howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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philip, your obsession with climate change to the unfortunates that are driven to use the food banks in our country.
the small change of 22 million quid is of much more interest to them.
Brian Dixon
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Philip if that is small change to you,think of all those people that are going hungry and have to use food banks to make ends meet.22 million will feed a lot of people.bah humbug.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Struth! Talk about missing the bigger picture. Climate change has everything to do with this issue. Were it not for the government's obsession with the UK saving the planet there would be hundreds of billions out there which, if they wanted to, could be spent helping the poor. So I say again £22 million is chicken feed.
It's no wonder labour are leading in the polls when their silly slogans are able to sway people and take their eyes away from exactly why we are stuffed.
Keith Sansum1
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ha ha
and UKIP are so great lol
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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stuffed with what Philip.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Indeed Brian I might well be if I supported UKIP but I don't. Gloves on the other foot eh?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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odd socks more likely Philip.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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philip
for families going hungry there is no bigger picture, you are sounding like barry now.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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what twin evil brothers,nooooooooooooooo.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Weird.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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try this for weird,the nasty bunch sneak out after making fun of the hungry and poor famley.evan ids didn't have the balls to stay and disuss it.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/food-banks-debate-video-iain-2941100howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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from the independent
Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent said it was "extraordinary" to see Mr Duncan Smith smirking as it was pointed out that half a million people are now using food banks - and the minister refused to answer any questions directly, instead leaving them to be fielded by his deputy, Esther McVey.
The Trussell Trust, the nation's largest provider of food banks, with almost 400 branches said it was "disappointed" by the attitude of those who jeered.
Labour had called the debate after nearly 150,000 people signed a petition backed by The Mirror, the Unite union and The Trussell Trust calling for an inquiry into the growing dependence on food aid.
Ms McVey said it was a good thing that more people were turning to food banks and that Germany and Canada had also seen a rise in their use.
The Tory MP for Wirral West said: "It is positive that people are reaching out to support other people - from church groups to community groups, to local supermarkets and other groups."
She went on to try to pin the blame on spiralling food bank use on the Labour party.
"In the UK it is right that more people are... going to food banks because as times are tough, we are all having to pay back this £1.5 trillion debt personally which spiralled under Labour, we are all trying to live within our means, change the gear and make sure that we pay back all our debt which happened under them."
But Conservative MP Laura Sandys (South Thanet) said: "Food banks are not the answer. They must be seen as a transitional support mechanism for families in stress at particular moments.
"They are not a solution or something we want institutionalised."
Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman described McVey's speech as the nastiest he had heard in his 43 years as an MP.
As Mr Duncan Smith and his colleagues left, the speaker John Bercow said he had no power to stop them, but said the view that it was a disgrace there was no minister there "may be widely shared".
Shadow Environment Secretary Maria Eagle said "It's a scandal which is getting worse and the Government now has the humiliation of the Red Cross helping to collect and distribute food aid in Britain for the first time since the Second World War."
And the former Labour cabinet minister Paul Murphy said he had never seen such poverty in his 40 years as a Welsh politician, apart from during the 1984 miners' strike.
Labour's motion calling on the government to reduce dependency on food bank was eventually defeated by 294 votes to 251, a majority of 43 as Tories and Lib Dems banded together to shout it down.
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# 109....The dreaded ``Few``on DF and the two `nasty parties`are in denial on so many human
issues.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Laura sands(tory) the speaker of the house(tory)
at least are in line with public thinking,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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;laura sandys at least understood the situation and that it was only transitional help i doubt if many of her colleagues even understand how they work much like the idiot m .p. from wirral west.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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and the speaker made a comment that was probably correct
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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certainly will hit a chord with many especially those having to use food banks.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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And now this British business's will be paid, if you don't mind, to switch off at times of high demand by none other than the national grid.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/88b6fb94-68ba-11e3-bb3e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2nxfYx3lP
Something is very wrong with the world.