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Climate change + Brexit + Trump.
I'm with Zack who wants to do what Mandini is proposing: start a Nationally owned supermarket chain.
British farmers get paid fairly and consumers get lower prices.
That sounds like a terrible idea. Just one step away from a return to 1970s-style price controls. Unless you nationalise all the farms too, you end up just encouraging producers to shift to other crops, and that way lies Soviet style bread queues.
If you want to support poorer people, it's far cheaper and easier to just give them more money.
As I understand it, much of the genuine need to food banks in the UK (remember, a relatively new phenomenon) is down to the inflexibility of Universal Credit. It used to be that you could sign on, and get cash in your pocket pretty immediately. Nowadays, there's weeks of waiting. Let's fix that, rather than trying to get the government into the supermarket business.
Ah! the old spectre of the 70s with the wailing piles of uncollected bins and rattling power cuts! Those of us who grew up then seem to have fonder memories of a happier Britain. Price controls have been used successfully in the past (particularly in the post-WW2 period up until 1954). Other countries - significantly Singapore - use price controls to manage their economies efficiently.