A patronising out of touch Baron.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/demand-for-food-banks-has-nothing-to-do-with-benefits-squeeze-says-lord-freud-8684005.html

Demand for food banks ‘has nothing to do with benefits squeeze.

David Anthony Freud, now Baron Freud

David Anthony Freud, born 24th June 1950, now Baron Freud, is a wealthy Conservative Peer who throughout his privileged life has had little contact with the real world. He will feel very much at home with the other "rich toffs" of the ConDem coalition, who currently make up this wretched government. To suggest, as Freud has done, that the increase in the numbers of people using foodbanks is not linked to benefit cuts, sanctions or delays, is a gross distortion of reality. Moreover, it is a patronising insult to over 500,000 people who are currently reliant on foodbank charities, the hundreds of volunteers around the country who organise and run these facilities, and the thousands of ordinary people who make contributions of food at numerous collection points.

The King's Centre Food Bank and Tesco in Honiton unveil a new collection point

Nuneaton Foodbank.

There are no doubt some people who are by dubious means, able to obtain a referral to a foodbank and thereby abuse the facility, but these are a small minority of the total. In December of 2012, it was predicted that this year, 2013, foodbanks would be feeding some 200,000 people, double the number of 2012. It is now just six months into 2013, and the figure is more than 500,000, more than half a million people who are today reliant to some extent or other on the provision of charity food distributed though foodbanks around the country. Many of these 500,000 are in fact working people who have had their tax or other credits reduced others are benefit claimants who have had cuts in their benefit amounts or have had new demands placed upon their already limited disposable income, such as the so called "bedroom tax".
Freud of course, with his 12 bedrooms in two mansions, would have no grasp of the effects that this single reduction in income would have on many ordinary people.
Freud, like many in this government, speak in cliched generalisations, with little if any understanding of the fragmentation of society that their policies cause and their comments compound.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe...

Workers face ban on striking .

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/15/trade-unions-conservative-offensive-decades-strikes-labour?CMP=share_btn_fb Tories launch biggest crackdown on trade unions for 30 years The Labour party must oppose the continuing assault on ordinary people in this country. Organisation and protests against the excesses of this Conservative government is essential. Should Harriet Harman suggest even partial support for Conservative policies, she is clearly in the wrong party.

Leave the clocks alone!

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/did-you-remember-to-put-clocks-forward-224737/ Sanity returns!!! The clocks have gone forward by one hour and perhaps now I can get some proper sleep, and return to normal in numerous other areas which have been disrupted since 25th October 2020. That pesky little person who steals an hour from my sleep and disrupts my time/body clock for the next 6 months, should be confined to a secure location for ever. Never again should I and thousands like me be disrupted every year and for no apparent reason by an outdated and tenuous notion of "daylight saving". In fact we should probably put another hour at the start of the Summer and then stay on Double British Summer Time (DBST). for the duration. Message for pesky little person "LEAVE THE BLOODY CLOCKS ALONE!"

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