Muswell Hill Foodbank

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Mikel Bee
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Re: Muswell Hill Foodbank

Post: # 262668Post Mikel Bee »

BEEGONE wrote:
Im not really sure it depends on who is in charge, facts are, if you cannot pay your rent you get evicted. Failure to build affordable housing by the past few governments is a big issue too. The gap between rich and poor rose under a left wing government which was a travesty.
Surely it's a travesty whoever it rises under? The rise in food bank usage has only been growing over the 8+ years of the current governing party. Bedroom taxes, scrapping Sure Start, cutting income tax for the highest earners, below inflation wage rises for public sector workers and massively inflating asset prices via a very selective money printing programme on a gigantic scale, aka QE are all under the current current bunch's watch. We're seeing the effects these decisions are having on people's lives.
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Re: Muswell Hill Foodbank

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Norfolk & Chance wrote:Why stop at 2010?
Why not go back further, like 2003 for example?

https://fullfact.org/economy/homelessness-england/

The causes of it are wide and varied.
I suppose whoever is in govt will find they are rightly challenged on it but to suggest it's a uniquely Tory issue is, well, political.
It's as political as it gets! And there are no winners. 8,000 fewer bed spaces for single homeless people in England since 2010, yet homelessness has risen 169% - of course there are more people on the street.

Your own link shows homelessness dropping from 138,000 in 2003 to just over 40,000 in 2010 when it started rising again.

New Labour should be thoroughly slaughtered for their record from 1996-2003. I'll stand against anyone who allows 124,000 children to live in temporary accommodation.
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