Were you, like me, fuming at the sight of photographs of the measly food parcels provided by private food companies that were posted all over social media? I thought this Government’s disdain and disregard for poor families could not be any worse. Clearly I was wrong.
A social media storm started after a mother posted a photo of a food parcel on Twitter which consisted of two carrots, two potatoes, a tin of baked beans and a small range of other food items, which she calculated to have cost about £5.
The mother, who is disabled, thought the items were supposed to last ten school days and should have been worth £30. Her post set off an avalanche of complaints from other food parcel recipients about the quality and quantity of the food.
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