Saved for austerity
Can instructions on how to wipe your bottom properly be very far away?
Britons must stop wasting food in an effort to help combat rising living costs, Gordon Brown has said as he travelled to the G8 summit in Japan.
One does have real sympathy with the argument (anybody else here old enough to remember bubble and squeak on a Monday?) but Brown seems to underestimate the entrenched self-centred wankerdom he’s going to have to beat to get his message across let alone acted on.
Hell, it’s so much easier scraping that half tin of beans into the bin than putting them in a bowl covered with clingfilm and into the fridge, isn’t it? You can imagine some people opening a fresh tin and emptying it straight into the bin just for spite.
The PM said “unnecessary” purchases were contributing to price rises, and urged people to plan meals in advance and store food properly.
The thing is, in effect, it’s been Brown who’s told us up until now to be so wasteful. It’s all the money we’ve been squittering for the last ten years that’s propped up his so-called economic miracle. And now he’s telling us to ignore his previous advice and get used to the good times being over. No return to boom and bust, eh Gordon?
Very soon somebody’s going to evoke ‘austerity’ and ‘rationing’ in connection with Brown’s calls for thrift. As if what he needed was to be portrayed even more as a dour, fun-sucking killjoy. The skies are grey, we’re being told we’ll have to work till we drop and now, as the spin will have it, the miserable bastard is telling us to eat leftovers.
And then a reporter is going to find out just how much food Parliament throws away each week. Or how much Number 10 chucks. Or how much was tossed at the last state banquet. And then Gordon will be made to look like a jackass. Again.
Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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And still the Labour party will insist he’s the only man for the job and refuse to do the only thing that has a remote chance of saving them from a decade or more in opposition - get rid of the man.
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“Very soon somebody’s going to evoke ‘austerity’ and ‘rationing’ in connection with Brown’s calls for thrift.”
Mr Eugenides just did …
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This has to be the most spot on article I’ve read in a long while. Sweepstake on how long it will be until that reporter finds out the dirt on number 10’s food waste?
I have to say it’s pretty audacious for Brown to tell everyone to stop wasting food when the last deputy prime minister insists he would rather vomit it all back up again.
He is not wrong in some ways. I find wasting food immoral.
But as a solution to the nation’s current ills, his advice is pathetic. Nor is he the man to give such advice. Brown has wasted more of my money than I ever have.
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Christ, Pink Floyd: The Wall. Now there’s a film I’ve never been able to face a second time.
I didn’t even make it the end of this clip.
I saw it a second time a couple of years ago in a hotel room in Tromso. It was past midnight, the sun was still out and I couldn’t sleep…
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*cough*
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Blimey, that was quick
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I agree with you but I use to love bubble and squeak or fry up as we called it.
I do hope Mr and Mrs Brown ate every last bit of their ’six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner’ today.
Greedy bastards.
See today’s Page 3 for partial fulfilment of your prophecy.
(Remarkably, there’s also an article and an editorial on the subject in today’s Sun, and both echo the concerns of the semi-naked lady on Page 3. Where do they find these topless models who are so switched on to politics?)
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Day one: “we’re on the brink of a recession” says the press
Day two: Gordon Brown tells us to eat up all our food.
Day three: David Cameron makes a speech about personal responsibility.
Could there be some connection?