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Universal credit and cakes
Do you think they have rolled six recipes into one?
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The cake should have had 40% removed before being served up.
will they have to wait 5 weeks before they can begin to eat it
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I presume we’ve checked out the Neil Couling Twitter account? Loads of cake pictures there. The temptation to childishly doctor the one with “UC” on it is one I’m still struggling to resist.
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I’m afraid my UC cake appears to be only half baked.
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Ruth Knox - 11 December 2018 04:25 PMDo you think they have rolled six recipes into one?
surely six old cakes rolled into one and covered with some new icing to make it look like a new cake but someone has thrown away the label that said ‘not to be eaten, for display purposes only’?
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From April 2013 - ‘Universal Credit is a sausage’
First catch your legacy benefits.
Skin and gut them; reserve the innards in a large bowl.
Take the new outer skin, called Universal Credit, and then stuff with contents of bowl. Internal coherence is not important here, just appearance. Sweep away any leftover bits.
Claim loudly it is the best sausage there ever was.
Refuse to serve it up, and deny the cooker isn’t working.
Ideal for fry-ups.
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Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
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As you have ordered a cake, we are afraid to say that we are immediately taking away all your other food. You may or may not be able to get the cake. But you can’t eat any legacy food stuffs. So it is cake or die.
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UC as a smoothie cannot be allowed to die.
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Attached is the Poplar cake from 22/2/17….
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- Poplar_UC_Cake.pdf (File Size: 214KB - Downloads: 2338)
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Paul_Treloar_AgeUK - 12 December 2018 01:17 PMSomeone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris!
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Martin Williams - 13 December 2018 12:02 PMAttached is the Poplar cake from 22/2/17….
Really moving cake!
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Marie Antoinette says: “DWP has something of a tin ear where history is concerned. Let them attend food banks.”
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Andrew Dutton - 12 December 2018 01:12 PMFrom April 2013 - ‘Universal Credit is a sausage’
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My colleague’s dad was a footballer who, when he retired had a sausage named after him by a local butcher. I doubt that anyone could stomach an Iain Duncan Sausage though
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BC Welfare Rights - 13 December 2018 01:00 PMAndrew Dutton - 12 December 2018 01:12 PMFrom April 2013 - ‘Universal Credit is a sausage’
.My colleague’s dad was a footballer who, when he retired had a sausage named after him by a local butcher. I doubt that anyone could stomach an Iain Duncan Sausage though
it would try to exit itself, causing a scene reminiscent of ‘Alien’.......then blame someone else for the mess.