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Our foodbank disgrace
HOW many MPs who voted to slash benefits for single parents, disabled people and the working poor felt guilty as they ambled past the Hope not Hunger pop-up foodbank outside Parliament?
How many experienced no shame when flipping first and second homes to maximise taxpayer-funded expenses but voted to squeeze the poorest to safeguard public funds?
Tory MPs have veered from denigrating foodbanks as emblematic of a “something for nothing” society to portraying them as an essential part of the welfare system.
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