Backlash against Daily Mail foodbanks story

A story by the Mail On Sunday which claimed that a food bank in Nottingham didn't run appropriate checks on some of its clients, and as usual for the Daily Mail had the nasty scroungermania whiff to it (original article here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608606/No-ID-no-checks-vouchers-sob-stories-The-truth-shock-food-bank-claims.html) - has caused a backlash causing more people to send donations to the foodbank

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/20/food-bank-donations-trussell-trust-mail-sunday

Keep it up guys!:

And yet tomorrows Daily Mail will still outsell tomorrows Guardian by a ratio of about 8:1. There is no "backlash". It's just the same old bitter lefties bashing the Mail. Like they do every week. Maybe they should concentrate on getting their own newspapers circulation figures a bit higher. But of course then they wouldn't be able to bang on about the "right wing press" that poisons peoples minds and stops the SWP from winning elections. Because people can't think for themselves you see. Except for them. Because they read the Guardian, which only prints the truth...

And yet tomorrows Daily Mail will still outsell tomorrows Guardian by a ratio of about 8:1. There is no "backlash". It's just the same old bitter lefties bashing the Mail. Like they do every week. Maybe they should concentrate on getting their own newspapers circulation figures a bit higher. But of course then they wouldn't be able to bang on about the "right wing press" that poisons peoples minds and stops the SWP from winning elections. Because people can't think for themselves you see. Except for them. Because they read the Guardian, which only prints the truth...

What are you prattling on about?

Your beloved Heil on Sunday has published a nasty, spiteful article and it has motivated people to send money and donations. Not the reaction you'd want naturally.

People who use food banks has rocketed, and people resent them being labelled scroungers by the Mail. Especially when a national newspaper like the Mail could afford to investigate the nefarious wrongdoings of banks and financial institutions.

What do you expect from the Daily Mail...Poor people are involved here.

A lot more poor people read the Mail than read the Guardian...

Nothing wrong with food banks, and nothing wrong with people donating to them. I think the people using them need to take a look at themselves and the way they live their lives. I would guarantee that to a fraction of a percent, they have chosen to live unwisely in the past, spent money on things they didn't need instead of choosing to save for a rainy day. But there will always be people like this and so there will always be a need for things like food banks.

A lot more poor people read the Mail than read the Guardian...

 

Nothing wrong with food banks, and nothing wrong with people donating to them. I think the people using them need to take a look at themselves and the way they live their lives. I would guarantee that to a fraction of a percent, they have chosen to live unwisely in the past, spent money on things they didn't need instead of choosing to save for a rainy day. But there will always be people like this and so there will always be a need for things like food banks.

Oh dear

You don't agree? You don't think that at least SOME of the people using food banks could have benefitted from being a bit more financially astute in the past?

You don't agree? You don't think that at least SOME of the people using food banks could have benefitted from being a bit more financially astute in the past?

Of course.............and they must be stopped from taking their tin of Pineapple Chunks.

No, let them take their pineapple chunks. But also let them think about how to prevent this happening next time there is a recession. Maybe stop smoking. Maybe stop drinking. Or stop buying junk food. Or leave that holiday for another year. Set up an ISA, put some money aside for the future. Instead of spending it all in the knowledge that the government will always be there to prevent you from starving or going cold. Because more than likely, at some point in most people under 40s lifetimes, the government won't be able to help anymore.

While billionaires and companies dodging tax all sit on big fat piles of cash, while the evil public sector workers dare to ask for a fairer wage, instead of sacrificing everything to (hurrah) do their duty for queen and country. You can judge how sick a society is by the gap from the poorest person to the richest....

Maybe the government should figure out a way to get the evil tax dodging billionaires to pay their "fair share" in taxes. Until then we have to live within our means, our actual means, not what we think our means should be.

Yeah but some people suddenly find their means taken away from them unexpectedly when they are made redundant and what not! I fully agree that people should live within their means but when people suddenly lose their income it's easier said than done!