The Trussell Trust has opened their 50th foodbank in Scotland – showing the grim result of Tory austerity and welfare cuts.
The charity, the largest provider of food parcels in the country, issued more than 130,000 supplies of food in 2015/16, an increase from 117,689 in the previous year.
The Trust’s Ewan Gurr said that the geographical spread of foodbanks showed that “poverty permeates every postcode in the UK, and that many of us are just one pay cheque away from a crisis”.
He continued: “Our social security system has so many holes it’s more like a tightrope than a safety net.”
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