Outspoken Ashfield MP and Conservative Party deputy chairman blasted 'poverty nonsense'
Lee Anderson has played down “this poverty nonsense”, insisting the UK is the best country in the world and there was “real poverty” in the 1970s. The Conservative Party deputy chairman also defended his position and previous comments on food poverty, saying when he was young “we didn’t go on TikTok or Facebook or moan and say: ‘I’ve got no food'”, adding that his family’s philosophy was: “They’re our kids, we’ll feed them.
He went on: “It’s still the best country in the world, there’s plenty of jobs, people have got money. I don’t believe all this nonsense about, you know, you know my stance on the food poverty stuff… “This poverty nonsense. Go in a time machine back into when I was growing up in the 70s, that was real poverty… It’s nonsense now, it’s absolute nonsense.
Speaking later in the event, he said he was able to say things that other Tory MPs have not, referencing his own hardships growing up and his previous jobs, including as a coal miner. He said: “Our food bank was my dad’s garden.
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