(not satire – it’s the Mail!)
The Mail on Sunday sent out one of its most experienced reporters to do a hatchet job on food banks and Citizens’ Advice Centres today.
Mail hack Ross Slater even lied to a Citizens’ Advice Centre for his article to see how easy it would be to get vouchers for a foodbank.
But Mr Slater didn’t do a very good job, did he:
ROSS! You had one job……….!
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Reblogged this on On The Matter Of Boots.
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Put this on my FB page with the following comment:-
‘So, people, do we want food banks supplementing what seem like reasonable questions with demands for i.d. and more ‘stringent’ interrogations? Or would we prefer them to engage with the human beings in difficult circumstances who come to them with respect – and by and large take it as read that they are not lying journalists with fat salaries?
Shame the Mail doesn’t give a bit more energy to how come so many are relying on food banks, and what we can all do about it, really….’.
Thanks, Tom.
Lindsey
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personally i would never use a food bank under any circumstances and just die and there will be people of very high integrity in the same situation who may ask for help and if to many questions are asked will just disappear
those with mental conditions would be more likely to give up and leave rather then to fill in a form
all that’s needed by a food bank charity is a little common sense and I’m sure in most cases that is what they hand out
the last thing they need is the likes of fools from the daily mail interfering while those at the food banks are helping out for free
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Reblogged this on Ufohunterorguk.com.
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He should be fucking ashamed of himself, people are starving in this CUNTry thanks to all that TPTB of all partys have done and all they can do is attack the charity and goodwill of the British people, fucking disgraceful.
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Hope he gave the food back and now he can investigate the real outrage of people going hungry.
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how about interviewing people who are using foodbanks and getting their stories, rather than acting the part of someone in need ? This Daily Mail article is shameful in its intent and does nothing to promote ethical journalism/understanding of the problem…it’s not even competent journalism…
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The Daily Mail and staff are pathological liars: no! congenital – they get pleasure from what they do…………..
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they also made a fuss about the quantity price and weight of the food….1,there was not enough food for a family of 4 for 3 days, it was supposedly the equivalent of 12 days food for 1…2, tinned and processed foods are heavy, not as healthy as fresh, and expensive, but do suit shelf life as in food banks. 3, people often return food coz they can’t afford to cook it…4, there is no substitute for the dignity of a wellbeing income for all on benefits…..end sanctions, conditionality, scrap the WCA, cap rents drastically reduce rents and build more eco-homes, food coops, food growing coops, work share etc etc…begin the green revolution, no! to using the poor as carbon sinks…
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a private chrity gives help to whoever it chooses to and its really fuck all to do with anybody else.
who the fuck do these journalists think they are.
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ps there are also many millions such as t2 diabetic’s with special dietary needs that may not be met by food banks…but may be met by the low cost social supermarket models as in germany…they are perhaps worth investigating, as they are now beginning to open in the uk…
http://positivenews.org.uk/2014/positive_perspective/14678/social-supermarket-step-tackling-food-poverty/
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Is there not an element of fraud (or at least, misrepresentation) involved in what this reporter did?
Surely his actions should be looked at by Nottingham Police?
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i would think yes maybe sombody should make a compliant.
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Hoist!
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Reblogged this on musings from outside the asylum and commented:
Bottom feeders 😦
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This story is fucked up.
While we might get a laugh from the stupidity of this venal piece of vermin, he’s stolen food that doesn’t belong to him that could go to someone in genuine need.
On that alone he should be strung up.
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Here’s my article on the MoS cock-up: http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/food-bank-blow-is-new-low-for-the-mail-on-sunday/
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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Judging tby he actions of this person then it is highly likely that the DM readership are the ones who will GOTO the food banks and lie through their teeth to get free food. Doesn’t say much for the mentally of the DM reader does it?
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Reblogged this on and commented:
The Daily Mail’s bad attempt at smearing food banks. Unbelieveable
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What evidence do we have that he ever went to a food bank in Nottingham or anywhere else, that the woman who asked him the series of questions was called Katherine or th
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… she was in her sixties. I think a condign punishment for his fuck-wittery is public amputation of his dominant hand with an axe, if a first offence. Subsequent offence – the same for his remaining hand and six months on Rockall where he can feed himself by catching fish.
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Nothing more worthy to do to earn his undoubted generous salary? I could give him a list of subjects to look at but he’d make a balls up of that too.
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Some people turn up and complain they are not getting the brand they prefer, are these the scroungers who will take anything for nothing?
