Millions of Britons struggling to feed themselves and facing malnourishment
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| Foodbanks relying on donations of food. |
On December 20th, I
blogged on the bigoted generalisations, unfortunately, all too common
in today's greedy, selfish and prejudiced society, in respect of
attitudes towards the poor, foodbanks, child poverty and the general
demonisation of large sections of our society, by those all too ready
to accept and believe the propaganda trotted out from the pages of
the Daily Mail, Telegraph and other such rags, and the completely
biased reporting of Wilcox and others on the BBC with Brazier and
Boulton on the British version of Fox News. The “success” of
divisive social policies maintained by successive governments, have
now become the “flagship” of this current ConDem coalition and
have been enhanced and expanded by the DWP to effect more and more
people.
This “Independent”
article, emphasises just one aspect of the wider scandal, and yet
still manages to draw venomous, spiteful and mostly inaccurate
remarks from many people responding in the “comments” section. I
am the first to admit that there may well be a few cases of abuses of
the Foodbanks and other charities, but with the controls and referral
procedures in place, these abuses comprise a minute number of the
over 1 million people who now rely on their three times in 12 months
food allocation to feed themselves and their families.
Perhaps some of those
people who have such negative and bigoted opinions on the issues of
poverty and foodbanks may soon find their personal circumstances
change significantly and through no fault of their own, are forced to
join the ranks of Foodbank users. It will be interesting to see their
attitudes and remarks published in the “comments” columns then.
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