Food Banks

[tommy.irene]

27 bishops slam David Cameron's welfare reforms as creating a national crisis in unprecedented attack

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/27-bishops-slam-david-camerons-3164033#ixzz2uu9KJIxF 
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[tommy.irene]

The Rich get Richer and the Poor strave..

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

Carey hits out at ‘naive’ bishops in poverty row

The welfare state has reached “gargantuan” proportions and bishops are doing the Church no favours by entering the political debate about benefit cuts, a former Archbishop of Canterbury warns today.

Lord Carey of Clifton says that it was simplistic for Church leaders, including the head of Britain’s Catholics and 27 Anglican bishops, to blame cuts for the rising use of food banks.

Such opposition to reducing the welfare bill was “Canute-like” and reflected an “overt left-right politicisation of Church versus government”.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4015252.ece

[cee-dee]

Might be an idea for some of the wealthy religious organisations to make more contribution to helping "the poor" instead of swelling their own coffers?

[lhasa.two]

He would say that wouldn't he!

Seriously, I don't agree with him as I think the "Church" can have an input on the decision making process made by politicians. The Bishops are after all, in this case, commenting on what they see on the "street" and food banks haven't happened before the cuts started, so it's bound to be a reflection of how hard it is for some to make ends meet.   The problem is compounded, imho, by people not knowing how to cook... 

[spawnjohnuk]

Mr cameron says starving gives them hope lolololololol omg  Ive fell off me chair hahaha 

[spawnjohnuk]

ps hahahaha

[Anonymous]

Hope of what?!!!

[spawnjohnuk]

read the link on camerons answer to the archbishops who are saying its wrong, he says the welfare reform gives the foodbank users hope lol...of what I have no idea...leaving the planet early maybe .

[Anonymous]

Maybe he is trying to reduce obesity.

[spawnjohnuk]

well it is a moral mission 🙂  mcdonalds wont be happy if thats his plan lol

[spawnjohnuk]

I honestly didnt know how stupid they were until now (I had my suspicions lol)  ,it's incredibly frightening to realise your being led by someone who has no idea what the human race comprises of .

[joe_bloggs*]

On BBC 1 now panorama Hungry Britain

[spawnjohnuk]

thanks joe will watch

[captainbovine]

don't get me started on this one.....it's an absolute disgrace, this country having 350 food banks, and our prime idiot minister sending donations to "poorer" countries around the world.

true the churches do as much as they can at grass root level, but higher up there's a lot of money that could be released to help the situation.

I never thought I would live to see the day that people had to go to food banks to survive.

[baybizz]

UK Food banks: It's just as bad in what was supposed to be that coming economic paradise on earth - the land of the Euro:

ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/foodbanks/483354#M41315

[baybizz]

Terrible place Britain, isn't it?  That must be why so many people want to come and live here:

>> UK is Europe's top destination for EU migrants:

www.dailymail.co.uk/2562534/UK-Europes-top-migrant-destination

[baybizz]

>> #1:   27 Anglican bishops and 16 other clergy accuse the Tory-led coalition of creating hardship and hunger... It underlines the deep concern felt by the churches over the Coalition’s brutal welfare cuts which have left so many facing hunger and hardship...



>> The EU has 7% of world's population, 25% of its economy - and 50% of its welfare spending...  (Angela Merkel - German Chancellor):

www.dailymail.co.uk/article-2539584/welfare-spending



>> "Europe will have to "work very hard" to maintain the current most generous welfare system in the world...

>> "We witnessed in the former communist East Germany, and in the entire socialist system, that an economy which is no longer competitive denies people prosperity, and ultimately leads to great instability...

www.ft.com/8cc0f584-45fa-11e2/merkel-eu-world-welfare

[al**bear]

IDS and the Toffs only answer to the attacks on them from all over, is that

Universal credit WILL change it all

But the poor and even some in Work are getting hammered NOW, because of the DWPs changes and the vindictive taking away of Benefits or failure to start paying them to the worse off

While Universal Credit is coming in at a snails pace and only for the least complicated cases & only in a few select trial areas. It will be years and years before this system is running

For the vast majority of claimants, you're only option are foodbanks, including increasing numbers being sent there by the Benefits agencies themselves, who no longer give out emergency payments.

STOP the changes/cuts & cutting off of Benefits, until you have the system replacing them up and running

The total Benefit costs are rocketing each decade, not because of the Poor, but because of the increase in the number of Pensioners & Workers needing benefits because of slave wages, Part time hours and ridiculous Rent costs in the Private sector

[al**bear]

More People for the TOFFs to attack

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A campaign aimed at highlighting the "humanitarian crisis" caused by poverty in Scotland has been launched by a group of charities.

The Scotland's Outlook campaign claimed hundreds of thousands of people were being "battered" by welfare reforms, stagnant wages, rising utility bills, higher living costs and job insecurity.

And it said many families were having to use food banks to feed themselves.

It called on people across the country to "join the fight against poverty".

The campaign is being run jointly by Macmillan, Shelter Scotland, Oxfam, Alzheimer Scotland, Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS), Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the Poverty Alliance and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO).

It claimed more than 870,000 people in Scotland were living in poverty, with a fifth of children in Scotland living below the breadline and 23,000 people having turned to food banks in the past six months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-26424477