Quote Originally Posted by NinianOpinion1927 View Post
No i haven't ever lived in Hartlepool, why?
Food banks are funded in large part by the national lottery, so maybe the Government have instructed them to donate. I'm not sure how Lottery funds are divided. But if the government tell the lottery how to spend and they're spending on foodbanks, you could say the government are supporting food banks.
When the Conservatives won the Hartlepool by election a few years ago, there was an interview with someone who said he voted Tory because they’d opened more food banks in the town in the last few years

Do you seriously think that if the Government could claim any credit relating to the funding of food banks they’d keep schtum about it? I’m not saying that just to have a dig at the Conservatives, Labour would be the same as well.