When do we collectively say we are done and fight back? Like how many more stories like this do we need to hear before we end this Tory nightmare, seriously?
Was that the nearest?
Some food Banks have been doing deliveries to the vulnerable
The average Joe doesn’t hear about this when they consume BBC news in whichever form the watch/listen. I reckon if more people saw this sort of news there would in fact be uproar.
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I rarely messure things in miles.
But surely that’s only a 30 minute walk at most. Isn’t that the distance most people would be walking regularly anyway.
How you gunna be so unfit a two mile walk kills you
Two miles isn’t far, as usual just a small snippet of a bigger story. I’m not sure I’m a fan of this food poverty coverage, it all seems exaggerated and I honestly don’t believe these stories, I’m sorry but between a person collapsing after a 30 min walk and people cooking dog food on the radiator I think these stories might just actually be bollocks.
If you collapse after walking two miles you’ve got bigger problems
It’s sad that inflation is happening but if you can’t afford food when it is ~14.5% more expensive then it means you weren’t doing very well to begin with. It’s crazy how wealth inequality is like this, average middle class person barely feels the squeeze whilst a poor person faces food security issues and such.
I work in the nhs and we have food boxes set up for employees to take stuff from that’s donated, it’s a joke
The issue here is food banks being a necessity at all. People collapse for various reasons all the time, and two miles is not a particularly ridiculous distance to walk so this particular woman collapsing is a great clickbait headline but not particularly informative or outlook changing.
lOaDs oF tHeSe pEoPlE cAn aFFoRd fOoD tHeY jUsT wAnT a fReE mEaL!
Seeing a distinct lack of evidence for any collapsing in the article
There’s a difference between walking 2 miles on your own and then walking 2 miles with a pram, two kids, changing bags and your own stuff whilst sleep deprived and starving.
We need a very serious discussion in this country about wealth, what we expect, and what we’re prepared to pay.
No one likes food banks, poor NHS service, a crumbling education system, poor rail service,
and a government who seem to use their positions for themselves and their mates.
But we aren’t having the right discussions.
We need to talk about mismanagement, contracts, bursaries, and wages in the NHS. Are we all prepared to pay more taxes to afford it? Should the rich pay more tax? Should the rich have insurance, and if so, what’s the limit before you have to? Should the people at the top of the NHS earn less, and what about middle management? What about positions like “diversity officer”? How do we recruit more nurses/doctors and stop them leaving and how do we afford it?
Should teachers earn more? How much more, and how do we recruit more? Why are most teaching staff female and how do we equalise that and attract more men to the profession? Should we stop tax breaks for private schools?
How do we renationalise rail knowing that British rail in the 70s/80s was diabolical? At what point do we say rail workers earn too much for what they do? How do we improve the service? At what point should we move to an automated system? Are we all prepared to pay more tax towards it since less people are using the service since it’s shit?
Should we move to a proportional representation system? How would that impact our democracy? Would it allow for more fringe groups akin to the BNP or Alva to have a say and are we happy with that? Should we devolve powers to local councils more effectively? And what do we do about the possibility of the UK breaking up? How do we in the UK want to be governed?
Should we rejoin the EU, and if so, are we all happy with going back to a neo-liberal group of unelected bureaucrats? How do we then deal with countries like Hungary and Poland whose governments seem at odds with western European diversity values? What would our place in the EU be if we did rejoin?
Should politicians be banned from second jobs? If so, should they be paid more as their jobs are the most responsible in the country? How do we change the way they govern? What do we do about their behaviour? Do we have diversity quotas or should it be entirely meritocratic? Should they come from certain backgrounds or jobs? How do we run the country better?
Should we be growing more food? How can we do it? How are we going to deal with our energy crisis? Solar, wind, wave, tidal, nuclear? Should we get rid of investment from abroad and create our own to sell abroad? How many jobs can be created? How can we utilise said energy production to grow more food? Do we resort to GMO?
All of these questions need asking! And we simply aren’t because they are all so bloody complex and everyone has an opinion. We need, as a society, to really decide the future of our nation.
I’d prefer we move to a Scandinavian model. Higher taxes, better services, better welfare, BUT less materialism. An overall quality of life improvement but not relying on commerce to do it. And with more focus on family.
This article literally doesn’t say anything about why this woman collapsed after a 30 minute walk, it barely mentions her outside the first sentence.
With respect, she could have collapsed after a 30 minute walk to the library, or to the shop, or to literally anything else. It’s not a long walk, and while there are issues with food security this is clearly clickbait and should be discouraged.
>bringbackboris•1 DAY AGO
>When Blair started this food bank thing i wonder if he knew they’d become big business with directors earning huge salaries. Mind he opened the eu doors to ensure some people would need them.
Someone get on there and call that guy a cunt please
Note the article didn’t say she collapsed due to starvation or hunger. As such it can be safely assumed they omitted that she was a known drug addict, alcoholic or something like that which caused her to collapse and that is totally unrelated to an inability to buy food.
Christ. This is awful.
The headline reads like a soundbite from a charity advert for some third world country.
The article isn’t even about the specific incident in the headline, but the more general issues.
So a woman collapsed? Sad, but it happens. Hopefully she’s OK.
I see the foodbank part of the story is actually irrelevant though, once you read the article, and is included more as clickbait than anything else.
