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The Tories also seem to be busy visiting foodbanks with the requisite photo opportunities and then posting almost identical tweets:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/welfare/2018/12/when-tory-mps-visit-foodbanks
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The way I read the article, the (four Scottish Tory) MPs in question didn't actually visit the food banks but charity collection points in branches of Tesco's.
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Oh yes, fancy that. Including Claire Perry in the last week:
https://twitter.com/round_windows/status/1071185882798063616It's hard to understand the logic: 1 in 5 people in the UK are in absolute poverty and food banks are booming - I'll have a piece of what I helped create/am helping perpetuate!
Oliver Schick
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What the hell is this sudden tour of the UK by the ministers about?
Today the business minister Claire Perry visited a clotted cream factory, where she told the confectioners (creamists?) that she hadn't known that clotted cream was such a successful export.
Perhaps it might just have been a good idea to arm yourself with that fact before becoming business minister in a government executing Brexit, but maybe that's just me. Anyway, it's good to know that we'll have plenty of clotted cream to go with the promised six months of jams*.
The thinking apparently is that this little roadshow can convince the public that May's deal is a goodun, then they will lobby their MPs in time for the vote. This is of course - if you know the slightest bit about campaigns and influencing - absolutely impossible, especially by next Tuesday.
Heseltine just told PM he thinks Number 10 just wants the ministers out of their hair, which is the best theory I've heard so far.
*https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46480374