Jul 3 2013
Demand for food banks ‘has nothing to do with benefits squeeze,’ says Lord Freud
The Independent
Is this Freud cunt for real? Or is he just trying to steal Iain Dickhead Smiths thunder?
I said all that I have to say about this obnoxious cunt 2 weeks ago. Click HERE
That is, all except why is he still in a position to be given print space to air his moronic opinions?
Sack the horrible cunt.
A wealthy Conservative minister provoked anger last night after questioning the connection between the soaring use of food banks and the Government’s squeeze on benefits.
Lord Freud, a Work and Pensions minister, insisted that the recent sharp increase in people resorting to food handouts to feed their families was not necessarily linked to benefits sanctions or delays. He suggested more people were taking charity food because more food banks existed – and he prompted Opposition jeers in the Lords when he denied they were effectively a part of the welfare system.
Challenged by the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Tim Thornton, over whether ministers conceded a link between the benefits system and food bank use, Lord Freud replied that it was difficult to “make the causal connections”. The minister for welfare reform added: “It is difficult to know which came first – supply or demand.”
Later, Lord Freud, a former investment banker, came under fire from charities for being out of touch with the reality of life on the breadline. Campaigners recently warned that more than 500,000 Britons were using food banks because of a combination of benefit cuts, falling wages and the economic downturn.
Chris Mould, the executive chairman of the Trussell Trust, which runs 325 food banks, said: “The only people who seem unable to accept there is a social crisis driven by the cost of living is the Government.”
Critics have claimed a government plan to require benefit claimants to wait seven days before being able to apply for state support would increase reliance on food banks.
However, Lord Freud told peers: “Food banks are absolutely not part of the welfare system that we run. We have other systems to support people.” Asked what he meant, he replied: “If you put more food banks in, that is the supply. Clearly food from a food bank is by definition a free good and there’s almost infinite demand.”
A joint report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty five weeks ago said that the number of people using food banks has trebled in the past year alone. They said cuts to welfare payments, including below-inflation benefit rises and new Jobseekers’ Allowance sanctions, had fuelled the increase.
Last night, Chris Johnes, director of Oxfam’s UK poverty programme, said: “These comments don’t bear much relation to the reality. The fact is that food banks are stepping in to fill a gap left by the welfare system.” He added: “The evidence is very clear that people are going to food banks out of real need. They feel a sense of stigma that they can’t feed themselves and their families.”
Mr Mould said 30 per cent of people were referred to it because of benefit delays and another 15 per cent because of benefit changes. He said: “It’s absolutely clear there is a growing demand for emergency food supply. That is the consequence of a growing problem with people making ends meet… there is lots of evidence to that effect. The only people who seem unable to accept there is a social crisis driven by the cost of living is the Government.”
Liam Byrne, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: “These comments show just how out of touch this Government is. The welfare revolution we were promised has failed. Unemployment is up, the benefits bill is soaring £20bn higher than planned, and food banks are growing by the day, yet the only ones getting any extra help from this Government are millionaires.”
A DWP spokesperson said: “We welcome the contribution voluntary organisations and food banks play in supporting local communities, beyond the safety net provided by government.
“That is why Jobcentre Plus – for the first time – is now referring people to their services. Our welfare reforms will improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities, with the universal credit simplifying the complex myriad of benefits and making three million households better off.”
July 3, 2013 @ 10:00 am
Utterly Out of Touch
July 3, 2013 @ 11:33 am
I hear the rich taste just like chicken…The rich say capitalism is the only way yet they demand socialism bear their costs, such as ordinary people donating to food banks and the Inland Revenue topping-up poor wages. Our taxes bail out their stock market gambling losses then more of our taxes (‘cos they sure don’t pay ’em) subsidize those capitalist enterprises we once all owned but were swindled out of. They charge us capitalist prices and pay themselves capitalist salaries and expect it all to last while paying us socialist peasant wages and draining the Exchequor.
These two different political-economic systems cannot run together indefinitely and no government or laws or police state can enforce it, and in the end there has to be conflict, but by then money will be no good and we will have the numbers.
July 3, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
They’re not out of touch, just NWO Cunts following NWO agenda.
July 3, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
I have a feeling that these food banks are going to correlate with Agenda 21.
When the geoengineering causes more floods at harvest time like the last 2 years, and droughts for the rest of the time, and when the soil is totally dead, as is happening now, we will all become more and more reliant on them, these foodbanks are conditioning us to rely on hand outs, so when we have to rely on the UN for our food it won’t come as such a surprise.
Next will come population control, they will say there are too many people in your country, we have to reduce figures or people will starve…
Of course we’ll all be starving anyway, because by then we’ll all be eating monsanto’s aluminium resistant seeds….
July 3, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
I believe everything is going according to plan for these fucking subhumans and that things are going to be far worse in the years to come. For them, money is the only thing that counts. Fuck them all!
July 3, 2013 @ 4:23 pm
Mia, you’re 100% right that bad harvests and collapsing economies are designed to make us all rely on UN food hand-outs. But there will never be a restriction on UN food supplies, they will in fact be happy to supply as much food as anyone wants.
The catch is that it will contain Epicyte, the permanent contraceptive that sterilises anyone who eats it. Our Satanist, fascist overlords will achieve their 95% population reduction target just by “saving” us.
