\u201cGlobal inflation in the price of food began in late 2006, and especially after the financial crisis of 2007\u201308 began to further worsen economic conditions for those on low income.<\/p>\n
The growth of food banks has been broadly welcomed, most especially by those on the right of the political spectrum, but also by many on the left, who see them as evidence of active community that is independent of the state. However, academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of foodbanks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that food banks can be inefficient compared with state run services, and that some people feel ashamed at having to turn to them\u201d.<\/p>\n
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The above is a quote from a Wikipedia article on food banks, and it is highly relevant for the welcome by right wingers in the UK.\u00a0 They see this as a means of cutting welfare payments, the \u201csomething for nothing\u201d attitude so shockingly adopted by Johann Lamont when she was the Labour leader in Scotland.<\/p>\n
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I was born in 1934, and lived through the Second World War; admittedly I was aged 11 when the war ended so was not politically aware, but I remember rationing and shortage of fruit in particular, but nobody starved, there were no food banks to which underpaid workers were patronisingly referred.\u00a0 This is not an attack on food banks but on the political climate which has spawned them.<\/p>\n
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As far as my comment on underpaid workers is concerned, the use of zero hours contracts was something unheard of during my working life.\u00a0 We keep getting told that the austerity plan is working and that jobs are being created in astonishing numbers \u2013 can it be that people on zero hours contracts are classed as in jobs?\u00a0 Irony of ironies \u2013 you have a job, so that makes you a good statistic for the government, but if you don\u2019t get paid \u2013 or just get buttons, it doesn\u2019t help the economy, a con there.<\/p>\n
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So there you have it, they are beating the deficit created by their pals in the financial world to whom they have given reduced tax rates, seen charity taking over what government should do and taken people off\u00a0 unemployment<\/p>\n
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It was just like the previous wheeze when people who were unemployed had unemployment benefit stopped and then had to go for disability benefit so the government said the number of unemployed was down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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