#Foodbanks

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[totallyhussein-blog]

Will you be visited by three Christmas ghosts or will an inspector call?

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” - An Inspector Calls

Angela Moohan is the chief executive of The Larder, a charity fighting poverty and hunger with dignity. Angela has also issued a stark warning to the United Kingdom in the Morning Star newspaper.

THIS winter more and more of our fellow citizens will go hungry. In Scotland and across the UK people who have never suffered from food insecurity before will, for the first time, not have enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Last Friday, The Larder hosted a National Emergency Food Summit. We issued an open invitation to statutory and non-statutory organisations, voluntary and community groups, politicians, trade unions, academics and individuals, from across Scotland, to come together in an effort to find a collective way forward to put food into people’s bellies this winter.

While the recent focus has understandably been on soaring energy bills, hunger and food insecurity has fallen off the political and media agenda. There is a moral imperative to act, we cannot allow our fellow citizens to go without the most basic necessity for life: food.

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre.

One of J B Priestley’s best-known works, An Inspector Calls was written in the 1940s, though the action takes place in a single night in 1912. It features the Birlings, an upper-middle-class family living a comfortable life in the north of England, where Arthur Birling is a successful factory owner and local politician and his wife Sybil oversees the running of the home and sits on charity committees.

As Helena Gomm wrote in the Winchester Today; On the night in question, the Birlings have every reason to feel smug. Their daughter Sheila has just become engaged to Gerald, son of Sir Gerald Croft, and Arthur believes that his own name will appear in the next honours list. They are having dinner to celebrate.

Into this scene of domestic complacency comes Inspector Goole, who wishes to question the family about the suicide of a local working-class girl, Eva Smith. At first, they all deny knowledge of her, but it gradually emerges that each one has, in some way, had an impact on her life and has contributed to her exclusion from society, her despair and, ultimately, her death.

[flamingpen18]

Soup Kitchen

Being homeless and on a very limited income is hard. Having to rely on getting dinner from a soup kitchen is often iffy. Many times there will be something I can't eat due to food allergies or health issues which leaves me with nothing to eat for dinner.

There have been a few times when we were given sandwiches to eat and the bread was moldy. I don't think it's intentional. I just think that type of thing is overlooked. They make enough food to feed a hundred people.

I appreciate the days when we can get a hot meal and I can actually eat it. On the days I can't, I still try to be appreciative because someone donated their time and money to make strangers a meal.

Lately, I haven't been able to eat several of the meals. I'm not being picky when I cannot eat something that contains food I am allergic to. Also, let's be honest, I hate peas and cannot eat them as well. It's beyond a dislike. The taste of peas makes me gag. They always have and always will.

Tonight is another night where I can't eat dinner. So, I will be relying on the bagged snacks the soup kitchen makes for everyone. It could be worse. At least I have granola bars and cheese and peanut butter crackers to eat. I am thankful for it.

If you donate to food banks/soup kitchens, thank you. It helps more than you will ever know.

@helly-watermelonsmellinfellon

[unite4humanitycharity]

All over the world, your donations towards winter appeal are helping families protect themselves from the harshness of winter.

Continue your support for the ‘ones in need’

[icequeen1371]

I never thought I’d ever do this but I tested positive for Covid a few hours ago and can’t get out to the food bank tomorrow like I had planned. My application for disability was also denied. I have 30 days to appeal, which I will definitely be doing. With all that’s happened and worsened with my health these past few years, I had to try and apply. I have no choice. So I’m stuck on OW (Ontario Works = welfare/social assistance) cuz I was too healthy previously to be on disability but not healthy enough to work. The stigma is UNREAL having to be on it for an extended length of time. So harsh & judgmental. But still with rents increasing higher than mortgages and $900 being all one gets for the entire month. For everything. It’s just not doable without using the community resources. But I can’t access those at the present time. If anyone can help out in the slightest way possible, know that I’ll be paying it forward any way I can. Thanks💜

[islamicwelfaretrust]

With your donation, a #hungry child is getting food and a poor family is receiving support to overcome poverty. Will you help the poor overcome poverty? #FoodCrisis | #HungerCrisis

[phonakins-blog]

Maybe it was the moldy tomatoes that sent her over the edge

Hey, I know that Fiona https://t.co/t2hqACdKq0 — 💜 phonakins 🇵🇸🍉🔻 (@phonakins) October 9, 2024 So, this is going to be a gratitude post, but it will divert into complaints at stages. I’m doing alright, I’ve been enjoying being paid to post for Nobody Deserves Poverty in an official capacity, with a payslip, superannuation and all. I’m even accruing leave! I braved taking the Corolla down to the…

[insidecroydon]

How the 'lifestyle choices' of Tory millionaires is taking the PIP

Is there no vulnerable section of society that this Conservative Government won’t try to undermine? In his latest column, ANDREW FISHER, right, looks into the latest attacks on disabled people Whenever Conservative governments are in trouble they reach not for solutions, but for scapegoats. For weeks, in the run-up to this month’s local elections, the Conservatives spoke of little else other than…

[elizapdushku]

Jobcentres Told To Stop Referring Claimants To Food banks

Jobcentres Told To Stop Referring Claimants To Food banks The poor side of life

[jayne-hecate-writer]

Happy New Year?...

