but the mail and the sun told me to be against this man for the good of britain and its citizens
Born in the 80s I’m pretty sure we didn’t have food banks then.
Seem to recall collecting tins for the homeless at Christmas.
It is now just a way of subsidising shit wages and the lack of public services.
If charities need to exist then the government has failed or something.
Yeah but how many food banks did Labour give us EH!
BUT BUT JROMBLY CROBBONS ARE GONNA DESTROY BRITAIN WITH COMMUNIST BROADBAND AND NATIONALISED SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!
Why is everyone saying food banks are a scam in this thread?
The image shared uses giant pins, rather than dots, so you don’t really get a good idea of the spread of food banks, and it can be misleading making it look like there are high concentrations of food banks in sparsely populated regions such as The Pennines.
An updated version of this map from 2019 would probably be more informative:
The cost of living crisis is scary and I think with food costs skyrocketing, in addition to everything else, we are going to see more people at food banks.
I still remember the uproar when he “supposedly” called Theresa May a “stupid woman”. Fast forward a few years and boris gets put off by Angela Rayners legs
I remember when the free milk stopped, I was in nursery.
Got told to go back to the office to save Pret, now being told to not buy Pret. Who saves Pret now?
I don’t disagree with his point, but the map is just stupid.
Each marker on the map, representing a single foodbank, is about the size of Birmingham. It doesn’t tell us anything.
Is it the mention of food banks or the mention of Corbyn that drags out all of these “fuck poor people” commenters?
We had 114 people at our food Bank yesterday. Happy Jubilee!
Average /day is about 105, with occasional spikes of 150. It hasn’t been below 90/day for a year.
Location: leafy urban suburb that’s pleasant to live in and has always had some duality in living conditions.
Remember when we didn’t need food banks in one of the richest countries in the world?
Not enough funding for the NHS? That’s ok, we have centenarians doing charity workouts!
Not enough money for wages? Go to your local food bank!
Leveling up people!
It’s a deliberate Tory policy. Cameron called it the big community. He also said everyone would share the pain. Lying Twat.
What has happened to Britain? They used to care for their citizens.
I hate food banks. I hate that they’re necessary, they’re a mark of our failure and show the inadequacy of our benefits system. I hate that they’re crowd sourced, the public should not be funding the welfare system directly, it should be funded through taxation and ni contributions. But the thing that I hate about them most of all is how they are lauded as a great British success by the tories, I absolutely despise that they celebrate them as one of their successes. Food banks are successful in SPITE of the tory government NOT because of it.
I love that people can come together in times of need and at least try to make sure everyone can eat. I just hate how it’s become our status quo.
“Should Corbyn resign NOW for spreading negativity during our glorious jubilee week?”
If there is one thing I know in life is that I fucking hate Twitter. 99% of the comments on his tweet are so ridiculously toxic and show a distinct lack of brain activity.
– “It’s Labour’s fault”
– “Not very PATRIOTIC of you – that’s why you lost’
– “Something about immigrants”
– “This is Christianity in action ♥️”
– “Why don’t YOU do something about it then”
– “Scroungers shouldn’t spend their money on booze and fags then”
Etc.
People tend to crap on Jeremy, but he is objectively less awful than boris and mae.
And just to be clear, we could fix this pretty much overnight, the country has the collective resources to guarantee food and shelter for every citizen and still enjoy a level of materialist excess that would be the envy of most of the world. Absolutely brutal indictment of how shite our political system is that this is somehow too difficult.
The right needs to drop the fairy stories and study a bit of econ.
It’s interesting, as a good deal voted for Borris as he was “the lesser of two evils”. Do we still think Corybn would have been worse?
Tory Fanboys will still vote Tories. “At least we have more food banks now than when Labour were in power.”
Words fail me.
I opened the article and immediately underneath the picture there was an ad for a 28 day fasting challenge **LMAO**
Last night i had a good friend talk about the mess Johnson has made and talked about the booing yesterday and then in the next breath said he doesn’t think corbyn or starmer could’ve done better.
I just don’t have the energy anymore
The Zionists destroyed Corbyn so that arms sales and a benevolent approach to israeli crimes would continue.
Charity sustains the government’s complete lack of care or provision.. What the fuck are we paying out taxes for when the UK economy / social system would collapse without the charity band aid holding it together.
Without these food banks and the like, the true horror of the last 3 year decimation of the economy on the grounds of “public safety” would be apparent.
If the realisation hasn’t landed for you now, that governments in general are for profit not for people then nothing will..
“It’s harder to convince someone they have been fooled than it is to fool them in the first place”
I genuinely have no idea why people are pretending this is bad or surprising when this is *exactly* what they have been voting for consistently, year after year, decade after decade.
There’s no point acting surprised now.
I’ll be visiting a food bank for the first time this month. I never thought life would get this bad. Luckily I have help, and I am starting a new career that damn near doubles my income soon, which should be awesome (both the job and the money). But having earned more or less minimum wage for a few years now working in the care industry, which was a choice I made because it is something I am passionate about, I can honestly say that the situation is fucked and I’ve had to basically abandon people I care about and have spent years caring for. I have no idea how people with families to feed are going to survive if things carry on along this trajectory. Every time you leave the house the prices of everything have changed. To say I feel defeated is an understatement. Bitter too, shamefully.
I campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn on the doorsteps at the last GE.
Two main objections were “I could never vote for a terrorist sympathiser” and “I could never vote for an antisemite/racist” which is quite ironic seeing as they were willing to vote Boris
Never underestimate the power of a good smear campaign
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Yeah but I heard he hates Jews or something.
but the mail and the sun told me to be against this man for the good of britain and its citizens
Born in the 80s I’m pretty sure we didn’t have food banks then.
