An organisation I fully support that has no right existing in a so called western ‘civilisation’. That a group like the Trusell Trust experiences this much demand is a damning indictment of our country.
Without reading the article, I’m going to guess the ‘how’ is…
Tories revelling in making the poor suffer, and genuinely begrudging people being able to eat?
I wish all food banks all the goodwill in the world, but we could close 90% of them if we had a government that had any interest in looking after its people.
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The fact it exists at all is a disgrace.
Yes, they do a good job but it shouldn’t be needed in the 6th richest country in the world.
It’s impressive… but also sad that there is such a need for food banks.
If you give away free stuff, some people will take it. Anti-Tory propagandists love to broadcast the fact that some people accept free food as if it’s evidence that they can’t afford food, because 14 years of Toreees, but that’s like using the fact that some people accept free newspapers as evidence that people can’t afford newspapers.
What 15 years of 0 meaningful economic growth does to a country
I’ve been the treasurer of a foodbank for 12 years. We’re in a fairly well off area but border less well of neighbourhoods. 12 years ago we were a cupboard in the corner run by the church youth group, last year we gave out £120,000 worth of food (1kg=£1.25 for accounting purposes) plus energy support we try not to advertise (£20 top up on a prepay meter – if that got out we’d burn cash and we are a foodbank first). We are well funded by the community, support and work alongside the local debt advice charities and other non-Trussell foodbanks.
We should not exist. The root cause is the housing market/cost of accommodation. I’m also a district councillor – the state of housing and social housing is shambolic. The district council has responsibility for housing but owning or building houses is almost impossible (and why they sold all their stock to housing associations early 2000s). Just like the state of how you sell a house in England the problem is MPs in power are so far detached from the reality they will never do anything because they don’t feel the pain.
We have also had people coming in saying “the government are doing a great job supporting us with these food banks”. It makes you want to cry. Our local MP (Tory very safe seat) told one of our volunteers (a middle aged woman) that foodbanks only exist to give middle aged women something to do – sadly it’s only repeatable anecdotally and anonymously.
Can’t wait for a Tory minister to tout this as a Great British success story
Tory Press: “Huge Brexit benefit as small startup goes from garden shed to 1,300 locations.”
The fact that it had to is a big indicator that something isn’t right in the world.
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An organisation I fully support that has no right existing in a so called western ‘civilisation’. That a group like the Trusell Trust experiences this much demand is a damning indictment of our country.
Without reading the article, I’m going to guess the ‘how’ is…
Tories revelling in making the poor suffer, and genuinely begrudging people being able to eat?
I wish all food banks all the goodwill in the world, but we could close 90% of them if we had a government that had any interest in looking after its people.
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The fact it exists at all is a disgrace.
Yes, they do a good job but it shouldn’t be needed in the 6th richest country in the world.
It’s impressive… but also sad that there is such a need for food banks.
If you give away free stuff, some people will take it. Anti-Tory propagandists love to broadcast the fact that some people accept free food as if it’s evidence that they can’t afford food, because 14 years of Toreees, but that’s like using the fact that some people accept free newspapers as evidence that people can’t afford newspapers.
What 15 years of 0 meaningful economic growth does to a country
I’ve been the treasurer of a foodbank for 12 years. We’re in a fairly well off area but border less well of neighbourhoods. 12 years ago we were a cupboard in the corner run by the church youth group, last year we gave out £120,000 worth of food (1kg=£1.25 for accounting purposes) plus energy support we try not to advertise (£20 top up on a prepay meter – if that got out we’d burn cash and we are a foodbank first). We are well funded by the community, support and work alongside the local debt advice charities and other non-Trussell foodbanks.
We should not exist. The root cause is the housing market/cost of accommodation. I’m also a district councillor – the state of housing and social housing is shambolic. The district council has responsibility for housing but owning or building houses is almost impossible (and why they sold all their stock to housing associations early 2000s). Just like the state of how you sell a house in England the problem is MPs in power are so far detached from the reality they will never do anything because they don’t feel the pain.
We have also had people coming in saying “the government are doing a great job supporting us with these food banks”. It makes you want to cry. Our local MP (Tory very safe seat) told one of our volunteers (a middle aged woman) that foodbanks only exist to give middle aged women something to do – sadly it’s only repeatable anecdotally and anonymously.
Can’t wait for a Tory minister to tout this as a Great British success story
Tory Press: “Huge Brexit benefit as small startup goes from garden shed to 1,300 locations.”
The fact that it had to is a big indicator that something isn’t right in the world.