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End Cruelty End
Poverty: Foundational Human Rights and Poverty
Can Not Exist Together
To make vast number of
humans, including, babies, children and young
people, elderly and frail, ill and disabled and
very many other most vulnerable groups of human
beings, this happens across the globe in all
current existing societies, including, the
United Kingdom, exist, suffer and degrade and
follow the route of perpetual perishing towards
and away in agony of poverty, hunger,
malnutrition, severe and acute malnutrition,
cold and all the related reaches of this poverty
into all domains and spheres, where humans are
supposed to exist in, is: inhumane, brutal,
barbaric, callous, vicious, jingoistic, cruel,
degrading and torture and punishment without
crime, without due process of law and by our
existing human rights laws, cruel and degrading
treatment and torture are prohibited. Now, who
among the educated class, who among the thinking
and contemplating being, can stand and tell the
world, which part or parts of this all-consuming
vice and viciousness of poverty is not cruel,
not degrading, not cruel, not disfiguring and
not uncivilised!
The Mother can not heat the
baby's milk because her electricity meter ran
out and she does not have money to buy
electricity. She can not cook anything, even,
if, she has something to cook because the same
happened to her gas supply. She can not call
anyone because her telephone company has cut her
services. She can not bathe her children because
there is no hot water. She and her family, young
children and all shiver in the cold for heating
is off, too. She, on top of all that, is utterly
and absolutely in agony of absolute
dehumanisation for she could not buy the
sanitary towels so that, on top of all this, she
is existing in this nightmare! Who among us
humans ought to stand and identify, which of
these listed things are not cruel and degrading
and disfiguring and soul-destroying! Add to this
the agony of watching one's children cold and
hungry in a home, that can not keep them warm
nor can it offer them the provision to wash
themselves and all that is not cruel! Or, that
another set of mothers and fathers, despite
working, have to queue at food banks; elderly
pensioners have free bus passes so that, unable
to heat their homes, they walk and get on the
bus and spend hours going nowhere, just to be
warm!
Poverty is, like making
people exist and perish away on the street,
sleeping rough, being homeless on the street is
all that: it is the utter and sheer disregard
and contempt shown to humanity and let them
perish away suffering all the while in agony.
This cruelty can not and must not and ought not
be accepted and it must end. It must end.
The Sixth Richest Country in the World: United
Kingdom Where Exist Food Banks and Malnutrition
and Poverty and Working Poverty and Hunger and
Rough Sleeping and Homelessness: And Still There
are Organisations and People Here Too Who Stand
to Fight to End These Scourges: Feeding Britain
is Such a Charitable Organisation Led by People
Who Won't Simple Take the Rhetoric Given to Them
and Go Quietly and Live Their Own Happy Lives
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This piece was published in The Humanion,
Political Economics Section on April 26: 2017
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sixth richest country in the World: United
Kingdom, where exist food banks and malnutrition
and poverty and working poverty and hunger and
rough sleeping and homelessness. Yet, still
there are organisations and people here, too,
who stand to fight to end these scourges:
Feeding Britain is such a charitable
organisation, led by people, who won't simply
take the rhetoric given to them and go quietly
home and live their own happy lives. The
Humanion presents this organisation in its own
words: Welcome to Feeding Britain. We are an
independent charity, established by members of
the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger, to
help put into practice the recommendations set
out in the group’s Feeding Britain reports.
Our objective is to work towards a hunger-free
United Kingdom by 2020. We are pursuing this
objective by co-ordinating a series of projects
to relieve and prevent hunger and working for
reforms at a national level to reduce the
nation’s vulnerability to hunger. In April 2014,
All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in
the United Kingdom:APPG commissioned an inquiry
into the extent and causes of hunger in the
United Kingdom. The Inquiry received four
hundred submissions and took oral evidence in
Birkenhead, Cornwall, Salisbury and South
Shields. Additional evidence was gathered
through a series of hearings in the House of
Commons. The
Inquiry’s report, Feeding Britain: A strategy
for zero hunger in England, Wales, Scotland and
Northern Ireland, was published in December 2014.
The evidence review, upon which, the Inquiry,
based its recommendations can be read here.
Hungry Holidays: In April 2017, the APPG
published the results of an inquiry on holiday
hunger, containing recommendations on how to
tackle hunger during school holidays. You may
read the report on here.
Feeding Britain: Six Months On: In June 2015,
the APPG published a progress report on its
early work and campaigns. You can read this
document, Feeding Britain: Six Months On, by
clicking here.
A route map to ending hunger as we know it in
the United Kingdom: Feeding Britain in 2015-16:
In December 2015, the APPG reported on the
changing extent and causes of hunger in this
country in the year since it first reported on
this phenomenon. As well as an audit of the
recommendations it made in December 2014, the
APPG in this report laid out a fresh set of
proposals for ending hunger as we know it in the
United Kingdom. You can read the report here.
Britain’s not-so-hidden hunger: In
April 2016, the APPG published a short report on
its early attempts to begin measuring the
numbers of people at risk of being hungry and
the reasons why, as well as progress made on the
proposals it set out in December 2015 to counter
this vulnerability to hunger.
