Food bank use has soared by 3,800% and child poverty is up 38% under Conservative rule
Child poverty is skyrocketing under Conservative rule. It’s time for a change.
As Boris Johnson tried to woo business leaders, the Mirror has revealed shocking figures condemning the way the Conservatives have attacked working families.
Figures quoted by the paper show that child poverty in working families – that’s families where one or more parent has a job, remember – rose to 2.9 million cases last year. That’s an increase of 38 per cent since 2010.
Research by the TUC shows the number of children in poverty-hit homes has risen by 800,000 in that time. Bear in mind that this increase involved children who have since become poverty-stricken adults and new children who have been born into poverty during this period.
One in four children are affected – a quarter of our young people.
Food bank use has rocketed by 3,772 per cent under Tory rule, and the number of food banks operated by the UK’s largest such charity – the Trussell Trust – has rocketed from 57 to 425. That’s a 646 per cent increase.
Volunteers gave away 1,583,668 packages – 14,253,012 meals – in 2018/19, of which 577,618 went to children.
Tories love food banks.
Their existence means Conservative governments can continue cutting in-work benefits. They give the money saved away to the rich in tax breaks, rather than investing it in the UK’s economy or other services for the population.
Other factors in the increased use of food banks were weak wage growth and the insecurity of the work on offer.
Boris Johnson won’t have said anything about that to the CBI conference today (November 18); he doesn’t care.
As I write this, Jeremy Corbyn is addressing the CBI, offering “real change”.
If I were a business leader, I know who I would support.
Source: Foodbank hell for Britain as demand soars 3,800% under a decade of Tory rule – Mirror Online
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And main stream media puppets totally ignore this shameful and inhuman record. Just hope the voting public takes this appalling record on board when they hit the polls.
Tories genuinely do think that the existence of foodbanks is a great thing, they don’t understand that foodbanks are a symptom of a failed State. I personally volunteer at a local foodbank but what sort of system is it that leaves the citizens of a wealthy 21st Century Western country unable to buy food? It’s an outrageous disgrace. Tory ideology is obscene.