Tory MP says poor people 'can't cook properly' and brags that meals can cost 30p

[Swan]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tory-mp-says-poor-people-23932757

What a f ing moron. Jesus Christ!!

30p a meal? What world is this idiot living in. You can put your house on HIM never having a 30 pence meal too.

I know he doesn't speak for all Tories, but how can people vote for a party with tw@s like this a part of it?!

[Oliver_W]

30p a meal is pie in the sky, but it can't be denied that not rnough low-income people know how to cook properly, and how to budget and shop effectively in order to cook.
Dispel the myth that people are "forced" to live on ready meals and takeaways.

[Swan]

30p a meal is pie in the sky, but it can't be denied that not rnough low-income people know how to cook properly, and how to budget and shop effectively in order to cook.
Dispel the myth that people are "forced" to live on ready meals and takeaways.

FFS. As opposed to Middle and Upper Classes who obviously know how to cook properly because ya know, they're better than those poor, dirty folk. Yep, if you're poor, you're also dumb and can't cook, of course!

[Swan]

Mr Anderson's Parliamentary expenses exceeded more than £222,000 in 2020-21, which saw an increase of nearly £50,000 on the year before. This figure also includes £165,200 on staff wages plus £32,100 on further office expenditures.

The Mirror reports he has also claimed back £21,200 on accommodation and £4,100 on travel and "subsistence." This included hotel stays, train tickets and £67.57 listed as "hospitality."

Awesome stuff right there!

[The Slim Reaper]

I'm here for leftist swan.

Welcome, comrade :laugh:

[rusticgal]

Yes a moron….but I bet if you asked any MP the cost of a loaf of bread they wouldn’t have a clue…

[Swan]

I'm here for leftist swan.

Welcome, comrade :laugh:

LUL :laugh:

But for real, it really beggars belief doesn't it?! (actually no, it doesn't, this a typical hardcore, old school Tory thing to say i guess)

Yes a moron….but I bet if you asked any MP the cost of a loaf of bread they wouldn’t have a clue…

Yes, i'd agree with that.

[arista]

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[bots]

that is coming from someone who probably referred to his student days 30 or 40 years ago. When I was a student in digs, we each put £5 in to a kitty every week and that was our food budget. Those days have long gone. A single person these days is probably looking at at least £30-40 per week and that is picking items that are cheap

[arista]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tory-mp-says-poor-people-23932757

What a f ing moron. Jesus Christ!!

30p a meal? What world is this idiot living in. You can put your house on HIM never having a 30 pence meal too.

I know he doesn't speak for all Tories, but how can people vote for a party with tw@s like this a part of it?!


Some are twisting what he said in
Parliament.

Saying some can not cook
is a valid point.


He works in a local Food Bank
helping them.


What he said in Parliament
has been twisted.


Ref: Live Debate on GMBHD itv
featuring what he said in Parliament

[arista]

Lee Anderson Conservative MP
is going to go on the media today
to explain more, what he was saying.



He is a Former Labour Councillor

[bots]

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[arista]

Yes he is talking about his own Food Bank
in his region.


This why is got out of Hand
in the Left Wing Mirror paper

Thanks for posting the clip bitontheslide.

[Cherie]

I heard this being debated on LBC yesterday The Trussel Group provide lessons on budgeting and cookery courses

https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/01/17/waitrose-supports-uk-charity-to-fund-household-budgeting-cookery-courses/

So what he is suggesting is already in place

What he appears to be missing now is that people cannot afford the energy to cook meals even if they know how to

I would like his receipe for meals for 30p though :laugh:

[user104658]

It’s straight up false, cooking fresh costs as much as if not more than cheap oven-cooked junk. 15 years ago it was maybe true, but you can’t buy bulk ingredients all that cheaply any more.

[Oliver_W]

But for real, it really beggars belief doesn't it?! (actually no, it doesn't, this a typical hardcore, old school Tory thing to say i guess)
I'm not a Tory, and I'm not old :fist:

I heard this being debated on LBC yesterday The Trussel Group provide cookery lessons on budgeting and cookery course

https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/01/17/waitrose-supports-uk-charity-to-fund-household-budgeting-cookery-courses/

So what he is suggesting is already in place
That's awesome, it's the kind of thing that should be more widely known.

