Ten years ago Elizabeth Blanche was a single mum-of-four who admits that she would then have needed a food bank. Today she is standing outside the Conservative Party conference in Newtown highlighting the rise in the need of foodbanks. Not for her, because she says that all over Wales there are parents working second or third jobs to afford to feed their children.
Her sign directs delegates in one direction to Theatr Hafren, where the conference is being held, and in the other direction to "food bank". She said: "Whereas before you used to get a few people on benefits going now it's people who are working, working two or three jobs and still having to use foodbanks.
She was protesting a day after Boris Johnson spoke to the conference announcing plans for a second new nuclear power station in Wales and promising to "go and look at" demands for a St David's Day bank holiday for Wales, despite admitting he hadn't heard of the issue before.
