The ex-miner, Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, was a Labour
Party member and councillor until March 2018, when he defected to the Tories.
Anderson, a controversial figure, was suspended by Labour in 2018 when he
dumped boulders to block access to a traveller camp site. The Ashfield Labour
councillor, was given a community protection notice over the action and
instructed to remove the boulders.
Anderson was a vocal supporter of Brexit and supported the
Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 E.U. referendum. He was criticized by the
Labour Party when he said that council tenants who caused a nuisance, should be
compelled to do forced labour as seasonal agricultural workers in labour camps.
As a Conservative Party candidate, Anderson was also investigated over claims
of anti-Semitism and his links to a Facebook group that supported Tommy
Robinson.
Since venting his spleen against travellers, anti-social
council tenants, and the Black Lives Matters movement, he's now turned his
attention towards food banks, home economics, and the poor. The former miner
believes there's no need for food banks and that they're only necessary because
poor people can't cook properly or budget. He says that a substantial meal can
be knocked up for 30p.
Many people have condemned his comments as ludicrous and have pointed
out that in 202O-21, he claimed over £222,000 in expenses in a year, on top of
his MPs salary of £84,144, and £4,100 for travel and subsistence.
The food charity Sustain, say that food banks are
overstretched to breaking point and that in April, "Seven million adults
in this country have gone without food."
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