Yesterday during Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron responded to a question on food banks by claiming that the use of food banks increased "ten times under Labour". When Cameron says this he is factually correct. He is being totally disingenuous, however.
Yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron responded to a question by claiming that the use of food banks had increased “ten times under Labour“.
When Cameron says this he is factually correct. He is being totally disingenuous, however.
As the chart below shows, the number of people using foodbanks in 2005/06 – five years after the first one opened in Salisbury – had increased “ten times” by the time Labour left office in 2010. By more than ten times, actually; the real figure is closer to a seventeen fold increase.
What David Cameron fails to mention, however, is that whereas under the previous government the number of people using foodbanks gradually climbed over five years, under the coalition this figure has shot up dramatically – to 128,697 last year, an increase of 4,573% on the figures for 2005. (see the Trussell Trust graph below).
In terms of the number of foodbanks (as opposed to the number of people using them), the next graph below shows the rate at which they have increased in the last nine years. I don’t think it requires any further comment from me.
38 Responses to “David Cameron is being totally disingenuous on food banks”
SadButMadLad
Are they clear? Tell me how the numbers are calculated then.
Newsbot9
You mean I’ve debunked your lies? Thanks for that.
Newsbot9
One person claims. One person is counted. There’s no ambiguity or room for your slithering here.
Newsbot9
I have a appreciation of the financial situation, and that’s why you’re engaging in warfare against them, I know.
You keep claiming people who can’t get enough calories are “obese”.
The state gives free health care, but it does NOT pay for a roof even for most of the poorest. Housing benefit is not sufficient for housing for the vast majority of claimants. By design. And it’s getting far worse now HB is unlinked from actual rental prices.
Many benefits have gone DOWN considerably, but keep up the bigoted lies. You’ve capped benefits at the same time as you’re about to unleash inflation.
It’s literally murderous, and you’re praising it, and lying about benefit levels.
SadButMadLad
Nope, just that there’s no point arguing with someone who only uses emotion rather than facts to back up their case.