The chosen crony supplier wouldn’t be able to take a cut. Or, certain MPs would accuse the families of exchanging the vouchers for drugs/alcohol/cigarettes/sex etc, rather than acknowledge that families are genuinely going without food and need support.
It's even more obscene when you consider that there ought to be discounts and economies of scale at play. If they are bulk-purchasing foodstuffs, they ought to be able to get them for a lower price than you or I at a grocery store...that's the very basis of purchasing wholesale and why you'd contract with a company for this service*. *In an unusual situation where you were contracting with them to actually provide value, rather than offer an opportunity to skim millions from the public coffers.
I'd check the sell by dates as well, those bananas don't exactly look freshly picked. I know that The Prince's Trust get donations from the supermarkets of stuff nearing expiry dates.
Some reactions here https://www.theguardian.com/educati...s-rashford-condemns-free-school-meal-packages In response, the Department for Education tweeted: “We have clear guidelines and standards for food parcels, which we expect to be followed.” The children’s minister, Vicky Ford, said she would be “urgently” look into the matter. Chartwells, the company which she said provided the parcel meant to last for 10 days, said it would investigate. It said: “Thank you for bringing this to our attention, this does not reflect the specification of one of our hampers.” Keir Starmer described the situation as “a disgrace”. The Labour leader tweeted: “The images appearing online of woefully inadequate free school meal parcels are a disgrace. Where is the money going? This needs sorting immediately so families don’t go hungry through lockdown.” "But the local government minister Simon (the chocolate starfish) Clarke, who voted against giving vouchers to help feed children during the school holidays, citing the billions the government had put into the welfare system during the pandemic, appeared to accuse the England star of “seeking to whip a storm up on Twitter”.
He is turning in his grave so fast that they've connected a turbine to his coffin, and it is powering the National Grid
It is reassuring to know that we are in the 21st century and that the inhuman treatment of the poor in the 19th century will never be seen again. It is astonishing that today the lead on humanity and compassion towards poverty stricken children comes from a footballer and not from our political leaders. please log in to view this image
Good thing we have a world beating procurement process. .... and back in the real world the Compass Group CEO is a Conservative party donor, quelle suprise. Might be worth monitoring their profit margin this year. Aside from the fact they are so resistant to supplying proper support to children, it is just straight up theft from the taxpayer.
What is truly astonishing is that there are children in poverty. Scandalous, and all the levelling-up talk in the world cannot deflect the blame from years of Tory government (or Tory-lite from 1997-2010!).
Maga supporters really are the scum of the earth... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55631498
Stephen Colbert is one of the most thoroughly likeable people in the media, and to see him as angry as that is sobering.
Better start getting used to a less then "World Beating" postal service now that the recently departed head of the government’s coronavirus Test and Trace smartphone app has been named as the chief executive of the Royal Mail. Simon Thompson has no experience running a publicly listed company but since when did such things matter in this new ultra right wing Utopia?
For those on mute: "This is ridiculous. I've been found out as a fraud and a liar, but I want to act the victim now as I realise that after the 20th Jan, I am a normal citizen and am subject to the rules of normal people. I don't want to go to jail and I know I probably am so I will try to deflect the blame as much as i can"
