Conservative Environment Minister says "The poor must learn to go without" as numbers using Foodbanks doubles.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/summer-of-hunger-huge-rise-in-food-bank-use-as-demand-linked-to-welfare-reform-8755101.html Huge rise in food bank use as demand linked to 'welfare reform' Rupert Charles Ponsonby, In this the 21st Century of our civilisation, it is staggering to hear an echo of an 18th Century remark, purportedly spoken, (but never actually corroborated as a quote) by Queen Marie Antoinette, upon hearing that people were suffering as a result of bread shortages. “Let them eat cake” she is alleged to have said in response to learning that the peasants had no bread, a phrase which has been used for almost the last 250 years, to reflect an individuals obliviousness as to the condition of the people. Now, in 2013, we have Conservative Environment Minister Lord De Mauley uttering another comment which should go into the history books. “The poor must learn to go without” says Rupert Charles Ponsonby, 7th Ba...