‘Bin
diving': It is likely that the man who died while looking for food in a
Wirral rubbish bin looked very similar to this man in Chelyabinsk,
Russia, before the refuse lorry scooped him up and crushed him to death.
Your Coalition Government will try every trick in the book to deny
responsibility for it.
“One of our clients was sanctioned. He had
no money for seventeen weeks. He was
scavenging in a bin, the lorry came, picked
him up and he was crushed to death.”
no money for seventeen weeks. He was
scavenging in a bin, the lorry came, picked
him up and he was crushed to death.”
The above is a statement by Vince Hessey, a member of the board of trustees at Birkenhead YMCA (listed as YMCA Wirral), given in evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in the United Kingdom, printed in the section entitled The vulnerability of people relying on food banks...
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