Campaigning for the eradication of food poverty in the UK and the creation of a welfare state that allows everyone to live with dignity and security.
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Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Imagine financial donations being used by food banks to distribute gift cards or cash payments. People can make their own choices as a result. Food banks are needed in the here and now but they’re not obliged to purchase food or distribute food parcels #CashFirst @IFAN_UK
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
I always wanted to write a book and here it is!!! Women and Welfare Conditionality shows how women's lives are shaped by work and welfare laws past and present. Benefit sanctions don't work but do huge harm to women and children.
@policypress @UofGUrbStudies @UofGlasgow
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
“Turning the tide on destitution is an urgent moral mission, which speaks to our basic humanity as a country, and we need political leadership for that mission.” @PaulKissack @jrf_uk @patrickjbutler #CashFirst #EssentialsGuarantee theguardian.com/society/2023…
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Vital that the food waste and food poverty problems aren’t conflated. The Government’s first priority must be to ensure adequate incomes for people through social security payments or wages. Entrenching a charitable food aid response is ineffective and unsustainable #CashFirst
Encouraging to see Secretary of State @theresecoffey talk about our ask for government support in response to questions from FareShare supporter @IanByrneMP in the @CommonsEFRA evidence session yesterday 👇
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
"However well-intentioned, the conflation of the food poverty and food waste problems further entrenches a two-tier food system in the UK meaning people impoverished by a broken system are having to make do with what’s leftover." @sabineegoodwin @BigIssue
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Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
A Portuguese lesson on free school meals. Our Guardian letter on the urgent need for universal free school meals in the UK, based on our European research with children & families. theguardian.com/education/20… @sfmtweet @MylesBremner @IanByrneMP @CRIPACC1 @juliabrannen1 #feedthefuture
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
It was a privilege to be invited to speak to @UsdawLearn reps this morning about the campaigns I am leading on in Parliament and why #RightToFood #HillsboroughLawNow & #RealTruthLegacyProject matter to all trade unionists.
Thanks to Terry Adair & @usdaw for your superb support.
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Thanks to everyone who supported our joint event at #Lab23 with @IFAN_UK on #cashfirst & ending the need for charitable food aid. It was a great event with a fantastic panel & very engaged audience asking excellent questions. Now for another day of conference! @GMPovertyAction
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
We were delighted to get the #CashFirst message across to delegates at our @GMPovertyAction @IFAN_UK #LabConf23 fringe event last night.
Now heading down to the docks for a day of fringe meetings. Hoping to hear more about how we can drive down poverty & boost living standards.
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
At #LabourConference23 you can make your vote count for children. Reform of UC as a priority will help end the 2 child limit. Labour has a proud history of backing children and families. That last Labour government made a huge impact on child poverty. We can and must do it again.
Calling all #Lab23 delegates! Choose Reform of Universal Credit in today’s priorities ballot for abolition of the two-child limit. #ScraptheCap #LabourValues #LabourConference23
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
To hear Anas Sarwar pretending you can reduce child poverty without abolishing the two-child limit is deeply depressing. Ditching it would immediately lift 250,000 children out of poverty and reduce it for 800,000 more. It’s a no-brainer. #r4today
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
If you’re a delegate heading for #LabConf23, don’t forget to support our motion on the two-child benefits limit in the priorities ballot tomorrow! Vote for Reform of Universal Credit if you want to #scrapthecap
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Fellow delegates, please remember to vote for Reform of Universal Credit in priorities ballot tomorrow 🙏
The two-child cap is immoral and wrong - #scrapthecap
If you’re a delegate heading for #LabConf23, don’t forget to support our motion on the two-child benefits limit in the priorities ballot tomorrow! Vote for Reform of Universal Credit if you want to #scrapthecap
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Food banks do not provide solutions to hunger or poverty. Like other charitable food aid providers they can do no more than alleviate these deep-rooted problems. Systemic change will provide the solution @IFAN_UK #CashFirst
Food banks are not a lasting solution to hunger and poverty.
An Essentials Guarantee would be a significant step on the road to closing the doors of food banks, for good.
✍️ @emmarevie and @PaulKissack in New Statesman
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Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Looking forward to co-hosting this event in Liverpool at #labconf23 on Sunday afternoon alongside @GrahamWhitham @LauraBurgessGM @mariaammarshall @abbypreston01 #CashFirst
If you're coming to #labconf23, join us & @GMPovertyAction
1700-1830 Sunday 8.10.23.
11C ACC Liverpool
Looking forward to hearing from:
@Polly_Trussell @TrussellTrust
@PollardTom @NEF
@antoniabance @The_TUC
@jencoleman77 @bcfoodbank
#CashFirst
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Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
"an Essentials Guarantee would be a significant step on the road to closing the doors of food banks, for good. It would be an investment in dignity, security & aspiration"
Excellent & vital piece from @jrf_uk's @PaulKissack & @TrussellTrust's @emmarevie newstatesman.com/spotlight/e…
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
.@changing_r in the @guardian on all that was wrong with Hunt's speech
"The solution isn’t squeezing people more, it’s fixing our public services, improving our social security system, making sure people can afford the essentials and giving people hope'
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
🚨ONLINE EVENT🚨
@PovertyAlliance and @ScottishTUC are looking at how the wages of Scottish workers have been falling and consider how lack of employment income contributes to the injustice of poverty. #ChallengePoverty
Register here: buff.ly/3LHBK3m
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
This is the reality of surviving on benefits - constant, grinding anxiety about whether you can make ends meet, even if you are working
People don't weigh up the options & decide this is the 'lifestyle' they want - it's driven by circumstances, disadvantage & inadequate support
ALT Quote from a mother working part-tine and receiving Universal Credit: "I also get worried every month for what I'm going to get off Universal Credit. I will sit there for two days before I get my statement and check, just to get everything on a calculator and just to see if I've got enough to pay out, it's stressful, it's not nice, I'm anxious all the time."
Labour Hunger Campaign retweeted
Really big turnout for #HungerMarches across the UK yesterday, including Liverpool, demonstrates the strength of support for #RightToFood to be enshrined in law.
The struggle must & will continue. Unity is strength. Solidarity @IanByrneMP @SFoodbanks
#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice
Crowds turned out in Liverpool earlier to demand the #RightToFood, calling for an end to food poverty.
Hundreds marched from St George’s Hall to the Bombed Out Church in a campaign led by @IanByrneMP.
Our regional correspondent @victoriaaglover was there…