“People are moaning now they can’t get tomatoes, we had a greenhouse, it’s quite simple: plant some. If you want tomatoes grow ‘em” ✒️ PippyBing interviews LeeAndersonMP_
Complaining about poverty is ‘bollocks’ says Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson: ‘They don’t know what poverty is’Red Wall MP urges personal responsibility on food shortages – ‘If you want tomatoes grow ‘em. Lee Anderson also weighs in on homelessness saying, ‘a lot of them are going back to their flat at night’Lee Anderson MP is surely the human embodiment of the “Red Wall”.
I ask what his thoughts were on Thatcher at that time. He answers instinctively: “Hated her. We absolutely hated her. We saw her as someone who took away our jobs and our livelihoods. When you close a coal mine you don’t just close the coal mine, you close the miner’s welfare, you close the bowls club, the cricket club, the football club, the rugby club, the brass band and the whole community.
“You look at the last intake in 2019 for the Tory Party and a lot are from working-class backgrounds,” he says. “You look at the Labour Party, they’re not.” He argues Labour “was still trying to tick their equality boxes and it don’t work”. This week he led a debate in Parliament on the subject of “tackling poverty and the cost of food”. That jars with a man who only a few moments ago told me that people complaining about poverty is “bollocks”. How can Anderson seek to tackle a problem that he’s at best unsure of, or doesn’t think exists?
He claims: “I went to Calais a few weeks back, these aren’t genuine asylum seekers, these are young men. ‘El Dorado’, that’s what they kept saying.” What would Anderson do with him? “I think it’s going to cost £1.3m to keep this creature in jail. I’d just put him in solitary confinement, just leave him. I wouldn’t spend a penny on him.”
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