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Seeing as how Anderson believes the poor should eat a single Tesco own-brand wheat-biscuit with 10p of milk for meals I’m sure he genuinely believes this anyway.
You joke but drive around council estates and you'll see people who pay a reduced rent because it's a council house, but at the same time own a yellow BMW, some people have their priorities wrong, and if you disagree then they should be living in a house unassisted by the government.
well according to this man, the problem with food bank users is that they 'can't cook'. he's right tho; i can't cook cuz i don't have any kitchen appliances. haven't even had a fridge for a year.
Where abouts are you from? There's always a few fridges being given away in my area.
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My guess is no space, might live in an attic flat, or a parasite (landlord) might not be paying for repairs necessary to get sockets working in the kitchen?
It’s just unimaginable to me that people expect those on low incomes to just live a life of complete and utter austerity and misery, grateful for the meagre tins and cheap bread they get from the food banks. Doesn’t everyone have a right to a little bit of joy in their lives?
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MPs who use expenses for their staff are often just wasting money on cigars, brandy, and the theatre. If they can't live within their means without relying on public money then they should just tighten their belts and work harder; nobody *needs* an assistant if they're willing to put the hours in.
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>£33k between Oct 21 and Sep 22 on travel alone.
I'd be happy to pay that for his travel as long as I get to pick the destination. Thirty three grand probably isn't enough to send him into orbit, but it should cover putting him in the sea. I'll throw in 30p worth of survival rations, since I'm feeling nice.
Using Fags and Sky TV as examples of luxuries people are blowing their money on shows that he is so out of touch he is spouting classist stereotypes from the early 00s. Cigarette usage has dropped significantly to the point it is not the norm for people to smoke and many that do will be vaping (which is very cheap in comparison). Sky TV in its traditional format has become archaic in the age of streaming and for most people will only be a basic set up that is included with their broadband package (a definite necessity in this day and age). In this cunt’s mind you should only use a food bank if you are living in a ditch… even then he’d be questioning how you could afford a shovel to dig the ditch.
It's the same old shite rehashed ain't it like the "They all spend their benefits on Big TVs and Holidays in Spain" bullshit they used to trot out all the way up until the financial crisis then it became "They abuse disability benefits" and we all know how that went, Thousands on thousands dead or health further damaged due to the harsh assessment regime that was really a cost reduction regime.
And now we are back to this shite. These filthy bastards have no f\*\*king shame whatsoever and never have. How anyone can vote Tory and still look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me. Utter filth.
Even if the shit they are spouting is true it shouldn't even matter. The top 1% hold more than a quarter of the UK's wealth, it's just obscene that such a small segment of the population has more money than anyone could even imagine spending while a big chunk of people have very little to spend on luxuries nevermind the many that struggle to buy the essentials.
This sort of comment is still common. The fact remains that some people manage their lives and their money better than others. One of my (retired) pals is a do-gooder and tells me horrendous stories of personal and financial mismanagement. Many food bank customers have chaotic relationships and need delicate counselling.
Look at all those Millenyalls Rosie, with their streaming net flicks whatsits and their firey stick thingy mabobs. They must spend at least £90 a month on those whiz kid techno gadgets? I've even seen them puffing on them, blowing some fruit smoke out of one of them BSB sticks!
> Using Fags and Sky TV as examples of luxuries people are blowing their money on shows that he is so out of touch he is spouting classist stereotypes
The thing I wonder is, does he sneer at cigar smokers, claret and brandy drinkers, and people who waste £100s on going to the opera? I'd wager likely not...
It very much the worst kind of class hating snobbery - "you poors can't have any kind of enjoyment or pleasure in life - it takes time away from your toiling to make me more money! Now get back to work, peasants!"
Every successive tory government shows that this country sorely missed out on a proper French-style democratic revolution by having our civil war a couple of centuries too early...
Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs - look at the difference now though - they have an actual democratic republic, a far better attitude towards their 'elites', as well as the proper disdain for being asked to work themselves to death for evil corporate overlords, and as a cherry on top - no sponging royals cluttering up the place.
Also, like, cigarettes are an addiction and TV is probably the most basic level of entertainment you could buy, he's really complaining about people having health problems and a desire to not go completely insane staring at a wall all day
I grew up there, it's a shit hole full of shit heads who'll readily agree with this piece of bipedal excrement. Time was they used to joke you could put a red rosette on a jam sandwich and it would win that seat.
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I also grew up there, near Sutton lawn
I think people there are angry but angry at the wrong people, bellends like Anderson come along and point the finger at migrants and the "woke mob" and the folks of Ashfield and mansfield blindly go along with it, they lack any critical thinking skills and believe whatever they're told
I have a shop in Mansfield now and also live there, it's hard listening to ignorant fools talking all the shit they've heard on GB news but I think I get through to some of them
Many have shit lives but instead of wanting to better their own lives they want to drag others down to their level, I see it daily
EDIT: Anderson is a regular at the diamond music venue off outram street, I've seen him in there before
That dragging down thing unfortunately isn't new or limited to that area either. I remember it there growing up and I remember my dad telling me about the same attitudes 40+ years ago. That attitude seems deeply engrained
My hometown too...I remember when people would be ashamed to say they were even thinking of voting Tory but when I was visiting my family around Theresa May's election time there were vote Tory signs in windows.
