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You should work more hours if you can't afford food. And eat turnips.

54 replies

EerieSilence · 24/02/2023 16:04

I can't believe this is happening. This is so outrageous, I wonder how come people are not on the streets.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/food-shortages-supermarkets-jobs-coffey-b2288054.html

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Squamata · 24/02/2023 16:07

These are the sunlit brexit uplands, work every waking hour and feed your family turnips. She's like a Dickensian villain.

Moonshine86 · 24/02/2023 16:08

They don’t have time to be out on the streets, too busy working second jobs to be able to afford the turnips!

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/02/2023 16:12

What if you don't like bloody turnips 😕

LexMitior · 24/02/2023 16:14

This was actually predicted to a degree before Brexit and it was all scaremongering apparently.

Enjoy your turnip surprise!

ssd · 24/02/2023 16:15

She never looks short of food

EerieSilence · 24/02/2023 16:16

LexMitior · 24/02/2023 16:14

This was actually predicted to a degree before Brexit and it was all scaremongering apparently.

Enjoy your turnip surprise!

I was absolutely horrified. They treat people with zero respect and dignity, it's worse than the treatment of the Victorian poor.

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LetThemEatTurnips · 24/02/2023 16:17

I was Shock when I read her comments and changed my username to mark the occasion.

She's a proper prat.

PandasAreUseless · 24/02/2023 16:22

It's clearly terrible. Bring back 2019.
But if you work part time through choice (only), then increasing your hours to earn more is one of the tools that you might use to mitigate the pain of this crisis.
I know a self- employed tradesman for instance, who complains about being skint, but choses to work only about 20 hours a week to free up a lot of hobby time. I appreciate this is absolutely not the norm though.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 24/02/2023 16:24

Apparently we as the British never riot on the streets - by the looks of things anyway!

I quite like turnips and we never had decent tomatoes here anyway, but that’s far from the point!

SweetSakura · 24/02/2023 16:24

It seems Coffey's appointed Baldrick as her chief advisor

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 24/02/2023 16:24

Bring back 2009, not 2019!

Hillarious · 24/02/2023 16:25

Eating seasonal food shouldn't quickly be derided, but turnips are a bit difficult to stomach, as are the other comments by Coffey.

tatteddear · 24/02/2023 16:26

I actually really like turnips and other root veg so this is making me fancy a beef stew with all of the above in. Except we can't afford the beef really Grin
And in fairness she has a point (I assume that's what she was driving at somehow, however utterly inappropriately she made it) that we should all be eating more seasonally. It shouldn't be the norm to be eating salad in February for all sorts of reasons.

That said we are used to having stuff on demand. Not everyone wants winter veg or likes it. Plus she fails to mention, or more likely probably doesn't know as I don't think she has ever been across a brief in her life, that we don't really even grow that much root veg here now anyway-it wasn't cost effective for the farmers, who weren't Helped by the government, and it's Labour intensive and very dependent on weather and soil. Most of them have switched to more lucrative wheat or animal food growing. If everyone suddenly actually did start eating Turnips there very quickly wouldn't be enough of them either.

The sooner we vote this bunch of Dolls heads out the better. I can't think of one thing that works well in this country at the moment. It shameful. And anyone who voted for them again is complicit in my book.

SomeCommonThing · 24/02/2023 16:26

I work 40 hours a week. There are no more hours in my role.
I could take a second job but who would see the benefit of that? HMRC. Certainly not me.

She can shove those turnips up her arse.

anonymous98 · 24/02/2023 16:27

Indeed, she's almost comically disagreeable (not comical unfortunately because lives are being ruined by these policies).

GlassBunion · 24/02/2023 16:27

Turnips!

Honestly.

LexMitior · 24/02/2023 16:27

You know actually the best turnips are the smaller French ones with butter.

Nicer than the British turnip

Pardon44 · 24/02/2023 16:28

ssd · 24/02/2023 16:15

She never looks short of food

I thought exactly the same. Maybe she should share.

AdventFridgeOfShame · 24/02/2023 16:28

The turnips have bee in cold store since November, they are looking a bit wrinkly, they are ready to be fed to the pigs.

Next weeks announcement: eat nettle tops, keep a pig down stairs to help with heating and bring home the bacon.

If we'd gone into WW2 with Ms Coffey in charge, the nation would have starved.

Botw1 · 24/02/2023 16:28

Well on the face of it she's not wrong is she?

I mean I know we could actually pay people a living wage and tackle the housing and energy crisis that is making billionaires richer but in absence of that, if you need more money you generally have to work for it

Dolallytats · 24/02/2023 16:29

Can't find a turnip in my area for love nor money!! Always a turnipless stew :(

Longtimeloiterer · 24/02/2023 16:30

Coffey's an old bat from the Anne Widdicombe school of politicking. The least said the better.

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/02/2023 16:31

Work more hours, pay more taxes 🙄

AuntieEntity · 24/02/2023 16:35

Longtimeloiterer · 24/02/2023 16:30

Coffey's an old bat from the Anne Widdicombe school of politicking. The least said the better.

Completely agree. Looking forward to Coffey's rehabilitation on the Strictly Come Dancing stage this year. They'll probably have her dancing with Anton Du Beke, dressed as a turnip.

ilovesooty · 24/02/2023 16:35

She is loathsome.

Don't forget that she also spent over 6K of taxpayers ' money having a balcony built outside her office during her brief tenure as Health Secretary, so that she didn't have to shift off her arse and walk outside the building to smoke.