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"Mr President, half a million people in Britain are relying on food aid to fend off starvation, with a 230% rise in numbers in my own East of England constituency. Foodshare – the UK charity providing emergency food aid to 40 000 people per day through food banks, homelessness and domestic violence shelters – Crisis and the Salvation Army are pleading with us for Europe to agree this aid, yet David Cameron and the British Conservatives, for ideological reasons, are intent on denying them even the crumbs off the table.
To the Liberals as well as the Tories I say it is utter hypocrisy for the British Government to say it opposes this aid on the grounds that this is a matter for national governments and not Europe, when it has no intention whatsoever of addressing that matter. In Britain, all the major brands and retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda have committed to Fareshare that no good food is wasted. Britain’s Government should not be allowed to waste this opportunity to match them by helping feed the most hungry .......
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