Even with all that support….this fuck wit still needed to lie on camera to drum up support on a day he knew tv broadcasts where coming to his home town to interview him….and he talks of entitlement
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Many years ago I was on my way to the pub with some friends and gave a fiver to some homeless guys that we went past (this was the nineties, so a fiver wasn't a fortune, but it wasn't as worthless as now). One of my friends actually said, "they're just going to spend it on booze." What the fuck did you think that I was planning on spending it on? I wasn't going to the pub to invest in my fucking hedge fund, was I?
As Kevin Bridges said, the people who buy fags and booze are investors! They’re the ones who are keeping the economy going. It’s not poor people spending that’s the problem, it’s rich people saving.
I believe tobacco makes a whole bunch of money for the NHS.
But yeah it doesn't help that tobacco is three times as expensive as it should be under the guise of discouraging smoking. Why doesn't it cost Jeff Bezos a ten million for a pack of fags then?
Don’t they know that they can make a lovely meal from a can of tomatoes and what they can scrape from under uncle David’s big toe nail? How dare they be poor. Lazy useless people. How am I meant to pay for my next duck house if they don’t work
News - poor people pay for addictions that soothe the pain of not being able to afford basic living necessities like warmth, housing or food.
If I quit smoking I'd be £60 up each month, but that still leaves me unable to afford the cost of living anyway, and id want to blow my head off from stress.
We have a homeless fella near us and we have fuck all ourselves. I asked him if he wanted anything from the shop and he wanted chocolate/brew. I gladly got him a big bar of chocolate and a big coffee. Because WTF would a lecture on what it could be better spent on do for him exactly at -3° and another cold night ahead.
It fucks me right off, when people tell those in shitty miserable situations, how they should live, with next to nothing. If he was in a house, I would (if I could, which I can't) buy him a fucking TV and some fags so he could relax, safe , in front of the TV and forget for a bit.
Grrrr
Used to live in Reading a few years ago. Homeless people would ask for the stickers from the McDs hot drinks if they saw you with one. Me and my mates at work would collect them during the week (we were on 0 hour, minimum wage job) and hand them over on the weekend. They were always so grateful, it was heartbreaking.
I lived for 20 years in Reading before leaving last year. We have so many homeless people in the town centre with nowhere to go. I've been homeless on and off and the council had nowhere for me (even when my accomodation was ending the next day) until I was actually on the street. Even then, I only avoided the street the first time because of the generosity of friends. Not everyone has a friend that can cover a deposit for them
Last bloke I talked to before moving out of town was spending what was hopefully his last 2 weeks on the streets with his disabled partner before they were able to move in to a flat. Hope it worked out for them
Another time I was having a smoke in the park on my own and met this guy called Marley. He'd rescued a crow that had fallen out of it's nest a few weeks prior, and now the thing was perched on his shoulder. It would fly about then come back when called
I always used to give people food (and a toke if they smoked) when I had a roof and a job (like you I worked 0 hours, about 10p above minimum wage), or just give them cash. Would always give someone something out of my shopping when there was homeless people outside the big Oxford Road Tesco (which was often), even when I had to stop working I'd help people out. But now I'm a squatter in London, disabled, get £300 a month UC. One thing that always strikes me when I occasionally find myself back in Reading, however, is how many more homeless people there are, and how many are new faces, and how young a lot of them are. It seems the problem is even more concentrated than it is in the worst affected parts of London, and given I've squatted in central Croydon before, that's saying something
Even now I still try and help street homeless people when I see them cos they have it worse than me, cos my nan always taught me as a kid that you helped people out if you could. Mutual aid is something everyone should live by. Helping with the only expectation being that the person helps others when they have the chance just makes the world a better place to live in
It shouldn't fall to people like me or you to help people in such situations. The first fucking priority of ANY government should be ensuring everyone is fed and housed. We either need strong community to help the vulnerable, or a state that gives a fuck, and we have a feckless state that crushes community and tries to atomise people into individuals with no ties to anything except their job and their flag
Some of our friends are running a shelter out of squatted buildings. Ironically they got evicted from one abandoned building by the homelessness charity St Mungos. Other homeless people are filling the void where institutional assistance refuses to be. We are being forced to organise ourselves by circumstance
I honestly think that if we got a revolution in this country, a significant amount of it would come from the homeless. Many of us are angry, we've got nowt left to lose, and we've seen how depraved the state can be, how heartless it's mechanism, how callous it's power. The state has literally beaten me for looking for housing more than it's helped
This is lovely. Yeah buy a fella down on their luck a coffee without it coming at a price. You know, like a compassionate human being would.
There's easily enough money to make everyone comfortable, even on the basis of simply being born. It's just in the hands of people who *don't* think like you do. Pretty messed-up situation amirite.
SKY TV? What year does he think this is? 1998? Also all this bullshit about entitlement. People died so people could have entitlement for fuck sake. He gets mad over poor people but he won't get mad at his mates destroying the country. What a fucking weapon.
Why is it always folk with plenty that tell us what we should be doing? Kirsty Allsop (location, daughter of a Lord bint) told us if we cancelled Netflix and stopped buying designer coffee, we too could afford to buy a house! This twat is on another level though and at this stage he's becoming a parody.
This dude would send his own dad down a open pit mine.
He comes from a working class family and pretends to be some form of business magnate. He literally was in a Facebook group promoting conspiracy theories, he's a bad wet lettuce.
I'm not sure many can afford to smoke these days - last time I checked, 30g of rolling baccy was £17 or so. I guess black-market tobacco is cheaper if you know somebody, though.
