Well the silver lining on this very dark cloud is that donations to the Trussell Trust have soared by over 500% since the Daily Mail's shameless article.
Well the silver lining on this very dark cloud is that donations to the Trussell Trust have soared by over 500% since the Daily Mail's shameless article.
Well the silver lining on this very dark cloud is that donations to the Trussell Trust have soared by over 500% since the Daily Mail's shameless article.
The Daily Mail are counter productive.
I hope and pray that they will return to attacking "Ed Milibands Face" and "Ed Miliband's Father".
If only we could work out what is on their mind......
Of course in any system that helps out 600,000 people (after taking into account repeat visits) it is impossible to check that every single case is 100% genuine but there is no credible evidence that the food bank system is being routinely abused. The fact that you can get a maximum of 3 lots of 3 days' food is hardly an incentive for widescale abuse. It is good to see the reaction to the Mail's latest attempt at gutter journalism.
To remind people of some credible research on this issue, the DEFRA commissioned food aid research report confirms that:
There is growing demand for help to meet food needs, both from first-time food aid users and from those who had already been helped continuing to need food. The key drivers of this growing demand are described by providers as ‘crises’. Crises in household income, such as loss of a job or problems with social security benefits, are often underpinned by on-going problems of low income, rising food and other costs and increasing indebtedness.......We found no evidence to support the idea that increased food aid provision is driving demand. All available evidence both in the UK and international points in the opposite direction. Put simply, there is more need and informal food aid providers are trying to help....... Seeking food aid is usually a strategy of last resort.
This backs up what the CAB and others have said. I have said on numerous occasions that imo the reasons for the increase in need for food banks are varied. Sadly the people who use them have been used as political footballs by both coalition and opposition politicians and supporters. This needs to stop and then maybe we can start to do something to solve, or at least alleviate, what is a very serious issue starting with the over-zealous sanctions regime and the long delays that many face waiting for their benefits to be paid.
i would say what kind of rag scandalises a charity that is doing what it`s supposed to do and helping people in dire straits but it`s the daily mail so i already know.
Well the silver lining on this very dark cloud is that donations to the Trussell Trust have soared by over 500% since the Daily Mail's shameless article.
If only we could work out what is on their mind......
I would suggest the Editor of the Daily Mail should end up on the wrong end of a select committee hearing as Murdoch did during the phone hacking scandal which led to Leveson, but I suspect that'll never happen because the Daily Mail is doing the Government's bidding in smearing welfare and charitable giving for the poor to make it easier to introduce such measures in a forthcoming election manifesto.
What we really need is the formation of a UK equivalent of a Blue Ribbon Committee, where the best, neutral minds in the media attempt to figure out what the Daily Mail is up to.
The fact that donations have increased significantly should restores anyone's faith in humanity and humble the Mail, Iain Duncan Smith and Esther McVey. At least the Daily Mail hasn't gone on a full-on rant defending its smearing of the Trussell Trust as they did with Ed Miliband's father.
Well the silver lining on this very dark cloud is that donations to the Trussell Trust have soared by over 500% since the Daily Mail's shameless article.
Imagine if the reporter scammed a cancer charity like this? I would hope those people leaving comments would change their mind about it being good thing to expose a charity for believing someone who lied.
Paul Dacre loves to style himself as the voice of Middle England, but 'stories' like this, along with his attacks on Ralph Miliband last year, show that perhaps he's rather more out of touch than he thinks.
Paul Dacre loves to style himself as the voice of Middle England, but 'stories' like this, along with his attacks on Ralph Miliband last year, show that perhaps he's rather more out of touch than he thinks.
This was the Mail On Sunday - editor is Geordie Greig, who makes out that he is the nemesis of Paul Dacre - seem to be cut from very similar cloth. Mind you wouldn't be surprised if DM has story supporting Trussell Trust soon as that anything MoS say DM currently try to say opposite currently... very childish.
Tell you what next I have a young girl crying she can't feed her baby,I tell her to bugger off till I've checked her kitchen cupboards. Do they really think 99.999% of people want to use food banks? because they don't they're mostly appalled they even have to ask.
even better, some people are citing the daily mail article as their motivation for giving.
That was my motivation for making a donation earlier today.
Gratifying to see that the majority of the British public have channelled their disgust over this article into donating nearly £53K to the Trussell Trust - and £10K solely today.
Just keep In mind that there's only just over a year to go before we can completely turf out the Government that is ultimately at the heart of this whole matter.
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they believe we shouldnt help as many people as possible
they want everyone to think poor people spend their money on alcohol and drugs
they are attacking those who are trying to help
they begrudge vulnerable people getting food
they want people to suffer in poverty
it is systematic attempt to undermine the poor
http://i.imgur.com/udccxJq.jpg
The link to the 'joke' ending with Jesus is scum.
i laughed.
http://www.justgiving.com/crack-uk-hunger?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socsponmobile&utm_content=crack-uk-hunger&utm_campaign=post-sponsorship-donation-mobile
Maybe the next time a charity wants donations they should get the Mail to run an expose on them.
even better, some people are citing the daily mail article as their motivation for giving.
The Daily Mail are counter productive.
I hope and pray that they will return to attacking "Ed Milibands Face" and "Ed Miliband's Father".
If only we could work out what is on their mind......
You seem to have missed the point entirely..
To remind people of some credible research on this issue, the DEFRA commissioned food aid research report confirms that:
This backs up what the CAB and others have said. I have said on numerous occasions that imo the reasons for the increase in need for food banks are varied. Sadly the people who use them have been used as political footballs by both coalition and opposition politicians and supporters. This needs to stop and then maybe we can start to do something to solve, or at least alleviate, what is a very serious issue starting with the over-zealous sanctions regime and the long delays that many face waiting for their benefits to be paid.
The Mail will probably try to take credit for the increased donations! Absolute scum bags (The Mail not the Trussell Trust obviously!)
You do realise that the Mail are the butt of that jokerrather than Jesus I hope.
it is indeed a new low for the fail, am glad to see that since this attempt by the fail to defraud a food bank donations have increased
What we really need is the formation of a UK equivalent of a Blue Ribbon Committee, where the best, neutral minds in the media attempt to figure out what the Daily Mail is up to.
The fact that donations have increased significantly should restores anyone's faith in humanity and humble the Mail, Iain Duncan Smith and Esther McVey. At least the Daily Mail hasn't gone on a full-on rant defending its smearing of the Trussell Trust as they did with Ed Miliband's father.
This was the Mail On Sunday - editor is Geordie Greig, who makes out that he is the nemesis of Paul Dacre - seem to be cut from very similar cloth. Mind you wouldn't be surprised if DM has story supporting Trussell Trust soon as that anything MoS say DM currently try to say opposite currently... very childish.
That was my motivation for making a donation earlier today.
Gratifying to see that the majority of the British public have channelled their disgust over this article into donating nearly £53K to the Trussell Trust - and £10K solely today.
Just keep In mind that there's only just over a year to go before we can completely turf out the Government that is ultimately at the heart of this whole matter.
that is great, anyone know where to get them