Complained to the PCC about this, if working and saying he is unemployed then this is quite simply FRAUD.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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It’s the daily fail what else can you expect, they hate anyone who isn’t “hardworking”, and has a big bank account.
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Taking food from the mouths of the poor just to take a cheap dig at foodbanks. The man is a tosser for doing it and his bosser are worse for printing it.
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Reblogged this on snookcocker and commented:
Hardly a surprise that a Mail reporter is a lying bastard or even, as in this case, a thick lying bastard, but don’t they employ someone to proof read the stories to check they make sense (albeit a form of sense that passes the bigoted Mail standard)?
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I so hope that they get their comeuppance with this. The reporter has committed fraud and should be reported to the police.
These foodbanks are needed desperately and now I read that some people are going to stop supporting them due to this piece of lying scum.
I really hope there is a big backlash with this!
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
Still so angry!!!!
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Technically, that’s a fuck-up by whoever wrote the headline. Headlines aren’t written by the person who writes the article, they’re written by sub-editors. Don’t ask me why, it’s newspaper thing.
Anyway, nice to see that the backlash from this nasty smear attempt has led (a) to him having to wipe his entire (5 year old) Twitter account, and (b) to the food bank getting over £20,000 in donations today. 🙂
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“Anyway, nice to see that the backlash from this nasty smear attempt has led (a) to him having to wipe his entire (5 year old) Twitter account”
Yeah, part of the reason for that might be that he put his mobile number on there. (Un)fortunately someone screengrabbed it first.
I suspect Mr Slater realised that he kind of shat on his own doorstep. He lives in Ilkeston, which is pretty much the archetypal point on the graph where “the poor” and “Mail readers” intersect. I would imagine that he will not be a popular man there right now.
You’re right that the headline was probably provided by a sub-editor. But it does show that, if they don’t get the story they want, they don’t let that stop them.
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Only people that read the daily mails tripe, are the elderly right wing bigots and zealots!
And what will the daily mail do then when these vile people die out – and hopefully soon?
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I had to last week! I’ve had no money for 7 weeks, and hadn’t eaten for 5 days! You’ll do ANYTHING when you’re hungry! I even considered eating soap as I know mice eat it as I was so hungry!
The ConDems should stand trial for treason and genocide article 2 b of the United Nations genocide act!
Don’t be too surprised, if that’s what the UN charges them with!
They should all hang!
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Gratefully accept the stupid worship of another crop of “elderly, right wing zealots….” They exist in every generation: because they choose the way they are and the Mail only serves their needs………for tripe and offal.
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with regret Che you don’t know my illness and have to live on a specialised diet which is not available from any food bank
i never get hungry and need reminding to eat there are people who when ill never eat and as i said above would never use a food bank and without care would die
we need to be careful to avoid generalizing in that people who are long term ill get hungry and will use a food bank nothing could be further from the truth
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I saw the original tweet about this and commented then that, apart from being sloppy and distasteful gutter journalism, Ross Slater and the Daily Mail had committed fraud. I feel that en masse, we should petition Nottingham Police and the benefits agency/local authority to fully investigate and persue a case for prosecution of the above named. Any refusal to do so is a dereliction of duty.
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A 38 Degrees member has just opened a petition against the Mail on Sunday: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-the-mail-on-sunday-apologise?bucket=blast
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What do you expect from a pathetic Tory rag like the Mail, typical of their point of view, attack the charity/poor for using these food banks, instead of investigating the real cause, aka, this Condem “government” who have done more damage to the populace in 4 years than the previous Labour government did in 13.
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Hahahahaha. I can see the headlines now DAILY MAIL REPORTER UNDER FRAUD INVESTIGATION FOR FALSELY CLAIMING FOOD. Sadly though it’ll never happen, at least not while protected by the modern equivalent of the Gestapo
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I hope he now realises that the age old saying ‘you should never take a dump on your own doorstep’ really is true. But then I suppose he wouldn’t know what truth was if it bit his testicles, kicked him in the head and said ‘i’m truth’. Sadly some gullible morons will believe this tripe as truth and stop supporting the very people who are trying to stop this country sliding into a pit of poverty.
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I have written to CAB asking them to confirm that they have made a “complaint” (without which the Police will not do anything). The actual offence is detailed in the article itself – so that should not be difficult. The journalist newspaper will claim “Public Interest” in their defence. So it is up to us to make it clear that we do not consider this article to be in our interests.
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