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Hunger In Britain Today
Following on from the Food Banks thread, if hunger in Britain really is as prevalent as it's claimed to be, you would think the Daily Mirror, the champion of the ‘working classes’ might have taken the trouble to find a genuinely British, genuinely poor, child for its front page picture. If its headline is anything to go by it shouldn’t have been too difficult.
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Tut! Just who can you believe?
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Tut! Just who can you believe?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.At last conclusive proof that children are not hungry in this country and that food banks are a myth.
The numpties at the Daily Mirror filch a photo of a girl crying because her pet worm wiggled away and tried to pass it off as a Brotish Child crying from hunger.
If they fine investigative gentleman couldn't fine any real starving Britons, then the must not exist.
Or the journalistic standards at the Mirror are a joke.
I'm beginning to doubt old people die of hypothermia now, having never seen a picture of a frosty OAP in the tabloids.
The numpties at the Daily Mirror filch a photo of a girl crying because her pet worm wiggled away and tried to pass it off as a Brotish Child crying from hunger.
If they fine investigative gentleman couldn't fine any real starving Britons, then the must not exist.
Or the journalistic standards at the Mirror are a joke.
I'm beginning to doubt old people die of hypothermia now, having never seen a picture of a frosty OAP in the tabloids.
The question posed "why did Britain give out 1m food parcels?" needs to be answered. And it has not been - as my thoughts in the "foodbank" question will confirm. Nobody has satisfactorily explained (other than to say something like "it's the cost of living") why these 1m people have seen their circumstances reduced so drastically and so rapidly.
NJ, the paper version of the Independent's article here http:// www.ind ependen t.co.uk /news/u k/polit ics/chu rches-u nite-to -act-on -food-p overty- 600-lea ders-fr om-all- denomin ations- demand- governm ent-utu rn-on-p unitive -benefi ts-sanc tions-9 263035. html gives case studies which although only a couple of instances seem to indicate the somewhat harsher benefits sanctions for minor infringements seem to cause at least some of them. One was a man who said on a form that he had been looking for work Mon - Fri and the correct period should be Thu-Thu for which he received a 4 week sanction meaning he had no cash income for that period, he was referred to a Food Bank after he could not feed his children who were coming for their monthly visit. Others mentioned the fact that they now had to pay the shortfall in housing benefit due to the 'bedroom tax' to avoid losing their homes and therefore could afford less food, even though there were no 'correctly sized' homes for them to move to.
Some comments remind me of the old notion of the "deserving poor" and "the undeserving poor" illustrated by G.B.S.
Nobody wishes to use resources on individuals who misuse the funds they possess but this can be inevitable in giving aid to the majority of deserving cases and has to be accepted in a humane society.
Nobody wishes to use resources on individuals who misuse the funds they possess but this can be inevitable in giving aid to the majority of deserving cases and has to be accepted in a humane society.
According to the this article - http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/bu siness- 2703264 2
A large number of food bank 'customers' were there because their benefits had been delayed for some reason and a third of the 'cases' were repeat visitors.
A large number of food bank 'customers' were there because their benefits had been delayed for some reason and a third of the 'cases' were repeat visitors.
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