"Wetherspoons hit by 'temporary' pigs in blankets shortage" because......

Thankfully we’ve moved on since then - but if he tried it then the people on low incomes who rely on benefits to top up their meagre wages (and who boosted the Tory vote) will not take kindly to having to work in the fields.

I have news.
Benefits are still stopped if people refuse to take jobs.

More news. I have my meagre wages topped up by benefits, and it wouldn't bother me at all to wrap pigs in blankets or any other menial job.

Whereas others would be bothered. If your wages are topped up and you’re then told that they won’t be because we don’t have enough cheap manual labour coming in there will be a massive backlash.

Let's not forget those on zero hours contracts who have jobs (so they don't show in the unemployment figures) but don't know from one week to the next how much money they actually have.

They were probably cheap and nasty ones anyway. Mass produced for all his outlets obnoxious man !
Morrison's and M&S are the same.

Two of my students worked at the Weatherspoon next door. They said they would never ever consider eating there- all food was boil in the bag re-heated and plonked on a plate.

Yesterday we were passing in front of the Weatherspoon next door to where we used to live- a beautiful historical building- and OH said we could go in and have something to eat - he lost his appetite when I reminded him of the above, and who the owner is and what he stands for. Drove down to an independent pub with great, home cooked food- for the same price ;)

I enjoyed the meal I had there.

Did you visit the kitchen ?

No.
It certainly wasn't a boil in the bag roast though.

Why doesn't the man invest in a machine that would blanket the pigs? That is one of our biggest issues. These people take the money but do not invest.

A pig blanketer.

That sounds like a fab job - tucking smiley, sleepy piggies into bed with nice cosy blankets

...rather than the other thing

EMMF1948 I'm going to get mine decorating the Christmas cakes (I hope)!

Otherwise they will be just fruit cakes.

Who invented pigs in blankets anyway?

What's my Line?

'A pig blanketer'

Nearly as good as a saggar maker's bottom knocker

Missadvetnture, agreed that the carvery roast is the only fresh food there, so my choice.

Fish and chips?

Only if the fish were caught by UK fishermen in non EU waters