Uncle C
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In that case I was talking about you, not everyone.
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More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year
- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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In that case I was talking about you, not everyone.
Footsoldier
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- May 26, 2013
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Had a peek and no where does it says who uses them. It just gives statistics on how many people use them. It doesn't say Cocaine uses have to drop their personal allowance per week to quality for food banks.
- Jul 10, 2003
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I have to pick up HT on this. You're not on your own, you have that intellectual heavyweight Footsoldier with similar thoughts to your own
mikeyjh
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You are a tw*t. And don't start bleating about me having lost the argument or resorted to abuse because I don't have an answer. You're (non) arguments have been shown to be prejudiced and pointless, I think your apparent retirement has left you bitter & twisted, for that I'm sad but ffs do you have any compassion? your own family, if they fell on hard times? Your (and I know I'm stretching it) friends?
I bet he claims his winter heating allowance despite obviously being easily able to afford to heat his home !
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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depends on what you mean by 'the church'....the link i provided earlier is run by a church. Also several churches in Brighton & Hove provide free meals
Uncle C
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I'll forgive the insult, but you are yet another one who has jumped to your own conclusions about what I said. But don't let that tiny error stop you in the middle of a good rant.
Uncle C
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Where is the relevance to fraud in food banks?
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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supermarkets should definitely be doing this. It's absolute nonsense that people are going hungry whilst perfectly edible food is going to waste
however I'd imagine that if the state got their mitts on food banks they'd start being run very differently and completely money orientated...leave it to the charities, they're much better at this sort of thing
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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yep, the bulk of the referrals I do is from people who have gone from being homeless to having their own place. It's quite expensive to kit out a house with kitchen equipment, bedding and food so these places become vital
a huge chunk of the service users are people like the ones you and I have mentioned. It's people needing a bit of a stop gap so it's one less thing to worry about when they're finding their feet and getting their lives back on track. Can you imagine finally getting housed after a long period of homelessness, only to be in a house with no sheets on the bed and no food to eat?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Group hug ?
Steady on, dear chap
In that you're accusing people of abusing the food banks by claiming when they either don't need to or have things they can sell / stop buying. You claim the winter allowance when no doubt you neither need to nor have you sold items to cover your heating or stop buying other things to pay for it.
Uncle C
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Sorry to spoil a good story, but nobody 'claims' the heating allowance. It is given to every OAP, as it would cost more to means-test it than any resultant savings.
If OAPs want to buy food with it they can. This stops any additional drain on the food banks.
There is the facility to refuse the winter fuel allowance. That said you can always replace that example with free bus passes - how many claim them when they could well afford to pay the fare ?
Uncle C
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I think you're having to stray a little way from the subject matter of fraud in food banks in order to make a point. Two wrongs have never made a right.
Why don't you start a new thread attacking the privileges of OAPs? That sounds a good left wing topic for you.
You really are a berk, aren't you?
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Group hug ?
or maybe a G&T on the Ockendon Manor lawns?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Why there ?