How Tory MP David Morris shamelessly lied to parliament in food bank debate

This is just one more attempts by the Tories to deny that food banks are necessary. It follows similar statements by government ministers and has-been like Edwina Currie, who maintain that no-one’s really starving and that people only go to them because they’re offering free food. It’s a lie, from a party that’s so crooked that like Richard Nixon they have to screw their pants on in the morning (joke copyright Hunter S. Thompson).

At one level, food banks are exactly what the Tories wanted. They wanted to cut public provision down, so that people would be forced to rely on private charity. This was held to be more efficient, more moral, because unlike state charity it’s voluntary, and would also strengthen religious organisations like the churches. What they don’t like is that the proliferation of food banks shows just how huge the hardship created by their austerity policies are, and that despite the propaganda of more ‘jobs than before’, and ‘Britain on the road to recovery’, an increasing number of Britons are living below the breadline.
And they just can’t stomach that. hence the denials that they’re necessary.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Presumably shamed by the rise of starving families and food banks in the UK under their watch, Tory MPs have taken to openly lying to parliament to save face.

As an example of this, Conservative MP for Morecambe David Morris shamelessly told parliament that he had never been invited to visit one of the local food banks in his constituency when in fact he had been invited 4 times.

Morris also told parliament that food banks do not hold local information, which is also a lie.

Here’s what Morris told MPs during a parliamentary debate on food banks:

But here’s an extract from a statement by Morecambe Bay Foodbank in Morris’s constituency, exposing how the MP lied to parliament:

You can read the full statement from Morecambe Bay Foodbank here.

Of course, if Morris had any honour, he would immediately apologise to members of parliament for his…

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