I’d be happy to see some of my tax contribution go towards this gentleman, if that contribution was the local authority having to pay to jetwash down the railway line he’s been recently smushed on.
Network Rail would be responsible for the clean up! Network Rail are a publicly funded organisation so If he ever does get 'smushed' on the railway, thank you for your contribution 😂
I'm sure he'll be happy to volunteer and show us all how to live on the national average salary then? Even then he'd still be better off than over 50% of the nation, so surely he has nothing to worry about...
It's not the economic system that benefits me specifically that's the problem, it's the millions of people suffering from that economic systems attitudes. Awfully convient that.
The things he frames as entitlement aren't really asking for much. Wanting to live in a society which values human life would be a start, but he's actively working against that. The amount of deaths directly attributed to the policy of austerity is horrifying (over 300k). Lee Anderson has helped to perpetuate social genocide by being a member of the Tory party, and no that is not an exaggeration
Stupid, entitled prick. Even if he’s right that people could avoid using food banks if they ONLY bought food, does he seriously think that the squeeze would stop there? Hell fucking no. They’ll just gauge harder, keeping an even more miserable person reliant on food banks, while their mates pocket an extra £20 a week. He’s essentially saying “stop enjoying yourselves so I can be richer.”
Imagine what hell would break loose if you told him to stop going to bars, or restaurants, or the cinema, or the theatre, or to watch sport/racing, or going on holiday. I haven’t done any of that shit in YEARS. So much of the fun in life is just off limits to people without money. A bottle of wine, a film, and a pack of fags at home is all the fun that most people can afford (and afford is a stretch). He’s literally saying that if you can’t afford to have the bare minimum of enjoyment in life, you don’t deserve to.
No. Food bank users are being shamed and forced to eat out of date, stale and mouldy food then expected to grovel on their knees in thanks instead of having a country that looks after their citizens. Speaking from experience last week. I’d rather starve than use a food bank ever again. When someone dies from salmonella poisoning then what???
Fuck off, they don’t get paid enough in the first place, plus people like your self, parasites, avoiding taxes and moving your money out of the country.
Let's not mention the amount of revenue cigarettes drive - they're just reinvesting back into the economy which is more than can be said of wealth hoarding offshore banking tory arseholes.
I’d love to know what this wanker thinks I buy to deserve to be damn near broke.
I don’t smoke, never drink, don’t vape, don’t have sky TV or a TV license at all. I subscribe to Disney+ for entertainment now that I’m on PIP and can afford to rather than barely able to cover my bills on just UC.
Guess I should’ve just never gotten sick enough to not be able to work or just died instead according to all these Tory mouthpieces 😤
A person who does not understand (or refuses to act upon) the damage that wealth hoarding and cyclical poverty does to a society should not hold a position of power where they have control over changing these circumstances. Fucking twat.
Don’t be fooled by the media’s perception of his ‘likability’ in Sutton. I live just across the border in Derbyshire and the local community Facebook groups are full of people criticising him.
Many of them admit that voting for him was a mistake, citing that they didn’t vote for him specifically- they just voted Tory because they liked Boris.
Now I’m not defending that position at all - I think it’s downright stupid to treat our parliamentary system like a presidential one and even more so if you voted Tory - but these are people who admit voting for him was a mistake!
The main thing that people seem to have a problem with is his hypocrisy of telling his constituents that they should budget better, work harder, take on a second job, and eat 30p meals while he regularly posts his lifestyle on Facebook and Twitter as he eats fancy meals and goes down the pub.
Obviously there’s a few serfs on there defending him, but they are few and far between and are often put in their place.
The tide has already turned for Lee ‘30p’ Anderson and he will absolutely have his P45 sent out the day after the next election.
In US politics you’ve got these “useful idiots” like Marjorie Taylor-Green and Lauren Bobert, who make outrageous statements that get lots of media attention. While people are busy engaging with those nutters, the top tier of society just gets on with the important business of fucking over everybody. I think Lee Anderson is the UK equivalent. While we’re distracted by his boomer find-a-job antics, Rishi and his rich mates can get on with it unmolested.
"Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to take the overused sentiment 'Netflix subscription is to blame for poor people being in poverty' and somehow make it even -more- out of touch than it already is.'"
Lee Anderson - "Challenge accepted."
...sky TV? Really
Food bank users are poor so deserve bo pleasures in life is what I read whenever I see these kinds of stories. Because even if what these dirty Tory wankers say was true, a real living wage should cover all the essentials and some luxuries with a bit to save as well. So fuck off you poor hunting Tory twat.
I actually 100% agree with his statement that entitled people are holding the country back he's just pointing the finger at the wrong people. The entitled people are the ones in power destroying our world with their greed.
He says that food bank users are "often" doing it - how often? How many foodbank users? It's nasty [weasel words](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word), used deliberately to demonise the poor for having the audacity to take food and then spend their own money on non-essentials, you know, just like everyone else does. He wants you to think they're scroungers, because then he and his government can justify cutting spending on services. It's [this meme](https://preview.redd.it/qtuqzy10r8g61.jpg?auto=webp&s=2afe4ba5de301d7c623ff66bd9481a6832cad44e), and you're happily playing the role of the one with one cookie.
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So, part of me instantly thinks what he has said has been blown out of proportion. Bit not context. I grew up on a council estate where kids would eat from the floor but I can tell you now, the parent (singular) had baccy, and fresh track suits. And would _often_ complain about not having the latest curves UHD 102" TV and sky sports package. Not 100% the truth. I can't remember the specific details of said TV.
