ANOTHER CHRISTMAS over, another year of fine folk loading up their trolleys and donating parcels to their local foodbank. Parcels of baby food, nappies, sanitary products, these basic necessities jostling in plastic bags amongst tins of kindness and packets of sympathy.
People are being forced to rely on foodbanks to feed their children. In Scotland. In 2016.
When did having to rely on the generosity of strangers become the new normal?
Cards on the table, I have nothing but admiration for those thoroughly decent souls who volunteer and donate to keep foodbanks functioning. But I don’t like the fact that foodbanks exist. They’re a system of failure and should never, ever, be allowed to be normalised.