‘Kettle bag’, the new meaning of life for poor Britons/Irish and refugees. Learned a new two-word phrase this week … ‘kettle bag’. I came cross it while packing provisions at my local foodbank. It means, admittedly I had to ask, a single shopping bag of food items where some of the staples like rice and pasta etc, can be warmed up in a cup using hot water from a kettle. This is the state of Tory Britain … Rule Feckin Britannia.