Tory chair in Red Wall area says most people don’t really need food banks and rising costs are ‘overplayed’

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  1. There we go, it’s that talking point again, not a problem almost everyone just needs to budget

    “There are families that need help, but what they really need help in is learning how to cook and learning how to budget.”

    I wonder how he can square a power bill of ~6k against no change in an already low income

  2. 100% agree with him tbh.

    I don’t see why, if you cannot afford to shop at selfridges for a week, you don’t just hop into your tesla and slum it in a m&s. If your concerned about rising energy costs then turn your pool heater off in the summer. Instead of having two weeks in aspen and two weeks in St moritz skiing this year, have three weeks in megève instead. Yes it’s awful thinking about having to make such heartbreaking cuts to our lives but we have to live in the real world sometimes.

  3. (Mr Hutton, who is 71 and a director of a management consultancy company)

    This explains his out of touch ignorance and stupidity though being a Tory helps.

  4. Take away the 50k+ that they earn more than the average person and all of their reimbursements and things funded by the tax payer and see how they do the fucking bastard.

  5. Like Martin Lewis said, if you dropped him into the situation a lot of people in this country are in, he could deploy every trick in the book and still not touch the sides.

    There are no more money saving tips and tricks that people can use. People can make a meal of cheap pasta and vegetables. The problem is it now costs three times more to cook it.

  6. Remember a few weeks before Lockdown and our beloved government said back then – that it wouldn’t be that big a issue – hell – a certain Prime Minister was shaking the hands of those infected.

    Rinse and sodding repeat.

  7. How out of touch do you have to be.

    He’s basically waving a big flag saying “i will never understand your problems”

  8. Just more proof how out of touch our leaders are.

    Where will it end? We’re letting the UK go to shit because of these lot, seems like it wasn’t long ago people were harping on about being patriotic and what they’d do for this country. Idk where those people are now? Probably keeping quiet because they realise what voting for Tories and Brexit actually mean now.

  9. What the actual hell sewage infested water are these people drinking from? There’s only so many “cut backs” you can have before you’re on the brink of fuel, financial, and nutritional poverty. Jesus.

  10. I wonder if these bufton tufton Tories are being wheeled out to make these quite frankly bonkers pronouncements as part of a strategy? Give this as the benchmark of ‘crazy’ long enough and the wild wittering’s of the likes of Truss start to look less insane by comparison, ^(something-something) Overton window.

  11. if those who voted for him to GET BREXIT DONE vote for him again, they deserve their hunger pains and those forced on their family

  12. Get him to go over these people’s finances and let him show them where they are going wrong then. If people like this are so confident that people are just bad with money then why are they not going on TV and showing us all how it should be done? They could do it live too.

  13. Over-played?

    This morning on radio 4 they were all a’hsnd-wringy saying that it looks like food price inflation is going to rise to 9.2% a year.

    Being a tight-fisted para-aspie twat I know this is bollocks.

    My food price inflation is over 30% just since november

  14. “in 1950 when I was born”…

    Yet another Tory outs himself as wanting a return to the 50s. Of course he doesn’t remember the Brain Drain and rationing and how Britain was the sick man of Europe after the war.

    Isn’t there some way we can designate part of the nation as a 1950s time warp, send all of them to live there? Where would it be? I’d be willing to give up Buckinghamshire.

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