As twenty twenty three passes into twenty twenty four, we can all sit back and reflect on where we have come as a society, marvel at the changes we have made for the better as things have improved for everyone, to ensure that they can live happy, worry free lives...

This is of course utter nonsense. Things have not got better, if anything, things have got considerably worse and many families in the UK are facing an uncertain future, filled with fear and misery. With heating bills rising, rents out of control even if you can find somewhere to live and medical waiting lists moving from months into years for essential health care. From this, we can only conclude that Britain is failing. The old Etonian schoolboys who have run the country for the last decade and a half have lined their own pockets, sold essential services to their friends and stolen the hopes and dreams of the poor. Food bank usage is higher than ever and of course, Brexit has been a huge, wonderful success... Opps sorry, I mean a catastrophic failure that we could all see coming, but somehow the likes of Farage and Johnson convinced the masses that a future separate from our biggest trading partners was the best option for us.

Why am I writing this now? I have kept quiet on my views for long enough. In twenty twenty three, I turned fifty. I never thought I would make it to fifty, I had always thought that I would have died in some exciting mountaineering accident, my mangled body slowing rotting in the high altitude sunshine, having dropped from an indeterminate ledge upon which I was having an epic climb. But arthritis and injury put a stop to that dream! Instead I am stuck indoors, riddled with pain and losing my mobility and independence, while living in fear of the next PIP assessment form that is going to drop through my door and force me to justify my existence.

I realise now that my hope for a happy peaceful future has evaporated. I am terrified of getting tooth ache, because I have no access to dental care. If I have an injury that needs medical attention, the NHS is so stripped of money, I will just sit on a waiting list to see a specialist Doctor who probably died of stress related alcoholism or Covid some time ago and may not have been replaced yet. I am not alone in these fears, so many others here in the UK have these fears and I cannot see a bright future for anyone here, except the very richest, most of which are already multimillionaires. Our current Prime Minister is richer than the King, meanwhile his wife has dealings with companies that are alleged to have made huge profits from Government involvement or even corruption. We all know that the Government are corrupt, but the media has carefully taken the hatchet to the anyone who would oppose them, leaving us with an opposition party who recently praised the work of Margaret Thatcher, the milk snatcher. The woman who destroyed the mining industry before it was cool to do so and also sold off our water and energy infrastructure, who took us back to the dark ages of the rich owning everything the poor rely upon to live. Currently, we have an unelected member of the cabinet, put there by making him a member of the house of lords, a completely unelected body who include people like Andrew Lloyd Webber and even Jeffrey Archer, of Weston Super Mare (some of us remember the scandal that involved him while he was in Government. Oh, they were such happy days, back when a political scandal meant that the minister was caught having intimate relations with someone he/she/they were not married too!). I am even getting e-Mails from Lord Michael Hesseltine, telling me that we have the same views on important political issues, such as Brexit and membership of the EU. OK, well only on that issue.

So what is my hope for twenty twenty four? It is this. I hope that nothing happens to me or my wife, because I do not know how I will pay the rent on my home. I hope that I do not need dental care or surgery. I hope that my car, that helps me with my daily mobility, does not fail the MOT in January. I hope that my Daughter and her partner can find a home of their own. I hope that my friends can find stability and freedom from debt. I hope that my seventeen year old cat makes it for another year . Finally, I hope that my arthritic hands can keep going as I explore my art and my writing. See? I do have hope after all.

My dear friends, I hope that the coming year brings you much needed peace and restorative rest, so we can face the horrors of our society and fight to put them right. I hope that we can remove these overly entitled bigots and old Etonian schoolboys from power and put in place a better, more egalitarian Government who don't want to ship desperate, hurting people off to the country that is still recovering from a horrific genocide of it's own people.

But if all of these hopes fail, you will find me on a mountain, real or metaphysical, praying to the spirit of nature to take me back home and away from this hellscape I have landed in... Oh yeah, I should mention that shouldn't I? Twenty twenty three was the year that I discovered that I had swapped universes, travelled across the metaphysical barrier between realities and landed in this unrelenting hellscape of far right politics and revolting nationalism. I should have guessed really, after all, what kind of lunatic would vote Boris Johnson into power or believe the lies and evil of Donald Trump? The world feels like a computer game, being played for laughs by a teenager who wants to see how evil a society can become before it implodes! Surely, at any moment, the points score is going to be so low that we are going to be wiped out by environmental disaster, while fighting global warfare started by underendowed oligarchs or simply failing to reach the next level in the game. I know how this works, I used to play Theme Hospital and occasionally I put the most evil and corrupt characters in charge, just for the giggles. Oh Heck... None of this is real. What kind of reality would allow for a fourth Matrix movie or make Darth Vader the sympathetic character we all feel sorry for?