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When do we collectively say we are done and fight back? Like how many more stories like this do we need to hear before we end this Tory nightmare, seriously?
Was that the nearest?
Some food Banks have been doing deliveries to the vulnerable
The average Joe doesn’t hear about this when they consume BBC news in whichever form the watch/listen. I reckon if more people saw this sort of news there would in fact be uproar.
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I rarely messure things in miles.
But surely that’s only a 30 minute walk at most. Isn’t that the distance most people would be walking regularly anyway.
How you gunna be so unfit a two mile walk kills you
Two miles isn’t far, as usual just a small snippet of a bigger story. I’m not sure I’m a fan of this food poverty coverage, it all seems exaggerated and I honestly don’t believe these stories, I’m sorry but between a person collapsing after a 30 min walk and people cooking dog food on the radiator I think these stories might just actually be bollocks.
If you collapse after walking two miles you’ve got bigger problems
It’s sad that inflation is happening but if you can’t afford food when it is ~14.5% more expensive then it means you weren’t doing very well to begin with. It’s crazy how wealth inequality is like this, average middle class person barely feels the squeeze whilst a poor person faces food security issues and such.
I work in the nhs and we have food boxes set up for employees to take stuff from that’s donated, it’s a joke
The issue here is food banks being a necessity at all. People collapse for various reasons all the time, and two miles is not a particularly ridiculous distance to walk so this particular woman collapsing is a great clickbait headline but not particularly informative or outlook changing.
lOaDs oF tHeSe pEoPlE cAn aFFoRd fOoD tHeY jUsT wAnT a fReE mEaL!
Seeing a distinct lack of evidence for any collapsing in the article
There’s a difference between walking 2 miles on your own and then walking 2 miles with a pram, two kids, changing bags and your own stuff whilst sleep deprived and starving.
We need a very serious discussion in this country about wealth, what we expect, and what we’re prepared to pay.
No one likes food banks, poor NHS service, a crumbling education system, poor rail service,
and a government who seem to use their positions for themselves and their mates.
But we aren’t having the right discussions.
We need to talk about mismanagement, contracts, bursaries, and wages in the NHS. Are we all prepared to pay more taxes to afford it? Should the rich pay more tax? Should the rich have insurance, and if so, what’s the limit before you have to? Should the people at the top of the NHS earn less, and what about middle management? What about positions like “diversity officer”? How do we recruit more nurses/doctors and stop them leaving and how do we afford it?
Should teachers earn more? How much more, and how do we recruit more? Why are most teaching staff female and how do we equalise that and attract more men to the profession? Should we stop tax breaks for private schools?
How do we renationalise rail knowing that British rail in the 70s/80s was diabolical? At what point do we say rail workers earn too much for what they do? How do we improve the service? At what point should we move to an automated system? Are we all prepared to pay more tax towards it since less people are using the service since it’s shit?
Should we move to a proportional representation system? How would that impact our democracy? Would it allow for more fringe groups akin to the BNP or Alva to have a say and are we happy with that? Should we devolve powers to local councils more effectively? And what do we do about the possibility of the UK breaking up? How do we in the UK want to be governed?
Should we rejoin the EU, and if so, are we all happy with going back to a neo-liberal group of unelected bureaucrats? How do we then deal with countries like Hungary and Poland whose governments seem at odds with western European diversity values? What would our place in the EU be if we did rejoin?
Should politicians be banned from second jobs? If so, should they be paid more as their jobs are the most responsible in the country? How do we change the way they govern? What do we do about their behaviour? Do we have diversity quotas or should it be entirely meritocratic? Should they come from certain backgrounds or jobs? How do we run the country better?
Should we be growing more food? How can we do it? How are we going to deal with our energy crisis? Solar, wind, wave, tidal, nuclear? Should we get rid of investment from abroad and create our own to sell abroad? How many jobs can be created? How can we utilise said energy production to grow more food? Do we resort to GMO?
All of these questions need asking! And we simply aren’t because they are all so bloody complex and everyone has an opinion. We need, as a society, to really decide the future of our nation.
I’d prefer we move to a Scandinavian model. Higher taxes, better services, better welfare, BUT less materialism. An overall quality of life improvement but not relying on commerce to do it. And with more focus on family.
This article literally doesn’t say anything about why this woman collapsed after a 30 minute walk, it barely mentions her outside the first sentence.
With respect, she could have collapsed after a 30 minute walk to the library, or to the shop, or to literally anything else. It’s not a long walk, and while there are issues with food security this is clearly clickbait and should be discouraged.
>bringbackboris•1 DAY AGO
>When Blair started this food bank thing i wonder if he knew they’d become big business with directors earning huge salaries. Mind he opened the eu doors to ensure some people would need them.
Someone get on there and call that guy a cunt please
Note the article didn’t say she collapsed due to starvation or hunger. As such it can be safely assumed they omitted that she was a known drug addict, alcoholic or something like that which caused her to collapse and that is totally unrelated to an inability to buy food.
Christ. This is awful.
The headline reads like a soundbite from a charity advert for some third world country.
The article isn’t even about the specific incident in the headline, but the more general issues.
So a woman collapsed? Sad, but it happens. Hopefully she’s OK.
I see the foodbank part of the story is actually irrelevant though, once you read the article, and is included more as clickbait than anything else.