How right the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was to rail against the present coalition government which has forced many ordinary families up and down the land to be reliant upon a new manifestation of the 21st century known as the foodbank.

How right he was to say supermarkets shamefully throw away billions of tons of edible food throughout a single year, and even more shamefully for Cameron and co, the EU purportedly offered £22m from a European hardship fund towards these food banks which was promptly shunned out of hand by them.

Prior to gaining power, Cameron’s Tories were aided and abetted by many right wing newspapers who saw it as their duty to blame the ills of our country on work shy scroungers, when in actual fact only a very small minority of the population fall in to such a category.

It is very rare indeed that the working age population are able to go through life now with one single job as was once termed as being from cradle to grave, however it would appear this current vile government lives up to its reputation as being the nasty party by sanctioning the benefits of the unemployed for the most trivial of reasons, as they are all seen as being scroungers.

The current draconian regime for claiming unemployment benefit does not discriminate between people that have previously been upright hardworking citizens, and those small minority of what we are led to believe by the right wing parts of the media as being benefit scroungers.

The sanctions apply to all across the board for the most trivial of reasons which means that families get no benefits for a period of six weeks, which surely means that bills go unpaid, and they are forced to use food banks.

How demeaning and belittling this situation has now become for the majority of the unemployed who are being treated as if it is their own fault as they find themselves without work, and more to the point they are being used as scapegoats to save money in an effort for Cameron and co to try and dig the country out of the debt hole that was virtually created overnight for us all by the 2008 fallout from the financial crash in the US, along with their mortgage scandal.

This has happened all over Europe, and it would now seem the US was responsible for causing the problem in the first instance but is now doing quite nicely, thank you.

Not only does the US cause misery to other countries around the world by illegal invasions, wars, and subversion, they would appear not to be adverse to the use of financial terrorism when it suits their purpose.

G A Woodward Nelson Street Swindon