Lady Jenkin, a Conservative, used its launch to declare the main cause of this national crisis was “poor people [who] do not know how to cook”. Jenkin is symbolic of a climate of denial, privilege and power that dismisses food poverty as a symptom of the idiot poor. The unemployed woman from Birkenhead who was taken to hospital with malnutrition after not eating for five days because she had no money to buy food; the heavily pregnant woman and her partner found living, without food, in a child’s tent near a church in a wealthy Berkshire town in the middle of winter; a Wirral man crushed to death after a lorry picked up the bin in which he was scavenging for food. He had not, funnily enough, lost a recipe or failed to work the oven. The jobcentre had suspended his benefits, and he had received no money for 17 weeks.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:13:33 +0000
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