[Stephen]

Its nothing new, people have always been poor or suffered due to low or lack of income, its just in today's modern world news and media is everywhere so people talk about it more.

Having worked for a bank and also been witness to conversations in job centres people are more concerned with getting new trainers for their kids and owning an iPhone than that are with actually feeding and clothing their kids.

I once had a single parent young woman call up asking for us to give her bank charges back as she couldn't afford food for her little one, shee was actually crying. However on her statement just a week before £90 odd was spent in a sports store on new trainers!

Where is the prority there. Get some food and then see whats left and go get cheaper trainers! Oh and I never gave the charges back. She went over drawn through her own fault.

So the question really is are people really poorer or are they choosing to spend their money on non essential goods that they really could do without??

There for using the food banks as they have spent their money elsewhere.