Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[Psychosplodge]

yeah I didn't connect my PC to the internet in those days

[Wolfshade]

noob

[Darren Richardson]

ah how we take broadband speeds for granted, remember there are some poor souls in this third world* country we call England which still doesn't have ANY broadband at all....

*and yes I know we are one of the top ten richest countries in the west, but tell that to all the poor sods having to get food parcels just to feed their children....

[Wolfshade]

ah how we take broadband speeds for granted, remember there are some poor souls in this third world* country we call England which still doesn't have ANY broadband at all....

*and yes I know we are one of the top ten richest countries in the west, but tell that to all the poor sods having to get food parcels just to feed their children....

Are these the same ones with the sky sports, a 40 a day *** habbit and tins of larger?

A friend of mine lives somewhere where they have a community wireless network,

[Lord Asterion]

Are these the same ones with the sky sports, a 40 a day *** habbit and tins of larger?

A friend of mine lives somewhere where they have a community wireless network,

No, those people don't really exist outside of the outraged pages of tory newspapers.

[Psychosplodge]

If they hand out free food people are going to take it...

[Wolfshade]

No, those people don't really exist outside of the outraged pages of tory newspapers.

Cool, my neighbours aren't real!
Pity really, the certainly seem real while keeping me awake till 3 am with their music vibrating my home...

[Lord Asterion]

If they hand out free food people are going to take it...

They don't just hand it out, I say that as a volunteer and regular donor at my local food bank.

People on benefits don't have the amazing easy life they are portrayed as having, the fraud rate for benefits is about 2%, much lower than the rate of tax evasion, people out of work and claiming benefits are much less likely to be stealing from the country than people with jobs. Self employed people especially where the evasion rate is really high.

[Psychosplodge]

People don't question the fraud rate. People question why someone should have their benefits capped at £26k which to earn net would require what £35k gross £40k gross?

[Wolfshade]

Kudos for the volunteering work

How much of the food poverty is because people do not know how to cook/budget?

We have Trussell Trust say 0.9 million food packages were handed out last year
Then we have Waste and Resources Action Programme saying that 6 meals a week of food is thrown away so stop 3 for 2 offers.

Take this family: [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16812185[/url]

His £240/week food shop includes:

Includes food and household goods, 24 cans of lager, 200 cigarettes and a large pouch of tobacco

Which is somewhere in the region of half the food bill.

Heck, the weekly food shop including cleaning products for me weighs in at around £30/week for me and my partner. Neither my partner nor I are over/under weight, we get our 5 portions of fruit or veg a day, I have meat at least once a day.