I visited a new foodbank/super discount shop the other day and asked the volunteer how the opening was going – “too well” she said.
Carers and nurses are going to food banks. Some of the best, hardest working, and most selfless and unappreciated people of our society are going to food banks to survive. Where do we draw the line and start rioting? Because its about fucking time
When I was a kid in the 1990’s we often went hungry as did many of my friends families. I remember my parents taking an M+S in store credit card at 22% yearly interest, which you could only spend at M+S, to buy food because we were in such a desperate situation and it was the only way we could eat. They were in such a financial state they couldn’t get another normal credit card.
Genuinely I find it amazing people think this situation is a new thing as it was the same for me under the New Labour 24 years ago. I also find it fantastic food banks like this exist now to help people, as when I was a kid people didn’t give a flying fuck whether you were fed or not and it was seen solely as the parents problem.
Amazing how things change, definitely society in general is more caring now than when I was a kid.
Over the last decade the Conservatives created a new type of economy, one in which working people were to be scammed out of the value in their work.
No matter the social level of the job, people were made worse off.
And it’s not being stopped, it’s an ongoing process.
This isn’t going to work due to FOMO. Because the media say that teachers/nurses/full time workers use food banks, there’s a personality type that will want its allocation of food, even if they could really cut back on something else they have/do/
Millions of people in the UK will be given £326 cost of living payment on July 14
It strikes me that food banks are a way to privatise charity.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, they do a fantastic job and donations should be more than welcome – keep doing it people! But if you’re recommended to go to a food bank (don’t forget, you have to be referred and only for a few parcels, you can’t just go willy-nilly), let’s think about what happens.
A recipient is getting food and other necessities, which have been donated by other members of the public. These people will have gone out and bought them from the various companies – Tesco, Asda and so on.
These companies are making profits from charity.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this – it’d be nice if more companies donated stock, whether soon to expire or not, to food banks. But it just makes me a tad… I don’t know, wary, when in order to support food banks, I’d say most donations result in profit for these already large companies.
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Of course, who wouldn’t want free food.
Sure someone actually said that once
Don’t worry! Rishi will sort this out!!!
(Will he fuck)
Or Lizz will sort it out!!!
(Will she double fuck)
I visited a new foodbank/super discount shop the other day and asked the volunteer how the opening was going – “too well” she said.
Carers and nurses are going to food banks. Some of the best, hardest working, and most selfless and unappreciated people of our society are going to food banks to survive. Where do we draw the line and start rioting? Because its about fucking time
When I was a kid in the 1990’s we often went hungry as did many of my friends families. I remember my parents taking an M+S in store credit card at 22% yearly interest, which you could only spend at M+S, to buy food because we were in such a desperate situation and it was the only way we could eat. They were in such a financial state they couldn’t get another normal credit card.
Genuinely I find it amazing people think this situation is a new thing as it was the same for me under the New Labour 24 years ago. I also find it fantastic food banks like this exist now to help people, as when I was a kid people didn’t give a flying fuck whether you were fed or not and it was seen solely as the parents problem.
Amazing how things change, definitely society in general is more caring now than when I was a kid.
Over the last decade the Conservatives created a new type of economy, one in which working people were to be scammed out of the value in their work.
No matter the social level of the job, people were made worse off.
And it’s not being stopped, it’s an ongoing process.
This isn’t going to work due to FOMO. Because the media say that teachers/nurses/full time workers use food banks, there’s a personality type that will want its allocation of food, even if they could really cut back on something else they have/do/
Millions of people in the UK will be given £326 cost of living payment on July 14
It strikes me that food banks are a way to privatise charity.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, they do a fantastic job and donations should be more than welcome – keep doing it people! But if you’re recommended to go to a food bank (don’t forget, you have to be referred and only for a few parcels, you can’t just go willy-nilly), let’s think about what happens.
A recipient is getting food and other necessities, which have been donated by other members of the public. These people will have gone out and bought them from the various companies – Tesco, Asda and so on.
These companies are making profits from charity.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this – it’d be nice if more companies donated stock, whether soon to expire or not, to food banks. But it just makes me a tad… I don’t know, wary, when in order to support food banks, I’d say most donations result in profit for these already large companies.
Man, thats a really depressing headline