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Iain Duncan-Smith leaves Commons debate on food banks early
Tory ministers have been condemned for not taking the plight Britain's poor seriously after a rowdy Commons debate on food banks during which the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith refused to answer questions and left early.
As Fiona MacTaggart, the Labour MP for Slough, described how people battled over end of day bargains in her local Tesco, she was almost drowned out by laughter and jeering from the government benches....
....Ms McVey said it was a good thing that more people were turning to food banks and that Germany and Canada had also seen a rise in their use.
...As Mr Duncan Smith and his colleagues left, the speaker John Bercow said he had no power to stop them, but said the view that it was a disgrace there was no minister there ”may be widely shared".
(More at link):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-leaves-commons-debate-on-food-banks-early-9013917.html
(While the entire government is undoubtedly on Santa Claus' Naughty List, Duncan-Smith is a quite exceptional scumbag.)
