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.

Whilst not denying the unfortunate need for food parcels in Britain today, I feel sure that many of the 'claimants' are in for a free ride, there is always a route in for the not-so-needy but greedy brigade.
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cynically ask how many of these claimants have the latest mobiles, televisions etc ...... favelas in rio are also interesting in that respect

more fairly .... it is certainly very sad that so many at least feel the need for food parcels, but that is not de facto an indictment of uk society
assuredly, for where there are such facilities, demand will increase

if you go to some other location such as hamburg or paris, you would be amazed (horrified) by the number of beggars on the streets
no doubt the french and germans would look very much askance at "food stations" and ask why the need or somesuch

one also comes back time and again to what seem to be very silly sell and use by dates on supermarket foods .... God bless brussels no doubt
further, huge swathes of the population never learnt how to get the best out of almost giveaway items like cheap cuts of beef (eg short ribs) or lamb (eg breast) or chicken bones or pulses or even slightly spoiled vegetables

Why should people have to do it?

The UK is supposedly a first world country.

because the poor are always with us - matter of fact

before so berating our own society - the tory gov't seems somewhat unfairly to be the favourite target at the moment - have a look around the rest of the world including USA and tell us what you see

Indeed c, nothing to aspire to!


However, we don't need to join them.

I love this picture

Daily Mirror strikes again

The only problem is that the picture is not “Britain, 2014″, it is “America, 2009″ and Anne is crying over an earthworm.The only problem is that the picture is not “Britain, 2014″, it is “America, 2009″ and Anne is crying over an earthworm.

max - it may well be (i have no idea) that uk is leading the world in offering such widespread charity and should therefore be applauded ..... others that do little or nothing, are merely hiding from the fact that poverty exists in their own country

hays - if what you say is verifiable (try to supply x-ref), then it does indeed make one chuckle, though it could be said to be just an eye-catcher for what is a genuine problem in uk (and effectively every other country in the world)

Not only that Cynic but why have they grown so much since the Tories came to power????????????.

These so called poor have always had the latest mobiles, TVs etc etc, so whats changed so much???????, remember your a master at qouting the status quo and harping on about how things havent historicaly changed.

I know, looks like Max knows, Fred will certainly know, why have food banks grown and not through scroungers who can afford (silly Edwina theory), dont forget you only get 3 vouchers and have only 3 visits.

These vouchers are given out by Doctors, the Church and Charitys, you cant just turn up and help yourself.

Need for food banks is caused by welfare cuts, research shows
Created on Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:34
Category: Latest news

Report warns that as social security safety nets become weaker, charity provision could replace state-funded schemes

The government's welfare reforms, including benefit sanctions and the bedroom tax, are a central factor in the explosion in the numbers of impoverished people turning to charity food banks, an academic study has said.

The study, part of a three-year investigation into emergency food provision, was carried out by Hannah Lambie-Mumford, a Sheffield University researcher who co-authored a recently published government report into the extent of food aid in the UK.

That report in February concluded there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate a clear causal link between welfare reform and food bank demand in the UK.

But Lambie-Mumford's new study, to be published on April 9, says the rise in demand for charity food is a clear signal "of the inadequacy of both social security provision and the processes by which it is delivered".

The report warns that as social security safety nets become weaker, there is a danger that charity food could become an integral part of the state welfare provision, or even a replacement for formerly state-funded emergency welfare schemes.

Her paper will be presented to an all-party committee of MPs which meets on 9 April to finalise the terms of an inquiry into hunger and food poverty.

The inquiry will examine the rise of food banks, an issue that has become politically charged as ministers attempt to deflect criticism that austerity policies, including welfare cuts, have had the effect of compelling more people on low incomes to rely on food aid.

Picture pinched off private album on Flicker

https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/4084466710/in/photostream/

well young sticky, i'll leave you and the boys to your soapbox oratory (enjoy enjoy) as i'm about to go out for most of the rest of the day


btw, did you have another look at TW?
and if someone is to be believed, you're a total arsehole (i never said that!) if you don't fill your boots with CHA even now :-)

Beginning to think Hays is really sick.

What a pathetic smallman.

God help him if anything toward happens to his family.

his comment about the pic was actually very fair

may catch up late this afternoon :-)

Yep thats true but not the ref to worms etc etc, nasty nasty nasty person.

Cyners had a look at TW yep like the look of the pull back but going very carefull and spacing buys apart at the moment, this market is terribly volatile.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/4084466710/in/photostream/

we went to the park and anne found an earthworm.

she promptly named it "flower", the most beautiful name in the world (da most bootifull name in da wold).

i convinced her to let me babysit flower, while she played. we then decided to put flower in the grass, so she could have a nap, and then when it was time to go we would find flower and bring her home, to live in our garden.

only flower didn't nap, she scootched away, and anne cried for the next 25 minutes.we went to the park and anne found an earthworm.

she promptly named it "flower", the most beautiful name in the world (da most bootifull name in da wold).

i convinced her to let me babysit flower, while she played. we then decided to put flower in the grass, so she could have a nap, and then when it was time to go we would find flower and bring her home, to live in our garden.

only flower didn't nap, she scootched away, and anne cried for the next 25 minutes.

he he, thought Id get you to break your filter hays.

Hows it going old lad?

I have filtered Fred permanently. I filtered you because you reposted a post from Fred which I don't want to read.

Hazy one,


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He must have smelt you and was taking his tie and jacket off to scrape you up.