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  I actually read the Trussell Trust's own report before I ever saw the Guido comment being tweeted and the order-order report turns out to be entirely accurate and in accordance with what the Trussell Trust says itself - just over a million food bank 'transactions' (a family of 4 (husband, wife and two kids) being counted as 4 transactions, even though they account for just one visit to a food bank) and the norm for number of foodbank visits per annum per family being 2 visits - so one family of 4 accounts for 8 foodbank transactions in a year. Therefore, the figure given of a million people (which implies that a million different people were involved) using foodbanks in the last year is total bull. Lies, damn lies and statistics as they say........
  
  This is not to say that the number of food banks has not grown or that it is ok that even as many people that really use them (somewhere south of 500k) are driven to do so by the bad situations that they find themselves in.
  
  Of course our society and our economy needs to improve, so does our productivity and our work ethic so that the jobs that we do earn businesses sufficient money to pay higher wages - if the job that you do earns your employer £8 per hour (for the bit that you do) and they have to pay you £8.50 an hour to do it, they will soon be out of business and you'll soon be out of a job. Compassion and a fair wage from employers together with hard work and realistic wage expectations from employees is what gets people out of financial trouble. The disconnect between what people want to receive in pay (at the top of the tree the excess that they get) and what the job earns for the business is shocking at both ends of the scale.

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