[thesheriff443]

You have working poor and benefits poor
I don’t see many slim poor people

The above is my observation

[arista]

You have working poor and benefits poor
I don’t see many slim poor people

The above is my observation



Yes, they eat the wrong food

[Crimson Dynamo]

let them eat cake?

[thesheriff443]

let them eat cake?

No,let them go on a diet

[user104658]

You have working poor and benefits poor
I don’t see many slim poor people




It’s straight up false, cooking fresh costs as much as if not more than cheap oven-cooked junk. 15 years ago it was maybe true, but you can’t buy bulk ingredients all that cheaply any more.



Eating well is expensive.

[thesheriff443]

Eating well is expensive.

I know that.

[Niamh.]

Definitely be interested in his 30p recipes

[MTVN]

Pretty much just pasta dishes you can make for as little as that I'd think

[GoldHeart]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tory-mp-says-poor-people-23932757

What a f ing moron. Jesus Christ!!

30p a meal? What world is this idiot living in. You can put your house on HIM never having a 30 pence meal too.

I know he doesn't speak for all Tories, but how can people vote for a party with tw@s like this a part of it?!


All of the Tory's are a bunch of brainless idiots, they're so out of touch with us 'peasants' . They'll never know what it's like to be poor let alone homeless. They only care about the wealthy & rich , aslong as they have their big house & car and money basically screw the rest of us.

They can't even pretend to have sympathy for the crisis people are in. They'd rather come out with insulting statements like this instead by slating people's cooking skills ,and treating us like we're stupid.

Bear in mind some people don't have a roof over their heads let alone a cooker to make food. They don't know where the next meal will come from .

[AnnieK]

As MTVN said they only meal that would come anywhere near 30p a person would be pasta with a tin of cheap tomatoes or very cheap jar of past sauce - not balanced or really healthy. Even that will still probably cost more than 30p

Even batch cooking in large amounts will not come in anywhere close - you can't get ingredients that cheaply anymore - even the cheap ranges in supermarkets

[Beso]

All of the Tory's are a bunch of brainless idiots, they're so out of touch with us 'peasants' . They'll never know what it's like to be poor let alone homeless. They only care about the wealthy & rich , aslong as they have their big house & car and money basically screw the rest of us.

They can't even pretend to have sympathy for the crisis people are in. They'd rather come out with insulting statements like this instead by slating people's cooking skills ,and treating us like we're stupid.

Bear in mind some people don't have a roof over their heads let alone a cooker to make food. They don't know where the next meal will come from .




You do realise this bloke gives up his spare time to work at a food bank?

[user104658]

As MTVN said they only meal that would come anywhere near 30p a person would be pasta with a tin of cheap tomatoes or very cheap jar of past sauce - not balanced or really healthy. Even that will still probably cost more than 30p

Even batch cooking in large amounts will not come in anywhere close - you can't get ingredients that cheaply anymore - even the cheap ranges in supermarkets


Exactly, like I said it’s not possible to get cheap bulk ingredients like it used to be. You could make a basic pasta dish, basic rice dish, I guess maybe a baked potato… but with literally no toppings. Even the cheapest jar of sauce would bring it to more than 30p, and making sauce from scratch costs more than a cheap jar.

Realistically, the cheapest you can do a family main meal for 4 on, that wouldn’t end in nutritional deficiencies, is about £5 per meal (so £1.25 per person) and tbh even that’s going to be basic.

Meat is expensive and people say “go veggie then” but the main thing vegans use as a protein substitute (beans and pulses etc) are actually not cheap.

[GoldHeart]

You do realise this bloke gives up his spare time to work at a food bank?

That makes it even worse that he would talk all this BS !! .

[Niamh.]

That makes it even worse that he would talk all this BS !! .

Yes was going to say, if that's true then he should know better!

