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UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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It’s not really entirely to do with Brexit. If the state didn’t actively want poor people to suffer then food banks wouldn’t need to exist, regardless of whether we’re in or not in the EU.
At this point it’s hard to isolate the factors, whether austerity, Brexit, inflation due to the war in Ukraine etc.
Still, it’s not exactly surprising that fucking up business with your largest trading partner has an impact on poverty.
I think their point is that there is no need for food banks in the EU or something like that. To be honest I can't understand what they're trying to say 😂.
Or less strain.
idk. In Germany we have foodbanks and they're strained too. Now, a large part of it is the 1 million Ukrainians we took in, and I think it's not as bad as Britain at the moment. But people have less money, so less to give to foodbanks, there are more people needing foodbanks between refugees and people not having money. So it's not good and I don't know how much space we have until it's the same situation as the UK.
Sadly very true.