Colchester Gazette
We contacted Baroness Jenkin about her recent remarks about poor people and their cooking skills. Was it a Freudian slip, or simply a bit of press miss-reporting - commets 'taken out of context' to use the often quoted vernacular. Follow these links and see what you think?
Dear Mr Collyer
Thank you for your email sent to my husband (Bernard Jenkins MP).
You may be interested to read a full copy of the report and its recommendations, many of which got lost in the noise around my remarks.
https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf
You make a number of good points. The reason I knew my bowl of porridge cost 4p is that every year for the past five years I have taken up a challenge to live on a pound a day (food and drink only) for five days and I have to budget very stringently.
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk/thankyou
Of course I can’t begin to know properly what it is like to live in poverty but the experience has taught me quite a lot about budgeting, as well as food waste.
Forgive me if I don’t respond in detail to your points, but I have a lot of emails to get through.
I have learned a lot over the past year of travelling round the country, meeting individuals and organisations which do amazing things in their communities.
Yours sincerely,
Anne Jenkin
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