Feeding Britain was established as a charitable
organisation in October 2015. We have been set
up to implement some of the main recommendations
made by MPs and Peers on the All-Party
Parliamentary Group on Hunger.
Feeding Britain Trustees
Mr Frank Field: Chair
Mr Frank Field, the Chair of Organisation, is
the Labour MP for Birkenhead. He served as
Minister Welfare Reform between 1997 and 1998
and led an independent review into poverty and
life chances in 2010. Mr Field was Director of
the Child Poverty Action Group between 1969 and
1979, and in 1974 he worked as Director of the
Low Pay Unit until 1980.
In September 2013, Mr Field wrote to the Prime
Minister, expressing his concern that food banks
were becoming ‘an institutional part of our
welfare state’, and called on him to launch a
public inquiry to help build an effective
antipoverty strategy for families, who draw help
from their local food bank. Mr Field helped set
up the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into
Hunger in the United Kingdom and submitted its
first pieces of evidence on long-term trends in
household income and expenditure.
Ms Rosie Boycott
Ms Rosie Boycott has a long and distinguished
career history as a journalist, publisher and
author, including having been the editor of
several national newspapers in the UK. In 2008
she was appointed as Chair of the London Food
Board to advise the Mayor of London on
sustainable food policy implementation in the
capital.
In October 2016, the new Mayor of London Mr
Sadiq Khan asked Ms Boycott to lead the
development of a new London Food Strategy to
help the food system to work better to meet the
needs of everyone, who lives and works in
London. As Chair of the London Food Board, Ms
Boycott writes regularly and speaks all over the
world about the role of cities and the
importance of food in combatting hunger and food
insecurity, improving health, tackling childhood
obesity and helping to reduce carbon emissions
contributing to climate change.
Mr John Glen MP
Mr John Glen is the Conservative MP for
Salisbury, home of the Trussell Trust. He grew
up in rural Wiltshire as the son of a small
businessman and was the first person in his
family to go to university. Prior to becoming an
MP, he worked in management consultancy and as a
Director of Research for the Conservative Party.
As well as being an MP, he now serves as a
Governor at a local secondary school and sat as
a Magistrate until 2012. Mr Glen is
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He co-authored an evidence paper with the
Trussell Trust for the All-Party Parliamentary
Inquiry into the United Kingdom, exploring how
one centre, which started in a garden shed in
Salisbury, grew to be a national network of
emergency food banks.
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
Baroness Jenkin became a peer in 2011 in
recognition of her charity work. She is the
chairwoman of both the Conservative Friends of
International Development and the Sustainable
Resource APPG. Baroness Jenkin is a Board Member
of UNICEF and has worked for the Prince’s Trust.
Ms Emma Lewell-Buck MP
Ms Emma Lewell-Buck MP is the Labour MP for
South Shields. Before entering the House of
Commons, Ms Lewell-Buck worked as a child
protection social worker. She, also, served as
Councillor for Primrose Ward in South Tyneside
and was the lead member for adult social care.
Mr Lewell-Buck is the first woman and the first
person to have been born within South Shields,
to represent her constituency. She is a Shadow
Minister. She submitted evidence to the
All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in
the United Kingdom, on the landscape of food
assistance in this country.
The Right Reverend Tim Thornton: The Bishop of
Truro
The Right Reverend Tim Thornton was made Bishop
of Truro in 2008. Prior to that he was Bishop of
Sherborne for seven years. He has been ordained
for over 30 years and has served in several
dioceses and contexts. He was Principal of the
North Thames Ministerial Training Course and
served as Chaplain to David Hope both in
Wakefield and London. He is Trustee of a number
of organisations, including the Bishop’s Forum,
Transformation Cornwall and Volunteer Cornwall.
He is Chairman of the Children’s Society, a
national charity, working to help the most
deprived children and disadvantaged young
people.
Mr Andrew
Forsey
At the Office of Mr Frank Field MP
Ms Laura Mason
At the Office of Mr John Glen MP
Member of Staff of the Organisaiton
Ms Rosie Oglesby, National Director
Ms Rosie Oglesby was appointed as the National
Director of Feeding Britain in November 2016.
Prior to joining Feeding Britain, Mr Oglesby
worked for 13 years in international development
and humanitarian response, including working
with a local NGO, Green Hill, in Bangladesh, the
Humanitarian Futures Programme, Action Aid
International and UNICEF UK. At Action Aid she
worked in the international emergencies team and
was deployed to Jordan and Lebanon to establish
Action Aid’s emergency programme to support
Syrian refugees and to the Philippines following
Typhoon Haiyan.
Through her career, Ms Oglesby has focussed on
improving accountability to and participation of
local communities in development programmes.
She, also, has a particular interest in the role
of the private sector and recently worked with
Business in the Community, managing a programme
to encourage businesses to support international
disaster relief.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups are informal
groups of members of both Houses with a
common interest in particular issues. :::
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