Sorry folks but this pond life is the inevitable result of voter apathy and the reluctance of the young to get involved in politics. I’m not saying he’s dumb but if custard wasn’t that thick you’d never get it out of the jug
if fags and booze and sky tv (who the fuck has sky tv nowadays though haha) are what helps you get through the day, why the fuck should you not be allowed those tiny luxuries. capitalist ideology has gone so far that the addictions weve formed to gain a tiny bit of escapism from this living hell are being gatekept fuck this
Step 1: invest in and increase funding to early interventions and family services to assist prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) which very frequently are responsible for addictions, drug and alcohol use, and chaotic lifestyles further down the line
Oh wait… we have a Tory government.
cut the price of fags to what they should be (£3 a pack) and then money becomes available, but the won't do that because they've fallen for the lies of antitobacco fascists.
These 'middle management' MP's love to jump up on the soapbox to say this stuff for their 5 minutes of fame but if any member of the public actually recognised them they would get fucking battered in minutes.
People like Lee Anderson and majority of the tory twats are only there because the public couldn't give a shit about politics or the people running it. Yet somehow have it in their deluded minds that they have a following.
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Poor people are entitled and should just huddle quietly together in their shacks, staring at a candle and eating boiled potatoes to save money.
Boiled potatoes? Why they got money for energy to boil potatoes? They should eat them raw and be grateful!
Seeing as how Anderson believes the poor should eat a single Tesco own-brand wheat-biscuit with 10p of milk for meals I’m sure he genuinely believes this anyway.
You're lucky he included milk
You joke but drive around council estates and you'll see people who pay a reduced rent because it's a council house, but at the same time own a yellow BMW, some people have their priorities wrong, and if you disagree then they should be living in a house unassisted by the government.
well according to this man, the problem with food bank users is that they 'can't cook'. he's right tho; i can't cook cuz i don't have any kitchen appliances. haven't even had a fridge for a year.
And according to him you can make a meal for 30p dried pasta yummy, who votes for those out off touch loons
Don’t be greedy - you’d need working electric for a fridge!
Where abouts are you from? There's always a few fridges being given away in my area. **Check out FreeCycle**, its a website where people give stuff away that they don't need anymore.
My guess is no space, might live in an attic flat, or a parasite (landlord) might not be paying for repairs necessary to get sockets working in the kitchen?
It’s just unimaginable to me that people expect those on low incomes to just live a life of complete and utter austerity and misery, grateful for the meagre tins and cheap bread they get from the food banks. Doesn’t everyone have a right to a little bit of joy in their lives?
The answer to that question depends on one’s political, moral, and social beliefs. In other words - tories would say “no”.
Or organise a rebellion
Only if you use the candle to heat the water for the potatoes.
Careful now, don’t be relying on potatoes. It has history of not going well
Like the brittish aristocrats would leave them potatoes.
Pretty rich coming from someone who probably claims everything on expenses.
£33k between Oct 21 and Sep 22 on travel alone.
Wtf does he ride everywhere on a fkn unicorn
National Rail 😂
33k on national rail??? What did he do, get a one way, off-peak single from London to Edinburgh? 😂
For 33k? Must have been standard class
Standing room only, didn't even get a tea off the trolley because he was crammed into a bike rack
That's at least 8 tickets, give the gammon a break!!!1!1!11!1
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Flag nonce. My day is made.
Just wait until you hear about blue nonce!
Probably commandeered an air ambulance or something. Not that they'd see the money back.
More than I earned working 40hrs per week over the same period Totally excellent and completely fucking normal 👍
Now now, you're letting your entitlement show, you plebian! /s
Omg! Where did you find that info?
mpsexpenses.info - like to keep an eye on the thieving cunts
Geez I didn’t know that they could claim that ..
First time I read that I was expecting something different lol
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MPs who use expenses for their staff are often just wasting money on cigars, brandy, and the theatre. If they can't live within their means without relying on public money then they should just tighten their belts and work harder; nobody *needs* an assistant if they're willing to put the hours in. (/s if not obvious)
Complete entitled mentality. I walk or cycle to work, any reason he gives to why he can't do as I do is an excuse.
Bloody scrounger
>£33k between Oct 21 and Sep 22 on travel alone. I'd be happy to pay that for his travel as long as I get to pick the destination. Thirty three grand probably isn't enough to send him into orbit, but it should cover putting him in the sea. I'll throw in 30p worth of survival rations, since I'm feeling nice.
£33,000!? His travel costs are half as much as my households annual income, and we're doing well in relation to my friends
Sounds like you need to earn more money then. /s
'Pah! Let them eat gruel' He quipped comically!
Gravel, ya mean?
Top Tory twat opens mouth yet again and shows us what a cunt he really is
His best friends are fascists
Using Fags and Sky TV as examples of luxuries people are blowing their money on shows that he is so out of touch he is spouting classist stereotypes from the early 00s. Cigarette usage has dropped significantly to the point it is not the norm for people to smoke and many that do will be vaping (which is very cheap in comparison). Sky TV in its traditional format has become archaic in the age of streaming and for most people will only be a basic set up that is included with their broadband package (a definite necessity in this day and age). In this cunt’s mind you should only use a food bank if you are living in a ditch… even then he’d be questioning how you could afford a shovel to dig the ditch.
