" No massive use for food banks"...... apparently

h_m_boro said:
......... according to Tory MP Lee Anderson 😳😳😳.

Really don't know where to start with this 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

www.independent.co.uk

Tory MP claims no ‘massive use’ for food banks in UK

‘We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch’
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I've just read this in the Guardian, unbelievable that they think it all down to budgeting and cooking skills.

How far out of touch are these people?
 
Johnson cannot be expected to feed the poor.
He has to find billions to look after Ukrainians, Fins and Swedes first by the effin look of it.
Utter r sole. I'd rejoice if Putin took him out.
 
Thatcher and her political descendants promote selfishness.

The wicked old hag said: (referencing the poor, unemployed etc)
"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours."

Conservative voters took it at her word, except they don't bother with the last phrase.



"When selfishness is state of the art, you just have to change the locks on your heart" (c) Neil Innes
 
Maybe they should have their expenses limited to £75 per week (Job Seekers allowance)

Was their a Conservative MP who said he could not live on £83k a year or £1650 per week?
 
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Infamously Mathew Parris said he could live on a single person's benefit allowance in a bedsit and save money...........

"The programme showed Parris arriving on Tyneside and signing on. He spent £11 on food, £2.50 on a terrace ticket for a Newcastle United game and 72p on a bus ticket to get there. And, as Barnes observed, "with two days to go he was down to his last 61p, and his plan to save £3 out of his £26.80 had collapsed. On his last evening the gas and electricity ran out and he loitered in a working men's club, unable to afford a drink."
 
zzzzz said:
Infamously Mathew Parris said he could live on a single person's benefit allowance in a bedsit and save money...........

"The programme showed Parris arriving on Tyneside and signing on. He spent £11 on food, £2.50 on a terrace ticket for a Newcastle United game and 72p on a bus ticket to get there. And, as Barnes observed, "with two days to go he was down to his last 61p, and his plan to save £3 out of his £26.80 had collapsed. On his last evening the gas and electricity ran out and he loitered in a working men's club, unable to afford a drink."
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That was in 1982 - prices are much higher now - at least £30 at Newcastle instead of £2.50, I would say £44 per week required in food, but you would never get 4 times £26.80 in 2022 (£107.20 per week) more like £74.70 for basics or £59.20 if under 25 in 2022. Hence the need for more food banks today than in 1982.
 
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