Is Plymouth the first city to report widespread STARVATION due to Tory policies?
This report on Plymouth Live should be shocking – but is it? Some of us have lived with the consequences of …
Tag Archives: food bank
Universal Credit forces ‘sandwich at Christmas’ claimant to beg supermarkets for food
It took This Writer a while to understand this. Not only did the Department for Work and Pensions – through …
Johnson’s Britain: thugs think it’s okay to vandalise a food bank and force people to starve
This is where divide-and-conquer policies like those of Boris Johnson take us. He has taken a few leaves out of …
Poverty, rough sleepers and food bank use ‘getting worse’ – but hey, it’s what the UK wanted
This sums up the state of the UK at the end of 2019: NEARLY a quarter of children in ‘wealthy’ …
People in the UK’s poorest communities have supported a government that will send them to food banks
The Con Party has managed to hoodwink a swathe of formerly Labour-supporting constituencies into supporting it – mainly with a …
Thinking of voting Liberal Democrat? Think again – for all our sakes
The Liberal Democrats are apparently enjoying a surge in support in marginal London constituencies – why? In office, they were …
Food bank use has soared by 3,800% and child poverty is up 38% under Conservative rule
As Boris Johnson tried to woo business leaders, the Mirror has revealed shocking figures condemning the way the Conservatives have attacked …
If Tory policies are so great, why are so many more of us forced to visit food banks?
Boris Johnson tells us the UK’s economy is fundamentally sound, and only “small improvements” are needed, such as “addressing transport …
Mother forced to rely on food banks because of DWP rule that denies reality
Have you ever heard of the minimum income floor calculation? If you aren’t on Universal Credit – and considered to …
Campaign group’s latest research shows the cruelty of Universal Credit
“Harrowing stories of people forced into debt, rent arrears, homelessness, crime, prostitution, hunger, people unable to afford fares to get …