got my inlaws for Christmas this year and they've messed it up for me a bit. They are bringing venison, and while I don't dislike it, I prefer duck or chicken or 3 bird roast.

Ummm Irish wheaten bread ,sounds interesting ,is it like rye ?
Baileys sounds good paired with brandy snaps but where has the bottle been procured from ...😱

My garage! 😬🤣

My husband always makes a salmon en croute on christmas eve. I am often too pissed to eat it after I've been wrapping presents for hours. I always say I just want picky bits like cheeses and pickles

🤣🤣🤣 I was going to say the same.

Can you roast a second meat? Even if it's a chicken. Venison can be quite rich, can't it?

I do three meats (lamb, beef and pork). God knows how I did it with a single oven in the old house! Very glad to have 2 ovens here.

Irish wheaten bread. Food of the gods. If I find Irish bread I buy in bulk and stuff into the chest freezer in the garage. I've a few sticks of white pudding in there now come to think of it

I also love Veda bread but you can't buy it in England. Irish wheaten bread and potato bread - Irwins in Waitrose.

Venison what a faff. An aunt used to get a big sailors needle some string, melt beef fat, keep dipping the string and pushing it through the raw venison to internally baste it.

Id love a goose from the farm but I'm not catering so it'll probably be a turkey.

Speaking of food...

But detailed findings by Persuasion UK this week suggest there is a willingness among voters to forgive ministers for breaking their tax promises if this leads to tangible improvements in the cost of living and public services.

Steve Akehurst, the director of Persuasion UK, which carried out the research, said: “To the essay question of, ‘how unpopular would it be?’, the answer is not popular. But you are choosing between different flavours of shit sandwich.”

“It’s a question of what’s least unpopular: is it raising taxes or is it failing on public services and the cost of living? While you do pay a penalty for raising taxes you promised not to, it’s lower than the penalty for not fixing the NHS, crime or indeed not reducing child poverty.

GUARDIAN

Howling 😂😂😂😂

Your dh and mine would get on well me thinks. I am NOT telling mine that you can freeze mince pies though. He is unaware, and I'd prefer it to stay that way 😁.

Yes we could. That's a good idea. Just trying to work out the logistics of cooking it all at once. Annoyingly, one of our ovens doesn't work. Hasn't for years. No idea why we never got it fixed. It's one of those double ovens, but only one works. There'll be 8 of us. Dh and I and our kids and dh's parents and his brother. The kids have insisted on double helpings of pigs in blankets as apparently there were not enough last time we hosted.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but I adore bread sauce!

Mine makes two dozen at a time so he's pretty much cured by Christmas. 😉

Come January 2nd he'll be walking through the door with packs of hot cross buns though 🙄

That's fair enough. I can take that point of view.
Unfortunately, I don't trust this govt to improve anything with the increased revenue from tax rises.

Slow cooker for one of the meats.

Sloe gin might be nice to glug in. I often do.

I make Delia's bread sauce

MIL can cook it! I know what you mean about wanting a goose, but unless you're hosting, it's a huge amount of meat. I love cold cuts on boxing day and a curry or stew on 27th, but I'm done after that and just want pasta!

I make two dozen a time too. We freeze them and eat them throughout the season and again in June when some appear from the bottom of a freezer drawer.

Must buy some unsalted butter.

@Catatemyhomework, it's the texture of bread sauce I can't cope with.

I want a Chinese curry