Seanm
pfm Member
Why did it suddenly get much more complex in 2010, when the government began its punitive cuts to benefits?indeed someone will always miss out.
when I volunteered for a foodbank, it was clear that a number were spending their benefits on booze and fags, and using the food bank to feed themselves.
There was evidence of others receiving food from the foodbank and selling it on.
no one should be ashamed of foodbanks, they are a modern form of charity. Charities have existed for 100s of yesrs to support people. Yes the tightening of the benefits system is to blame, yes increases in prices of food due to brexit is to blame, yes ppl irresponsible with their income ate to blame.
this is massively complex and to blame just the government is naive
It’s not especially complex. The government is largely to blame, in that it could easily increase allowances and end punitive fines so as to completely remove the need for food banks.
Issues around housing, precarious and low paid work, care and so on are somewhat more complex, but there are policy levers the government could pull to address them very effectively, if it chose to. It chooses not to, so it’s to blame.