Food banks

I must say it's a bit galling that generous people who have a bit to spare and are therefore trying to help people who need more food by donating food to those people, via a Food Bank, are now being castigated as part of the problem in 21st Century Britain.

Their generosity is being flung back in their faces by the left who see the fact that we have food banks at all as a measure of Tory failure.

We have poor people in the UK because the Labour party created them - and has always created them. Labour was the architect of the 2007 crash which left millions out of work and whose policies during 13 years in government left millions not just without work but not prepared to go to work because it simply wasn't worth it to them.

Some Food Bank users are in genuine need of food for their families and we should - and do - provide for them. Anyone who is out of work and within the system legally, should not be short of food unless they're spending their money on other stuff. Taking the piss in other words. I think many are doing this.

We should close down the food banks, provide carefully controlled support for people who really need it and tell the people who are using the existence of food banks as a stick with which to beat generous Tories who provide this food, to fuck off.

We do not have a problem with malnutrition in this country. We have a problem with obesity.

And there rests the case for the defence M'Lord.

Thanks for reading.