The week in Tory MPs so far: one convicted of molesting a minor, another having to apologise for defending said paedophile, PM and chancellor convicted of breaking the COVID laws they wrote. And it’s only Fucking Tuesday.
Jay Rayner
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Jay Rayner
@jayrayner1
Eats. Writes about it for the Financial Times. Chairs Kitchen Cabinet. Plays a bit of piano. Has big hair. Doesn't accept comps for reviews. [email protected]
- To drop the snark for a moment, what’s extraordinary is that the UK govt would willingly undermine the vital public health messaging in the midsts of a pandemic which has killed 55,000 people and rising - just to save one wretched man’s job.
- I know I was never a big fan of Brexit. But it's done. And I do seem to recall a promise of £350 million a week for the NHS. Here's a picture of that promise. That's £18.2 billion a year that @michaelgove and @BorisJohnson promised. So that's the nurse's pay issue solved. Right?
- I think John Lewis have really out done themselves with their Christmas ad this year.Dominic Cummings leaving Downing Street is much better when set to the Imperial March #DominicGoing
00:00 - I am today announcing my candidacy for leader of the Conservative Party. I will abolish all taxes while giving the UK the top tier public services it deserves. Plus tequila slammers for everyone on Fridays. And a fondue kit. One of those. And maybe a fondant fancy each. #victory
- I know we’re up to our nipples in killer Brexit analogies but for obvious reasons this one speaks to me.
- Let me add my voice to the justifiably outraged clamour of those furious at the govt for insisting hospitality and entertainment industries shut down without legally mandating them to do so, meaning they can’t claim insurance. Staggeringly reckless.
- I've just received and vigorously declined an invitation to write a 'culinary guide' to Saudi Arabia, fully funded by the Saudi govt. It's a murderous, homophobic, misogynistic regime. I've been shocked by the willingness of various hospitality businesses to take their money 1/
- I don't generally reach for the darkest interpretation of events, but the @metpoliceuk's behaviour is pushing me that way. First a refusal to investigate offences others have been prosecuted for? Then both stalling and apparently neutering a report into those events? Bloody hell.
- Replying to @WestminsterWAG and @toadmeisterThe two of you have both made a terrible mistake here. You've have confused me knowing you, with holding either of you in any regard whatsoever. And Toby, if I'd done something so terrible that you coming to my aid might help, I'd deserve to be left for dead.
- My neighbour Tony has found a use for his privet. And he did it with hand shears. Impressed @BBCGQT?
- Where to bloody start? There isn't enough British food to buy because the crass, malformed, malignant clown-show of Brexit that you promoted, has undermined food production, courtesy of ill-thought out subsidies. Plus, brexit-driven border controls have stymied imports.We shouldn’t be reliant on foreign food. Buy British.
- This week’s column. I was never going to splash the @ObserverUK’s money on one of Salt Bae’s crass £800+ gold leafed steaks. Instead I got an £8.50 take away kebab, a really good one from Kebab Kid, and ate that outside while musing on the stupidity inside
- Hands up who thinks they can drive a four year old child for 260 miles WITHOUT STOPPING?