July 3, 2013 @ 4:49 pm
And another thing – as the practice of implied consent for organ donors spreads across the UK gulag, woe betide any fit, healthy 20-year-olds who stray into hospital with a broken leg. Someone at the local lodge will be very happy to benefit from that nice, fresh body if anything “unfortunate” should happen to the poor youngster while (s)he’s in hospital.
July 3, 2013 @ 5:32 pm
FREUD?…. have they spelt his name wrong, it should be FRAUD.
July 3, 2013 @ 7:29 pm
An obnoxious fucking asshole that should be given a bloody good kicking fucking ignorant nonce twat .
July 3, 2013 @ 8:08 pm
@ Trevor…
Interesting about the Epicyte, I hadn’t heard about it, I’ll look into it,
it doesn’t surprise me at all unfortunately 🙁
What you said about the young 20 year old’s going into hospital, something
very similar just happened to a friends son.
He was just 20, went into hospital with a collapsed lung, and somehow ended
up brain damaged and on life support through the hospitals negligence.
Before he died they couldn’t wait to ask my friend if he could be an organ donor,
they were like vultures circling the bed….
I told her to tell them to fuck off,
luckily she decided not to let them take anything (thank god).
Personally I will have to be at deaths door before i go to hospital anyway, I have a real phobia about hospitals…looks like now it was self preservation.
July 3, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
When, oh when ?? I can’t wait for the straw that breaks the camel’s back…cunts like this will be getting kicked through the fucking city in his silk pyjamas !!! cowering, looking for help, and compassion, from those who have their foot up his fat fucking ass..
He will be praying for his robo cop, wanker, police force, to maintain order. They too, will be shitting their pants, and running for cover, like the little bully victims they all were, when they were back in school.
Then he will look for the army..or the T.A ( invasions on the cheap hey ) employees
of the government, who the government really does not want to have to pay.
Don’t use the food banks people, just go and loot “en masse” they can’t put everyone in prison. They can’t fucking afford it for a start. They just hope the threat of it will prevent full blown revolt.
I feel the chances of that prevention are becoming more unlikely by the day. The police and army, can no longer judge themselves as serving the needs of the nation, or the people. It is reaching the point of no return for them. They will all be relegated to their true position, of ensuring oppression for the upper class twats, and, as a result they too will suffer.
They all do what they do for a wage, so in reality, their supposed goodness ( which is false anyway ) is only based on the fact they are rewarded more than most (for the time being) from their slimy cunt masters.
Fuck these Police forces: We need to go back to locally based militias of decent and upstanding men of power in each community who have the ability to deal with local disorder. Fuck the Crown cock sucking judges too.
Fuck me, i could write a fucking revolutionary handbook here. lol. I could take this country with 750 to a 1000 skilled heavily armed men.
I could simultaneously hit every R.A.F base in Norfolk and Suffolk, destroy every front line fighter with 150 to 200 men. Then expend another 150 on capturing every Police headquarters in the country. Assassinate the whole fucking lot of commonwealth leaders with a remembrance day attack on the Cenotaph. Hit the naval dock yards Plymouth and Portsmouth and have another 100 hit Faslane. Raid middle wallop to take out a few helicopters.
I think i could be on my way in 3 hours to being supreme leader !
Give the S.A.S, a chance to join us for the big win or risk total defeat for leaving their working class roots in favour of supporting upper class twats against the people. oh yeah, send another 20 to 30 each to take every nuclear power station.. i think there are about 7 of them defended by armed police.
Obviously, i would have to polish off the edges of my cunning plan, but yeah, i think that’s a fair start for my 15 minute initial outline.
July 3, 2013 @ 10:34 pm
@Mia, saddened but not surprised to hear about your mate’s son. Carrying a donor card is a death sentence as it gives doctors every incentive not to revive you.
I’d meant to post that comment in the body-transplant thread but this thread is about yet another facet of the regime that wants to kill us all anyway. There’s so much of it about.
July 5, 2013 @ 1:15 am
It seems the anyone who visits a food bank really needs the food to live. Apparently Lord Stupid thinks everyone on the dole should be eating caviar and drinking beer like he does.
In a country as wealthy as England it’s a horrible shame that ANYONE has to visit a food bank to live. Have Lord Dumbass do without a few meals and see how happy he would be to visit a food bank. I think he’s under the misinformation that any and everybody whether they need the food or not visits food banks and are abusing the resource.
July 5, 2013 @ 7:46 am
What the hell does this bag of snot know about the regular workers of this country? How they struggle to get by? Does he ever think it’s a shame that we’re among the lowest earners in Western Europe? A family of 3-4 can hardly get by on 1 paycheck. Pensions are also shamefully low, btw. The hell he does. All these people are totally clueless. People don’t go to the food banks for fun, they go there to fucking survive!
July 6, 2013 @ 1:53 am
@fuck the state asks when. I’ll hazard a guess. Fairly soon, as these things go. When the next financial disaster strikes, which is inevitable. It’ll make ’08 seem like a walk in the park because not a single one of TPTB have learned anything. Osborne/King and other western financial head honchos are playing a pyramide game with money printed from thin air and it’ll end in utter chaos. Historic times, ladies and gentlemen. We’re witnessing the end of the Western World as we’ve known it.