[GoldHeart]

As MTVN said they only meal that would come anywhere near 30p a person would be pasta with a tin of cheap tomatoes or very cheap jar of past sauce - not balanced or really healthy. Even that will still probably cost more than 30p

Even batch cooking in large amounts will not come in anywhere close - you can't get ingredients that cheaply anymore - even the cheap ranges in supermarkets

Exactly it all adds up ,so unless he wants everyone to live of a lettuce leaf like a snail ? . I'd like to know what meal out there costs 30p aswell.

[AnnieK]

Exactly, like I said it’s not possible to get cheap bulk ingredients like it used to be. You could make a basic pasta dish, basic rice dish, I guess maybe a baked potato… but with literally no toppings. Even the cheapest jar of sauce would bring it to more than 30p, and making sauce from scratch costs more than a cheap jar.

Realistically, the cheapest you can do a family main meal for 4 on, that wouldn’t end in nutritional deficiencies, is about £5 per meal (so £1.25 per person) and tbh even that’s going to be basic.

Meat is expensive and people say “go veggie then” but the main thing vegans use as a protein substitute (beans and pulses etc) are actually not cheap.

Exactly, I have a meeting after work so needed stuff for a quickish easy meal tonight. I have just bought tinned tuna, jacket potatoes and salad stuff - trying to get something relatively balanced meal and even that (with supermarket tuna as my weirdo kid prefers the cheap stuff) has come in around £1.50 - 5 times the amount he has said you can cook for.

I think the only way to cook a meal for 30p is to visit the food banks that he has said are not needed :shrug:

[bots]

The gas/electricity to cook a meal is going to be more than 30p ... forget the cost of the food

[Liam-]

It’s giving big ‘just stop being poor’ energy

[GoldHeart]

The gas/electricity to cook a meal is going to be more than 30p ... forget the cost of the food

That's why people will go hungry and freeze to death.winter will be even worse.

[Swan]

Even if you could make a meal for 30p, as mentioned in here, it would be piss poor unhealthy food, with next no nutritional value whatsoever. Why should anyone have to live like that anyway??? You know he bloody isn't.

He's the same kinda of person who'll be complaining poor people are too fat next, due to rubbish diets and 'laziness'.

[Swan]

You do realise this bloke gives up his spare time to work at a food bank?

Wankers like him don't do anything like that out of 'good will' it's all a front in order to look good and caring, to get votes. The man doesn't give a toss!

[Beso]

That makes it even worse that he would talk all this BS !! .

It's the papers bull****, they screwed him over by twisting what he said :shrug:

[GoldHeart]

It's the papers bull****, they screwed him over by twisting what he said :shrug:

:joker: awwww poor wealthy MP I'm sure his nice warm heating ,and his big house will comfort his tears . He still said his thoughtless comments ,and he still has no idea what it's like to be in poverty or living on the streets :notimpressed: .

[Oliver_W]

It's the papers bull****, they screwed him over by twisting what he said :shrug:

What were his literal untwisted words?

[Beso]

He does voluntary work at a food bank...can we all say the same?

[bots]

He does voluntary work at a food bank...can we all say the same?

Seriously, does that make him a good person? Some of the biggest crims in the world did charity work. Mr Saville comes immediately to mind

[user104658]

He does voluntary work at a food bank...can we all say the same?

My work is 3rd sector/non-profit so I get to say I'm a nice boy by default :hee:

[thesheriff443]

My work is 3rd sector/non-profit so I get to say I'm a nice boy by default :hee:

You get paid for sitting on your arse all day doing virtually nothing so I’d pipe down .

[Beso]

Seriously, does that make him a good person? Some of the biggest crims in the world did charity work. Mr Saville comes immediately to mind

It makes him a good person when hes doing it..

And also points more towards him being a good person than a bad person.

[arista]

It makes him a good person when hes doing it..

And also points more towards him being a good person than a bad person.



He used to be a Labour Councillor.

[Kazanne]

He does voluntary work at a food bank...can we all say the same?

