UK Politics

What about it?

Is that money being spent to put the means of production back into the hands of the working class, building workers greengrocer cooperatives for example, or is it being spent so we all go back to giving Tesco, Sainsburys, Lidl, etc our money?

Positive news doesn't necessarily mean left wing. There isn't much detail in the article over how they're going to spend the money to pull people out of food bank need but it's likely to just return us to private capitalist for profit supermarkets. Which aligns exactly with the New Labour Blairite Third Way, which is, again, explicitly not left wing but "nice" capitalism.

Food banks only serve to exemplify how left wing policy (free, socially paid for, food given without question at the point of need) can work so if anything they're attempting to shut down a network of left wing support with the depressingly uplifting spin of "helping" people go back to providing profit for supermarkets.

Please read what the third way is. It's duplicitously contemptuous. As an analogy, it's like the slavers that realised if they treated their slaves with a bit of kindness, fed them well and kept them warm, they got more work out of them than making them sleep on the cold ground with near empty bellies.

Again, there's little detail in the article, and I read it not long after waking up on my way to work so maybe I missed something, but from what I can tell this doesn't help bring economic control into the hands of the working class. But just ensures our bellies are kept full so we can continue to prop up the capitalist system that serves the few, not the many.