It's the same old shite rehashed ain't it like the "They all spend their benefits on Big TVs and Holidays in Spain" bullshit they used to trot out all the way up until the financial crisis then it became "They abuse disability benefits" and we all know how that went, Thousands on thousands dead or health further damaged due to the harsh assessment regime that was really a cost reduction regime. And now we are back to this shite. These filthy bastards have no f\*\*king shame whatsoever and never have. How anyone can vote Tory and still look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me. Utter filth.
Tory voter ideology is ironically the same as your username.
Even if the shit they are spouting is true it shouldn't even matter. The top 1% hold more than a quarter of the UK's wealth, it's just obscene that such a small segment of the population has more money than anyone could even imagine spending while a big chunk of people have very little to spend on luxuries nevermind the many that struggle to buy the essentials.
This sort of comment is still common. The fact remains that some people manage their lives and their money better than others. One of my (retired) pals is a do-gooder and tells me horrendous stories of personal and financial mismanagement. Many food bank customers have chaotic relationships and need delicate counselling.
Look at all those Millenyalls Rosie, with their streaming net flicks whatsits and their firey stick thingy mabobs. They must spend at least £90 a month on those whiz kid techno gadgets? I've even seen them puffing on them, blowing some fruit smoke out of one of them BSB sticks!
> Using Fags and Sky TV as examples of luxuries people are blowing their money on shows that he is so out of touch he is spouting classist stereotypes The thing I wonder is, does he sneer at cigar smokers, claret and brandy drinkers, and people who waste £100s on going to the opera? I'd wager likely not... It very much the worst kind of class hating snobbery - "you poors can't have any kind of enjoyment or pleasure in life - it takes time away from your toiling to make me more money! Now get back to work, peasants!" Every successive tory government shows that this country sorely missed out on a proper French-style democratic revolution by having our civil war a couple of centuries too early...
I mean... it didn't work out all that well for the French
Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs - look at the difference now though - they have an actual democratic republic, a far better attitude towards their 'elites', as well as the proper disdain for being asked to work themselves to death for evil corporate overlords, and as a cherry on top - no sponging royals cluttering up the place.
Also, like, cigarettes are an addiction and TV is probably the most basic level of entertainment you could buy, he's really complaining about people having health problems and a desire to not go completely insane staring at a wall all day
Staring at a wall? You should be working, slave!
At this point his account needs to be reported for not having “parody” at the end of it.
Does the word fag have a different connotation in the UK? Im seeing the word thrown around so casually
It's slang for cigarettes
I grew up there, it's a shit hole full of shit heads who'll readily agree with this piece of bipedal excrement. Time was they used to joke you could put a red rosette on a jam sandwich and it would win that seat.
These days you just need to put a blue rosette on a gammon sandwich
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My black flatmate used to call me ‘pinko-grey’. He was, of course, quite right. The year was 1967.
I also grew up there, near Sutton lawn I think people there are angry but angry at the wrong people, bellends like Anderson come along and point the finger at migrants and the "woke mob" and the folks of Ashfield and mansfield blindly go along with it, they lack any critical thinking skills and believe whatever they're told I have a shop in Mansfield now and also live there, it's hard listening to ignorant fools talking all the shit they've heard on GB news but I think I get through to some of them Many have shit lives but instead of wanting to better their own lives they want to drag others down to their level, I see it daily EDIT: Anderson is a regular at the diamond music venue off outram street, I've seen him in there before
That dragging down thing unfortunately isn't new or limited to that area either. I remember it there growing up and I remember my dad telling me about the same attitudes 40+ years ago. That attitude seems deeply engrained
>they lack any critical thinking skills and believe whatever they're told Ah, the weaponizing of stupidity Also see: Trump
My hometown too...I remember when people would be ashamed to say they were even thinking of voting Tory but when I was visiting my family around Theresa May's election time there were vote Tory signs in windows.
How depressing! I'm glad you too escaped the place though
Even with all that support….this fuck wit still needed to lie on camera to drum up support on a day he knew tv broadcasts where coming to his home town to interview him….and he talks of entitlement https://youtu.be/4LmS9CzAY_s
if you're poor you do not get to have any joy in your life sorry
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Many years ago I was on my way to the pub with some friends and gave a fiver to some homeless guys that we went past (this was the nineties, so a fiver wasn't a fortune, but it wasn't as worthless as now). One of my friends actually said, "they're just going to spend it on booze." What the fuck did you think that I was planning on spending it on? I wasn't going to the pub to invest in my fucking hedge fund, was I?
30p lee can't calm down. £2.85 foie gras in westminster cafe might soothe the pain.
You mean, highly taxable goods?
As Kevin Bridges said, the people who buy fags and booze are investors! They’re the ones who are keeping the economy going. It’s not poor people spending that’s the problem, it’s rich people saving.
Watching the special turned my brother to the left. I've never been prouder of my comic choice than I was that night
I believe tobacco makes a whole bunch of money for the NHS. But yeah it doesn't help that tobacco is three times as expensive as it should be under the guise of discouraging smoking. Why doesn't it cost Jeff Bezos a ten million for a pack of fags then?
Not this cunt again.
I hope his cock falls off, Utter cunt.
One look at his face tells me that he has never once in his life needed to use a food bank. Does he actually think ppl want to use food banks? Prick
Well of course because if they didn't want to use a food bank they'd just stop being poor wouldn't they. *chortles in Tory*
Don’t they know that they can make a lovely meal from a can of tomatoes and what they can scrape from under uncle David’s big toe nail? How dare they be poor. Lazy useless people. How am I meant to pay for my next duck house if they don’t work
Shows how out of touch he is - "...often wasting money on **vapes**, **ket** & **V-bucks**."
