Food bank

[Jammy89]

Just makes you proud to have them in charge.

That money could make so much of a difference.

[Zippity]

It's fantastic. Such a boost to the city.

Meanwhile, the mackems-who come from an even more economically deprived area-are having a go at it whilst, at the same time, revelling in the paedo Johnson goal against us.

Odd folk.

[Alberts__Lob]

It's great but they've not done as much as me!

[toptoon]

A serious question from someone who lives abroad and is out of touch with this in the UK. When I lived there, there were no food banks, so what’s happened? Are unemployment and other benefits still being paid?
If so why do so many people not have enough money to buy food?

[Alberts__Lob]

A serious question from someone who lives abroad and is out of touch with this in the UK. When I lived there, there were no food banks, so what’s happened? Are unemployment and other benefits still being paid?
If so why do so many people not have enough money to buy food?

Benefits are being paid and people are being given additional 'Cost of Living' payments too but it's clearly not solving the problem. It's quite alarming the number of food banks popping up in a supposedly wealthy and developed country

[ex_pat_magpie]

A serious question from someone who lives abroad and is out of touch with this in the UK. When I lived there, there were no food banks, so what’s happened? Are unemployment and other benefits still being paid?
If so why do so many people not have enough money to buy food?

What's the situation in Brazil TopToon. I mean economically, cost of living, inflation, wage demands etc?

It's all been festering for years here now with 12 years of austerity, half the country sold off by the gory tories, workers on minimal or no increases, banks, bankers, investors and share holders flourishing.

No one can account for the billions which must have been saved by the sell offs and austerity years, yet 15 years ago the NHS and other government services and agencies were much more efficient than today, inflation much lower, interest rates much lower and wages for the workers fairer.

One MP interviewed this week said they only had a 2% rise this year comparing this to the nurses requirements. He didn't say how much they had been given over the years that the real wages of the nurses had diminished though.

Hundreds of tories on the take during the covid supplies scams will need to be taken to task when the final accounts are verified.

It can't come soon enough.

[toptoon]

Thanks for the replies, Lads but I’m still none the wiser.

[Alberts__Lob]

Thanks for the replies, Lads but I’m still none the wiser.

A bloke with no teeth came up to me in the street the other day and followed me into the post office banging on about "cocaine this, cocaine that, cocaine everywhere".......he's come up to me before banging on about COL payments but it sounds like his was a 'Cost of Cocaine' payment. I'm not suggesting all these food banks are springing up because everyone is spending their money on drugs but it's definitely a contributing factor

[ex_pat_magpie]

Thanks for the replies, Lads but I’m still none the wiser.

Simply put TopToon, it is the last 12 years of government mismanagement and so called austerity, selling off police stations and under staffing those left as an example, which has dragged this country down to the dogs.

In this time the rich have become considerably richer and the rest of us considerably poorer. People such as the nurses, other medical staff, the teachers, government workers and millions more have watched the pounds in their pockets buying less and less and are not getting wage rises relevant to rising costs.

Whereas those in power with their finger in the pies have been raking it in with various scams e.g. that tory tart baroness, now on the run, recently exposed having companies making fortunes supplying dodgy products to the government as also Matt Hancocks pub owner mate who won dodgy deals to supply £millions of supplies to the N.H.S.

I'll tell you after the next general election there will be a public audit and there will be much embarrasment exposed that you won't beleive it.

[ex_pat_magpie]

A brilliant example has just been reported (live recording) on radio LBC, Rishi Sunak serving food at a homeless shelter, showing just how out of touch this lot are.

He asked the lad how he was and the reply was "I'm hungry" the next throw away question was "Do you work in business"

You just couldn't make it up and, for myself I wouldn't have believed it hadn't I actually heard it live.