Well it was debated on TV earlier and they seem to think he made a mistake with the amount,they were thinking maybe he meant £3:shrug:

[arista]

And

[Labour Gloria De Piero
On 12 December 2019, she was succeeded as Member of Parliament for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire by
the Conservative politician Lee Anderson, her former office manager]


Gloria now works for GBnewsHD
proving they are not all right wingers

[Mystic Mock]

All of the Tory's are a bunch of brainless idiots, they're so out of touch with us 'peasants' . They'll never know what it's like to be poor let alone homeless. They only care about the wealthy & rich , aslong as they have their big house & car and money basically screw the rest of us.

They can't even pretend to have sympathy for the crisis people are in. They'd rather come out with insulting statements like this instead by slating people's cooking skills ,and treating us like we're stupid.

Bear in mind some people don't have a roof over their heads let alone a cooker to make food. They don't know where the next meal will come from .

This guy is stuck in the 60's going by his statement.

[bots]

30p hasn't been a realistic amount for a meal in at least 30 years. I guess if you ate rice and lentils every day it would be cheap but, could you eat it every day?

[Vanessa]

30 p as a budget isn't realistic. You can probably make some spaghetti and it will be cheap and delicious.
Add some meat into it and it's even better.

[thesheriff443]

If you are at the food bank the ingredients are free only the cost of gas and electricity to cook the meal

I do feel for genuine cases but you will have some buying fags alcohol drugs scratch cards before thinking about buying food.

But the we live in a sick world, 7 million for a football shirt.

[Kizzy]

He's a tory... why is anyone surprised?

Historically have they ever been any different, anymore in tune to the needs and wants of the underclass?

No, they want them to die. This is eugenics, if you can't live within your means and you have no support please die as we won't support you.
That's how it was, is and ever shall be for this party. If you voted for them and expected any different you're a fool.

[thesheriff443]

He's a tory... why is anyone surprised?

Historically have they ever been any different, anymore in tune to the needs and wants of the underclass?

No, they want them to die. This is eugenics, if you can't live within your means and you have no support please die as we won't support you.
That's how it was, is and ever shall be for this party. If you voted for them and expected any different you're a fool.

The whole human race is living and let die
You talk like there are no rich labour mp’s

[Beso]

What were his literal untwisted words?

Anderson invited MPs to visit a food bank in his constituency to witness a scheme whereby those in receipt of food parcels have to "register for a budgeting and cooking course". He said there was not a massive use for food banks in the UK, stating: "We've got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can't cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget.




He did not say the poor cant cook.

[Beso]

The whole human race is living and let die
You talk like there are no rich labour mp’s

This man in question is an ex labour mp..one who did not go to public school.

He defected to the conservatives, and was investigated by the conservatives for anti semitism, a trait he brought with him when he defected.

[bots]

he insulted thousands of people who can cook and who are struggling to make ends meet. Not the most sensible strategy for any MP

[Kizzy]

The whole human race is living and let die
You talk like there are no rich labour mp’s

Who mentioned anyone personally being rich?..
The whole human race. as in every individual or country?

[thesheriff443]

Who mentioned anyone personally being rich?..
The whole human race. as in every individual or country?

Yes, everyone including you and me, we live by man made rules that keep the rich, rich and the poor,poor.

[Oliver_W]

Anderson invited MPs to visit a food bank in his constituency to witness a scheme whereby those in receipt of food parcels have to "register for a budgeting and cooking course". He said there was not a massive use for food banks in the UK, stating: "We've got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can't cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget.
Yeah that's fair, nothing wrong with equipping people to better spend and cook.

[Crimson Dynamo]

He's a tory... why is anyone surprised?

snip.

because people are all not the same?

:conf:

[Oliver_W]

because people are all not the same?

:conf:

Tribalism, man ... not even once.

[Kizzy]

Yes, everyone including you and me, we live by man made rules that keep the rich, rich and the poor,poor.

Indirectly perhaps... your average Joe on the street however wouldn't necessarily see anyone starve, drown or suffer, it takes careful dripping of lies and spin from the establishment and media to make the public complicit enough to push through rules that prey on exaggerated fears to benefit the rich and powerful.

We don't make the rules we have to suffer them... there's a big difference.

[Kazanne]

Eating well is expensive.

Actually it doesnt have to be,if you can, and if possible ,grow your own veg and fruit, get your basics like flour etc and cook.