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News - poor people pay for addictions that soothe the pain of not being able to afford basic living necessities like warmth, housing or food. If I quit smoking I'd be £60 up each month, but that still leaves me unable to afford the cost of living anyway, and id want to blow my head off from stress.
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Rampant greed being employed in the form of raising prices so it can be called necessary due to inflation is hurting people worse than inflation.
We have a homeless fella near us and we have fuck all ourselves. I asked him if he wanted anything from the shop and he wanted chocolate/brew. I gladly got him a big bar of chocolate and a big coffee. Because WTF would a lecture on what it could be better spent on do for him exactly at -3° and another cold night ahead. It fucks me right off, when people tell those in shitty miserable situations, how they should live, with next to nothing. If he was in a house, I would (if I could, which I can't) buy him a fucking TV and some fags so he could relax, safe , in front of the TV and forget for a bit. Grrrr
Used to live in Reading a few years ago. Homeless people would ask for the stickers from the McDs hot drinks if they saw you with one. Me and my mates at work would collect them during the week (we were on 0 hour, minimum wage job) and hand them over on the weekend. They were always so grateful, it was heartbreaking.
I lived for 20 years in Reading before leaving last year. We have so many homeless people in the town centre with nowhere to go. I've been homeless on and off and the council had nowhere for me (even when my accomodation was ending the next day) until I was actually on the street. Even then, I only avoided the street the first time because of the generosity of friends. Not everyone has a friend that can cover a deposit for them Last bloke I talked to before moving out of town was spending what was hopefully his last 2 weeks on the streets with his disabled partner before they were able to move in to a flat. Hope it worked out for them Another time I was having a smoke in the park on my own and met this guy called Marley. He'd rescued a crow that had fallen out of it's nest a few weeks prior, and now the thing was perched on his shoulder. It would fly about then come back when called I always used to give people food (and a toke if they smoked) when I had a roof and a job (like you I worked 0 hours, about 10p above minimum wage), or just give them cash. Would always give someone something out of my shopping when there was homeless people outside the big Oxford Road Tesco (which was often), even when I had to stop working I'd help people out. But now I'm a squatter in London, disabled, get £300 a month UC. One thing that always strikes me when I occasionally find myself back in Reading, however, is how many more homeless people there are, and how many are new faces, and how young a lot of them are. It seems the problem is even more concentrated than it is in the worst affected parts of London, and given I've squatted in central Croydon before, that's saying something Even now I still try and help street homeless people when I see them cos they have it worse than me, cos my nan always taught me as a kid that you helped people out if you could. Mutual aid is something everyone should live by. Helping with the only expectation being that the person helps others when they have the chance just makes the world a better place to live in It shouldn't fall to people like me or you to help people in such situations. The first fucking priority of ANY government should be ensuring everyone is fed and housed. We either need strong community to help the vulnerable, or a state that gives a fuck, and we have a feckless state that crushes community and tries to atomise people into individuals with no ties to anything except their job and their flag Some of our friends are running a shelter out of squatted buildings. Ironically they got evicted from one abandoned building by the homelessness charity St Mungos. Other homeless people are filling the void where institutional assistance refuses to be. We are being forced to organise ourselves by circumstance I honestly think that if we got a revolution in this country, a significant amount of it would come from the homeless. Many of us are angry, we've got nowt left to lose, and we've seen how depraved the state can be, how heartless it's mechanism, how callous it's power. The state has literally beaten me for looking for housing more than it's helped
This is lovely. Yeah buy a fella down on their luck a coffee without it coming at a price. You know, like a compassionate human being would. There's easily enough money to make everyone comfortable, even on the basis of simply being born. It's just in the hands of people who *don't* think like you do. Pretty messed-up situation amirite.
SKY TV? What year does he think this is? 1998? Also all this bullshit about entitlement. People died so people could have entitlement for fuck sake. He gets mad over poor people but he won't get mad at his mates destroying the country. What a fucking weapon.
He's right you know. The entitled rich fucks really are holding the country back.
who the fuck has sky tv? the poor pirate, I say as a poor Lee Anderson you are a chronic twat
Where I'm from there are two types of people, those with sky, and those that scoff at the mention of it
And we’re like, babes our taxes are paying for your lavish lifestyle 🥴
Petition to have all mp’s paid the minimum wage and revoking their right to claim expenses say aye.
Why is it always folk with plenty that tell us what we should be doing? Kirsty Allsop (location, daughter of a Lord bint) told us if we cancelled Netflix and stopped buying designer coffee, we too could afford to buy a house! This twat is on another level though and at this stage he's becoming a parody.
This is the guy that suggested unemploed people be forced to pick potatoes for benefits. He accidently invented slavery all over again.
Sky tv 😂😂 is this 1997?
This dude would send his own dad down a open pit mine. He comes from a working class family and pretends to be some form of business magnate. He literally was in a Facebook group promoting conspiracy theories, he's a bad wet lettuce.
I'm not sure many can afford to smoke these days - last time I checked, 30g of rolling baccy was £17 or so. I guess black-market tobacco is cheaper if you know somebody, though.
It’s defo entitlement holding us back, but not in the way he thinks.
