Gove thinks those who turn to food banks are there because of their "own decisions"

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"I had the opportunity to visit a food bank in my constituency only on Friday and I appreciate that there are families who do face considerable pressures. It's often as a result of some decisions that have been taken by those families which mean that they are not best able to manage their finances"

I hate that this govt pulls the rug from under people and then blames them for it.

Actually wallison i'm assuming that Gove worked hard at school, left with many qualifications, worked hard and has ended up where he is now with a very important job while you are sat behind a laptop with nothing else to do but hope he was bullied and whinge. Anyone can be a keyboard warrior you know.

Entirely unsurprising for this government.

gosh eine, I never thought about it that way. maybe I should have worked harder at school then I would have got a good degree, great career, maybe had a business, employed lots of people...oh, hang on, I did all that.

And I happen to know many clever, very important people who do not think as Michael Gove or the government do.

eineschlampa, have you ever felt the touch of a loved one's caress that you didn't pay for?

I just wonder eine at your obvious glee and thrill at the idea of people being reduced to abject poverty, unable to feed their children, possibly living on the streets...fancy a shanty town down your way?

Does anyone remember the ITnet debacle? UC is that, but on a national scale.

Maybe they made the erroneous decision to vote conservative. Then they lost their public sector job in all the wonderful cuts. And now they have to choose between heat or eat.

Yes, i expect that is a decision that haunts them

Tsk, they obviously decided to be poor so that they could go and hang out at food banks for kicks. It's all voluntary, you know.

You do realise, some of you, that you cant just turn up at the food bank and get given £50 of shopping because you pull a sad face ! You can't self-refer, you have to be given a voucher by an HCP/social worker type person which you exchange for a box of very boring essentials. And you can only get a few vouchers, you can't get them indefinitely.
I dont think there are many people out there thinking "sod it, lets buy 1000 fags, we can just eat beans from the foodbank"

My food bank is much classier. we have foie gras, caviar, champagne, Belgian chocolate, truffles. They all keep so very well.

Gove is a twat. The decisions of the poor are far more economically sensible than those of the wealthy

Mr Gove claimed £7k off the taxpayers for pointless fake antiques at his taxpayer-funded flat, plus £13k removal costs. I guess he thinks you must be stupid if the State has that sort of money to throw around, but you can't even feed the kids.

Wasn't he in one of those MPs' double-claiming accommodation cartels, too? What happened with those, is it still going on?

Gove was sent straight from hell. The guy's fucking crackers, no doubt about that. The BBC have been dodgy gets about it for months as well. At one point even I was slagging off food bank recipients. DH looked at me like he'd never met me before. Then it dawned on me that it might not be a coincidence that the only families on the news happened to have Brighthouse telly's bigger than my back garden in direct view of the camera