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REASON 4<br />

FOOD BANKS<br />

Food banks are a symp<strong>to</strong>m of two things:<br />

1) that some people care enough about the plight of others and support them<br />

voluntarily through food banks<br />

2) that some people are happy <strong>to</strong> create a situation where the vulnerable and<br />

least we'll off are forced <strong>to</strong> rely on charity <strong>to</strong> feed themselves and their<br />

families<br />

The first group are unlikely <strong>to</strong> vote conservative, the second group clearly<br />

includes conservative prime ministers.<br />

I realise that food banks were not created by the conservative or coalition<br />

governments, I expect that Theresa May would probably like <strong>to</strong> see fewer or<br />

no food banks (so that her victims wouldn't have this support <strong>to</strong> prop them<br />

up a little).<br />

The reality is that people, including some working people, are forced <strong>to</strong> rely<br />

on food banks. The reasons are varied and include benefit cuts, benefit<br />

sanctions, restrictions preventing asylum seekers from working and of<br />

course woefully low wages and ridiculously high housing costs. Only <strong>Labour</strong><br />

has the desire and drive <strong>to</strong> challenge and change this.<br />

Today the food bank, <strong>to</strong>morrow the workhouse....<br />

Is that what we really want?<br />

VOTE LABOUR TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE, WORKING OR<br />

OTHERWISE, ARE NOT FORCED FORCED TO USE<br />

FOODBANKS BY POOR WAGES, CUTS TO BENEFITS AND<br />

THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENTS UNRELENTING<br />

ATTACKS ON THE POOREST AND WEAKEST.

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