Monthly Archives: May 2014
Real foodbanks, fake shops, and the fake recovery in Cheltenham
Last year the BBC reported that the number of people using the foodbank in Cheltenham had quadrupled at a time when foodbank use in Gloucestershire as a whole doubled. The BBC quoted a survey by the Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest foodbank network, which compared the number of people accessing food banks between 1 April […]
The right-wing Tory behind Oxford food bank who thinks the welfare state is “obese”!
Robin Aitken, co-founder of the Oxford food bank, has featured prominently in the debate which has raged in recent months over the reasons for the dramatic rise in people using food banks. Aitken claims that there is no reliable evidence connecting austerity and the increase in food bank use. His views have appeared in the […]
Cheltenham & Gloucester Against Cuts 