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Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears
(www.theguardian.com)
They will do anything but fix the actually poverty lol
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In 2024 Brown co-authored a pamphlet on child poverty demanding a multibillion pound package to solve what he dubbed 'a social crisis'.[170][171][172]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown
Looks like he's trying.
I don't know enough about the man to question his intentions.
However, as ex state leader I doubt his solution would involve fixing social policy as that would hurt his oligarchs.
How would this relief be structured anyway?
If you don't know anything, then you would do best to keep quiet.
Under his Chancellorship, child poverty was reduced to the lowest levels. There was many problems with New Labour, however this is one area that they really helped the country.
Online tough guy spotted 🤣
Orphan crushing machine operating as intended
Ah, Tory spotted! Manipulate the narrative to cause dissent!
In American please
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The first “multibank” in London, distributing everything from basic foods to baby products and toiletries, will be officially launched this week, amid continued concerns about levels of poverty as the school summer holidays begin.
“As a new anti-poverty plan is being prepared, the multibanks still need to secure more supplies and more funds from generous donors so that, working with food banks, we can provide poverty relief.”
Thousands of families are set to be helped by the new scheme in west London, overseen by the Felix Project, which sources surplus from the food industry that would otherwise go to waste.
Advocates of the multibank model say that it can be a powerful addition to fighting local poverty by redistributing stock that cannot be sold and taking donations from the corporate world.
However, there continues to be concern among charities about the degree to which food banks and related projects have now become a permanent fixture in relieving hardship as a result of cuts to the welfare state.
He added: “That’s why I pledged to support the introduction of multibanks in the capital as part of my work to help Londoners who are struggling to make ends meet.
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