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As anyone who grew up in 1970s and early 1980s Britain will tell you, there wasn’t much of anything to go round back then.

All we were taught about money as kids was that there was never enough of it. And there really wasn’t.Having said that, it wasn’t that difficult to buy a house and raise a family in it in comfort on one wage.

The little town I grew up in wasn’t particularly rich or poor.Most of my friends’ families didn’t have a car, and if they did they only had one. We were lucky that, thanks to the world-class shipyard down the road and the Cold War that had been raging for a few decades, anyone who wanted a job could get one.A bit like now really, but for different reasons - cheap foreign labour going home after Brexit and the glut of post-Covid over-50s saying “sod this” and jacking in their jobs.But even in those dark days when it felt like the country was falling to bits around our feet, I can’t remember anything in our humdrum little town that resembled a food bank.Food banks have been around for a while now in post-Dickensian Britain.

Who's The Daddy: Things used to be tough, but not as tough as these days