Agenda 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/27/benefit-sanctions-food-banks-oxford-university-study Benefit sanctions forcing people to use food banks, study confirms Yet another "study" to report a truth which many of us have known for years! Benefit sanctions, whereby social security claimants have their payments stopped for at least a month as a punishment for supposedly breaching strict job centre rules, are a key driver of hunger and food bank use" This conservative government and the ConDem coalition before them, use benefit sanctions, (most of which a re overturned on appeal, but by which time the damage has already been done), as a weapon to attack the poor and most vulnerable people in our society and this abuse by government continues on a daily basis today. Abuses of this severity in application and effect, would not be tolerated in any other part of our social system and any person or persons guilty of perpetratin...

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...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/four-10-social-housing-tenants-9107639 Four in 10 social housing tenants forced to skip meals because they can't afford to eat Four in 10 social housing tenants forced to skip meals The 21st Century, in the United Kingdom. Today in Theresa May's conservative controlled Great Britain, four in 10 social housing tenants are forced to skip meals because they can't afford to eat. The most recent figures reveal that around 4.1 million people live in "social housing" in this country, which means that more than 1,640,000 people men, women and children are going hungry because they cannot afford to "heat and eat" especially during the winter months, due to lack of finance. This situation has resulted in the huge rise in the number of people becoming reliant on Food-banks and other charities a number of people which now exceeds one million. This situation is particularly difficult for those in our society w...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/desperate-dad-spared-jail-stealing-7328464 Benefits cuts left couple just £8-per-week to live on Paul and Kerry Barker In the 1st part of the 21st Century, a couple steal food from Tesco waste bins, because their benefits have been sanctioned and reduced to £8 per week. An event not uncommon in the United Kingdom in Austerity Britain. The conservative government and the ConDem Coalition government before them, are heaping pain and misery upon millions of ordinary people throughout this country and they are getting away with it. These 21st century Robber Barron’s are getting away with this and other vicious and vindictive measures because 172 members of the Parliamentary Labour Party are more intent with advancing their own personal positions and achieving their ambitions than they are with the hardships and privations of those people who the Labour party represent and who elected them only last year. They are fixat...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/12200138/Whats-inside-Marks-and-Spencer-Patrons-Lunch-hamper-for-Queens-90th-birthday-street-party.html This weekend will see a variety of celebrations to officially mark the monarch's 90th birthday The hampers for this street party did not come from the local food bank. M&S hamper that will feed 10,000 guests Today, Sunday, there will be a "Patron’s Lunch" street party for around 10,000 people in the Mall. Tickets for this "bash", the climax of the celebrations marking the queen's "official" 90th birthday, have been available for £150 each. The chosen guests will be given a hamper supplied by Marks and Spencer, (who else?), in a wicker basket, along with a turquoise plastic plate, a matching set of plastic cu tlery, a plastic wine tumbler and a napkin. Each hamper will contain: Scottish Smoked Salmon mousse with hot and cold Sandringham oak smoked Lochmuir salmo...