Michael Gove - Tory Education Secretary, argues that people who find themselves unable to buy essentials, including food and school uniforms have themselves to blame for being unable ?to manage their finances?.
He believes families become too poor and turn to food banks because of their own ?decisions?.
He fails to acknowledge that the reason families are made to rely on food banks to feed themselves, is that the government has imposed a litany of vindictive policies which largely benefit the wealthy and make things tougher for the poor. Combined with stagnating wages and the rising cost of living, is it any wonder that over half a million people in the UK have now turned to food banks in order to survive?
Here it is, yet again... Another Tory MP who has no idea how life really is for the majority of people, and who seeks to blame the poor at every hurdle for the failings of our hapless government.
Daily Mail article.
Do you agree or disagree with Gove?
Is people being 'poor' the fault of that person because of their decisions?