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This week, a charity called Church Action On Poverty launched a poster campaign that says ‘Britain Isn’t Eating’, mocking the Tories’ famous 1979 election campaign poster ‘Britain Isn’t Working’ that helped Margaret Thatcher to victory.

This time, the charity claims, the long queues are not for the dole office, but for food banks. ‘Thousands are going hungry because of benefits changes,’ it protest. I thought of those posters when I read the story of Katie McGill, a 28-year-old unemployed single mum.

In an interview this week, Katie claimed her benefits payments soon won’t leave her enough to buy food and basic necessities for her two children.
Another victim of ‘cruel Tory cuts’? Hardly.

This Christmas, Katie gave her two children Mya-Renee, three, and Calvin, eight, two new bikes, TVs, DVDs and numerous computer games — all paid for after she took out eight payday loans that have left her £3,000 in debt.

Lord Beria3 wrote:Funny they say that because having watch documentaries of food centers, the MAJORITY of the people going there for free food are OBESE. Clearly not that starving! And then you get the feckless poor like the lady in the story above.

...a decrease in calories consumed by British families.......

vtsnowedin wrote: I've noted that the US MSM seems unable to do a story about hunger in America and interview someone that looks hungry. Instead they interview some food shelf keeper that is an axe handle and a half across the butt that has a hard time waddling between two rows of shelves without knocking cans off both sides. The narrative says one thing the pictures tell quite another.

RenewableCandy wrote:It's the DM's job to convince people that there is not a poverty problem in the UK. They seem to be doing so well that they're even beginning to convince the poor that they're not poor.

Iain Duncan Smith showed why he never won the VC when he was in the Scots Guards when he refused to face the Labour benches as the Commons debated food banks on 18 December. He pushed forward his deputy, one Esther McVey, a former "TV personality". All she could say was that hunger was Labour's fault for wrecking the economy. She gave no hint that her government had been in power for three years during which the number attending food banks had risen from 41,000 in 2010 to more than 500,000. Her remedy was for the coalition to help more people into work.

To feed a couple for five days, it gives: one medium pack of cereal, 80 teabags, a carton of milk, two cans apiece of soup, beans, tomatoes and vegetables, two portions of meat and fish, fruit, rice pudding, sugar, pasta and juice.

biffvernon wrote:I'm told that some nine out of ten of the world's most obese nations are islands in the Pacific, the other one being the USA.