RE: food banks
Something very fishy about the massive increase in numbers. If you give free stuff people are going to take it. I gather there's a section of people going to food banks aren't actually starving. Am I right in thinking that all you need to be entitled is to be is claiming benefits?
Wouldn't shock me If it turns out years down the line (we never find out these things at the time) that the big rises happened in Labour run councils where they're actively "encouraging" the use of food banks so they can claim that there stupid "cost of living" catchphrase is true.
Jeez.. you just insulted a lot of hungry kids to get a political +1
If it stops a guy shoplifting to feed his family for a few days I don't think its a bad thing.
In 2013-14 foodbanks fed 913,138 people nationwide. Of those helped, 330,205 were children.
That's just one Charity with 400 banks.... nearly a million meals just to get people to dislike Conservative policy ?
I think you are correct that more people use them because more people are aware of them. Yeah its obviously mostly people that are skint, trying to live on benefits.
I can claim the stupid cost of living thing is true though.
Tesco used to sell bread for 15p and beans for <10p a can....When i was at Uni 15 years ago (jesus). Now its (i dunno i don't buy it any more) 60p a loaf and 30p a can ?? that's 400% in 15 years....
In crap shops like Iceland things that used to cost a quid are now £1.25 or 25% smaller NET weight.
So chuck in someone on low income, a job with no pay rise in-line with inflation, Someone who got 50% less hours one week on their ZERO hour contract or JSA claimer. Overnight they could have lost a quarter of their "dinner" or one of their kids meals.
Have some empathy. All statistics will be used or counter used by someone wanting to prove some point...
I don't think I've ever had a day in my life where I've been genuinely hungry because i couldn't afford food... That must be a depressing humbling thing and i don't want to ever, ever, ever find out.
Yeah yeah before anyone gets too excited .... i'm sure there are
some 50" plasma watching families lording it up on Egg and chips from the foodbank after the money is spent on Malbro and White lightning so lets not think they are ideal.
The Guardian, Monday 9 June 2014
A joint report Monday from Oxfam, Church Action on Poverty and the largest operator of food banks, the Trussell Trust, says that much of the increased demand is coming from poor people in affluent areas including Cheltenham, Welwyn Garden City and the northern part of the Lake District, where some food banks report user numbers doubling or even trebling. The Trussell Trust said it was helping to feed 300,000 children, a situation it described as a national disgrace. The report's authors said the poor were caught in a perfect storm of food prices soaring 43.5 % in the past eight years, while over the same period the disposable annual income of the poorest 20% fell by an average of £936.
Whatever the reason its a BS situation.
