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Maybe you should have studied sociology as well as politics.

Some people use food banks because it's free food, nothing to do with affordability.
Yeah and most of the so called pensioners complaining about the Dimensia Tax are actually teenage troublemakers in white wigs.
 
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and nothing.
So I take it that from your responses, that you have no experience of food banks nor can you provide any evidence that backed up the assertion that they were being used by people with no need.....thanks for clearing that up <ok>
 
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Food banks issued 41,000 food packs between 2009/10. Between 2016/17, the number of food packs issued was 1,200,000. People using food banks can't afford food, that's why they use food banks.

Some of those numbers are quite possibly skewed. When we got our first place we rented through the council in 2012, our daughters health visitor person or whatever just turned up at our door with a box full of food from a food bank we never asked for or needed. Indeed most of it was ****e and went in the bin.
 
How much family allowance do you get per child?

Is it still called family allowance?

My point is you can feed a child for less than £20 per month when it comes to school lunches. Fact is there's a hell of a lot of irresponsible parents who spend money that should go on their kids on themselves and expect some ****er else to foot the bill when it comes to feeding their kids.

Bit ironic considering you were in the military. No offence, but military personnel generally tend to be the biggest welfare queens in any advance Western country during their time of service.
 
It does believe me I've lived on Bransholme long enough.
I even know people that use them and can still manage a visit to the pub and have nice smartphones.
If you don't think it goes on you are incredibly naive.
So how do these people obtain the voucher necessary to go and collect a food parcel in Hull?
 
if you never get ill and dont use the NHS, then by all means vote tory


its irrelevant who you vote for - someone has to pay for your health in old age - who do you think should pay, I think you should pay yourself if you have the money and thats not a Tory policy, its all parties - the new Tory proposal is that some of the money should come from the equity in your house after you've moved on - of course it might be easy to bypass this by putting into trust etc but at the end of the day we are all living longer and costs of care will increase and will need to be paid - again, I ask who should pay, Labour has suggested the never ending money tree where money miraculously pays for everything, its ironic that Labour want rich bastards to pay for everything but as soon as a rich bastard has to sell his house they call foul and call Torys heartless for making them pay - its all bollox really
 
The hatred is building. Will this thread last until the election results are in? or even until the polls open?
 
So I take it that from your responses, that you have no experience of food banks nor can you provide any evidence that backed up the assertion that they were being used by people with no need.....thanks for clearing that up <ok>

I've been to a soup kitchen on plenty of occasions, which I suppose is a similar type of gig. I was a dab hand with a ladle.

Some of the customers spent all their dole money on smack and white lightening and just rocked up for some free nose bag.

Not trying to make a point but you've got to be incredibly naive to think good banks/ soup kitchens don't get abused by unscrupulous types.
 
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