Aisle Help

Inflation is out of control, and the government has lost it. Food banks need help now.

[Aisle Help @aisle_help]

Inflation is out of control.

So we're sticking it to the scran.

#AisleHelp #SpringBudget

[Cami 🕊️ @Cami_bekind]

If you’re sick - Go back to work
If you’re disabled - Go to work
If you’re not earning enough - work more hours

Not looking forward to the Spring Budget on Wednesday! 🤦‍♀️

Hunt is going to F***-up the benefits system…
#SpringBudget2023 #ToryCriminals

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

It’s #SpringBudget day - and look around. The country’s on strike, we’re in a climate emergency, there’s a cost of living crisis.

Today the Chancellor can choose to fix these crises, create a wellbeing economy for people & planet, & secure a liveable future for us all. Will he?

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Budget tomorrow

BUT is anyone even talking about the millions in the UK in such dire poverty that they struggle to afford the basics and rely on food banks?

What kind of country is this which allows this appalling situation to persist, as if it is somehow normal, acceptable?

[Aisle Help @aisle_help]

@TomLondon6 This is the problem. No one is talking about it!

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

UK child food poverty soars – Food Foundation survey

According to the findings, 22% of households polled reported either skipping meals or not eating for a whole day last month. In January 2022, the figure stood at only 12%.

Emigrate to Ireland?

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

No one should be forced to decide between staying warm or putting food on the table

Join us and @jrf_uk to call on the government to guarantee that Universal Credit will cover the essentials we all need to get by 👉 https://t.co/KnieA8vYZz
#OurEssentials

[shaz @2002wrIdcup]

almost 1.5k food banks in the uk, 1 in 4 kids living in poverty, MANY public sectors striking for better wages and yet this coconut is shitting his pants over asylum seekers . make it make sense i beg

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Free school meals are being extended to all primary school pupils in Scotland, Wales & in London next academic year.

But not in the rest of the country.

My letter, signed by 56 MPs + mayors including @SadiqKhan, calls on the Chancellor to extend free school meals in the Budget: