Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
a rather alarming increase of use of food banks up 168%on last year dispite the susposed recovery.the report is rather damming.
http://home.bt.com/news/uknews/shocking-rise-in-food-banks-use-11363893797505Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,637
I am surprised that anybody is surprised that food bank use is increasing, much like benefits if it is there the majority of people in need once they know about it will make use of it.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I agree Jan.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
a big problem is when the dwp stop people's benefits then reinstate them at a later date.
many live week to week and don't have enough food to carry them over.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
We send £billions abroad to countries with spaceships, peculiar set of priorities.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The fact that there is a need for them at all is a reflection that there are people really suffering, no doubt people are referred to them now by all sorts of organisations hence the growth in their use.
Audere est facere.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
I laughed out loud at the Daily Mirror front page this morning. Quite made my day seeing them using a supposedly weeping child to add a touch of tragedy to their main headline.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlSlcoMIYAA8tLn.jpg
It was a picture taken in 2009 in, wait for it, San Francisco. That's in North America folks. It seems they are unable to find our own crying children who are suffering so terribly because of the rise of food banks or something you know poverty and stuff like that that labour blame on the Tories isn't it awful it's all the posh boys' fault vote labour and we can all live in perpetual happiness etc. etc. etc.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Guardian last week Mirror today, closet Socialist ?
Audere est facere.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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No such thing Martin. I've never met someone who hides their left wing principles. It makes them seem caring, sharing and, you know, kinda nice hey I'm cool, I'm a people person kinda guy you know? (upward inflection at the end of the sentence).
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Do you have a general view of people with right wing views?
Audere est facere.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Being right wing, as far as the general term is understood, encompasses a whole host of different standpoints so it's impossible to describe the average "right winger" not that I consider myself a right winger. Perhaps more of a wing nut but hey.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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A pathological dislike of all things socialist would normally indicate right wing but hey
Just trying to imagine Dennis Skinner as a cool people person
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
we are gradualy nailing philip down.
dislikes politicians of all colours, religious leaders, environmentalists, wind farms and polar bears and is paranoid about dogs.
we need reg to give him a proper label.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Martin P wrote:A pathological dislike of all things socialist would normally indicate right wing but hey
Not necessarily, Martin. But you will get accused of being right wing by the hand-wringing brigade.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:we are gradualy nailing philip down.
dislikes politicians of all colours, religious leaders, environmentalists, wind farms and polar bears and is paranoid about dogs.
we need reg to give him a proper label.
wonder if Reg still looks in? no place for hand wringers on here though
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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we don;t need reg, peter is doing his job - excellent label, hand wringers.
flush them out pete.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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"we are gradualy nailing philip down. dislikes politicians of all colours, religious leaders, environmentalists, wind farms and polar bears and is paranoid about dogs"
Sounds like a normal, well adjusted kind of bloke to me. Pie and a pint in the pub followed by a fag outside in the pub garden. What's not to like eh?
Like most ordinary people if I came across any of the above at the bar I'd find a seat in the snug. I mean who in their right mind would be able to have a laugh with an environmentalist for example.
I'd never, ever in my wildest dreams consider having a pint with a wind farm.
As for dogs it's the ones who tend to give the evil eye to my throat which I'm paranoid about. The others I couldn't care less about.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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I am now wondering if I am a hand wringer
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
fellow traveller has a certain ring to it martin.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Fear not folk David Axelrod (I know, I know he sounds like a stunt motorcycle rider) has been called in to help Miliband and friends to man the food banks. Even John Prescott (remember him who promised much but delivered nothing except higher taxes?) thinks the Man is the Messiah.
Funny that - Labour promised British jobs for British workers and yet are importing labour from North America.
What's going on?