Err, I mean Eric Gates School dinner gate. Or should that be School Dinner Gate? Schooldinner gate? Schooldinnergate? Anyway. Sorry Tories, this isn't going away, it's just going to keep exposing the Tories just like each wave of the Pandemic. Now its gone from starving kids to getting rich off starving kids. Always that extra low for the Tories to stoop, taxpayer exploited of course. Free school meals firm with Tory links shamed over £30 shopping basket The people profiteering off kids' lunches: Dominic Blakemore, Compass CEO - Earns £4.6m a year Paul Walsh, Chartwells old boss - Donated 10k to the Tories. Ian Meakins, Chartwells new boss - Moved last company to tax haven please log in to view this image The parents of children who qualify for free school meals have shared pictures of the small amount of food they’ve been given to last them 10 days. Food parcels have been brought in to replace £30 vouchers given to parents to spend in supermarkets as schools close for remote learning. But one mum valued the contents of her parcel at no more than £5.22, if bought from Asda. She was given two jacket potatoes, a can of beans, eight single cheese slices, a loaf of bread, two carrots, three apples, two Soreen Malt Lunchbox Loaves, three Frubes, some pasta and one tomato. The mum wrote alongside the image: ‘Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.’ These items bought from Asda would cost £5.22 (Picture: RoadsideMum) She added: ‘Public funds were charged £30. I’d have bought this for £5.22. The private company who have the free school meals contract made a good profit here.’ Footballer Marcus Rashford, who successfully lobbied the government into continuing free school meals for children through the summer and Christmas holidays, described the parcel as ‘unacceptable’. Another parent described the parcels as ‘laughable’ (Picture: Marcus Rashford) Another pictured shared by Marcus Rashford showed half a pepper included (Picture: Marcus Rashford) This image was sent to food writer and activist Jack Monroe by a parent in the Midlands He shared several pictures of food parcels parents had sent him, with one including two cans of baked beans, two bananas, half a pepper, several loose slices of bread, one potato, one carrot, two eggs, one onion and two ziplock bags of cheese and pasta. Another image showed three small fruit cartons, four apples, a tin of baked beans, raisins and snacks. The mum who received the parcel noted: ‘This is my picture and what I received. How can you say this is three days worth of food for an eight-year-old? What do I do with a tin of beans, raisins and some snacks? Laughable!’ Some parcels were supplied by private catering company Chartwells, which is part of the food service giant Compass Group. The group’s former chairman, Paul Walsh, was once a member of David Cameron’s business advisory group. Responding to one of the photos, a spokesperson for Chartwells said the amount of food did not ‘reflect the specification of one of our hampers’. They added that they would investigate immediately.
Wait until someone unpicks the free laptop scam. We asked for some for our vulnerable kids - chromebooks at £120 a pop. Instead, we got laptops for which were procured for us by the DfE for £660 each. The company supplying them were set up by a tory donor. Think 100,000 of these at that price. Nice little money earner with no procurement protocols in place as they were removed by the government last year.
It's the year we've landed with a corrupt govt whos stopped caring what people think of their involvement within modern capitalism. This **** has been going on for quite a while involving a multitude of Parties. Boris couldn't give a **** what people think though, vanity PM with no clue what he's doing exposing himself and every other like him for what they really are. He's got brass balls like, pity they're dangling over his brow.
My mate down in Essex got one for his bairn, all set up with the appropriate applications and tools already installed. His kid still hasn't done a single online class as it came with no password or username. Still waiting for the details probibly lost in a wormhole of typical piss poor Tory privatised 'middleman' infrastructure. It's only a plebs child's education though, as unimportant as the food in his belly while Jim and his missus spent a decade paying off the bankers mess(she works for UPS and the tales she's told about this Pandemic is ****ing shocking btw) Bit of background, he's only voted twice in his life the second time for Boris for "Brexit and that". He bemoans the **** show he voted in but that's ok cause 'they're all the same anyway' when addressing the mistake he admits he made at the polling station. He'll never vote again apparently Got to love our Jimmy! The Radged ****!
Absolutely blatant time of ensuring that the stinking tories continue to keep the gravy boat going under any circumstances including making millions off the most vulnerable children in society, I hope they all end up trading places
We used to use Chartwells in all of our schools that we look after, now they are only in one. Now this is the bit I dont understand. The Government give local authorities a price for a FSM, it’s somewhere in the region of £2.50. The LA then set a price for that FSM in their borough, in ours it is around £2.18 and the LA could do what they want with the difference. So a weeks FSM a value is only a maximum of £12.50. If those kids were in school, that is what they would get, paying for staff, electric, gas etc. FSM isn’t to make money, it’s to provide a healthy, nutritional meal, for those who it might be the only cooked meal they receive all week.
Me too mate. I've noticed there's been a change recently. At one time profiteering politicians took care to hide what they were doing ... ... they're now totally shameless and don't even bother to do that.
What amazes me is that they must realise you always get caught eventually and they still keep going, I hate the bent bastards but everybody knows what they are like and yet they voted for them that tells me more about what the alternative was. bloody frightening.
Goes so far beyond politicians though. The more I look around the more I see people who want something for nothing. And I'm not talking about people on benefits. My industry is just putting your hand in someone else's pocket and offering nothing back.
I am a governor at my grandkids school. 6 months ago the Head was promised 100+ pieces of kit for pupils in lockdown. We ended up with 3! My 7 year grandson has a class meeting each morning on Teams, at the most 7 or 8 classmates sign on. There are about half a dozen of his classmates in school, that leaves at least half of the class not connected. There is of course packs to pick up for the pupils at school they of course have to be handed in, not photographed, uploaded and sent in, using Seesaw. My 4 year old granddaughter, (reception class) has had a pack to pick up and using dojo photographed, uploaded and sent in. Although she is not keen on doing school work this morning, she is dressed in her favourite Ella dress and just wants to play!
Our primary has well over 800 kids. 120 classed as vulnerable. We got 7 laptops originally and have had to fight to get more. At least we got the 7 they said they would send. It means they delivered 100% of their promise.
The current Conservative government are doing an excellent job of shooting themselves in the foot. You would think that at least one of them would realise that this plays right into the hands of those that want to propagate the "Tory=evil/Labour=good" myth. A big part of their policy is "closing the gap" between the richest and the poorest but allowing this kind of thing to happen just undermines that. The truth is that outsourcing happens under any government and could be subject to abuse no matter who was running things. The Conservatives have just been really shoddy on keeping an eye on things. While some of the photos of these food parcels clearly depict inadequate supplies there are some doing the rounds that are clearly fake. This doesn't help anyone or anything and just leads to further polarisation in our society.
It’s pretty disgusting if they are all true but can anybody really believe people are getting a food parcel with half a tomato half a pepper and a cheese slice wrapped in cling film.
Some of them, I totally believe. And it is disgusting. That one with a segment of carrot and grated cheese in a coin bag has to be fake though. I'm all for holding the elected government to account for their mistakes. It frightens me though that people can and do make stuff up (and that people believe it) in order to provoke hatred of the government.
I used to work for an IT company that was contracted to government. One of the projects required purchase of desktop PCs which I could procure privately for just under 700 quid but they had to be purchased from an "approved supplier" which meant Dell or HP for nearly 3 times the price.
That goes on in every single business that deals with a third party, why is everybody as corrupt as hell these days.
