I work alongside some remarkable and dedicated people who work in or run food banks.
That being said it makes me incredibly sad and angry that Britain the worlds 5th largest economy has food banks, the Tory party have pushed millions into poverty.
the Tory party would let the working class starve and die in the streets if it didn’t effect polling.
Politicians are creating a rod for their own back letting people go hungry. We all know what happened to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette…
This will also see a reduction in donations as fewer households have that little bit left over in their food budget to help out. Hunger can affect your performance at work of school, not just your health, a hungry nation is a less productive nation.
It’s *fucking disgusting* that this is a reality for so many.
It’s a political choice. Someone has deemed this acceptable.
Where will tory MPs pose in front of next Xmas with a family pack of mince pies?
It boils my piss when you see food bank donation spots in supermarkets. These cunts have the *actual* ability to provide everything for vulnerable people themselves but they’re asking us to donate.
My daughter and I went into Aldi at closing on the way home and she saw the lorry for the food waste. I think it will sit with her for a very long time.
Thankyou for the votes for context we have used food banks / vouchers in the past, shes 10 and I’ve given her a huge understanding about food. We don’t waste, we have a dutchie pot and she cooks with me. So when she saw it she didn’t understand why we need food banks, nor why her Grandmother wrestled a man to the ground for stealing a sausage roll not long back. We usually give the homeless food and no we don’t agree with the ridiculous actions of my mother.
The government really needs to do something and not the ridiculous rhetoric of the likes of JRM considering them “uplifting”
They’re nothing but a signal of a growing crisis of an increasing number of people unable to afford to feed themselves.
Ironically if foodbanks reach breaking point now there’s going to be far more people left hungry than if there were zero foodbanks, the crisis happened in 2010, and the government were forced into corrective action to ensure those on benefits can afford to feed themselves back when the problem was smaller.
I think people will start to steal and that’s okay they are hungry .
Its not solely a uk problem unfortunately, this is a worldwide issue and sadly not one that seems to have any end. Our equally wealthy neighbours have very similar issues, France has the largest usage of foodbanks in Europe. I get that blaming tories is cool (and very on trend at the moment) but unless they have worldwide influence then simply blaming bojo for this achieves nothing.
37 billion on a broken track and trace plus 7 billion on crony PPE deals and then i read of this. Governments suck.
The fact that we even have a need for food banks in the UK and that it is normalised countrywide is disgusting.
I know that to a lot of middle class they are essentially seen as the equivalent of soup kitchens for homeless people but we have got to the point with wages where its a lot of *working people* who are needing to use them.
How is this even a thing in one of the biggest economies on the planet? And why do so many people not care?
Thank you for the reminder. I just donated money to my local food bank. If you can, please do the same. It’s easy and it allows them to buy what they need to supplement what’s already donated
I am so glad Jezemy Comboblyn and his communism didn’t win, I mean people would starve more if it wasn’t for Big Bojo and his pregnant possie/s
Awful, I hate what’s happened to this country. Trussell Trust is a good NGO to donate to, if you also hate this.
Volunteered at a food bank. People are incredibly generous, and a lot of mainstream companies and local bakeries will donate foodstuffs like bread. That being said, it’s honestly heartbreaking to see how busy it can get. It’s truly shameful that people are reliant on them to survive in the UK; this shouldn’t be happening.
My local food bank recently posted this as a reverse advent of what they need most often in January.
I’d encourage any one with the means to try and support their local food bank of they can. This year is going to get a lot worse for a lot of people and the government won’t help them.
Unfortunately unless the majority of the population wake up to the way this country is run for the benefit of the rich nothing will change and the only one to blame is the people who vote for the present government.
Cannot fathom how we can allow this to continue as a country. The richest part of this country live to such extreme excess, and the poorers live in such poverty. We have the ability and means to help those in need, yet are stuck in a system which praises greed and diacourages sharing.
It’s unacceptable that people are unable to live without handouts. That’s why it’s good that they won’t have to compete with so much cheap labour any more, so wages should start to rise; it means that house prices are too high, so we should raise interest rates*; and it means that benefits are either not high enough or being mis-spent.
*: low interest rates fuel house prices in two ways, both related to the demand side: (i) by increasing the size of mortgage people think they can afford, and (ii) by making other investments’ yield worse so investors look to property to generate a decent yield for their wealth
Maybe if people get angry enough they’ll actually have some proper protests that scare the shit out of the wealthy.
But that pack of Tory-voters sang a song about sausage rolls! I thought we’d solved this!
With the price of… literally everything… going up, surely we’re going to see more and more of this.
Looks like the Tories are going to achieve their goal of turning the clock back to the golden Dickensian days of workhouses, poorhouses, massive wealth inequality and comically posh wankers ruling over the disheveled masses.
What baffles me is the amount of food waste that occurs due to food safety worries, I’m sure many hungry homeless would rather a 0.01 chance of the shits over starving.
Ladbaby are culpable for normalising foodbanks over the years
much love to everyone who volunteers at food banks
My local Tesco has a food donation bin and it’s nearly always full with donations . I try to donate at least once a week when doing a shop. You can buy quite a large amount of stuff for only a few ££s
There are more food banks than McDonalds in the UK.
They should open a food bank outside Westminster. Then politicians can no longer ignore it.
See the trick is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then eat the straps (lightly seasoned)
The British elites should know better; the working classes have revolted before with deadly results.
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I work alongside some remarkable and dedicated people who work in or run food banks.
