Cameron has said support for people should be charity as it used to be and not them. Net effect locally not long after was that a local food bank was then managed remotely by a company. To use it people now need vouchers that can only be obtained from certain people. Reason for going to that sort of arrangement is obvious. Will it prevent misuse? I doubt it.
Why do we need food banks? That's pretty simple in some ways. People are receiving some sort of state relief and it not enough to support them. What is difficult is what living standards should these people have. The current gov's idea is low enough to make them want to work. Any job and any amount of it. The catch with that is long term unemployed generally want a job but find they can't get one. Priti uttered on this recently. They surveyed the economically inactive and all said they would like a job. These people are not included in the unemployment figures. There was over 2,000,000 of them. She then said that companies should use these people but not how. Easy thing to say but.............
The don't do charity lot make a lot of sense really but we are stuck with the usual Tory dogma that we have had one way or the other many times with no beneficial effect.
We have had near 100% employment without hiding unemployed people in the past. They were hid to make the figures better knowing that lots will never get new jobs. But say we did get to most people employed. Companies then have to bid for people and salaries increase. Currently for that to happen people need to work in fields where there is a shortage of "the right ones". Bit thin on the ground so salaries for many stagnate. The excuse is that unemployment creates a mobile work force.
The answer - pass.
Why do we need food banks? That's pretty simple in some ways. People are receiving some sort of state relief and it not enough to support them. What is difficult is what living standards should these people have. The current gov's idea is low enough to make them want to work. Any job and any amount of it. The catch with that is long term unemployed generally want a job but find they can't get one. Priti uttered on this recently. They surveyed the economically inactive and all said they would like a job. These people are not included in the unemployment figures. There was over 2,000,000 of them. She then said that companies should use these people but not how. Easy thing to say but.............
The don't do charity lot make a lot of sense really but we are stuck with the usual Tory dogma that we have had one way or the other many times with no beneficial effect.
We have had near 100% employment without hiding unemployed people in the past. They were hid to make the figures better knowing that lots will never get new jobs. But say we did get to most people employed. Companies then have to bid for people and salaries increase. Currently for that to happen people need to work in fields where there is a shortage of "the right ones". Bit thin on the ground so salaries for many stagnate. The excuse is that unemployment creates a mobile work force.
The answer - pass.
