Rant

[be-bop]

Today I was out shopping, usual nonsense for a Saturday and in my local Supermarket I noticed there were charity workers at the front foyer of the shop and on going in I was stopped by one worker who explained what was going on.
The were asking that if you could spare it could you buy an extra item and donate it to their collection as they were making up food parcels to give away to people who are referred to the local food banks, they wanted mainly tinned stuff, so I bought a couple of tins of stuff and donated them.
It was only when I was going back to the car that I started to think about what had actually happened there, so being a nosey bugger I went back and spoke to the guy who seemed to be in charge and asked about the increase in the number of food banks, who uses them and how they seem to be more and more in the media and what he told me actually shocked me.
He explained more and more it's people who are in employment but because of low wages, Social benefit changes,benefit cuts and the general increase of what he called "The working Poor" that food banks are becoming an essential part of life for many people, to say he opened my eye's was an understatement and driving home I got got more and more angry as i thought about it.
There was a recent spat in the press when Lord Freud the welfare reform minister for the government stated that more people were using them because more of them existed. and they were not even part of the welfare system, he also implied that people used them because free food is by definition a free good? whatever the fuck that means.
The point where his argument falls down is that you don't go there by choice you have to be referred and you have to have bugger all before you get food also you are limited to the amount of time you get helped, doing a bit research it seems that in the last 18 months over 500,000 UK residents have had to be helped using food banks.
This is where my anger starts to get to boiling point when government ministers try to deny what's happening Lord Freud is a multi millionare BTW who retired from investment banking at 53 and went into politics because he was bored.
What the hell is happening in this country where people are working but they can't afford to feed their families, I also noticed our lords and masters in the government are trying to soften us up because the want a rise in their salary of around £10.000 per year, "were all in it together" I don't bloody think so, politicians are just greedy to the core and if they do get this amount I hope there's riots in the streets.
What I learned today made me even more determined to vote and promote for Scottish independance next year and get out of the shit hole "Great Britain" has become under the Tories and Lib Dems.