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It was Napoleon Bonaparte, the French dictator, who once said that Britain was a nation of shopkeepers.
If the emperor were alive in 2022, he would describe the United Kingdom as a nation of food banks.
Everywhere you go these days, you would find food banks, catering to people in their thousands, usually with discarded food items from Britain’s super markets.
Discarded food items?
Yes.
Until I moved abroad to work for a multi-national in 2013, I used to earn a living as a retail manager for one of the four biggest supermarket chains in the UK — ASDA. Back then, we made it a point of duty to set aside canned and refrigerated food items, which were either badly damaged or close to expiration for food banks.
But it wasn’t always like this.
In 2010, you could count on one hand the number of food banks available in Britain’s capital city. But over the course of the last 12 years of the Conservative government, the middle-class have become significantly poorer and the working class have had their lives completely destroyed.