Pray for us.
Thank you very much.
Do you need any change?
No, no.
Cheers. Thank you.
Thank you.
People are kind you know?
We're not saying that food banks are the answer,
everybody knows food banks aren't the answer,
but it helps, it helps people.
Hey.
Yeah.
Dave will tell you -
Yeah.
Around new year,
I had a bad accident youse were
the only people who looked after me, so.
Aw, cheers.
Thank you.
It’s the same, yeah.
It is, innit?
Yeah.
Thank you.
So, fans supporting food banks was born
just here on the corner, in a wheelie bin.
So, we collected lots of chip papers and beer bottles,
which you fully expect to in a match day.
However there was like half a dozen, possibly eight bags of food in there,
which made it worthwhile.
So, we thought well what do we do now?
So what do we do now is, we replicate it
following week at Anfield.
For 90 minutes we have massive rivalries on the pitch, which is what it always should be,
but off the pitch you've got to know who your real enemy is
and our real enemy isn't someone that speaks in a different dialect or wears different club colours,
the enemy's got to be the people.
Who are putting our class into the situation where they are now,
were we've got 12 million people
who can't put a meal on the table,
we've got millions and millions of children going hungry
and people can't afford to heat their home.
That's where all the energy should be focused.
We've got cereal, corned beef and coffee.
Fantastic.
And tuna.
So it's a really good combination.
Yeah.
Tuna, don't need to heat,
corned beef, open, sliced,
cereal bit of milk
and everyone wants a cup of coffee.
We're grateful of absolutely everything.
If one person brought one tin, we'd have 40,000 tins.
Yeah.
Because I'm working class
and we've got to look after each other,
no one else is gonna look after us.
That's the way life is now, innit?
We're not getting looked after by the government
so we're gonna look after ourselves.
And others, they're the same level as us.
I mean the fact that they're food banks it tells you that there's some people -
The government ain't doing a good enough job.
There's some people in this country that are struggling,
it tells you that the economy
doesn't work for everybody.
Fuck the Tories!
We are allowed to say that, yeah?
Tories do not do anything for Merseyside, never have never will in my lifetime.
So everyone does what they have to do, even across the park.
To our noisy neighbours, yeah,
they're the same, yeah.
There's no, football has no colours when it comes to hunger does it?
Because the next few years
is going to be a struggle, isn't it?
Just do what we do.
We fight the good fight.
This will not fill our four pantries,
because we have so many people now coming to the pantries.
The food's gone in a matter of minutes.
£60 the little boy's just raised.
And I've got £85 here.
I actually had to have help off the food banks a couple of years ago myself,
couple of little bits of bad luck, you know? It doesn't take much in this day and age
to really be in trouble to be honest
and you know having to try to feed the kids and things like that, it's worrying.
Keep up the good work girls.
Thank you very much.
Have a good summer.
Yeah, we always need baby's food.
That's 50 trays already.
Is it?
Gotta wait for him,
so we can go and have a pint.
You deserve a pint.
Youse have done nothing,
stuck in there all day.
Youse have done nothing?
Oh!
Our mission statement says 'Close us down.'
All right?
And that's our ultimate goal.
We're football fans, we're football supporters, I want to talk about the love of my life,
about the football club.
You know what I mean?
Thank you Madam deputy speaker.
A few days before the Queen's speech was delivered, I spoke to a disabled constituent
who explained to me how the cost of living and the huge increase in energy bills
left him choosing between heating his home or powering his electric wheelchair.
The fifth richest country in the world.
This is an emergency, life and death for many.
Which demands serious solutions,
not tinkering with a system
that's utterly broken for millions.
That's why we need to legislate for the rights to food, we need enforceable food rights
to ensure the government of today is accountable for making sure nobody goes hungry.
Even though, as you've seen, today it's like, it's like a community hub now isn't it?
You know and lots of solidarity and but,
this is a sticking plaster to a systemic feeling.
I sit with ministers and you know,
say to them I'm not on a sectarian mission, I'm on a humanitarian mission,
just listen to us, I'm trying to tell you what's happening in our communities.
It falls on deaf ears
and we see that with the responses,
so for us having the right to food
enshrined in law makes them,
well they've got to listen then,
haven't they?
Thank you.
The idea is to shut us down.
So, this is the launch of our pantry in conjunction with Everton and the community .
Set the stalls up,
hope the weather stays with us
and go for it, rain or shine.
Unfortunately the demand gets ever greater.
So I've got tea,
I've got coffee,
hot chocolate, soft drink,
there's lots of like tomato sauce,
wraps, rice.
Actually I think you can get one more item.
You sure?
Yeah positive.
It really helps a lot,
because the more the kids are growing, the more you have to spend more
and especially when it comes to food, you don't have a limit to food
because when a kid needs something you just have to try and provide as a parent.
Financially it helps cut down on budgets.
My little lad had
a hospital appointments this week, he's got special needs you see
and I just need some shopping to tide me over till pay day.
You get £20 worth of food from £3.50 I thought that will tide us over for a couple of days,
just to help out and stuff,
I'm a bit skint.
And then there's some toiletries here, they're freebies, the ladies will tell you what's what.
Oh, thank you.
That okay?
Yes, lovely.
Enjoy and give us a bit of feedback
when you come back.
It is hard to live at the moment you see, you think to yourself like,
you want your child to have like, the best life and like, have like, nice days out and stuff like that,
but like sometimes you're gonna like, think to yourself okay I can't do that
this week because we've got to put more gas on,
but hopefully we’ll manage and stuff.
At my age I don't feel the cold, she's desperate to use.
I mean -
I mean I'm poor but she's poorer.
You’re working to earn a couple of pennies, so whatever help you can get.
If it wasn't for splitting the meals.
It'll be cold.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well she'll have to come and stay with me
and we would heat the one room with our coats and hats on
and what have you yeah.
Yeah.
But we aren't looking forward to it.
I spent a lot of time down there anyway just to save on my bills.
Group of football fans starting to collect food
out of a wheelie bin seven years ago and now feeding 70,000 people in this city.
But the most worrying thing is at this time of year when the football season finally comes to an end.
Obviously these are shut up and we've got plans to try and make sure we can try
and fill that void, because look we shouldn't be doing this, I shouldn't be worrying about
how we're going to fill the void during the season, but unfortunately that's where we are at the moment.
Hello my darling.
Thank you so much.
We say hunger doesn't wear club colours
and I think there's got to be that sort of focus collectively across parliament.
That message has got to be we've got to fix it, so everybody in this country can live in a dignified manner.
We don't want to be here every week,
I'd miss everybody, but we don't want to be doing this every week.
we want people to be able to go out, heat their own homes,
buy their own food and food banks not to exist.
and that's the ultimate goal really.