Because of their inability to buy food - there's been a massive increase.


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And the rising cost of living is becoming their biggest enemy - reduced benefits don't help.

Al Gershwin wrote:
Because of their inability to buy food - there's been a massive increase.


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And the rising cost of living is becoming their biggest enemy - reduced benefits don't help. Disgraceful. I would always shoplift if I was starving, then stand up in court and tell them why I'm there. But it is now Starmer's UK, and he's making things worse. Reverse the welfare cuts, get us back into the EU you utter fanny. Dreadful man.

If they are jailed the OAPs will get treated better insidel.

Downing Street Cat wrote:
Al Gershwin wrote:
Because of their inability to buy food - there's been a massive increase.


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And the rising cost of living is becoming their biggest enemy - reduced benefits don't help. Disgraceful. I would always shoplift if I was starving, then stand up in court and tell them why I'm there. But it is now Starmer's UK, and he's making things worse. Reverse the welfare cuts, get us back into the EU you utter fanny. Dreadful man.

It's a dire and awful situation that Food Banks have now become an established situation.

There was an incredible scene in Ken Loach's I Daniel Blake when after dealing with Blake at the dole office, the clerk is seen lining up at a Food Bank.

Yes if you were starving it's almost a moral thing to do- shoplift. Supermarkets make enormous profits.The UK pension seems dismally low in comparison to EU pensions and US unemployment benefits are certainly higher than the UK.

I remember the 1960s when activist Abby Hoffman in the USA penned a book about all this right back then and on the front cover the title was Steal This Book.

Apart from pensioner shoplifters there are some disturbing videos on YT of quite nasty shoplifters attacking store workers. Unacceptable but it's what happens when there is poverty.

There was an incredible scene in Ken Loach's I Daniel Blake when after dealing with Blake at the dole office, the clerk is seen lining up at a Food Bank.

Sounds like propaganda to me, it's like when nurses said they use food banks on QT. No one can just use a food bank, you need to be referred to a food bank.