Today’s Any Questions deals with rent control and food banks amongst other topics.
Here’s some questions for Dimbleby to raise:
1. The Labour Party wishes to impose rent controls on the private sector to limit rent price increases…..are those rent increases the result of Labour Party immigration policies when in government that have seen hundreds of thousands of immigrants pour into this country each year for the last decade?
2. Is one result of that policy, not just the rent increases, but also the creation of a hidden ‘generation homeless’ who are forced to live with their parents whilst immigrants live in appalling conditions.
3. Are rent controls merely a populist policy designed to win the votes of the unthinking, selfish mass, a temporary ‘solution’ that in fact makes things worse for people who need to rent? Is not the problem too many poeple chasing too few houses and the answer to cut the ‘people’ and build more houses?
4. Foodbanks….foodbanks began under Labour’s jurisdiction…which would indicate that the need has always been there…..but is it not also true that the increase in use of foodbanks is a result of Labour’s own economic policies which destroyed the economy and created a ‘generation jobless’ amongst the young, and welfare cutbacks are just yet another result of that economic mismanagement?
5. Is the Trussell Trust a Labour Party front, run by a Labour Party member whose aim is a political one…to change government welfare policies…and doesn’t he aim to do this by creating as many foodbanks as possible and use the ‘fact’ of the existence of the foodbanks as ‘proof’ that the government is creating ‘food poverty’?
All highly relevant questions…somehow I doubt they will make an appearance, at least not coming out of the mouth of Dimbleby. Kelvin Mackenzie or George Eustice might raise a few points but only to have Dimbleby counter them with points seemingly designed just to muddy the water and make everything ‘relative’…will Dimbleby do the same for poverty campaigner Jack Monroe? Doubt it.
One thing will be interesting…Jack Monroe (female) became famous for feeding herself for £1 a day.
Which raises a few questions about this from the BBC:
Affordable healthy diet ‘too expensive for many’
Many people do not have enough income for a “decent diet”, public health experts have claimed in an open letter to the prime minister.
The UK Faculty of Public Health said the situation had become so serious that an independent group should be set up by the government to investigate.
The letter pointed to rising food prices, falling wages and a boom in food banks as proof.
Professor John Ashton: ”If the current trends go on, we are going to have a malnourished generation”
FPH President John Ashton says: “we may be facing a public health emergency in the UK. The spectre of Oliver Twist is back”.
Professor John Ashton….oh…the Labour Party Stalwart! Oliver Twist and a malnourished generation? Nothing like a bit of over the top hyperbole to help people take you seriously.
And what about this bit?:
The letter pointed to rising food prices, falling wages and a boom in food banks as proof.
Well food prices are falling, as are fuel prices, wages are increasing and the ‘boom in foodbanks’ is a marketing success for the Trussell Trust…also run by a ‘Labour Party stalwart’.
Still, good of the BBC to be giving such uncritical coverage and promotion to the Labour narrative of a ‘living standards crisis’.