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Revealed: ministers’ plan to research effect of policies on food bank use (Guardian)
‘Ministers have secretly drawn up plans to investigate whether the government’s own policies are to blame for the sharp rise in the use of food banks, the Guardian has learned.’
What price a DWP announcement that all criticism is ‘out of date’?
Or that ‘there is an infinite demand for free goods’....?
Or they could close them down, to stop food bank use escalating further.
It’s like deja vu….
Ah….I went and deja’d….....
Did he save your life last night?
… And you don’t let it trouble your brain
‘Cause away goes trouble down the drain
Said away goes trouble down the drain
How strange? Maybe if they read their own legislation and saw that in many cases it disentitles people to the very subsistence income which they were previously using to buy food .. they might spot the very obvious links.
Or, here’s another brain wave, they could read the massive volume of research already produced by the advice sector, councils, trussell trust, academic researchers, disability charities, crisis teams, and direct evidence from claimants who have actually used foodbanks - over the last 8 years - into the direct links between benefit cuts and foodbank, they may find information in there of use!
How strange? Maybe if they read their own legislation and saw that in many cases it disentitles people to the very subsistence income which they were previously using to buy food .. they might spot the very obvious links.
Or, here’s another brain wave, they could read the massive volume of research already produced by the advice sector, councils, trussell trust, academic researchers, disability charities, crisis teams, and direct evidence from claimants who have actually used foodbanks - over the last 8 years - into the direct links between benefit cuts and foodbank, they may find information in there of use!
Don’t be silly Sarah
How strange? Maybe if they read their own legislation and saw that in many cases it disentitles people to the very subsistence income which they were previously using to buy food .. they might spot the very obvious links.
Or, here’s another brain wave, they could read the massive volume of research already produced by the advice sector, councils, trussell trust, academic researchers, disability charities, crisis teams, and direct evidence from claimants who have actually used foodbanks - over the last 8 years - into the direct links between benefit cuts and foodbank, they may find information in there of use!
None of the above would be any use because it’s all “politically motivated”, and produced by a lot of commies, socialists etc. And also because it may show our excellent, caring, government in a less than rose-tinted light.