Edwina Currie is the latest Tory to join in the demeaning of Foodbank users and the charities providing the facility.
Former Tory MP Edwina Currie has provoked outrage by saying that people who use food banks waste their money on tattoos and dog food.
Former Tory MP Edwina Currie |
Edwina Currie, former
junior cabinet minister, former MP, former lover of a nondescript
parliamentary whip who became prime minister, crawling out from the
depths of obscurity, to demonstrate that in all of her 67 years she
has learned little if anything of reality in the United Kingdom. The
gross generalisations pouring out of this politician turned author
confirm a lack of understanding about how and why many people today,
are forced into reliance on food banks and other charities for their
day to day existence. With patronising comments, poorly constructed
remarks and simplistic, meaningless “examples” M/s Currie or
Cohen or Jones or whatever she happens to be calling herself this
week, should absorb a few simple facts.
Firstly, people reliant of
Foodbanks are in many instances working people who, due to government
policies, particularly wage freezes and tax credit restrictions, now
find themselves unable to support their families. This is not a
problem of their own making and not the result of failing to “put a
little bit of money to one side”. M/s Currie joins the other out of
touch Tories who think that all people are fortunate enough to have
high salaries and access to bottomless expense accounts.
Secondly, in less than two
years, the number of people in this country reliant on Foodbanks and
other charities has risen from less than 200,000 in 2012 to almost 1
million now and the prediction is that this figure will continue to
grow at an ever increasing rate. Government policies and the
continuing drive for more and more austerity and “welfare reforms”
have condemned hundreds of thousands of people to poverty in real
terms.
The comment that they are
all popping off for another tattoo and a tin of dog food is crass and
patronising in the extreme and ranks with remarks from Liam walker,
Rupert Charles Ponsonby, Baron Freud, Iain Duncan-Smith and others
which demean and patronise ordinary people.
It seems that the policy
of creating division is now an accepted and encouraged tactic for
diverting attention from the economic and social wasteland being
created by this wretched government, orchestrating divisions within
society setting one group against another.
Currie's contribution to
the debate on this scandalous situation, is neither welcome nor
accurate. She demonstrates her ignorance of the subject and her
complete disregard for the people trapped in the poverty created by
her friends in government.
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