Luciana Berger Quotes

Luciana Berger

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 13, 1981

There is no excuse for using someone's mental health as a stick with which to beat them.

Luciana Berger

We strive for equality and equality in mental health matters as much as anything else. I see it as an imperative, not a choice.

Luciana Berger

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

Luciana Berger

One of our ambitions as independents is to alter our political culture. We want to leave behind the bullying, intimidation and tribalism.

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Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.

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I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

Luciana Berger

We have to acknowledge that it goes both ways and that there's many social factors which will impact negatively, as well as positively, on mental health.

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It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

Luciana Berger

If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.

Luciana Berger

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

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Since I was first elected to Parliament in 2010, I have witnessed appalling attacks on Jewish people, including my fellow MPs.

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I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say vote for me, and by extension get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.

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The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

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Decent people must refuse to back Corbyn and his candidates.

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In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

Luciana Berger

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

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Most people who rely on food banks are there through no fault of their own.

Luciana Berger

For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays to benefit payments, all of which should concern us.

Luciana Berger

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

Luciana Berger

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

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