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"You are the party, the government of Food-banks".

Ken Loach and Kwasi Kwarteng on Channel  4 News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7Iaycp5IU There are many patronising, uncaring and ignorant Tories filling the conservative benches in the Commons and many more to be found in their constituency clubs and tea rooms around the country. Kwasi Kwarteng is just one. The refusal to accept the reality of "Food-bank Britain", he dismisses with the comment, "I think there is some hardship" followed by "Ken is just telling a story" and then draws a comparison with other writers who have commented on social injustices for ma ny years. Patronising, uncaring and ignorant Kwarteng resorts to the now well worn distortion that the conservatives have won a mandate from the British people in an election where the increasing use of Food-banks (by people driven to desperation by welfare cuts and sanctions incidentally) was a main issue in the Labour party campaign,and Labour lost that argument. Th...

Another music school and sex abuse allegations.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/violinist-nigel-kennedy-appalled-by-allegations-of-child-sex-abuse-at-prestigious-yehudi-menuhin-music-school-8606908.html   Sex Abuse Allegations At Leading UK Music School   A decade ago Mr Kennedy spoke out on what he had witnessed during his time there, telling a BBC programme that “there were some strange things going on with some of the girls…that would have been illegal, definitely”. Mr Kennedy, whose claims were not investigated further at the time, yesterday reiterated his experiences telling Channel 4 News: “I just know that Marcel Gazelle was a repeat offender and it wasn't a one off thing.    Yehudi Menuhin School It seems that child sex abuse is historically endemic in British society and only recently has been subjected to such scrutiny and investigation. It is a vile and reprehensible feature of the murky side of life and seems to be predominately ca...