MEDIAWATCH: If David Seymour is Robin Hood then Ryan Bridge is Martin Luther King Jr

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ACT Party school in lunches programme

Ryan Bridge: School lunches – David Seymour is the new Robin Hood

Ummmmm.

What?

Ryan Bridge’s transformation into right wing shill at the ZB Troll Farm is complete with this bullshit nonsense!

Ryan is so right wing, he’s 3 months away from being the face of a new Mortgage App.

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Didn’t Robin Hood steal from the rich to give to the poor?

What Seymour has done to the free food in schools programme is take from the poor to give to a corrupt corporate who has long history of shit food for the cheapest price!

If Seymour is Robin Hood, Ryan Bridge is Martin Luther King Jr!

The biggest element of this story has been hidden and glossed over here.

Exactly.

The food is now processed shit from corporations with appalling track record in food service provision…

We know that the largest school lunch providers, Libelle and Compass, have lost significant numbers of schools in the past year, due to performance issues – with schools opting to go with alternative providers.

…plus we are killing off 75 local food suppliers at a time when we have rising unemployment…

‘Massive blow’: 75 suppliers lose school lunch contracts

Thousands of jobs are on the line as 75 suppliers will lose their school lunch contracts at the end of the year.A consortium led by global catering giant Compass Group won the contract to deliver free school lunches to 176,000 students under a new model.The consortium, which includes Libelle and Gilmours, will deliver lunches or ingredients to schools at $3 a pop, down from up to $8.69 under the current model.Suppliers who have missed out on the contract say the new model is a “massive blow” to their business.

…which in turn kills off the local element of the school food programme, the ability for parents to help out and become engaged, the use of local farms and food grown at school as part of the process.

You know, all the community element that makes this programme so important.

What we have had replaced is shit food from corporations with shit records at providing food.

David Seymour has managed to take a great policy and fuck it up.

The greatest audacity here?

We’ve had to cut these food programmes because this Government needed $2.9billion for Landlords tax loopholes.

We took out of the mouth of children to put into the pockets of the rich.

This country becomes more cruel by the second and ZB is there too ensure that it is.

Our children, living in a land of milk and honey, deserve better than this!

 

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64 COMMENTS

  1. If prisoners can be feed on$5 .69 then surely a child could be feed a good meal for $3.
    Having been involved in catering for years I found it hard to understand how it could cost $8.69. That would be the costing for a $20 ,plus restaurant meal.

    • Prisoners don’t get much choice regarding the quality of their meal, some children will not be so compliant. There is an article on Stuff “why putting out $3 lunches for kids will be so hard” that has more insight.
      The result of people wanting a high wage economy is that things will cost more, I can remember when threepence would feed you but that coin in no longer valid so you need to adjust your expectations.

    • Trevor you cannot see the mirror for the smoke.
      What Seymour has not revealed is the add on costs like rubbish collection, recycling, heating meals, freezer costs, transport, school administration, Education ministry costs, waste of food costs.
      All data he has released is the cost of the food and its preparation.
      Start to add the extra costs I have listed and you will see the real cost.
      An example, I live opposite a rural school of 140 children 16km from the original maker of the lunch. The cost of getting those lunches to the school was charged at $48 per day for the delivery driver and $25 per day vehicle cost. So $73 per day just to get delivery. 50 cents per meal.
      Then add the time for someone to heat and distribute and clean up and probably close to $1 a day is gone.
      That leaves $2 for Seymours lunch to be made. I bet you can’t feed yourself a decent palatable lunch for $2.

        • Fuck, show me a photo of what you eat. So that $2 for lunch, I’ll allow $4 for dinner and $1.50 for breakfast.
          So thats 52.50 per week for your food. How much do you spend on the resources to collect and process your feast.
          I have just spent $790 on annual service, $209 for registration, $393 on RUC , for my vehicle. So that is about $27 per week I can add to the cost of feeding myself without fuel and energy.
          Love to see what you had for lunch today.

    • It costs 1 million a year to house a prisoner, so an appalling analogy. Your reasoning is probably why your catering career ended early.

        • Try harder Trev. The $151,000 a year you found on the National party website( your only source of knowledge) is incorrect. I won’t correct your spelling as I now realize you’re dyslexic.

  2. Weren’t all the left screaming ‘soggy sandwiches’ was all that was going to be offered.
    Well…well..well, some good food choices there and nutritious.
    And cheap to produce, who cares that that schools have to heat the meals, they always would need someplace to be heated, so best be heated at point of distribution than somewhere else and delivered eh?

    • Oh you continue to offer nothing substantial tigjty I’m not rigjty, much like the slop Seymours buddies are serving up.
      You righties just can’t stand the fact the left are for the people and the right are only for themselves.

      • Considering that for most of these kids the school lunch will be the most nutritional meal they will eat that day, the menu choices on offer are wonderful.
        Well done ACT and well done this Govt, the left hate it as they prefer the food waste that was happening and most of the food being thrown out/teachers eating them.

        • fuck off no nutrition in rice and chicken flavoured gravy .Right now my grand kids get a wrap fruit and a snak bar or bag of popcorn .The next day they will have fried rice fruit and yogurt .next will be a burger with the works or Mac n cheese or spag boll always with fruit and another snack .Way better than the shit they had on the news last night .

        • Evidence of “the left hate it as they prefer the food waste that was happening and most of the food being thrown out/teachers eating them”?

          If what you say is true then like the police, the teachers are underpaid and struggle to put food on the table and the right love a low wage economy, the right love a dictatorship.

          The right hate that the left are for the working people.

        • No one appears to be asking why the parents are not meeting their own children’s basic needs. You can’t blame colonialism for everything.

