David Cameron: the price of a loaf of bread? No idea, I have a breadmaker

[joebloggs]

well no surprises here, i'd be surprised if he knew the price of anything, or even better what the minimum pay rate was just shows how out of touch he is with the real world , after all he's a bullingdon boy

Prime minister shows ignorance of supermarket prices and says he prefers to bake homemade granary loaves using local flour

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...price-of-bread

[grahamw48]

I have to get mine from next door's bird table.

[KeithD]

"No idea, I have a breadmaker" .... yeah, it's probably a Filipina

[SimonH]

Quote from the article that Joe provided the link for:-

Cameron revealed he had a Panasonic breadmaker, which typically costs more than £100, and liked to use Cotswold Crunch flour, which is on sale online for £30.20 for a 16kg bag.

He stumbled over the question on the London radio station LBC 97.3, putting the Conservatives under further pressure over their response to squeezed household budgets.

"I don't buy the value sliced loaf, I've got a breadmaker at home which I delight in using and it turns out in all sorts of different ways," he said. "But you can buy a loaf in the supermarket for well north of a pound."

Told by presenter Nick Ferrari that the true cost was about 47p, he added: "Look, I'm trying to get my children to eat the sort of granary – and they take it actually, they like my homemade bread.

2 Things,

Please can someone tell me where I can buy a loaf of bread for 47p
I think it's the presenter Nick Ferrari that's the one out of touch.

Secondly, shock horror the person who runs this country doesn't pop into Tesco's to do his weekly shop He'd rather provide nutritious home made bread for his children.
What is the country coming to

[SimonH]

https://timetric.com/index/uk_price_...f_sliced_800g/

Average price in 2013...........£1.31
Last time it was 47p was August 1988..............25 years ago

[grahamw48]

My last loaf was 20p ...on Tesco's reduced shelf...where I do most of my shopping.

Look after the pennies, etc.

[SimonH]

My last loaf was 20p ...on Tesco's reduced shelf...where I do most of my shopping.

Look after the pennies, etc.

Where are you from again

[grahamw48]

I find it's a great way of saving...don't spend anything.

[joebloggs]

Quote from the article that Joe provided the link for:-




2 Things,

Please can someone tell me where I can buy a loaf of bread for 47p

go north, Morrisons you can, i think their own 2 for £1 !

[joebloggs]

", it's probably a Filipina

mines not a bread maker but breadwinner

[SimonH]

go north, Morrisons you can, i think their own 2 for £1 !

Joe, I'm going to send you rep for making me laugh so much

The broadcast was by LBC a London based radio station. The Houses of Parliament are in London Personally I'm glad the the Prime minister is concentrating on getting us out of the mess that Labour put us in rather than comparing the price of budget bread at Morrisons up north. Maybe an idea for Labour to follow

Rep on the way

[jake]

mines not a bread maker but breadwinner

you beat me to it.

[Arthur Little]

Breadwinners (or at least the average ones living in the "real world") have to work hard to "earn a crust" ... it's time Cameron "used his loaf" to figure that out!

[stevewool]

mines not a bread maker but breadwinner

[Dedworth]

Cameron is right - any half decent bread eg Allinsons is over a pound . LBC's Nick Ferrari must buy tasteless Asda Smartprice or Tesco Value for £0.47

[stevewool]

2for £1.50 from farmfoods, or this week 1 baguette for 55p, rock hard next day though

[Trefor]

FFS, any Prime Minister is not going to be buying value groceries. Miliband would not know either.

I have no idea what value bread, milk or eggs cost. I think milk is around 50p a pint? (or 554ml or whatever the size is now).

I think Boris did a much better job at answering:

http://order-order.com/2013/10/01/bo...-of-champagne/

Boris for PM! (for the entertainment factor!)

[joebloggs]

Cameron is right - any half decent bread eg Allinsons is over a pound . LBC's Nick Ferrari must buy tasteless Asda Smartprice or Tesco Value for £0.47

if he's right then benefits should increase and so should the minimum wage so people can afford to eat decent food like a bullingdon boy

[Jamesey]

I do feel sorry for Prime Ministers when this subject comes up. I wouldn't even know the answer, so I certainly wouldn't expect the PM to.

I'd much rather he concentrated on running the country, rather than memorising the cost of staple food items!

[joebloggs]

I do feel sorry for Prime Ministers when this subject comes up. I wouldn't even know the answer, so I certainly wouldn't expect the PM to.

I'd much rather he concentrated on running the country, rather than memorising the cost of staple food items!

i dont feel sorry for him, if he has no idea of the cost of living, how does he know if the state pension, benefits or minimum wage is enough for someone to live on it just shows how out of touch he is with most people in this country.


Jamesey who does your shopping then, i've got a rough idea how much most things are..

[Dedworth]

i dont feel sorry for him, if he has no idea of the cost of living, how does he know if the state pension, benefits or minimum wage is enough for someone to live on it just shows how out of touch he is with most people in this country.

Pot calling the kettle black Joe

Miliband is oblivious as to what the "ordinary" people pay for anything - when energy Minister he was responsible for hitting the utility companies with huge green taxes which they merely passed onto the consumer. He now has the front to spout his fantasy theory about freezing energy prices for 20 months.

As one would expect Millipede champion of the downtrodden and leader of One Nation Labour doesn’t practice what he preaches – posing in his £700 Savile Row suit as he guzzles champagne.

[SimonH]

i dont feel sorry for him, if he has no idea of the cost of living, how does he know if the state pension, benefits or minimum wage is enough for someone to live on it just shows how out of touch he is with most people in this country.


Jamesey who does your shopping then, i've got a rough idea how much most things are..

Now you really are talking absolute rubbish, he did know the price of a loaf of bread it was the stupid interviewer that got it wrong. Why not just bow out gracefully and admit you're wrong Joe

[joebloggs]

posing in his £700 Savile Row suit as he guzzles champagne.

i didn't know he was a bullingdon boy

Now you really are talking absolute rubbish, he did know the price of a loaf of bread it was the stupid interviewer that got it wrong. Why not just bow out gracefully and admit you're wrong Joe

I'm never wrong like dedworth, he's clueless about many things



makes you wonder what he did at Eton

[andy222]

[SimonH]

You're digging a bigger hole for yourself Joe, the question was on a Latin translation. If he got it correct you'd be turning the argument to say he was a posh Eton boy who studied an archaic language at school.
Letterman even cocked up the first question about Rule Britannia, it's Britain rules the waves, NOT world as he said.

[andy222]

Yes but Letterman didnt know and Cameron should have. Made himself look a right pr**k.

[Dedworth]

Hapless Millipede trots out the same answer to 5 questions

[SimonH]

Yes but Letterman didnt know and Cameron should have. Made himself look a right pr**k.

On the basis of that I'm changing my allegiance to Labour Millipede, the man of the people, the man who shops in Tesco's and knows the price of value bread and can also speak fluent Latin

[andy222]

Then you have the guy who is saying this will be the land of opportunity. Now thats a laugh.

[andy222]

UB40 with song One in ten 1981 who was in power then? Nothing changes.