Janine, the magic of MST, and the myth of easy-to-get food bank vouchers
Originally posted on londonfoodbank:
The new lie in circulation is that people are heading to food banks in
vastly increasing numbers
simply because they’re now aware that food banks exist. Was it
Chancellor George Osborne
who got this myth up and running earlier in 2013, when he suggested food bank use had gone up, ‘because people have been made aware of the food bank service through jobcentres’? The insulting implication being that a bunch of layabout chancers are flooding through the doors of food banks in search of freebies that ‘hard-working people’ would never dream of taking.
It’s been emphasised already, and it was good to see this addressed in the first episode of Famous, Rich and Hungry, but the message hasn’t quite got through yet: Getting a food bank voucher is anything but easy. If you want to use a Trussell Trust food bank, you need to be referred by the jobcentre,…
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