            • Caused by the colonists that keep people in poverty to line the pockets of the few .What people who support this government dont realize is that you are sliding toward that poverty your self .Just ask anyone that has lost their job this year ,most would have been on the hate wagon and are now the victim of their own stupidity.

              • I’ve asked Ennus and the answer is low wages. And no, not everyone can be a CEO because someone has to do the work for them. Imagine everyone who can work being a CEO, who will sell you products at the supermarket, who will support the disabled? Your view of the world is so simplistic

  3. Clearly you are a right wing thief and you well know rice is of low value and also harbours bacteria if kept refrigerated for more than a day .I dont think watered down butter chicken and rice is a good quality meal .What happened to the salad sandwich and fruit he said was going to be the norm .As David has just found out it cant be done and $3 for a bowl of rice is fucken expensive as they will be buying it by the ton .

    • Properly chilled rice can be in the fridge for at least 3 days .White rice is the staple diet for many and is healthy and nutritious.
      but do not let facts change your story.

      • By the time this shit gets to the school it will be a week old then will be heated which will increase the bacteria .I can see a massive epidemic of food poisoning next year .The saving grace might be the kids will take one look at the shit and throw it in the bin .

  4. Its looks like slop maybe seemore who said its lovely should eat it for year. Funny how Enyarse (ennius) said its free what about all our tax paid handouts and funding we give to farmers and private businesses.

    • True in so far as tax payers shouldn’t be funding any Labour or National welfare. Working for a living and paying your own way helps individuals prosper. Calling me Enyarse shows you are insecure.

      • 70% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ON THE MIMIMUM WAGE .Most of that is taken up by housing costs .Then they can only afford the bare minimum for food .Add on the increased cost of insurance .rates ,car rego and soon to be gouged ACC levies and you can soon see why we have this issue .No doubt you would happily watch as some poor kid died in the street for eating this shit

      • Your argument falls over Ennus because Nationals low wage economy is not sufficient to support a massive percentage of the population. Fact.

  5. Seymour wanted to end school lunches entirely but wasn’t allowed to. Do he has done the next best thing. By reducing healthy lunches down to processed clumps of shit he knows that demand for them will drop and he will achieve his goal by stealth.

      • So you will be pushing for higher wages so the parents can buy more food along with the increased rent due to tax cuts for land lords .And while you are doing that perhaps you could get Upston to include a lunch allowance for all kids living on benefits and in cars or on the street.Then you could do the right thing and return youre massive tax cut that you were given by no boats willis

  6. Poor school kids now get to taste the “slops” meals that Hospital patients and Aged care residents have put up with for too many years.

    MPs should be required to have Compass cook/chill slops meals too until further notice–you know…to save money…

    Others have pointed out that cutting back on feeding the kids has other effects–on local contractors and suppliers, food quality, and endangering programmes such as “From the garden to the table” where schools were growing their own vegetables and teaching life skills.

  7. Reminds me when Shipley was trying to force beneficiaries to eat soup, we called it beneficiary soup and said looking at her she looks like she needs to eat her own soup.

  8. Did you notice he hesitated when tasting on Tv and also note he never swallowed the food either and put fuck all in his mouth because he knew it was shit that he would not feed his dog .

  9. The Bellamys head chef needs to be given a budget of $3 per meal to cover ingredients labour and profit. Austerity for all!

    Come to think of it how come MPs on $200k get a free lunch?

    • Yes Bellamys should be closed as the MPs all earn enough to bring the cut lunch the anus keeps going on about .Most have mothers still so perhaps mum could make them a sandwich .They dont need diner as they are only too happy to see children go without and live on a tray of pig slops per day .

  10. ” We took out of the mouth of children to put into the pockets of the rich. ”

    And Mr. Bridge is fine with that.

    And it would seem the coalitions supporters and donors.

  11. ” No, as a centrist I think the parents need to pay for the kids they produced and stop expecting other hard working people to pick up the tab for their actions. ”

    As a ” centrist ” then you will recognize that the problem isn’t just beneficiaries knocking out one child after another but the hard working people you refer to can’t afford to feed their families or themselves and shouldn’t have to go begging to foodbanks or rely on the school to ensure their children receive a meal they should be able to provide themselves out of what they get paid.

    Those hardworking families are affected by being in the position of not being paid well enough to pick up the tab as you put it.

    If you are serious in your concern for hard working people and the system that is rigged to keep them that way then let’s see some ideas from you on how to improve and make life fairer for the working poor in this country who due to being shafted for their hard work are never acknowledged or have any political representation and are overlooked by every single ” centrist ” government in this country.

  12. Going on Seymour’s reaction to teaching history he would rather that the students stayed in ignorance of the past than have them learn anything that would enable them to have independent thought and understand what a charlatan he is. Feeding them slop is obviously part of his plan to keep them in ignorance.

  13. Beleaguered by a doubling of my rent in the last 6 years, I hope at least landlords’ tax breaks have made them less rapacious. In poor Gisborne full of Yertle the turtles. My annual rent-rise takes place around Xmas. I expect the cunts to carry on with their accounting ways.

    Bank just refused to cover my lack of cash till term deposit comes due Nov 4. 30 days notice to breach a term deposit, applying for a bigger overdraft has to be done by actual paperwork (!) and I can’t stop direct debits except with the companies’ consents. Powershoppe doesn’t have a phone number, ACC only has a phone number, Vodafone is Vodafone. Boy!

  14. What the fuck has NZ BECOME ,?we should all be ashamed that we are even having this conversation .We should all be ashamed that we have staving people in NZ .After all certain sections of society believe they are producing enough food to feed 4 billion .If that is the case why are we allowing the very people that work to make that happen live in poverty ?

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