I fucking hate the tories, they are so thick.
When they make patronising comments in regards to preparing a meal for 30p do they not realise people already do these kind of things and are being asked to off set mahoosive energy bills which the government allowed to spiral out of control.
I will patronise tory MPs and ministers, why did you decide to spunk our money and pay over the odds for PPE which arrived late to help fund your pals in the industry? Could they not have settled for a quarter of the cost for PPE as opposed to ripping off the government. Why did you also write off millions in Covid fraud claims?
F*cking clowns.
What they don't recognise is that it's time that matters, not cost. If I'm in the office then I only get home at about half 6 to 7ish. I then have to cook and for some nights we'll just have something out the freezer or a ready meal which costs more but otherwise it'll be going on 9 by the time we've cooked fresh, eaten and cleaned up etc.
Convenience food does cost more but that's because convenience buys you time which is time you don't have when you have to spend a couple of hours in the kitchen. The thing is we use this time and are healthier for it, we go to the gym and go for walks but if I had to cook a full meal then I couldn't so that's the choice that convenience buys you.
We don't have kids but if you have kids and both parents work then cooking fresh every night must be impossible. Add in the extreme cost of childcare alongside having to work every hour to pay for it and it just gets worse. Some people therefore literally don't have time to cook let alone do they have the money for it.
My mate at work gave up working on Fridays because losing a days pay worked out less than the price he pays to send his daughter to nursery. Basically, work is just not paying enough for most people to live the lives that they want. It can't be that we just say well tough peasant, a life of grim is all you're allowed.
I honestly seriously doubt that these MP's are getting home at 7pm like me and then are chopping up the onions etc. Hasn't Boris famously being spending thousands on takeaways? No doubt in London if you have a few bob you can just order in your favourite restaurant anyway. They literally have no idea because they aren't living the life that everyone else is. How can you make life better for people if you have no idea about what live they are living?
The cost of living increase will make this worse, not because people will struggle but because they'll lose even more time as some will need to work more, adjust their lifestyles etc and those adjustments will never be for the better or make them happier or healthier.
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