Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
And what happened then was that people showed their disapproval of what happened in 2008, and to an extent the Gulf War, by voting Labour out. With studies galore showing that the average working person has got poorer since 2010, the richest have got richer, food bank use has exploded, the NHS slipped into crisis and life expectancy went down in the years before Covid, why do you consistently choose to defend the party who have been in power during that time?
You do realise that in 2010, Labour chancellor Alistair Darling was preparing to enact Austerity policies that the Conservatives/Lib Dems eventually did? People conveniently forget this. Brown didn't agree with him but Brown would've eventually been faced with the reality that his chancellor did. You can source our particulary bad suffering, post financial crash to Labour's behaviour and borrowing pre 2008.
Also, life expectancy is far more complex than adding few extra quid to the poor's budget. There's been a huge shift in dietry behaviour with obesity rising. Yes, Obesity rising in a time where food banks have EXPLODED

On the matter of food banks, i think they're better than state handouts. It's a more efficient use of money, targeting those really in need.
I'm sure that i once heard foodbanks were in large part state funded.