Re: No link between food banks and poverty : Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:54 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I think you're right, Osborne will be perfectly sanguine about it and might even see it it as validation of his policies.
Watch out for spin about food banks being the cause of poverty.

In one sense, they are. For every sponging freeloader who starved to death instead, poverty would be reduced by 1, wouldn't it?

Re: No link between food banks and poverty : Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:26 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

In one sense, they are. For every sponging freeloader who starved to death instead, poverty would be reduced by 1, wouldn't it?

Aye, these bloody poor people, they shouldn't get made redundant in the first place if they can't afford it.