A Tory councillor has cited full restaurants as evidence that his borough doesn’t need another food bank.
With Conservatives in Crawley ignoring the findings of the council’s Deprivation Scrutiny Panel — which suggested a food bank be set up at the town hall – Cllr Liam Marshall-Ascough said:
“People aren’t in poverty in terms of going without food. You try booking a restaurant in Crawley on a Friday or Saturday night. You can’t do it.”
It sounds like Cllr Marshall-Ascough would get on with government minister Lord ‘charities are to blame for food banks’ Freud.
From Politicalscrapbook, 26th March 2014: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/03/tory-blocks-food-bank-because-he-cant-book-restaurant-on-saturday/
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