Jacob
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Why don't you pop in and have a look - see if you can help with a few more useful suggestions?
Who has taken them!
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I may pop in and get some potatoes later, is it all just free, or do you have to bring along 6 or seven kids?
Jacob
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Go for it! Are you skint again? While you are there you could ask flying haggis's question to save him having to embarrass himself.
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Yes, as you know, a director of a company is always penniless.
What do you have to do to prove you are entitled to use food banks?
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Jacob
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Don't companies go bust occasionally?
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Yes absolutely. it's tough times at present, hence my post, often sailing very close to the wind in present circumstances. I think you read my post and assumed I was bragging, far from it. Materials up 350%, wages up, deliveries down, stock levels low .......... difficult times.Don't companies go bust occasionally?
John Brown
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https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/help-if-on-a-low-income/using-a-food-bank/I think it's a bit more involved than just rolling up and asking for potatoes.
Jacob
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Don't let that put you off Bobby. I'm sure they have plenty of experience of people suddenly falling on hard times.
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You don't just go willy nilly to take the food. You are given a voucher for each specific visit/delivery appointment you are given by the DWP. You also have to accept what you are given even if you are unable to actually eat most of the cheap/low quality things included. I ended up with 42 tins of the same flavour soup and highly processed tinned food that I am physically unable to digest. In the end I just stopped the deliveries as it would be better for the food to go to someone who could actually eat it.
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Good to see you so gleeful. Rather stereotypical socialist approach there Jacob, wanting to see people fall to the same level rather than raise people out of it.Don't let that put you off Bobby. I'm sure they have plenty of experience of people suddenly falling on hard times.
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Thank you.
Jacob
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Not at all. Glad to know that you would have somewhere to go for potatoes. Also I'm sure they'd lend a sympathetic ear to any other problems you might have.
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Funny use of the laughing emoji then. If I told you other stuff which had gone wrong last week you'd have fits of giggles.
Anyway, carry on like this and the thread will be closed, politics and all that, so I'll leave you to revel in it.
Jacob
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Brexir brexit brexit
Droogs
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That's exactly it, all to do with gravity innit. It's so big things spontaniously spring into being right where you need them, just like the big bang.
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I'm sure you're blaming everything on Brexit Jacob, good for you, I'm a little bit more open minded. Still you delight in it, I know the misfortune of others tittillates you.
Amazing France has no shortages, just googled and it looks like they have similar worldwide shortages of most stuff. I can't see why France would have access to say semi conductors and the rest of the world hasn't. Even China is running out of stuff, Brexit hey.
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John Brown
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I think you meant "Bindi? - Bidet? -Brexit!!
I started a school exchange in the mid 1950's, and the German lad and I became good friends and kept in touch. By and large, at least until reunification, similar jobs paid much better over there, than here. No one claimed the EU was perfect, but to " exit the large integrated market of the EU to protect the (UK) workforce" was not something I recall seeing on the Brexit Bus (which Private Eye has waiting in a long fuel queue...) Indeed, a global UK that they keep banging on about is a much more fragile vessel than a global EU, which has a bigger internal market than the USA. It's also capable of raising investment on a US scale, which the UK cannot, alone.
Brexiteers are fond of complaining about "remoaners". They should remember that the vote was quite close; it was in no way an overwhelming victory for the brexit brigade. For any chance of pulling together, hard brexiteers will need to relax their stance. Having shot ouselves in the foot once, at present we seem intent on disabling the other.
A covid enquiry will probably be a whitewash, if it ever happens. However it is already clear that those in charge were aware, some years before the outbreak, that we were ill prepared for a pandemic - and did nothing about it. Just compare UK covid death rates with South Korea, for example. 1,000's killed by government ineptitude.
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In the UK heyday, late and post industrial revolution, the UK got rich at the expense of the Empire. We bought their raw stuff cheap and sold them back finished goods dear. It paid for the biggest navy in the world, there to keep johnny foreigner in his rightful place. Somone said we had lost an Empire, and were still looking for a role in the world. We don't seem to have found it. It probably lies beyond the next election, so I am not sure anyone is looking for it either,
Brexiteers are fond of complaining about "remoaners". They should remember that the vote was quite close; it was in no way an overwhelming victory for the brexit brigade. For any chance of pulling together, hard brexiteers will need to relax their stance. Having shot ouselves in the foot once, at present we seem intent on disabling the other.
A covid enquiry will probably be a whitewash, if it ever happens. However it is already clear that those in charge were aware, some years before the outbreak, that we were ill prepared for a pandemic - and did nothing about it. Just compare UK covid death rates with South Korea, for example. 1,000's killed by government ineptitude.
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In the UK heyday, late and post industrial revolution, the UK got rich at the expense of the Empire. We bought their raw stuff cheap and sold them back finished goods dear. It paid for the biggest navy in the world, there to keep johnny foreigner in his rightful place. Somone said we had lost an Empire, and were still looking for a role in the world. We don't seem to have found it. It probably lies beyond the next election, so I am not sure anyone is looking for it either,
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