Food banks

I think that is what they would do as well , anniebach.

Rosequartz, I can only say what I would do not others at the bank, no way would I let food go out of date then watch it being thrown away, I would give extra and then resign - before being thrown out ! I am sure most would do the same

Anniebach

May I ask where the figure of 90 thousand food banks is a statistic/recorded.

I'd like to know that too. Even the Trussell Trust only has 445.

Yes you may ask POGS

I made an error in an earlier post but in my defence have had a stressful morning with furniture delivery men turning up an hour earlier than agreed and the street light outside my house fell over , followed by the delivery men getting a sofa stuck in the front door way and breaking the lock so I cannot shut my front door, this now means the delivery men and the council are having a heated debate on who should pay for repairs , should be the delivery men but they saved the street light from crashing to the ground, meanwhile I have been outside for hours because we have sheltered accommodation bungalows here and several tenants have very bad eye sight , I feared them walking into live electric cables sticking out of the ground - and being Wales it's raining

My error for which I apologise for - I said 90,000 food banks but meant 90,000 people who use food banks , being human I make mistakes , oh to be like some here

Shouldn't barriers have been erected around the live cables by the Council?

Sorry you've had such a stressful day, Anniebach.

They are erected now Ana , but we are talking council speed , i was on the telephone 40 minutes - cordless phone - trying to get through, then transferred to another department , their recording thanked me for waiting , they had a high volume of calls, another fifteen minutes and so it went on. Unbelievable I know but i was asked what was the force of the wind!

Thank you, and at least I had a really good bargain with the nearly new sofa

furniture delivery men turning up an hour earlier than agreed

Well, that must be a first for delivery men, were they feeling OK?
I waited all day and evening until 10.15 pm once - I was just on my way to bed having given up when they came with a delivery of my washing machine!!

just read the read of your post - what a day!! Hope all is better now and you are relaxing on your new sofa
I hope your front door lock has been fixed before tonight.

Thank you Anniebach for your reply.

What a day you have had. A neighbour of my fathers died and the local Emmanus charity came to collect furniture and they they took the front door off it's hinges to get his suite and other pieces of furniture out AND JUST LEFT!!!

All hell broke loose so I can imagine how upset you would be.

When we last moved house the removal men couldn't get our settee out of the house - I said, well the firm got it in OK I don't know why you can't get it back out again.
Then I remembered that we had had some alterations done and one of the doors to the sitting room blocked off.

. Rosequartz

They had to take it through the patio doors into the back garden, over the hedge, through next door's garden and down their path

And the furniture van was parked at the front ?

Yes!! The neighbours were out at work at the time, just as well they didn't have a gate at the side of their house! I don't think they ever knew. The removal men couldn't take it down the side of our house because the gap was too narrow.

If they send you Christmas cards you know they didn't know, if they don't ? They know

Back to food banks. Ken Loach has made a new film about them.

www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/23/ken-loach-benefit-sanctions-jeremy-corbyn-food-banks?INTCMP=the-essential-read-automated

He says the situation is worse than when he made Cathy Come Home.

It is worse now but his film will not have the effect that Cathy had, we are a far less caring society now

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34777348

I wonder if this will have any effect?
Money for arms, but not to feed the people.

None Jen, it will be put down to - they should learn to manage their money as we did

We haven't seen the film yet ab. It might well be just as good as Cathy come home. Good on him for making it.

Comes out next year, jingl. He's still making it. Usually he does not say anything while he is still making a film, but he was so appalled at the poverty he saw that he just had to say something.

Jingle, I am sure the film will be excellent, truthful and so very sad but there will not be the same reaction to this film as there was to Cathy