Good luck my friends, I hope that despite it all, the coming year brings you the things you need to make your life safe, happy and peaceful. If it doesn't, then come and find me on the mountain and we can shout at the sky together.

With love always, Jayney XXX

[irnbraw]

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[totallyhussein-blog]

If the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

“Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

MORE than half of people living in England’s most deprived areas are spending less on food and essentials amid the cost-of-living crisis, official figures suggest.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have exposed divisions across the country in how people are being affected by soaring prices.

People living in England’s most deprived districts were almost twice as likely to report cutting down on food bills and other essentials.

One in 10 people living in the poorest areas said they had also fallen behind on their electricity or gas bills and more than three-fifths said they had struggled to meet the payments in the latest period in November.

Foodbank charity the Trussell Trust said more support was needed from the government to help the poorest get by in the months before benefits are increased in April.

“In the last six months, 320,000 people turned to Trussell Trust foodbanks for the first time and this number is likely to rise.”

As Dickens wrote in A Christmas Carol; “Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”

[unite4humanitycharity]

Children shouldn't have to worry about when their next #meal will be. Donate now and help provide #food packs for the children from poor families in Yemen.

[ianchisnall]

Food banks speaking in Brighton, Derbyshire, Leeds and High Wycombe 

On Wednesday in Parliament there was a session entitled Universal Credit Deductions which was organised by Chris Stephens who is a senior SNP MP. His opening words were “I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of Universal Credit deductions.” and a few moments later he corresponded to some other MPs including Jim Shannon from the DUP and his comment was “Gentleman has said.…

[islamicwelfaretrust]

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[eaglesnick]

POVERTY: A MORAL FAILING

While nurses and other healthcare workers are forced to use foodbanks due to years of Tory austerity and pay awards lower than inflation, Rishi Sunak’s wife just received £6.7 million pocket money from one of her many investments.

“Akshata Murty to get almost £6.7m in Infosys dividend. Income of Rishi Sunak’s wife from Indian tech firm to reach £13m for financial year." Guardian: 13/04/23)

Surprisingly, this is not a criticism of Murty herself. She just happened to be born to a mega-rich family and is reaping the benefits of unearned income.   What I would argue, however, is that people like the Sunak’s cannot possibly understand what it is like to be poor. There is no way they can understand the emotional stress and damage done to the mental health of working people unable to feed their families because the wage they earn is simply too small to cover their ever-increasing bills. 

Poverty affects every aspect of a person’s life and those of their children. It is no coincidence that the majority of so-called “failing schools" are in deprived areas. It is no coincidence that life expectancy of the poor is far shorter than for those earning a decent wage. The government’s own figures state:

“Female healthy life expectancy at birth in the most deprived areas was 19.3 years fewer than in the least deprived areas in 2018 to 2020; for males it was 18.6 years fewer..."  (ONC: Health state life expectancies by national deprivation deciles, England: 2018 to 2020)

It is no coincidence that child poverty is on the increase:

“Today’s annual poverty statistics show an estimated 350,000 more children were pulled into poverty last year, largely because the Government cut the £20 universal credit (UC) uplift half-way through the year.”  (Child Poverty Action Group:  23/03/23)

My point is that the rise in poverty is almost entirely due to government wage policy in the public sector and the greed of shareholders and CEO’s in the private sector. Under Tory rule unfairness in pay awards is now the norm in both private and public sectors of the economy.

Here are a few headlines referencing the private sector.

“UK dividends expected to beat 2022 forecasts as energy prices soar.”              (FT: 22/04/22)

Pay of FTSE 100 chief executives rose an average of 23% in 2022.” Guardian: 07/11/22)

“Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take a wage cut.”  (opendemocracy: 23/06/22)

“Shareholder payouts rose three times faster than UK wages…” (Observer: 15/10/22)

So while the Sunak’s enjoy the benefit of a £6.7 million investment payout to their already substantial fortune do not expect them to really understand what life is like for the poor. The Sunak’s are simply making the most of the system we live under and until we decide to change that system the glaring inequalities we all know and recognise will continue to exist.

We ALL know that it is morally wrong for hard working people to receive less than a living wage, a wage inadequate to feed their families and meet the essential bills, while those they work for live in luxury.

But don’t take my word for that. The immorality of Britain’s corporate system is even beginning to trouble those who you would expect to be supporters of the present system.

Baroness Wheatcroft, onetime editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal and editor of the Tory leaning Sunday Telegraph, had this to say when talking about the Confederation of British Industry:

“I don’t actually think that the CBI has for a long time wanted to confront the biggest issue, which is whether business is treating people fairly. And particularly, when you think about the number of people who are now in employment but are having to go to food banks. I think there is a question mark over whether business is actually behaving in best possible way that benefits society.”

Maybe Rishi Sunak should also ask if his government is actually behaving in the best possible way that benefits ALL of society and not just the superrich like himself and his family?