That being said it makes me incredibly sad and angry that Britain the worlds 5th largest economy has food banks, the Tory party have pushed millions into poverty.
the Tory party would let the working class starve and die in the streets if it didn’t effect polling.
Politicians are creating a rod for their own back letting people go hungry. We all know what happened to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette…
This will also see a reduction in donations as fewer households have that little bit left over in their food budget to help out. Hunger can affect your performance at work of school, not just your health, a hungry nation is a less productive nation.
It’s *fucking disgusting* that this is a reality for so many.
It’s a political choice. Someone has deemed this acceptable.
Where will tory MPs pose in front of next Xmas with a family pack of mince pies?
It boils my piss when you see food bank donation spots in supermarkets. These cunts have the *actual* ability to provide everything for vulnerable people themselves but they’re asking us to donate.
My daughter and I went into Aldi at closing on the way home and she saw the lorry for the food waste. I think it will sit with her for a very long time.
Thankyou for the votes for context we have used food banks / vouchers in the past, shes 10 and I’ve given her a huge understanding about food. We don’t waste, we have a dutchie pot and she cooks with me. So when she saw it she didn’t understand why we need food banks, nor why her Grandmother wrestled a man to the ground for stealing a sausage roll not long back. We usually give the homeless food and no we don’t agree with the ridiculous actions of my mother.
The government really needs to do something and not the ridiculous rhetoric of the likes of JRM considering them “uplifting”
They’re nothing but a signal of a growing crisis of an increasing number of people unable to afford to feed themselves.
Ironically if foodbanks reach breaking point now there’s going to be far more people left hungry than if there were zero foodbanks, the crisis happened in 2010, and the government were forced into corrective action to ensure those on benefits can afford to feed themselves back when the problem was smaller.
I think people will start to steal and that’s okay they are hungry .
Its not solely a uk problem unfortunately, this is a worldwide issue and sadly not one that seems to have any end. Our equally wealthy neighbours have very similar issues, France has the largest usage of foodbanks in Europe. I get that blaming tories is cool (and very on trend at the moment) but unless they have worldwide influence then simply blaming bojo for this achieves nothing.
37 billion on a broken track and trace plus 7 billion on crony PPE deals and then i read of this. Governments suck.
The fact that we even have a need for food banks in the UK and that it is normalised countrywide is disgusting.
I know that to a lot of middle class they are essentially seen as the equivalent of soup kitchens for homeless people but we have got to the point with wages where its a lot of *working people* who are needing to use them.
How is this even a thing in one of the biggest economies on the planet? And why do so many people not care?
Thank you for the reminder. I just donated money to my local food bank. If you can, please do the same. It’s easy and it allows them to buy what they need to supplement what’s already donated
I am so glad Jezemy Comboblyn and his communism didn’t win, I mean people would starve more if it wasn’t for Big Bojo and his pregnant possie/s
Awful, I hate what’s happened to this country. Trussell Trust is a good NGO to donate to, if you also hate this.
Volunteered at a food bank. People are incredibly generous, and a lot of mainstream companies and local bakeries will donate foodstuffs like bread. That being said, it’s honestly heartbreaking to see how busy it can get. It’s truly shameful that people are reliant on them to survive in the UK; this shouldn’t be happening.
[Food bank reverse advent](https://imgur.com/a/M1RhFPq)
My local food bank recently posted this as a reverse advent of what they need most often in January.
I’d encourage any one with the means to try and support their local food bank of they can. This year is going to get a lot worse for a lot of people and the government won’t help them.
Unfortunately unless the majority of the population wake up to the way this country is run for the benefit of the rich nothing will change and the only one to blame is the people who vote for the present government.
Cannot fathom how we can allow this to continue as a country. The richest part of this country live to such extreme excess, and the poorers live in such poverty. We have the ability and means to help those in need, yet are stuck in a system which praises greed and diacourages sharing.
It’s unacceptable that people are unable to live without handouts. That’s why it’s good that they won’t have to compete with so much cheap labour any more, so wages should start to rise; it means that house prices are too high, so we should raise interest rates*; and it means that benefits are either not high enough or being mis-spent.
*: low interest rates fuel house prices in two ways, both related to the demand side: (i) by increasing the size of mortgage people think they can afford, and (ii) by making other investments’ yield worse so investors look to property to generate a decent yield for their wealth
Maybe if people get angry enough they’ll actually have some proper protests that scare the shit out of the wealthy.
But that pack of Tory-voters sang a song about sausage rolls! I thought we’d solved this!
With the price of… literally everything… going up, surely we’re going to see more and more of this.
Looks like the Tories are going to achieve their goal of turning the clock back to the golden Dickensian days of workhouses, poorhouses, massive wealth inequality and comically posh wankers ruling over the disheveled masses.
What baffles me is the amount of food waste that occurs due to food safety worries, I’m sure many hungry homeless would rather a 0.01 chance of the shits over starving.
Ladbaby are culpable for normalising foodbanks over the years
much love to everyone who volunteers at food banks
My local Tesco has a food donation bin and it’s nearly always full with donations . I try to donate at least once a week when doing a shop. You can buy quite a large amount of stuff for only a few ££s
There are more food banks than McDonalds in the UK.
They should open a food bank outside Westminster. Then politicians can no longer ignore it.
See the trick is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then eat the straps (lightly seasoned)
The British elites should know better; the working classes have revolted before with deadly results.