Almost 1 million hungry people in UK (Archbishop of Canterbury is pissed)

[dunksby]

On a related video I watched there was a girl who claimed she could go a week without eating. This is happening in the UK :eek:

The latest statistics show that since October 2012, 833,628 individuals have received an average of 1.73 benefit sanctions each. From April 2000 to June 2014, a total of 3,063,098 people received an average of 2.04 sanctions each. Almost 60% of sanctioned individuals received only one sanction, but 21.5% received more than two, and 46,000 received 10 or more. A Commons select committee is conducting a fresh inquiry into the sanctions regime.

The letter coincides with the release of data by the Trussell Trust, the UK's biggest food bank network, which reveals that more than 900,000 people received food parcels in 2013-14, a 163% increase.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/07/archbishop-of-canterbury-my-shock-at-britains-food-banks
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/million-people-britain-food-banks-religious-leaders-faith-groups

[alenleomessi]

#prayforsweggeh

[Dresta]

That's what happens when you create a class of people incapable of supporting themselves: you run out of money to pay for them.

Anyway, i thought it was obesity that was the problem among the poor? Probs having to spend all their food money on cigarette taxes.

[Nowitness]

I live in England.

It is a fabrication. To believe that 2% of the country is starving is a falsity made up by power hungry men in positions of power (like the Archbishop) who rely on the support of the poorer, less educated class of people in this country who survive on benefits.

Most these 'starving people' are those who don't want to work anyway. Even though the real number of 'starving people' (and not people who receive food allowances and packages which does not mean they are starving) is prolly 1,000x less than their number.