Foodbank handouts double as more families end up on the breadline

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Britain's leading foodbank network, the Trussell Trust, says every single day it is handing out emergency food parcels to parents who are going without meals in order to feed their children, or even considering stealing food to put on the table, as the government's austerity measures start to bite.

The number of people to whom it had issued emergency food parcels had doubled in the last 12 months and was set to increase further as rising living costs, shrinking incomes and welfare cuts take their toll, the trust said, as it published its annual report, which is fast becoming a barometer of social deprivation.

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1. I don't want this to sound wrong but I'm glad it isn't just American families struggling that this

is an issue most customers are struggling with.

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2. Article makes the interesting point that is not just benefit payment cuts that are the problem

Wider cuts in public expenditure are making the problem worse as the very administration of government is starting to fray so that even people entitled to money are not getting it. The same problem is occuring the Revenue raising side of the economy where 40% of HMRC jobs will have gone between 2008 and 2015 (over 40,000 staff) . This is a massive reduction whichmore than matches any job losses in the private sector in the shade. People may despise civil servants but without them there is no 'government'. All part of the great Lab/LIb/Tory great anarchist experiment I am afraid.