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Gormless Gordon does it again?!

 

'Stop wasting food', urges Brown

 

Britons must stop wasting food in an effort to help combat rising living costs, Gordon Brown has said as he travelled to the G8 summit in Japan.

 

He just seems incapable of delivering a message productively.

 

There is much to be said for wasting less food, eating fresh unprocessed foods, recycling, composting etc.

 

But to try to link this with a way out of people's current money worries and the surge in food inflation etc is to invite two fingers from hard pressed families trying to make ends meet.

 

Not clever methinks - do people agree or otherwise?

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Not clever methinks - do people agree or otherwise?

Agreed Chinahand.

 

Far better that he kept his mouth shut and let people suspect, than to open it and remove all doubt.

 

A pointless anouncement that shows the lack of his capability in dealing with the worry engendered by the current problems and his lack of empathy with the country.

 

Presumably, he'll follow this up with similar sound advice such as not using elecy, gas, water, clothes, keeping/feeding pets etc.

 

In order to demonstrate the principal, I assume he'll be taking sandwiches and a flask on the trip to G8.

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In order to demonstrate the principal, I assume he'll be taking sandwiches and a flask on the trip to G8.

 

On his bike, I hope :)

 

His next quote will be:

 

"Let them eat cake"

 

Here's hoping the Glasgow electorate take advantage of the opportunity given them to rid the UK of its worst leader since Blair.

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Not sure what everyone's problem is here?

Because telling someone who is facing mortgage arrears, a massively increasing fuel bill and the weekly budget going no where near as far as it used to that not throwing away that out-of-date ready meal is any sort of a solution is close to being prepostorous.

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The quickest way to stop living costs rising would be to sack the overtaxing Gordon Broon and his cronies.

And install who? Rejectionist ideas are all very well, but where will solutions come from - or are you Mr Karran?

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The quickest way to stop living costs rising would be to sack the overtaxing Gordon Broon and his cronies.

And install who? Rejectionist ideas are all very well, but where will solutions come from - or are you Mr Karran?

I'd suggest 'Dave' who's one of my garden gnomes would be an immediate improvement.

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Not sure what everyone's problem is here?

Because telling someone who is facing mortgage arrears, a massively increasing fuel bill and the weekly budget going no where near as far as it used to that not throwing away that out-of-date ready meal is any sort of a solution is close to being prepostorous.

That isn't what he's saying though.

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I think what is in red is useful and worthwhile. The rest is window dressing and spin and detracts from the overall message.

 

Britons must stop wasting food in an effort to help combat rising living costs, Gordon Brown has said as world leaders discuss rising prices

 

The PM said "unnecessary" purchases were contributing to price rises, and urged people to plan meals in advance and store food properly.

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Speaking to reporters, Gordon Brown said the G8 needed to agree a "global plan" to tackle the issue.

 

"People recognise that the high food prices in Britain - the price of bread, the price of eggs, the price of milk - this is happening all over the world and we have got to have a global solution to what is a global problem," he said.

 

 

"We have got to get the price of food down through cutting the tariffs and subsidies in Europe and America, so we need a world trade deal.

 

"We have proposed that we double food production in Africa so that they can sell to the rest of the world as well.

 

"It is right to remind people that about £8 a week is wasted in our food consumption and we could do better at home as well."

 

Who's got the message the wrong way round - the media or Gordon? Even if its the media, the fault is with government delivery for allowing a message about trade liberalization and economic empowerment be distorted into a simplistic message about the role of unnecessary purchases, and meal planning in tightening family budgets.

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G8 leaders feast on 13 courses after discussing world food shortages

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Classic.

The menus in full

 

Lunch

 

White asparagus and truffle soup

 

Kegani crab almond oil foam and green olive tapenade

 

Supreme of chicken served with stuffed thigh, nuts and orange savoury with beetroot foam

 

Special cheese selection with half-dried fruits

 

Peach compote, ice cream and raspberry coulis

 

Dinner

 

Corn-stuffed caviar

 

Smoked salmon and sea urchin "pain surprise" style

 

Hot onion tart

 

Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

 

Folding fan modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses

 

including

 

Kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef "shabu-shabu", asparagus dressed with sesame cream

 

Diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb "shiso"

 

Boiled clam, tomato, "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam

 

Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce

 

Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu vinegar

 

Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip

 

Sweet potato

 

Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar

 

Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup

 

Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce

 

Milk fed "shiranuka" lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard

 

Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil

 

Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts

 

G8 fantasy dessert

 

Coffee served with candied fruits and vegetables

 

Wine list

 

Le Reve grand cru champagne

 

Japanese saki

 

Corton Charlemagne 2005

 

Chateau Latour burgundy

 

Ridge California Monte Bello 1997

 

Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary

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