The Calm Before the Storm

“I think real mentors are not people you see on the telly. I think it’s always lovely to think of local people as mentors you can draw from: family and friends. The whole celebrity thing can be good, but it’s a lot of bull**** too”

Jamie Oliver 2002

I couldn’t agree more Mr Jamie.

Let’s see what a couple of South Yorkshire people have to say about your Ministry of Food. The following quotes are taken from posts on Sheffield Forum.

“It has little to do with people not knowing what’s healthy – everyone knows that and always has done. It has a lot more to do with the uncomfortable fact that if money is short you need your kids to eat what you’ve bought for them or they will go hungry – so you are simply not going to pay out £1.50 for a salad lunch that will be untouched, and then have the kids come home and hungrily demolish a loaf of bread that you were hoping to make last till next day.

Then there’s also something George Orwell recognised as far back as the 1930s (read The Road To Wigan Pier) but which monied people like Oliver always fail to see – that if you have very little money one way of introducing a little pleasure into your daily life is to indulge in cheap treats like a cup of sugary tea (Orwell noted how the middle classes would often criticise the unemployed for spending precious money on nutritionally ‘bad’ bags of sugar and packs of tea – nothing changes, eh?), a pack of 10p crisps, a sausage roll, a reduced price bag of Mini Eggs from Netto…. – it might not be a designer dress or a trip to the Maldives but it’s a treat people can afford”.

14-05-2008,    Mathom   

“I’m all for healthy eating, I just don’t like patronising, slack jawed, Mockney gits”.

13-05-2008 SallyLaLaLa     

 

This is the calm before the storm. When historians look back on 2008, Napoleon’s march on Moscow will look like a minor hiccup compared to Oliver’s decision to take liberties with the people of Rotherham.

We hold the intellectual and moral high ground on this one and we will fight for the honour of our town. Over the next few months- we are going to take this mob down. We are going to mount a campaign with levels of wit, intelligence and sheer joy that the reality TV zombies are incapable of. And we’ve got custard.

We are the real people of Rotherham.

Join us- it’s going to be a laugh riot.

 

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