Sunday, 19 April 2015

Strong Economy or Fair Society?

The shameful legacy of five years of Lib Dem / Tory government. According to the Trussell Trust, nearly a million people had to rely on charity food handouts last year.

Hedge End has not been immune to this consequence of ideologically driven austerity. Our local food bank is not run by the Trussell Trust, but by Kings Community Church in Upper Northam Road.
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  1. renard27 April 2015 at 22:24

    Keith, three days after your blog, the Trussell Trust had to apologise and admit that this story was UNTRUE. Food banks did NOT feed a million people. What they meant to say was that they had issued a million food parcels, mostly to repeat customers, which is a totally different story! Their chairman, Chris Mould, added added that the charity "would review the way its publishes its figures in future." One has to question their motives in issuing a patently false and politically damaging story so close to an election . . .

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  2. Keith Day28 April 2015 at 18:29

    Thanks for the comment renard. But I'm not sure it makes much difference if we are talking about one person requiring help three times or three people requiring help once. A society where people have to depend on charity handouts to survive while the super-rich have doubled their wealth can hardly be described as "fair".

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