Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Now now c, dont get cross :-)

Hays you are wrong. How do you account for ..........

Up to 68,000 people are wrongly having benefits stopped every year and the blunders are fuelling rising demand at food banks, says a think tank set up by TORIES......ends

Sanctions have only become active under THIS government.

They were minimal before 2011

Your theory doesnt even get over the first hurdle never mind the Chelthenam mile.

And your OWN commisioned report concluded.......

It concluded that there was “growing demand” for emergency food because of increased need. This directly contradicts the position of Work and Pensions minister Lord Freud, who claimed last summer that the expansion of charities such as The Trussell Trust had driven the demand.......................ends


Cant be any clearer than that.

A lot of last night's programming was nonsense. I have used the Trussel Trust's own figures and it is clear that one average the use of the food banks has not increased. If you open more Tescos then you will get more Tesco customers.

There is a group of people across the country who use/need food banks. That group is just being more fully served. The figures per food bank are the same as they were in 2005 before the recession.

WRONG Tesco stores increased last year but customers no's fell.

Warren Buffet sold 33% of his holding because of this.

If you open more Tescos then you will get more Tesco customers

ergo there are additional customers to warrant the additional stores ...... rocket science!!

Manuel,

Yes.

Agreed with statements about food banks.

But the increasing need for this form of "charity" in a responsible society is dereliction of duty and responsibility of the government to "care" for all members of that society, not just the affluent and fat cats.

It is in the present time, but more importantly increasing over the last 4 years due to incompetence, mismanagement and blatant disregard by this complacent tory government.

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I hope after the next election with a decent Labour/Lib/Dem government there is an investigation with a complete exposure of the present ideological driven right winged government.

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The public don't trust them any longer on the NHS, Welfare or Social Services or general management of their society.

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The torid party is the part of the Doomed.

As a little right relief listen to Putin latest speech.

Back treading!

you too need to get off your political soapbox if this interesting and important issue is to be discussed sensibly
if you can't or won't, then i have better things to do than to waste my time

No you are wrong, Tesco as been losing market share for about 5 years now. Foot fall is way down.

Buffet was interested in Tescos undervalued property assets which hadnt been updated for quite a few years. He identified hidden value.

Plus their meat is rotten and also their cheese sandwiches.

Little L F/

Stop fiddling the figures!

Look at the numbers and rate of growth.

Anyway forget food banks for a moment all you have to do is look at the way shoppers have moved to Aldi and Netto they have taken a massive increase of market share in the supermarket world and WHY...........because they are cheaper and people are cash strapped.

Foodbanks are just an extension of this.

that's lousy logic too sticky

inter alia, you may have noted, but turned blind to the fact, that Aldi is actually a german company
using your logic, why is Aldi so successful there - and across Europe in general?


as for Netto, see below ....
As of September 2013, Netto had stores in the following countries:[4]
Country Since Stores
Denmark 1981 442
Germany 1990 345
Poland 1995 293[5]
Sweden 2002 151


if people can buy the quality they want from somewhere cheaper, then they'll migrate, almost regardless of their economic situation
indeed, if they wanted to buy still better value or cheaper veg and the like, they'ld probably be better served by using their local markets

Putin going backwards?

I think not!

That interview was with a man who holds all the cards.

If you are cash strapped you are more likely to around.

Aldi and Lidl are available and are taking advantage of the migration of "stacking high and selling low" philosophy.

that's what Tesco was always known for, but unimportant

cynic - 04 Mar 2014 12:14 - 37657 of 37659

that's lousy logic too sticky

inter alia, you may have noted, but turned blind to the fact, that Aldi is actually a german company
using your logic, why is Aldi so successful there - and across Europe in general?........ends

So Cyners are you saying these other European countries didnt have a recession like ours at the same time as ours and they have had similar economic conditions to ours????????????????????


stop talking wet. What goes on here is going on in all these other Euro countries.

Well everything but Foodbanks as these other Euro countries tend to have a far better welfare system than ours and higher payments.

They dont have an elitist top 1% who get tax cut as our lot have.

Seems to me a lot here are forgetting back in 2008 it was the scumster BANKERS who caused all this trouble and yet they barely get a mention on this thread.

oh bugger off dear boy until you (and fossy and hays) can stop ranting from your political soapboxes

in your present and persistent state, it's not worth even trying to discuss this interesting and important subject with you

:-)

So you are saying Banks didnt cause the recession starting in 2008?????????

Are you saying these other Euro countries havent had similar economic issues as we have????.