to think that 30p Lee is a scumbag

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Listen to his interview with BBC radio Nottingham. The man is a liar and aggressive when challenged. How on earth was he elected in the first place. He goes on that attack when questioned about uncomfortable facts. Still says that no one on £30000 should need a food bank. Has he heard how much housing costs are, how much food and fuel prices have risen?
Sorry, cant create a link to the interview but its on the BBC news page this morning.

I don't care how active and visible he is and I can form my opinion of him without looking at his Facebook profile. I've looked at his Twitter page. That's enough.

Exactly. He could swing from tree to tree outside my kitchen window twice a day and I’d still find his disgusting views abhorrent. Anyway, he’s got a tiny majority so we’ll probably never have to hear from him again after the next election.

You are only including one income in that breakdown? Of course 1 income for 4 adults isn't going to go far

How do you know it's one income? I'm going by the sum of money he said that people could live on and not require a food bank...£32,500. That could be two people on minimum wage.

Not 4 adults anyway. Two adults, two kids.

I live in Nottingham and oh dear are we surrounded by the very worst Tories out in the county, Darren Henry whose wife Caroline is the Police and Crime Commissioner has been done for 5 separate speeding offences but refuses to resign, Ben Bradley who is not only an MP on £84k but a county councillor and in fact leader of said council and getting £47k for this and then of course (drum roll) the tosser's tosser, Lee Neanderthal Anderson. What an utter shower they all are, hopefully, they won't be back after the next election, that is if they haven't banned elections by then!

in a perverse way I am looking forward to his next utterances and pronouncements, the things he comes out with are so jaw droppingly awful that it's entertaining in a bleak and dark way. Also wonder how long he will last in his new shiny role, part of me wonders if he was appointed as a side show to distract the nation or if Sunak really thinks having him as vice chair is a clever move to keep the red wall onside.

When you laugh at Anderson and give him a cute nickname, remember Boris Johnson and even worse Trump. Both dismissed as being so unbelievably stupid that no right thinking person would ever vote for them. I’m extremely worried that Johnson, Truss and Sunak have legitimised the extreme far right in this country for convenience and we’re a decade or less from our very own January 6th led by Braverman, Mourdant, Anderson etc.
like John McCain and George W Bush, they’ll regret giving this sort of people a foothold, but by then it’ll be too late.

When he is eventually let go of his position which he will be it will make the PM look worse than he does now because the things this MP has said is common knowledge.

what gets me lost about this MP is the Tories brand him as someone who speaks for the working classes as he was working class. Those who identify as working class are not all the same and even if the were they are not voiceless and do not need this man speaking up for them.

They need the 650 men and women sitting in positions of power to listen to them. Cost of living crisis, education crisis, health care crisis, environmental crisis….all of these things are interwoven and impact the poorest in society the most.

Yes he came from a poor background, yes he was a miner, yes he was a single parent and well done him for doing well - which he has done and it is very commendable.

But the life chances that people have today with all that is currently going on is much much harder and I can’t see this MP in 2023 working in a minimum paid job as a single father surviving without food banks, keeping a warm house for his kids, and going off and doing well.

The Tories are using them to make working class people either working and or struggling on welfare seem lazy and carefree and that’s not right.

The working class is such a broad thing these days. Working class cities vote Labour and many were Remain. The towns and suburbs tend to be Tory and Brexit. They'll be Brexit no matter what but the Tories are so bad that anyone voting for them now is just the vote Tory no matter what, so they'll lose the red wall.

A lot of the left behind north were sold Brexit on lies. The EU didn't ruin their town.

A lot of the left behind north were sold Brexit on lies. The EU didn't ruin their town.
A lot of these towns are now realising the ERDF and ESF funding that they benefited from in the past isn't going to be replaced.

whole ex-miner thing is a smoke screen. Skilled miners were well paid compared to many manual jobs. It was mines closed that the sh&t hit the fan as there was no alternative jobs. Same as in steel works, car works, shipyards tc.

It's not like he was down the mine, earning tuppence and living in a shoebox...

I had teen parents, dad with a manual job, mum working in admin PT while raising us and going to night classes. We had F all for many, many years while my parents slogged their guts out, and lots around us lived off benefits.
But our lives got better the jobs got better, me and Dsib when to unis on scholarships...
But I don't look down at people now who are struggling because they haven't done the same. I don't judge them or tell them they should be living off 30p meals, or not using foodbanks or should be 'put to' work' in some way.

He a rent-a-gob, guaranteed to say something controversial and stupid for the sake of it. I heard some tory say ' look, he's entertaining, he'll be fun.'

What the F is fun about some right-wing, politician banging on about bringing back the death penalty? We aren'tdoing that, it's not up for discussion, so how about promoting people who actually have the skills to improve lives of others?

John Crace wrote a column on him yesterday. It's meant to be satire but it's disturbingly real.

Was that in the Guardian? Do you have a link @ilovesooty? I’d like to read it.

amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/09/bring-back-hanging-and-real-men-making-the-tories-great-again-by-lee-anderson?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16760250432967&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2Ffeb%2F09%2Fbring-back-hanging-and-real-men-making-the-tories-great-again-by-lee-anderson

There you go @Blossomtoes . Sorry it's so long!

If it doesn't work it was his Politics Sketch in yesterday's Guardian.

Yes he is a scumbag but it made me think about the death penalty. Anyone who deliberately steals a child, tortures and rapes her and then murders her should be put to death

Thank you. I think 😱

The nature of the crime isn't the issue with the death penalty. Everyone can come up with a heinous crime that they think is deserving of it. It's the burden of proof that's the hurdle. And there's no evidence that the death penalty prevents these crimes. The murder rate isn't lower in countries with the death penalty.

If you're a red wall voter Lee Anderson is who the tories think you'll like. That's what a low opinion they have of you.

You chose to have 2 children in a 2 bed house. You knew those children would grow up and be teens who may not want to share. People need to stop blaming the government for their own choices.

Exactly. And if you’re a 2 adult, 1 income household I’m sure there are benefits involved that have clearly been withheld from this post.

😁😉

As for "30p Lee" he'll be gone within 3 months.

I sincerely hope this proves to be correct.