The Affordable Food Deal

The UK and the EU must work together to guarantee our basic food items remain affordable, accessible and healthy.

[The Affordable Food Deal @FoodAffordable]

Food bank use is on the up and more and more people are turning to these support networks for help. A no-deal Brexit will mean food price rises of up to 30%. We must secure an affordable food deal with the EU.

[The Affordable Food Deal @FoodAffordable]

The government has failed to provide effective support for Britain's most vulnerable families. A new report reveals.

https://t.co/jxUS5MQRUK

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Oh this is just a disgrace. Just give families a £30 voucher, and exclude booze, fags, whatever; but don’t pay somebody to insert themselves into the process and cream off a profit. That’s £5 of food, and somebody has kept £25 for themselves.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Victim-blaming Tories said parents use food vouchers for crack.

Turns out their donor pals are snatching £30 vouchers for £5 food parcels to hungry youngsters

Feed the kids. Stop the Tory Spivs. Profiting from child hunger is a moral crime.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Holiday Hunger:

Handing parents £5 in food & charging them £30 in food vouchers is disgusting.

Profiting from hunger & poverty. No firm should be permitted to prey on parents trying to feed their children.

Give parents the money to decide how to spend.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

A few months ago, a Tory MP claimed free school meal vouchers were effectively used for crack dens & brothels.

Now working class families are receiving this instead of £30 food vouchers.

This isn’t £30 worth of food.

It’s disgraceful, disrespectful & downright unacceptable.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The Tories have given millions to their donors in contracts. They’ve wasted BILLIONS on inadequate PPE.

But THIS is what they think kids from the poorest families deserve?!

This isn’t just incompetence. It’s a failure of their priorities and their values. Shameful.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The images appearing online of woefully inadequate free school meal parcels are a disgrace.

Where is the money going?

This needs sorting immediately so families don’t go hungry through lockdown.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

The idea that this is 10 meals worth of food is a joke.

It is worth just over a fiver, not £30.

This must be fixed urgently to stop children going hungry.

[MR @MarcusRashford]

Children deserve better than this...

[The Affordable Food Deal @FoodAffordable]

“Bureaucratic delays and the vast amount of paperwork will disrupt how we operate. Government must address this, or it will accentuate food poverty – trade problems will lead to price rises, and those on lower incomes could be left with less choice."
https://t.co/MmShMtw8mC

[Lisa O'Carroll @lisaocarroll]

Up to 20% of dairy products could be in "unfit state" for consumption if there are delays crossing into the EU at ports, says Peter Alvis, chair of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers.

He tells lords sub committee the short life products not on the priority list

[The Affordable Food Deal @FoodAffordable]

For the first time in its 70 year history UNICEF will be feeding children in the U.K.

https://t.co/NbqISGJPyw

[The Affordable Food Deal @FoodAffordable]

In anticipation of shortages prompted by a no-deal, ministers have told supermarkets to start stockpiling goods.
https://t.co/kLrmZqfzlg