Working to Remove Food Banks

Over the past few years, an idea has taken hold that food banks are an essential and praiseworthy phenomenon.  Without devaluing the effort put in by volunteers, it is worth pointing out that the Labour Movement spent the first half of the twentieth century trying to get rid of similar arrangements through the introduction of an ever more comprehensive welfare state.

Now Councils boost of how much they are using them, often using them for photo opportunities.

Previous generations of politicians would have shunned them as stigmatizing people, reducing liberty and reinforcing class consciousness.