Patronising MP ‘should help us out’
FOODBANK workers yesterday challenged Jacob Rees-Mogg to do a shift with them to help him get back in touch with reality.
Volunteers in Bath, Somerset – just outside the Tory MP’s constituency – can see more than 20 needy people a day.
Helper Sarah Partridge, 53, said: “I would love Mr Rees-Mogg to sit by my side as I interview someone with real problems who has had their benefits stopped, been sanctioned, been forced on to the streets. I would like him to see that.
“I would like him to sit in front of me when I have been faced with a hard-working nurse who works fulltime who cannot afford food.”
She added: “Foodbanks are wonderful. The point is there should not be a need for them in modern Britain.” One unnamed user added: “Food banks are absolutely vital to people like me who are going through a really rough time.
“They are the symptom, not the cause, so their work should not be taken lightly or patronised.
“People would be utterly lost without them because they fill in where the state falls down.”