Britain Goes Hungry As We Feed The World

By Southwest Nationalist. Benefit claimants who cannot afford food will be referred to charity food banks by Job Centres as poverty in Britain continues to increase.

The scheme, which brings to mind startling images of soup kitchens and the great depression, will see the Trussell Trust dealing with referred benefits claimants, who can get food for three days.

Demand on the Trussell Trust, a Christian charity, is increasing at an alarming rate – it currently operates 70 food banks, and is set to open another 60 food banks over the next 6 months.

It is estimated that they will provide food for somewhere in the region of 100,000 people this year.

Poverty UK, where people must rely on charity in order to eat, it’s a damning indictment of societies failings when these conditions can exist in modern Britain, and the government does nothing save for refer people to charity.

100,000 people reliant on charity to eat within Britain really is a terrible statistic, what a ruined nation we have become. With our ever growing population it will only get worse as well.

Is that the Big Society in action, where government knows there’s a big problem but it’s not their problem, charities can pick up the pieces of our ruined nation?

Meanwhile though, providing food for abroad, paid for using taxpayer money, appears to be no problem.

Just one recent post on the Department for International Development website tells us that we’re providing food for 1.36 million people in Ethiopia, 800,000 in Somalia, and hundreds of thousands more people in Kenya.

We’ve people going hungry and reliant on charity in the UK, and the numbers are increasing – yet, the UK taxpayer is paying for millions of people abroad to eat.

Does that make sense?

Hunger at home, food for abroad, is that a pledge any party would campaign on?

They ought to, because that’s the reality of the Britain around us today, feeding the world but failing our own people.

Poverty and hunger is fast becoming a feature of modern Britain, and yet the politicians eyes – and our money – are elsewhere.

Whilst people in Britain go hungry and are saved from starvation only by the intervention of charity it is clear that we have got our priorities completely wrong, and that there is something fundamentally broken with us as a nation and a society.