Cloth cap Tory MP says poor don't need foodbanks!

 

Some well-heeled English Tories have form when in it comes to lecturing the working classes on home economics. They say that poor people go hungry not because they lack money, but because they can't cook properly.

However, the Tory MP for Ashfield, former coal-miner, Lee Anderson (see picture above), recently caused outrage when he said that food banks were unnecessary and that you could knock up a substantial meal for 30p. The former Labour councillor, who defected to the Conservatives and was elected the MP for Ashfield in 2019, said that food poverty was not due to a lack of income but due to a lack of cooking skills.

Similarly, in 2014, the Tory peer, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, claimed that a poor person could eat well for pennies and that the big issue is that poor people don't know how to cook. At the time, the Baroness, was compared to Marie Antoinette.

But do the Labour turncoat and Noble Baroness have a point, or are they just being patronising?

In 1971, the writer and journalist, Jocasta Innes, published the bestselling book called the 'Paupers Cookbook'. The book aimed to show how you could make delicious food for pennies. The book was reprinted almost every year for 12 years.

The ‘non-binary’ food writer, Jack Monroe, became famous and successful after she began writing a blog called 'Cooking on a Bootstrap'. The single mother from Southend-on-Sea, shared with her readers her knowledge of 'austerity recipe's'.

But Jack Munro also campaigns against food poverty and works closely with organisations like The Trussell Trust and Oxfam. She's also commenced legal proceedings against the cloth cap Tory, Lee Anderson, who has accused her of making a "fortune from the poor."