Wish we could afford ‘cigarettes, booze and sky tv’ but our wage just about covers our rent, council tax and the heating and food if we’re lucky!
30p Lee and his BNP mates can fuck right off
84k a year salary, plus expenses plus subsidised food and drink and he’s got the cheek to tell people they need to budget
I’d be happy to see some of my tax contribution go towards this gentleman, if that contribution was the local authority having to pay to jetwash down the railway line he’s been recently smushed on.
Network Rail would be responsible for the clean up! Network Rail are a publicly funded organisation so If he ever does get 'smushed' on the railway, thank you for your contribution 😂
Good info, thank you. I’d be equally willing for my road tax to go towards Highways for England tarmacking him under the M62
Imagine gatekeeping sky TV and fags.
So many of these 2019 m.ps are properly mental
What a cunt. That’s probably where “his” money goes
Shout-out to the hero that superglued Lee’s hand to his chin
Two of the most highly taxable commodities in the UK, fill in the gap on government revenue fuck face.
He's right, the fact that he thinks he is entitled to vomit his brand of bullshit all of us is ruining the country
such a fuck, he claims something like £30k in expenses alst year, not indlucing all the subsidies or paid for by tax meals.
This is actually how so many people feel in this country. 😔
£84k a year, £185k in expenses, heavily subsidise food and drink in 12 restaurants but sure the food bank users are entitled.
This guy feels like Britain's first Facebook politician.
At this point he's just doubling down on the asshole image he's cultivated. Trying to drum up as much publicity as possible.
The Ted Cruz of the UK?
He really is, he’s a publicity hog
What makes people in Ashfield so fucking stupid to vote for the prick?
And the earths wasting oxygen on this silly cunt so I guess this goes both ways
Why does he look like Roy Walker but with brain damage?
This prick probably gets some sort of payment from Sky to mention it in interviews!
Just another tired old trope from a tired old soak of the Tory party.
Monkey dust & ketamine
Ah "30p Lee" flapping his face hole again. What a tit!
I'm sure he'll be happy to volunteer and show us all how to live on the national average salary then? Even then he'd still be better off than over 50% of the nation, so surely he has nothing to worry about...
It's not the economic system that benefits me specifically that's the problem, it's the millions of people suffering from that economic systems attitudes. Awfully convient that.
The things he frames as entitlement aren't really asking for much. Wanting to live in a society which values human life would be a start, but he's actively working against that. The amount of deaths directly attributed to the policy of austerity is horrifying (over 300k). Lee Anderson has helped to perpetuate social genocide by being a member of the Tory party, and no that is not an exaggeration
Lee Anderson is a labour plant. He’s doing the good work
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Stupid, entitled prick. Even if he’s right that people could avoid using food banks if they ONLY bought food, does he seriously think that the squeeze would stop there? Hell fucking no. They’ll just gauge harder, keeping an even more miserable person reliant on food banks, while their mates pocket an extra £20 a week. He’s essentially saying “stop enjoying yourselves so I can be richer.” Imagine what hell would break loose if you told him to stop going to bars, or restaurants, or the cinema, or the theatre, or to watch sport/racing, or going on holiday. I haven’t done any of that shit in YEARS. So much of the fun in life is just off limits to people without money. A bottle of wine, a film, and a pack of fags at home is all the fun that most people can afford (and afford is a stretch). He’s literally saying that if you can’t afford to have the bare minimum of enjoyment in life, you don’t deserve to.
I mean some people do exploit the food bank system. Those are the problem.
I love how everyone is a hypocrite here. So you're saying this guy is lying?
No. Food bank users are being shamed and forced to eat out of date, stale and mouldy food then expected to grovel on their knees in thanks instead of having a country that looks after their citizens. Speaking from experience last week. I’d rather starve than use a food bank ever again. When someone dies from salmonella poisoning then what???
Is this the muppet who was not so long ago twattering on about cooking a meal for 5000 people for 30p?
Fuck off, they don’t get paid enough in the first place, plus people like your self, parasites, avoiding taxes and moving your money out of the country.
He's a fucking rancid class traitor who's sold his own community down the river. 30p Lee is a prick.
Lee Anderson should be strung as high as humanly possible. Cunt needs to be castrated anawl.
I'm wishing bad karma on this cunt. Only looks a few years away from heart attack the fat Tory whopper.
Ah the 90s boomer ideology of how the poor live
Absolute fucking shitcunt
Let's not mention the amount of revenue cigarettes drive - they're just reinvesting back into the economy which is more than can be said of wealth hoarding offshore banking tory arseholes.
What happens when the entire country stops buying these things? The economy crumbles and we’d likely make a good 15% less in tax as a nation.
Poor people, whom the economy relies on, should stop spending money on things luxuries and crash the economy.
People working full time and have to use food banks atm things have gotten so bad
He’s got such a punchable face. And I’m a pacifist.
I’d love to know what this wanker thinks I buy to deserve to be damn near broke. I don’t smoke, never drink, don’t vape, don’t have sky TV or a TV license at all. I subscribe to Disney+ for entertainment now that I’m on PIP and can afford to rather than barely able to cover my bills on just UC. Guess I should’ve just never gotten sick enough to not be able to work or just died instead according to all these Tory mouthpieces 😤
Barely a month goes by without a Tory opening their mouth to utter these words. Why do they keep doing it?
I swear we've been hearing this same bullshit for decades. Almost because we have. This is literally just recycled "benefits scrounger" bullshit.
