Members of the public are speaking out against Rishi Sunak’s offer of vouchers supporting half the price of eating out – pointing out that people need to be able to afford the other half of the cost before they can use it at all.
It’s an upper-middle-class jolly that won’t help people who rely on food banks, or carers, or beleaguered NHS staff who Sunak’s own government is persecuting, they say – rightly.
And they say the decision to offer meal vouchers was in very poor taste when Boris Johnson was keen to stop providing such vouchers to parents of children who receive free school meals over the summer holidays, even though the Covid-19 crisis has put many of them in extreme need.
Here’s just a selection of the responses. See if you agree with them, rather than Sunak:
How many people that use food banks got help from Rishi Sunak?
Exactly, zero. Nil.
— Fuad Alakbarov (@DrAlakbarov) July 8, 2020
Do the Tories understand that to get the 50% off the meal out someone has to have the other 50% in the first place? Absolutely nothing offered today for many low paid workers and also the self employed.
— Liam Young (@liamyoung) July 8, 2020
(Good point about the self-employed.)
Throwing another bone to the plebs – 1st it was the pubs opening & now its a food voucher. Patronising contempt from the criminals residing in the cabal that is the so called cabinet.
— Carole Hawkins (@hawkins_carole) July 8, 2020
@RishiSunak can frankly stick his ridiculous vouchers, only accessible by people who can afford to eat out.
I’ve got a better idea- give all the Care Staff £500 cash.
Y’know the people that @BorisJohnson was clapping for one day and shitting all over the next?#ToryScum— Julie Harrington 3.5% #Refuse2Consume#MMT#BLM (@celtjules66) July 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/CptPicardigan/status/1280947082879254528
Yes, what a world.
To think that we could have had fairness under a Jeremy Corbyn government instead, if only people had engaged their brains before going to the polling booths last year.
Come to that, isn’t it incredible that it is too much to hope for people to engage their brains before voting?
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