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The Tories are collecting donations for food banks – after the misery I’ve seen, it beggars belief

People have been hit by Conservative welfare reform from all angles, leaving them confused and destitute. Standing in a supermarket twice a year with a bucket is no way to make up for that.

Look at the ridiculous Dominic Raab.

The clown posted a photo of himself on Twitter collecting donations for food banks – food banks that are only needed because of his own party’s welfare reforms.

Raab wasn’t the only Tory MP making a display of himself in such a way in the past few days. There was also Scottish Tory MP Ross Thomson styling himself as a hero for tossing a can of food at the local food bank to help people that his own party has helped to send to ruin.

This display of Tory MPs collecting for food banks and tweeting out photos to prove it is perverted. These foolish MPs are actually prepared to highlight the fact that thousands of people can’t afford food on their watch.

I can’t wait to find out whose brilliant PR idea this was. I also can’t wait to find out why the Trussell Trust thought that associating themselves with this deviant exercise would work in their favour. God has certainly left that building – along with irony.

Let’s be very clear about the reasons that people visit food banks.

People use food banks because they’re forced into poverty and insurmountable debt by the heinous damage that recent governments have visited on social security.

I can say this for a fact, because I spend a great deal of my time interviewing people who must use food banks (and people who must use jobcentres and council homelessness services and every other part of the wreck that passes for modern social security).

The stories are always the same. The lines between welfare reform and poverty are clear.

People who had no money in the first place have been financially devastated by multiple aspects of so-called welfare reform. People don’t just have one problem – rent arrears, say, or lost income because of a sanction. They have more than one of those problems. They’ve been hit from all sides.

They are dealing with council tax debt because of council tax benefit cuts (and big court fines when they’re taken to court for non-payment of council tax), rent shortfalls because of local housing allowance caps, benefit caps, sanctions for not attending jobcentre meetings that they didn’t know they were on and lost income when they’re erroneously found fit for work by one or another Department for Work and Pensions charlatan. Dealing with one of these problems is difficult. Dealing with all of them – and finding the money to cover the debts that these problems inevitably bring – is impossible.

Perched atop this steaming heap, of course, is the universal credit disaster. That hopeless benefit’s start-time delays and unfathomable benefit deductions for debts that people didn’t know they had push people into poverty as a matter of course.