{"id":10798,"date":"2016-12-09T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:34:00","slug":"people-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10798","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People deserve better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At Unite&#8217;s &#8216;pop-up&#8217; foodbank outside Parliament this week (December 7), we spoke to Labour MPs Ian Mearns and Lisa Nandy (pictured), as well as foodbank manager Nathan Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are far too many people &#8212; children, families, older people &#8212; who don&#8217;t have enough to eat in one of the richest countries in the world,&#8221; Nandy told UNITElive. &#8220;It is quite simply a disgrace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nathan explains why the support of the public is so vital for the work that foodbanks, who save countless lives each year, do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch our full video below and find out more about how you can help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/campaigning\/hope-not-hunger-christmas-appeal-2016\/\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0dw0d-2pi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/campaigning\/hope-not-hunger-christmas-appeal-2016\/\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Unite&#8217;s &#8216;pop-up&#8217; foodbank outside Parliament this week (December 7), we spoke to Labour MPs Ian Mearns and Lisa Nandy (pictured), as well as foodbank manager Nathan Jones. &nbsp; &#8220;There are far too many people &#8212; children, families, older people &#8212; who don&#8217;t have enough to eat in one of the richest countries in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[648,436],"wps_subtitle":"Labour MPs salute foodbanks, condemn austerity","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10800,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/10800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}