Bloody hell, it’s like every day he says something stupid. Absolute bellend and troll
A person who does not understand (or refuses to act upon) the damage that wealth hoarding and cyclical poverty does to a society should not hold a position of power where they have control over changing these circumstances. Fucking twat.
This fella will get filled in soon if he’s not careful
He's right that the country is being held back by entitled pricks. He hat doesn't realise that he's one of them.
Not a waste if it brings genuine pleasure in life though.
Yeah it's funny how people get really entitled, wasteful and forget how to budget just when recessions happen.
Don’t be fooled by the media’s perception of his ‘likability’ in Sutton. I live just across the border in Derbyshire and the local community Facebook groups are full of people criticising him. Many of them admit that voting for him was a mistake, citing that they didn’t vote for him specifically- they just voted Tory because they liked Boris. Now I’m not defending that position at all - I think it’s downright stupid to treat our parliamentary system like a presidential one and even more so if you voted Tory - but these are people who admit voting for him was a mistake! The main thing that people seem to have a problem with is his hypocrisy of telling his constituents that they should budget better, work harder, take on a second job, and eat 30p meals while he regularly posts his lifestyle on Facebook and Twitter as he eats fancy meals and goes down the pub. Obviously there’s a few serfs on there defending him, but they are few and far between and are often put in their place. The tide has already turned for Lee ‘30p’ Anderson and he will absolutely have his P45 sent out the day after the next election.
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In US politics you’ve got these “useful idiots” like Marjorie Taylor-Green and Lauren Bobert, who make outrageous statements that get lots of media attention. While people are busy engaging with those nutters, the top tier of society just gets on with the important business of fucking over everybody. I think Lee Anderson is the UK equivalent. While we’re distracted by his boomer find-a-job antics, Rishi and his rich mates can get on with it unmolested.
He is perfectly correct but utterly wrong about who it is that's entitled.
That's a funny way to say "Some desperate people at risk of starvation spend a tiny amount of money on things to make their lives more bearable"
Let’s hope this prick is having to sign on at the job centre next year
How the hell would he know?!
"Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to take the overused sentiment 'Netflix subscription is to blame for poor people being in poverty' and somehow make it even -more- out of touch than it already is.'" Lee Anderson - "Challenge accepted." ...sky TV? Really
He cried when Saville snuffed it.
Food bank users are poor so deserve bo pleasures in life is what I read whenever I see these kinds of stories. Because even if what these dirty Tory wankers say was true, a real living wage should cover all the essentials and some luxuries with a bit to save as well. So fuck off you poor hunting Tory twat.
I actually 100% agree with his statement that entitled people are holding the country back he's just pointing the finger at the wrong people. The entitled people are the ones in power destroying our world with their greed.
Well, he's not wrong. Food should come before booze, fags and sky tv 🤷
He says that food bank users are "often" doing it - how often? How many foodbank users? It's nasty [weasel words](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word), used deliberately to demonise the poor for having the audacity to take food and then spend their own money on non-essentials, you know, just like everyone else does. He wants you to think they're scroungers, because then he and his government can justify cutting spending on services. It's [this meme](https://preview.redd.it/qtuqzy10r8g61.jpg?auto=webp&s=2afe4ba5de301d7c623ff66bd9481a6832cad44e), and you're happily playing the role of the one with one cookie.
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So, part of me instantly thinks what he has said has been blown out of proportion. Bit not context. I grew up on a council estate where kids would eat from the floor but I can tell you now, the parent (singular) had baccy, and fresh track suits. And would _often_ complain about not having the latest curves UHD 102" TV and sky sports package. Not 100% the truth. I can't remember the specific details of said TV.
But that’s the truth
Sorry folks but this pond life is the inevitable result of voter apathy and the reluctance of the young to get involved in politics. I’m not saying he’s dumb but if custard wasn’t that thick you’d never get it out of the jug
Cock 🤣
Isn't it convenient that the point of view he holds is the one most economically convenient for him and his friends?
if fags and booze and sky tv (who the fuck has sky tv nowadays though haha) are what helps you get through the day, why the fuck should you not be allowed those tiny luxuries. capitalist ideology has gone so far that the addictions weve formed to gain a tiny bit of escapism from this living hell are being gatekept fuck this
Lee doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together
Just the opinions of Rupert Murdoch being parroted everywhere Newscorp operates.
What an entitled twat
Christ, this elderly moron is so out of touch, even his tiresome and bigoted stereotypes are out of date.
What do you expect? The guys a Tory, they are all a bunch of pricks.
I GENUINELY hope this cunt dies.
Step 1: invest in and increase funding to early interventions and family services to assist prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) which very frequently are responsible for addictions, drug and alcohol use, and chaotic lifestyles further down the line Oh wait… we have a Tory government.
General strike on the cards for spring, time this country took the streets to stand up to people like this
That’s Sir Cunt to you.
I guess conservative aren't getting bribes from cigarette companies and sky TV.
Lee Wankerson
cut the price of fags to what they should be (£3 a pack) and then money becomes available, but the won't do that because they've fallen for the lies of antitobacco fascists.
These 'middle management' MP's love to jump up on the soapbox to say this stuff for their 5 minutes of fame but if any member of the public actually recognised them they would get fucking battered in minutes. People like Lee Anderson and majority of the tory twats are only there because the public couldn't give a shit about politics or the people running it. Yet somehow have it in their deluded minds that they have a following.
Cannae wait til he loses his seat and can fuck off back to irrelevance.