Agenda 2019

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/food-banks-lord-freud-blundering-3222149 Tory Bedroom Tax minister questions why hungry people go to food banks Welfare Minister Lord Freud   Posh Tory Lord Freud first attracted my attention in July of last year, when I saw an article in the "Independant" under the heading of "Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze." Perhaps he should have had a quick read of this Blog of the same date date "A patronising out of touch Baron" (http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/a-patronising-out-of-touch-baron.html) It seems that this political dinosaur with the privileged life has learned nothing in the last 12 months.

  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 ...