Today, instead of buying stuff for the food bank like I usually do, I bought a bag of shopping for my mate who's on Universal Credit. I spent £20 on eggs, cheese, bread, chips and pasta, basic stuff to keep him going. What with the Bedroom Tax he can't afford to eat 2 weeks in 4.
It's ridiculous and cruel that people should have to live like this. Where's the good in a system that sets a vulnerable, already-frail person to starve two weeks in every month? It would honestly be kinder to kill us and be done with it than to drag out the torment like this.
I've watched my kind, strong friend fade into a ghost of himself, visit food banks for the first time in his life; he worked all his life laying tarmac, operating heavy machinery outside in all weathers, and now he's broken and needs support they're leaving him to rot #VoteLabour
