The Methodist and Unitarian churches have launched a blistering attack on the Government for using hunger as a punishment for people claiming unemployment benefit, warning that using benefit sanctions to reprimand claimants who miss meetings or fail to look for jobs amounts to a policy of “deliberate destitution”.
The Trussell Trust says benefit claimants are turning to food banks because they have been wrongly sanctioned for failing to attend courses.
Benefit sanctions are unfair and unreasonable and need to be reviewed immediately because people are being left without ANY financial support sometimes for months on end. Foodbanks across the country, soup kitchens and other organisations, such as #OpSafeWinter, are doing everything they can to bridge the gap, but it is not enough as more and more people fall foul of this disgusting Government practice.
People are literally starving to death. Children are going to school hungry. The elderly, disabled and those with mental health issues are suffering equally in these times of austerity.
If you can volunteer any of your time to help those more needy than you, then do it. It is not a choice we can afford to look lightly upon any more, it is a duty.
The government is not prepared to give the help that is needed, therefore we the people must take this action into our own hands.
Greece has recently seen an uprising of Anarchy-type based communities – and they are working. Doctors, dentists, gynecologists, mental health workers, food dispensaries, midwives and nurses from all sectors have been setting up their own clinics and are volunteering in many towns in and around Athens for those who have been left without access to health and other services due to the crippling recession.
We need to see the same level of solidarity here in the UK.
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