#Foodbank bashing: when #poverty dares speak its name - The @Conservatives are trying to discredit food banks because the alternative would be to accept that their policies are creating poverty. On #Easter Sunday, that paragon of #Christian virtue the Daily Mail Online ran a story about food banks. Not about how nearly a million people have been driven to such extreme poverty in David Cameron’s Britain that they cannot afford to feed themselves, no, but about how one of its reporters lied to a food bank to obtain a free food parcel. The point of the story? To make out that it’s easy to get free food from food banks and that those who do so are simply on the #scrounge rather than in genuine need. It’s pretty clear what’s prompted this bile. Not only does the soaring rise in food banks undermine the right’s rhetoric about #benefit #claimants, it also reveals the nature of in-work poverty. Why would the sick or #unemployed be referred to a food bank if they weren’t in desperate need of food? Aren’t they supposed to be living a life of luxury at the taxpayers’ expense? And if food bank users have a job, why can’t they afford to feed themselves?
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:48:31 +0000
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