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Home » News » Watch: Another Tory lays into food bank users – angry reactions

Watch: Another Tory lays into food bank users – angry reactions

"They are so out of touch it’s painful," wrote one person in response.

Scott M by Scott M
January 24, 2023
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Yesterday, Tory MP Lee Anderson branded ‘disgusting’ after saying foodbank users waste money on booze and fags.

He made his comments in an interview with The Telegraph. Anderson claimed people were spending money on non-essentials such as Sky TV, according to The Mirror.

Expenses

For the 2020-21 financial year, Mr Anderson claimed £222,618.06 in expenses, according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

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It follows a Daily Mail front page which slams ‘something for nothing Britain.’

However, as Adam Bienkov points out they fail to mention the 11 million odd pensioners, who aren’t ‘leeching of society’ or whatever they think food bank users are.

They are old and don’t work anymore, so need state support. A lot of Mail readers are pensioners!

What the Daily Mail's front page doesn't mention is that their figure of people getting "something for nothing" includes around 11 million pensioners, according to the very report their story is based on. pic.twitter.com/GVEcp5QfFt

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 23, 2023

New Tory slams food banks

On BBC Politics Live, Gareth Bacon was the latest Tory to slam poor people who use food banks.

Bacon said: “People will say they don’t have enough money but… sometimes people will have to look at how they manage their personal finances and there’s nothing wrong in that, that is not in anyway a criticism of anyone and it’s not patronising to say so.”

Labour MP Chris Bryant was left fuming with his comments and said: “We’ve had ministers saying ‘just go out and get that better paid job, just go and work more hours’. It is just not as simple as that.

“We’ve had energy prices doubling in a year, wages depressed and no growth in Tory Britain.”

Watch

Jo Coburn – A lot of people going to food banks are in work.. how do you explain that?

Gareth Bacon(Tory MP) – I've never had to use a food bank, but people will have to look at how they manage their personal finances.. Lee Anderson 🤦

Chris Bryant – It's not as simple as that pic.twitter.com/pg6HsVLBmG

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) January 23, 2023

Reactions

1.

Of course the bbc shuts down the Labour MP

— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) January 23, 2023

2.

They are so out of touch it’s painful.

— MD (@Leftisbest007) January 23, 2023

3.

If people do not earn enough that cover the costs, you have to. Tories are really living in their own world. 😫

— 𝕮𝖑𝖆𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖆 🌸♈ (@ClaudiaGeorgios) January 23, 2023

4.

@RhonddaBryant Chris Bryant is right! It's not simple and these Tories need to get their heads out of the sand and look at reality! https://t.co/FbzSRRL1e5

— Pratik J. Jasani (@Jasanipratik) January 24, 2023

5.

Or this?!

Bacon gonna Gammon

— A Salty Dog (@Worcs) January 23, 2023

Related: Reactions as ’30p’ Lee Anderson is at it again – ‘just when you thought he couldn’t get any lower’

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