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  1. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    No billionaire sits on a pile of cash like Scrooge McDuck! It is either invested in businesses, who employee people, pay wages and generally fuel the economy. Or it's sat in a bank earning interest, which the bank pay because they have invested the money in businesses who pay wages etc etc...
  2. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    If you look at my original post (#77) where I did the maths you will see that I referenced 19,000 as "extreme" because I was specifically referring to the lazy journalism of someone turning 913,000 visits into "more than one million people". I am not saying and never had said that it is a fact...
  3. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    Fair enough - good job you're not a politician then, because the solution for 913,000 single-use visitors would be radically different to that for 19,000 habitual users and if you can't see the difference then there's fat chance you could offer a reasonable solution.
  4. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    Didn't say it was alright.... but its a VERY different number to the "over 1 million" being banded around!
  5. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    But the point made by Uncle C was that food seems to be a little further down some people's priority lists than it used to be. From personal experience I agree. I know of people who would spend the last money in their pockets on a pack of fags ahead of paying any bill, doing something for the...
  6. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    We appear to be the only two who see this one! Its not even a f*cking million visits!! That was the headline on the story, while the text actually said 913,000 visits. As I rather pedantically pointed out earlier, this could be as little as 19,000 families. "Lies, Damn Lies and...
  7. father_and_son

    More than a million have used UK food banks in the past year

    There is of course the irksome issue of the numbers quoted [potentially] being b*ll*cks... He's my pedantic view: Its not 1 million as per the headline, its just over 900,000. So some gratuitous exaggeration there straight away! The article says..."913,000 people had received three days’...
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