Hain blasts cuts after poverty report
PETER Hain has denounced Government welfare cuts after a new independent report claimed nearly five million people in Britain are now living in food poverty.
"It is a worrying statistic that highlights the increasing social divide in Britain, when the poorest households in Britain were found to spend almost a quarter of their annual income on food, whereas the richest only spend 4 per cent," said the Neath MP.
"More and more local families are facing the crunch.
"Significant numbers in low- income jobs are struggling to put food on the table or pay astronomic fuel or petrol bills. So are people losing their jobs."
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Mr Hain said rising food prices were making matters even worse.
"People are now increasingly being forced to rely on emergency hand-outs and are making cheap nutritional choices in order to eat," said Mr Hain.
"While the Prime Minister claims food banks are useful to people who feel they need a little extra food, many people in my constituency are relying on their food bank simply to avoid sending their children to bed hungry."
Neath food bank, he said, had seen more than 1,600 families.
5 Comments
by siarad2
Saturday, March 09 2013, 10:53AM
“MP get £400 per month food allowance similar to the State pension, don't they get paid like the rest of us who pay for our food. Crocodile tears Hain.
Todays telegraph:
'1.8 million pensioners live below the poverty line'
http://tinyurl.com/bcpmlwc
I'm one but then I'm used to it having grown up that way.
Unlike others, pensioner incomes have dropped considerably, mine about 30%, due to very low savings interest while working people have gained at our expense.”
by bennyhill4
Saturday, March 09 2013, 9:47AM
“thomastdout, And why should Peter Hain make a precedent, when most if not all our MP's hold simular positions with other companies”
by thomastdout
Friday, March 08 2013, 8:40PM
“May be Hain should donate some of the money from his new directors position in the african gold company.At the same time he could deport the village idiot.”
by Neathboy234
Friday, March 08 2013, 12:14PM
“Under the Tories the UK is rapidly going down the drain. Growth is the life blood of any economy and under this lot we have had none. Never mind they will be thrown out of office in 2015.
There was an interesting article in one of the newspapers this week(not one of the red tops might i add). It said that the coalitions fate was decided in the very first budget when the first cuts were announced. Most of these cuts involved canceling Infrastructure projects. Ministers with no experience making rash decisions, which sadly for us all proved to be disastrous. Some may remember that those ministers making the biggest cuts could join the "star chamber". Looking back Cameron and co must rue the day they ever slashed every opportunity for growth that we had.”
by White_Rock
Friday, March 08 2013, 6:37AM
“The only cuts Hain cares about are those in MP's expenses.”