Reblogged from Chris Spivey:
Well it appears not only have we have no homes to live in due to bedroom tax
and cuts, currently 553,000 families in temporary accommodation. We now have no
money to feed our children and ourselves.
From June to July saw a massive surge in Foodbank use in the UK and month on
month it is increasing. Meanwhile the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
have handed out bonuses of £44 million. What is worse is there are people under
the radar who get nothing.The free food is only given out to those whose
situation is critical and who are referred to the trust by frontline workers
such as doctors, social workers and Citizens Advice Bureau.
Meanwhile Bankers received a 65% bonus, MPs got a massive payrise and money
for their children, profits for utility companies are well up on the year,
Amazon, Starbucks, Google etc., are still avoiding tax but the British People go
hungry, homeless and are in deep debt.
We can’t go on this way, House prices are rising as Buy to Let landlords jump
at the chance of more profits and our kids see their dreams of owning a home
fade away. The disabled, 440,000 are affected by bedroom tax and our streets
filling with the destitute. A disabled man with Multiple Sclerosis is left to
his volition for three days after being evicted forcibly from his home by
police, outside his previously boarded up home because he won’t let his beloved
puppies be put down. Unable to fend for himself or even use a toilet, his ex
carer worrying herself sick stating clearly the private Landlord made up the
excuse to evict him.
Is this what we have become ? Is Britain so inhumane now ? Do we stand by and
watch people starve in the streets, homeless and destitute without lifting a
finger whilst the pigs in Parliament feast on the taxpayer, whilst the bankers
and BBC find more ways extracting profit from the poverty stricken ?
76,000 children were made homeless last year, they’ll have been joined this
year by more, going hungry I expect. Perhaps some will be lucky and get Council
emergency accommodation which will consist of one room in a shared house with
strangers, cramped perhaps 4 or 5 to a room. Others may get Bed & Breakfast
accommodation, having to roam the streets from 10 – 5 p.m. Some will not get
that and find themselves on the streets, perhaps giving up their children to
friends or relatives….until things get better…..And an MP tucks into his
taxpayer subsidised steak….A Lord opens a new bottle of expensive wine in the
Smokers room at Westminster whilst wangling his way through his expense
sheets…..
This is Britain ?
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Summer of hunger: Huge rise in food bank use as demand linked to ‘welfare
reform’
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