I'm glad you find the binary opposition of poor, need, deserving people vs. greedy, grasping scroungers so hilarious.
Foodbanks
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purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
And what's your point regarding Sikhs though? The concept of langur is great IMO, free food for all ftw. But does it resolve the policies any more than a foodbank? Not at all.
Are you suggesting if we lived in a Sikh country we would have policies which protected those in poverty as opposed to shitting on them?
Are you suggesting if we lived in a Sikh country we would have policies which protected those in poverty as opposed to shitting on them?
Pathetic. It will be easier, in the long run, to admit you generalised a bit hastily.
Logically he must be, or else he'd be forced to concede that he's making up a load of bollocks.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Be better to admit you're a bit dim.
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
Your argument is that because the Government is made up of cunts, therefore Christians are less concerned about the poor than Sikhs.
Do you think that no Sikhs voted Tory or Lib Dem?
Is that a question?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
No it isn't.
Fairly clearly stated there.
Stigmata
sexual tyrannosaurus
I heard they drink blood in their weird rituals too.
On topic, should I take it that food banks are unworthy recipients of my old tins etc? Should they carry on going to the night shelter instead?
Just make sure that the recipients are making adequate distinction between the needy and the greedy.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
A friend of mine started a "free kitchen/restaurant" open to all. They fund it by the more well off customers slipping money into white envelopes and putting it in a basket. Anyone not able to pay doesn't have to do that or they can just drop a note in the envelope if they want. I think the kitchen staff enjoy the notes more than the cash and no one is shamed because they can't pay.
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
In town, they have a soup kitchen every Wednesday. $2 for soup, sandwich, drink and desert.
It was a nice mix of people. One of the local schools would bring their students, and the adults were a mix of working and unemployed. When I was working in town, I'd go and pay $5 for my lunch. I know the ladies at the door don't charge some people, and my little bit extra is helping to keep the soup kitchen going.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
mas church runs a foodbank but its not like the ones mentioned in the OP
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
http://aethelreadtheunread.wordpres...the-bbc-how-not-to-eat-healthily-for-1-a-day/
At least more and more people aren't falling for the government's propaganda on poverty any more. This blog post sums up probably a large amount of people's thoughts on the BBC £1 a day thing, although most people didn't have the time to do the math.
At least more and more people aren't falling for the government's propaganda on poverty any more. This blog post sums up probably a large amount of people's thoughts on the BBC £1 a day thing, although most people didn't have the time to do the math.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
That BBC article is so fucking despicable it's hard to think. What on earth motivates people like Brian Milligan to attempt such fucked up reasoning? Seriously, what's the psychology behind it? It makes no sense to me.
This talk of Christians - The government are Christians in name only, the policies they're enacting have no bearing on what work individual churches do within their communities. I've seen individual priests and vicars provide food parcels as a matter of course, money on occasion, and go to bat for their parishioners against social services/DWP etc. And let people use their phones to ring 0845 numbers and that. And church foodbanks don't demand that people are referred by whoever - Basically, if you rock up there, they'll give you sumat. I'm no god botherer, far from it, but to say the christian church does nothing for the uk poor is bollox.
Mind you, my mam went to donate a load of scran to a food bank - The woman working there thought my mam was after a food parcel and properly barked at her "Where's your ticket? You haven't got a ticket, you can't have anything." Nasty piece of shit. Didn't apologise either. My ma still donated the food though.
Mind you, my mam went to donate a load of scran to a food bank - The woman working there thought my mam was after a food parcel and properly barked at her "Where's your ticket? You haven't got a ticket, you can't have anything." Nasty piece of shit. Didn't apologise either. My ma still donated the food though.
Please say maths in future.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
We have Living Under One Sun in Tottenham, doing much of what you just listed. Community allotments, sharing the crops, learning to cook, even holding a couple of festivals a year.
http://livingunder1sun.blogspot.co.uk/
Thora
Differently Ethical
Christians definitely seem to have cornered the market in food banks.
There seem to be two main organisations running food banks near me - Trussel Trust that operates on a voucher system and you can only go once in 3 months, and the Matthew Tree project which I don't know so much about.
Matthew Tree seem to let people choose what food they want rather than providing parcels, but I'm not sure if people can refer themselves.
There seem to be two main organisations running food banks near me - Trussel Trust that operates on a voucher system and you can only go once in 3 months, and the Matthew Tree project which I don't know so much about.
Matthew Tree seem to let people choose what food they want rather than providing parcels, but I'm not sure if people can refer themselves.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Okay but realistically it's easier to say math and the full word is actually mathematics and anyone trying to be pedantic about it just makes me more stubborn.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
''make sure it is genuine''
How depressing. Heave forfend someone who is not hungry enough should turn up on spec.
And you can only go to a Trussel trust once in 3 months? For all that foodbank attendance has trebled or whatever there is more demand than supply by the sounds of things.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I've not seen Tressel Trust vouchers issued to CAB people. I will ask from a contact in social work.
It also creates a burden of guilt and responsibility on other ordinary shoppers. So a random example from Glasgow.
AFAIK Toryglen is not a well-off area, it has a large estate with people on average, tight incomes yet w/c consumers at its Asda are being asked to take up the burden, not Asda itself.
What is Asda doing with its £857million+ annual profits - rising in spite of recession - (that would be £245+ p.a. per child in fact £4.75 a week for every kid, if shared out equally among Britain's 3.5 million children in poverty, most of whom are ineligible for Food Bank because someone in the family is working)? It is expanding into the Middle East - Dubai, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar.
The Food Bank angle is great for ASDA because it can trumpet it as charity and social responsibility, and because it's a physical thing (feels like no 'waste' or bureaucracy) and people know how essential food is, and the stuff is low or mid-range products, people are usually generous - hence sales and more profits for ASDA.
I don't believe Tressell Trust has anything to do with combating poverty - it uses all volunteers (no pay) apart from one or a few depending on size managers who control things at that Bank. They receive wages naturally and can control people under them, as can be expected.
It also creates a burden of guilt and responsibility on other ordinary shoppers. So a random example from Glasgow.
AFAIK Toryglen is not a well-off area, it has a large estate with people on average, tight incomes yet w/c consumers at its Asda are being asked to take up the burden, not Asda itself.
What is Asda doing with its £857million+ annual profits - rising in spite of recession - (that would be £245+ p.a. per child in fact £4.75 a week for every kid, if shared out equally among Britain's 3.5 million children in poverty, most of whom are ineligible for Food Bank because someone in the family is working)? It is expanding into the Middle East - Dubai, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar.
The Food Bank angle is great for ASDA because it can trumpet it as charity and social responsibility, and because it's a physical thing (feels like no 'waste' or bureaucracy) and people know how essential food is, and the stuff is low or mid-range products, people are usually generous - hence sales and more profits for ASDA.
I don't believe Tressell Trust has anything to do with combating poverty - it uses all volunteers (no pay) apart from one or a few depending on size managers who control things at that Bank. They receive wages naturally and can control people under them, as can be expected.
