Lee Anderson MP for Ashfield is a pompous, ignorant, patronising oaf

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Mr Anderson invites us all along to his local food bank to see how they do things there. If you're poor enough and don't have any food you can register there for a handout. You have you sign up to be taught to budget and cook and be properly grateful. So, great. Budget with the cash you haven't got in the first place then cook with the fuel you can't afford. Reminds me of something I read in "Wotking Class Wives" a study of poverty in the 1930s. Lady Health Visitors were surprised that when some people were rehoused from the slums into houses with gas cookers, they continued to cook on the fire. Because, like now, they couldn't afford 2 amounts of fuel, gas AND coal. Such progress we've made in the last 100 years. I'd like to kick his arse.

Foodbanks only exist because of the generosity of others; whether supermarkets who make some donations (Presumably out of profits of the full price shopping purchases of the rest of us) or from the general public's generosity.

In poor countries (where they perhaps measure poverty very differently to how we do here) then people are just left to beg on the streets and starve.

I wish we could let the pen of George Orwell loose on these types. They the direct descendants and soul twins of the ones he despised in in the 30s.

Oliver Dowden said on the radio the other day that he buys value-brand items and another tory can't quite remember but will look it up after I post also said on the same radio station that he does worry as it gets to the end of every month.

The tories don't actually care. Of course none of them are worrying come the end of the month and none of them buy value brand items. It's such a bizarre PR position to take.

It isn't just him. It's all of the Tory party and it's everyone who votes for them.

Food banks should not be necessary in the UK and their existence is a disgrace. Their expansion under this Tory government is something they should be deeply ashamed off - but they aren't, because this is what they want.

Tory MPs are full of this patronising rubbish. Non of them would last a month on the incomes many of their constituents have to live on.

The tories seem to be in some sort of weird competition with each other about who can be the biggest twat.

Going to be incredibly hard to pick a winner, so many competitors!

They are laughing at us. They are laughing because of the sham democracy we have, which is not designed to serve our needs but rather to keep the political power in the hands of the few.
Our political system does not work for us and needs a total overhaul
There are more choices of bread in a supermarket, than there are political parties to choose from.
It's nonsensical.

What's wrong with helping people to budget and cook proper meals ? Seriously some people have absolutely no idea!!

There's nothing wrong with it. But in this context it assumes that poor people can't budget and cook. Which is patronising bullshit. Nobody knows better how to squeeze every drop from their budget than someone in poverty, and believing otherwise just shows how little you know about how other people live. Is your surname Eustice?

I heard the MP 'worrying about the overdraft' vladmirs just a short while after their whacking great pay rise. I dont think I can take much more of these grasping chancers smirking about making people's lives worse at every opportunity, it's just relentless. This cretinous oaf in Ashfield is in one of the poorest constituencies in the country. He obviously thinks his seat is safe. It's like people are lining up in front of these louts begging to be treated even worse. Incomprehensible.

I'm on a politics forum and people there have been posting photos, mostly from local papers, of Tory MPs and councillors at the opening of new food banks.

They're treating them as a photo opp, for fuck's sake, as though they're opening a new school or hospital. They should be hanging their heads in shame that food banks are necessary, in the 21st century, in one of the world's richest countries, not acting like it's a good thing.

And then the MPs will fuck off back to Westminster, where they have subsidised restaurants and bars, probably having a meal on the train on the way back, that we'll all be paying for. Remember Ian Duncan Smith trying to claim £39 for a hotel breakfast when he'd been boasting that he could live on £53 a week?

It makes me so angry.

Is this the same dickhead who was photographed, grinning like a Cheshire cat, while cutting a ribbon for the opening of a new food bank?

Unbelievably, I think it's another one. Must be policy now. Tell the proles how lucky, yet stunningly ignorant, we are. God we're lucky to have them. Who else would treat us like this?

He's a massive knobber.

However...I (unfortunately for me) live in his constituency and there is a table outside our local food bank with piles of food on and a sign saying that you can take anything you like.

Ah yes. I just had a quick look at twitter and Lee Anderson is trending.

I can see its a different Tory MP to the gunning one I saw at the food bank photo Op.

I can't believe he said it in the HoC.
Actually I can. But it has moved all the focus from so called "beergate" to this .

I would have had him for Tory tosser of the day but Michael Gove will take some beating today

What an idiot. Of course, he's a Tory so what can you expect? Johnson's crowd don't care about ordinary people.

No politicians in power care about the ordinary people, us, me, you them.
They care about holding onto power and keeping us in a sedated mass of servitude.

Trussell Trust says: “Cooking from scratch won’t help families keep the lights on or put food on the table, if they don’t have enough money in their pockets.

"Our research shows that people at food banks had on average just £57 a week to live on...

Oliver Dowden attended an American right wing event a couple of months back and yelled ‘woke’ and people being ‘cancelled’ about 73 times like a lunatic. He said zilch about actually helping people.

There are people out there who think a food bank opening in their area is a good thing! The people still voting for these cretins get zero sympathy from me.

Article about the foodbank 'grand opening'

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/conservative-mayor-smiles-opening-food-bank-twitter-reaction_uk_627ba601e4b009a811cbcbdc

Lee Anderson has a long history of Being A Twat.

Interesting background -

About Lee Anderson

I come from a family of coalminers and after leaving school I followed my dad into the pits and worked in the pits in Nottinghamshire for 10 years.

After leaving the pits I volunteered at the local Citizens Advice Bureau (Ashfield and Broxtowe) where I stayed for 10 years. I then went on to work in hostels for homeless care leavers, and then to the local MPs office for 5 years. At the same time, I became a district councillor for Huthwaite, after being a lifelong Labour member, I joined the Conservative party in early 2018 and then stood to be a district councillor for the Conservative party and was successful. In December 2019 I was lucky enough to be elected the Member of Parliament for Ashfield...

www.leeanderson.org.uk/about-lee-anderson

What a surprise, a racist Conservative, who does not give a stuff about helping poor people.