Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.
The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients.
How bad is it in the UK now? I haven’t been back for about 15 years now so I’m way out of touch.
I’m assuming leaving the EU really messed shit up :(
1 in 4 families need help with living costs, the economy has tanked, the air is so polluted that several cities are outright banning cars, no-one can afford to hire cheap staff so they have to either close down or increase wages, there’s a shortage of every type of avocado, and what’s worse is that we have to wait in the “… and others” line when we travel to Europe at immigration.
Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster.
I mean Brexit is really just another symptom of Tory misrule.
My cousin just came back from Australia and was quickly saying wtf is going on here. There’s lots of issues but also there’s s a crazy sense of despair all around. We’re normally miserable but not this miserable!
I think the mood is bad because everyone knows we need rid of the current tories but (1) it’s probably at least a year away and (2) I’m not sure people are too happy with some of labour’s recent moves (they’re aiming for the middle ground and just saying nothing but it’s alienating traditional labour supporters) so there’s a sense they’ll be better but only because a clown using his feet to fire darts at a keyboard 10 miles away would govern better than this lot. This lot seem to care more about a rich person’s bank account, a couple of boats they’ve had many years to stop but can’t do anything about and trying a Nazi like scheme to send asylum seekers to anywhere but here
Yeah, the Tories succesfully managed to shift politics to the right where everyone just tries to appeal to center right and further while left voters can only vote for the lefter of the parties.
Bit of an understatement there 😉
But we have our borders back, which is nice.