To find the response to today's Mail article utterly joyous!!

[Springheeled]

Apologies if there's a thread on this already that I haven't seen, and also that I can't do links.. But basically the Fail on Sunday printed a vile article today in which a reporter posed as needy in order to get food from a food bank, then did a hatchet job on food banks as a result.
The lovely thing is that the Trussell Trust have raised thousands on the back of the article, with people donating all day and registering disgust with the Mail article.
AIBU to be experiencing a warm glow and rush of hope for humanity?

They couldn't call the Mail on Sunday the Sunday Mail when they went 7 days, because the Sunday Mail is the sister paper to the (Scottish) Daily Record.

Wow that is just vintage DM.The comments are like a game of DM bingo "if I'd realised immigrants would be eating the food, I never would have donated" Hurrah that something positive came out of it!

Love it!
I do wonder who they do approve of. Now that they are hating English Christians same as everyone else.

I'm so pleased to see this thread. I'm a CAB advisor and when I saw the headline of this article I refused to read it. So glad it backfired.

www.justgiving.com/trusselltrust/

loving the comments on the above just giving page!

This has made my day!

And no link to DF!

The Hate Mail appeals to the inner complete and total swine which we all carry around.

I know andrew I do think there's a microscopic mail reader deep in the nastier recesses of everybody's psyche. That's why I LOVE the positivity of the response on the Justgiving page- it's a big win for our better selves- decency, fairness, kindness :) I wonder if they can get up to £50 000 by the end of the day???

Donation message
"Quote from Nigel Baxter on Radio 5 "we would rather feed 10 daily mail journalists than let one family in need go hungry". I admire what you do with equal passion that I loathe MOS's divisive agenda"

I liked this comment!
So pleased that donations are on the up off the back of that vile 'report'

Update, 12:50am, April 21: The Trussell Trust have now given BuzzFeed the following statement:

We’ve been totally overwhelmed by the generosity of so many people following the Mail on Sunday’s article. It’s been amazing to see thousands of people reacting to the article by donating to help people in crisis! What an amazing Easter gift! We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who’s given. We won’t know the total raised until our fundraising team are back in the office but we know that what we’ve already seen on JustGiving will make a big difference to lots of struggling families. Thank you so much!

my last c&p! Just sharing the happiness!

For those in the know; do food banks generally prefer monetary donations or food donations?
Thanks.

Bore great quote.

The people of this country are massively generous to charities and good causes. It doesn't surprise me at all people have responded so well to the usual trash spewed out by this paper.

I confess I do read its health articles online as they are so accessible and no bias!

I heard that the Mail makes most of its money, not from selling fish-wrapping, but from website hits.

So they like to publish inflammatory tripe because millions of people pass it round and have a look to see whar rubbish it is.

Maybe it was all a clever ploy?

Probably not….it was the fail after all.

interesting.

BTW Justgiving will be pleased too with their 6% cut. Do remember that donating directly to a charity is much more efficient, and can also be done online.

PCC Editors Code of Practice

Looks to me as if 1 and 10 have been breached by the article.

So I have complained HERE

I've just printed out the Trussell Trusts' shopping list to make a donation to my local food bank as a result of seeing this.

How depressing to know that our country is bring run by idiots who believe and promulgate the crap that the DM prints

Since they abolished fish and chips in newspaper (now there's a happy memory) there has only been one use for the Mail - but your local supermarket does a better product in several shades of pastel colour.

Fair's fair: it has good Sudokus.

Sadly the PCC are toothless. But it's heartening to see people criticising the Mail's approach to journalism outside that system. Was only a matter of time before someone attempted an expose on food banks as they are such an embarrassment to the government and their supporters. Good for Trussell in their comments.

This made me hugely happy.

I use Kitten Block on the laptop to avoid inadvertently clicking on DM links. Overt links are easy to avoid.

And yy to rather feeding ten fakers than leaving one genuinely needy case unfed.

This makes me even more dubious about the thread last week about food banks.

Bet it was a journalist.

Just out of interest what did the journalist do with the food he basically stole from the food bank? (didn't read the article) is it too much to hope that he donated it back to someone he deemed worthy? or did he make his Sunday lunch with it

I think the 'journalist' did return the food. He looked rather displeased with it in the picture. I wonder if he had a choice in writing the 'story'? He must have known what a wanker he'd appear to be...

Not basically stole. Actually stole. He made false representations with intent to gain for himself or another - and the gain need not have been permanent - contra s. 2 Fraud Act 2006. Basically the Mail counselled and procured the commission of an offence.