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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Edwina curry saying that people should buy food before anything else. With everything going through the bank, quite often direct debits, bank charges, overdrawn, can swallow all your money before you even see it. I purposely have my self employed work paid cash now, so at least I know in a tough week I can give the kids bus fare etc.
P.s yes it is declared and above board before anyone has a go! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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its disgraceful that we have food banks .this is the uk not some far off land .ppl are broke thats fact and the bloody government will blame anyone or anything for the situation.its not just ppl that are unemployed that are using food banks an increasing number of working ppl are having to use them as the low wages will not cover the outgoings.the government has no shame . |
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Most people that use food banks are indeed working families....would I use a food bank yes of course however there is just me so if push come to shove I'd live off 30p noodles.
I have seen people take the absolute piss out of the food band system and it turns out that they actually did not need the support and were trying to get free food. My mum donates to food banks...it's a sad state of affairs that people are relying on food banks to feed their family because the cost of living has just got to much... |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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The issue on benefit sanctions is one thing but the fact that people in work are having to use them shows the truth of the employment statistics. People are working but are not earning enough to live on. We then have to subsidise this through our taxes.
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"The issue on benefit sanctions is one thing but the fact that people in work are having to use them shows the truth of the employment statistics. People are working but are not earning enough to live on. We then have to subsidise this through our taxes.
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I'm on a semi decent wage but I struggle...the cost of everything is going up...however I really feel for those who are on a low income with a family..I just have myself to think about |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This set of c***s known as government who actually think food banks show the big society should be hung simple as that.
21st century and this is happening is sickening. The folk who volunteer food and give out and deliver it deserve high praise. |
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"The issue on benefit sanctions is one thing but the fact that people in work are having to use them shows the truth of the employment statistics. People are working but are not earning enough to live on. We then have to subsidise this through our taxes.
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this..
and the fact that working people have to claim benefits is staggeringly stupid and inept politics..
then again good to know we are all in it together.. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
"The issue on benefit sanctions is one thing but the fact that people in work are having to use them shows the truth of the employment statistics. People are working but are not earning enough to live on. We then have to subsidise this through our taxes.
I'm on a semi decent wage but I struggle...the cost of everything is going up...however I really feel for those who are on a low income with a family..I just have myself to think about "
and with what is happening in the ukrain watch the cost of fuel and food spiral out of control and the fat cats will be rubbing their hands with glee at the profits they can make |
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"seen an advert today for a shelf stacking job in aldi £8 an hour
which is around 50p an hour more then the hgv driver who delivered the goods to be stacked earns lunacy
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I'd stack shelves for £8 an hour....the job I do if I was agency I would get £15 an hour...if I thought that agency work was secure I'd go agency  |
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"seen an advert today for a shelf stacking job in aldi £8 an hour
which is around 50p an hour more then the hgv driver who delivered the goods to be stacked earns lunacy
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that's really good money for shelf stacking
i thought the attitude of the tories stinks ... its fine by them to either starve or have to work sixty hours a week to keep a roof over your head |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"seen an advert today for a shelf stacking job in aldi £8 an hour
which is around 50p an hour more then the hgv driver who delivered the goods to be stacked earns lunacy
I'd stack shelves for £8 an hour....the job I do if I was agency I would get £15 an hour...if I thought that agency work was secure I'd go agency "
i think you missed my point £8 an hour to stack shelves or £7.50 an hour to drive a 44tonne hgv on our crowded roads with all the inherant risks and dangers all seems a bit skewed to me . |
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"seen an advert today for a shelf stacking job in aldi £8 an hour
which is around 50p an hour more then the hgv driver who delivered the goods to be stacked earns lunacy
I'd stack shelves for £8 an hour....the job I do if I was agency I would get £15 an hour...if I thought that agency work was secure I'd go agency i think you missed my point £8 an hour to stack shelves or £7.50 an hour to drive a 44tonne hgv on our crowded roads with all the inherant risks and dangers all seems a bit skewed to me ."
No I got your point  |
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"then theres Ian Duncan smith. what a cunt x x X"
So accurate. These people have had their tiny incomes cut off, even with kids to feed, whilst job centres were awarded bonuses, due to their targets to sanction people, in other words stop their pay. This was often done without telling them. That man should be tried as a mass murderer. Another inquest last week on yet another poor soul who died after cuts. Anyone who supports this lot of psychopaths needs to take some serious self reflection and not be so biased by their ideological crap.
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I found the most telling (Tory) attitude to be Currys where she said that those running the food-bank should shut it down because the food was not of a good enough quality. 
Personally I would like to take the lot of those smug self-satisfied, self centered gits out and dump them on an uninhabited island for a couple of weeks without food and then after 3 days offer them a food-bank bag and tell them it had to last them a week. Bet they would not be turning up their piggy snouts! |
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Nice idea _illwill69u. Their subsidised parliamentary meals, are a disgrace to the starving thousands - Tuesday menu :
Cream of Tarragon Soup 85p
Baked Pork Steak £2.95
Dessert of the day 95p.
The unemployed, as well as those in normal work, would love those prices.
This is not to mention Ian Duncan Smith's £39 breakfast that he claimed on expenses. Many of these families who've gone through 'sanctions', have had either zero benefits for weeks, or a much more miserly sum to feed all their kids on for a week, let alone some toff filling his fat face on breakfasts costing £39.
If claimants have their income stopped, they have to appeal, which can take weeks for anyone to get any cash. This is cruel and inhumane by any standards of decency. Of course, this follows the incident shown last week, where a woman in a coma was told to increase her job hunting activity or face sanctions.
I'd put these gobby politicians on a very cold island in winter, with no money to feed over-priced heating meters, and no money for food, and see how long they last before changing the benefits system to stop our downtrodden families being abused by them any further. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone else watching it? About food banks. Actually quite sad  "
It was unsettling how bad a state some people get themselves in though some manage without its not a bad thing to have food banks for those who slip through and need them. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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If claimants have their income stopped, they have to appeal, which can take weeks for anyone to get any cash. This is cruel and inhumane by any standards of decency. ..........."
Welcome to Tory Britain.
Never forget, there are people out there - possibly even Fabsters - who voted for these bastards.
Make sure it doesn't happen again. |
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