Seem to recall collecting tins for the homeless at Christmas.
It is now just a way of subsidising shit wages and the lack of public services.
If charities need to exist then the government has failed or something.
Yeah but how many food banks did Labour give us EH!
BUT BUT JROMBLY CROBBONS ARE GONNA DESTROY BRITAIN WITH COMMUNIST BROADBAND AND NATIONALISED SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!
Why is everyone saying food banks are a scam in this thread?
The image shared uses giant pins, rather than dots, so you don’t really get a good idea of the spread of food banks, and it can be misleading making it look like there are high concentrations of food banks in sparsely populated regions such as The Pennines.
An updated version of this map from 2019 would probably be more informative:
https://citizen-network.org/assets/fullsize/932/distribution-food-banks-uk-2019.jpg
The cost of living crisis is scary and I think with food costs skyrocketing, in addition to everything else, we are going to see more people at food banks.
I still remember the uproar when he “supposedly” called Theresa May a “stupid woman”. Fast forward a few years and boris gets put off by Angela Rayners legs
I remember when the free milk stopped, I was in nursery.
Got told to go back to the office to save Pret, now being told to not buy Pret. Who saves Pret now?
I don’t disagree with his point, but the map is just stupid.
Each marker on the map, representing a single foodbank, is about the size of Birmingham. It doesn’t tell us anything.
Is it the mention of food banks or the mention of Corbyn that drags out all of these “fuck poor people” commenters?
We had 114 people at our food Bank yesterday. Happy Jubilee!
Average /day is about 105, with occasional spikes of 150. It hasn’t been below 90/day for a year.
Location: leafy urban suburb that’s pleasant to live in and has always had some duality in living conditions.
Remember when we didn’t need food banks in one of the richest countries in the world?
Not enough funding for the NHS? That’s ok, we have centenarians doing charity workouts!
Not enough money for wages? Go to your local food bank!
Leveling up people!
It’s a deliberate Tory policy. Cameron called it the big community. He also said everyone would share the pain. Lying Twat.
What has happened to Britain? They used to care for their citizens.
I hate food banks. I hate that they’re necessary, they’re a mark of our failure and show the inadequacy of our benefits system. I hate that they’re crowd sourced, the public should not be funding the welfare system directly, it should be funded through taxation and ni contributions. But the thing that I hate about them most of all is how they are lauded as a great British success by the tories, I absolutely despise that they celebrate them as one of their successes. Food banks are successful in SPITE of the tory government NOT because of it.
I love that people can come together in times of need and at least try to make sure everyone can eat. I just hate how it’s become our status quo.
“Should Corbyn resign NOW for spreading negativity during our glorious jubilee week?”
If there is one thing I know in life is that I fucking hate Twitter. 99% of the comments on his tweet are so ridiculously toxic and show a distinct lack of brain activity.
– “It’s Labour’s fault”
– “Not very PATRIOTIC of you – that’s why you lost’
– “Something about immigrants”
– “This is Christianity in action ♥️”
– “Why don’t YOU do something about it then”
– “Scroungers shouldn’t spend their money on booze and fags then”
Etc.
People tend to crap on Jeremy, but he is objectively less awful than boris and mae.
And just to be clear, we could fix this pretty much overnight, the country has the collective resources to guarantee food and shelter for every citizen and still enjoy a level of materialist excess that would be the envy of most of the world. Absolutely brutal indictment of how shite our political system is that this is somehow too difficult.
The right needs to drop the fairy stories and study a bit of econ.
It’s interesting, as a good deal voted for Borris as he was “the lesser of two evils”. Do we still think Corybn would have been worse?
Tory Fanboys will still vote Tories. “At least we have more food banks now than when Labour were in power.”
Words fail me.
I opened the article and immediately underneath the picture there was an ad for a 28 day fasting challenge **LMAO**
Last night i had a good friend talk about the mess Johnson has made and talked about the booing yesterday and then in the next breath said he doesn’t think corbyn or starmer could’ve done better.
I just don’t have the energy anymore
The Zionists destroyed Corbyn so that arms sales and a benevolent approach to israeli crimes would continue.
Charity sustains the government’s complete lack of care or provision.. What the fuck are we paying out taxes for when the UK economy / social system would collapse without the charity band aid holding it together.
Without these food banks and the like, the true horror of the last 3 year decimation of the economy on the grounds of “public safety” would be apparent.
If the realisation hasn’t landed for you now, that governments in general are for profit not for people then nothing will..
“It’s harder to convince someone they have been fooled than it is to fool them in the first place”
I genuinely have no idea why people are pretending this is bad or surprising when this is *exactly* what they have been voting for consistently, year after year, decade after decade.
There’s no point acting surprised now.
I’ll be visiting a food bank for the first time this month. I never thought life would get this bad. Luckily I have help, and I am starting a new career that damn near doubles my income soon, which should be awesome (both the job and the money). But having earned more or less minimum wage for a few years now working in the care industry, which was a choice I made because it is something I am passionate about, I can honestly say that the situation is fucked and I’ve had to basically abandon people I care about and have spent years caring for. I have no idea how people with families to feed are going to survive if things carry on along this trajectory. Every time you leave the house the prices of everything have changed. To say I feel defeated is an understatement. Bitter too, shamefully.
I campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn on the doorsteps at the last GE.
Two main objections were “I could never vote for a terrorist sympathiser” and “I could never vote for an antisemite/racist” which is quite ironic seeing as they were willing to vote Boris
Never underestimate the power of a good smear campaign