Lee Anderson challenges Steve Bray to a boxing match
The Tory MP has told the anti-Brexit campaigner to put his money where his megaphone is and join him in the ring to settle their differences
By
Christopher Hope,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR (POLITICS) and
Louisa Wells
19 January 2023 • 8:00pm
Lee Anderson
The Tory MP for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, has laid down the gauntlet to his Brexit nemesis CREDIT: Jeff Gilbert
A Red Wall Conservative MP has challenged a prominent anti-Brexit campaigner who spends his time heckling Tories in Westminster to a boxing match to settle their differences.
Lee Anderson challenges Steve ‘Stop Brexit’ Bray
The verbal exchanges between Tory MP Lee Anderson and top-hatted protester Steve Bray regularly go viral when they are posted on social media.
Their most recent altercation last week – when Mr Anderson confiscated Mr Bray’s top hat and the pair exchanged insults – has been viewed over one million times on Twitter.
Now Mr Anderson is offering to fight Mr Bray in the ring. If the MP wins, Mr Bray will have to put away his megaphone; but if he loses, Mr Anderson said he will join Mr Bray’s protest.
“He had a go at my weight. This is a man who was quite clearly out of condition. I’m trying to do something about it, but here is a challenge,” Mr Anderson told this week’s Chopper’s Politics podcast.
“He is a nuisance. And I’ve got a challenge for him: Meet me in the boxing ring. Let’s do three rounds. And if I win, he never protests out there again. And if he wins, I’ll go and protest with him.”
30p Lee getting physical and trying to steal my hat. pic.twitter.com/lpSNfxJNmm
— Steve Bray on Mastodon @SNB19692@Mastodon.Social (@snb19692) January 11, 2023
Mr Anderson said that any funds raised from the bout would go towards a suicide charity for young men. “It is a boxing match, Queensbury rules. Gloves on, for charity. Let’s do some fundraising,” he said.
Mr Bray first became known around Westminster for shouting “Stop Brexit” through an outsized megaphone at the Palace of Westminster after the 2016 referendum. He has latterly taken to using a sound system to play protest songs and insult Tories.
On Thursday, Mr Bray told the Telegraph he would consider Mr Anderson’s offer. “I will think about it. I might have to get into a bit of shape first,” he said.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Mr Anderson said he took strength from the flak he attracted on social media like the cartoon character Popeye when he used to eat spinach.
He said: “This week I’ve been called lard a— pot belly MP. I’ve been called a fat b—— all over Twitter. Most of them are hidden profiles, keyboard cowards.
“I used to watch Popeye as a kid. Every time he had his tin of spinach, he got stronger and that’s what it is like for me every time I got one of these horrible comments. My haters are my motivators.”
Diet.
After a Twitter month of being labelled as fat, porky, pot bellied, obese, lard ass and other names not allowed on a family page like this I have decided to diet. No more carbs, chocolate, beer and weetabix. Target weight 15st 8. Anyone joining me?
Weigh in next Monday. pic.twitter.com/3pReOgHeTq
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) January 16, 2023
Mr Anderson said that he was going on a diet after tipping the scales at 17 stone two pounds.
He said: “I want to go down to about 15 stone eight, 15 stone ten. That’s still officially overweight, but that’s what I feel comfortable on.
“I’ve got a few shirts and suits in the wardrobe that they need to be fitting me again. I want to ‘take back control’ of my eating and drinking and my own personal health.”
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Bray is either going to get his arse kicked or look like a massive public coward for turning him down. Marvelous stuff.
Anderson pinched the guys hat in the video mentioned in the article.
The fact that the telegraph describes this as “Mr Anderson confiscated Mr Brays top hat” is perplexing
Confiscated = “(of property) taken or seized with authority.”
I’m not quite sure why people think violence is an answer to political arguments. Other than the spectacle I can’t imagine what this will accomplish.
“If I can punch you in the face harder than you can punch me in the face then it means that you’re wrong when you describe all of the harm that Brexit is doing to people.”
I think that the least shit argument that the Brexiteers have got left.
I am sure plenty of people are willing to stand in for Steve Bray and give this MP tosser the absolute pasting he deserves for being a so and so.
Should a GE just be a battle Royale instead ? Is Ed Miliband tuss enough yet ?
Francis Ngannou just got out of his UFC contract and wants to do boxing. Book it Rishi.
I thought the thumbnail was Roy Walker from Catchphrase. It was a good guess but it wasn’t right.
Brexiteers have finally achieved the same level of maturity as Uwe Boll. Congratulations.
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Lee Anderson challenges Steve Bray to a boxing match
The Tory MP has told the anti-Brexit campaigner to put his money where his megaphone is and join him in the ring to settle their differences
By
Christopher Hope,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR (POLITICS) and
Louisa Wells
19 January 2023 • 8:00pm
Lee Anderson
The Tory MP for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, has laid down the gauntlet to his Brexit nemesis CREDIT: Jeff Gilbert
A Red Wall Conservative MP has challenged a prominent anti-Brexit campaigner who spends his time heckling Tories in Westminster to a boxing match to settle their differences.
Lee Anderson challenges Steve ‘Stop Brexit’ Bray
The verbal exchanges between Tory MP Lee Anderson and top-hatted protester Steve Bray regularly go viral when they are posted on social media.
Their most recent altercation last week – when Mr Anderson confiscated Mr Bray’s top hat and the pair exchanged insults – has been viewed over one million times on Twitter.
Now Mr Anderson is offering to fight Mr Bray in the ring. If the MP wins, Mr Bray will have to put away his megaphone; but if he loses, Mr Anderson said he will join Mr Bray’s protest.
“He had a go at my weight. This is a man who was quite clearly out of condition. I’m trying to do something about it, but here is a challenge,” Mr Anderson told this week’s Chopper’s Politics podcast.
“He is a nuisance. And I’ve got a challenge for him: Meet me in the boxing ring. Let’s do three rounds. And if I win, he never protests out there again. And if he wins, I’ll go and protest with him.”
30p Lee getting physical and trying to steal my hat. pic.twitter.com/lpSNfxJNmm
— Steve Bray on Mastodon @SNB19692@Mastodon.Social (@snb19692) January 11, 2023
Mr Anderson said that any funds raised from the bout would go towards a suicide charity for young men. “It is a boxing match, Queensbury rules. Gloves on, for charity. Let’s do some fundraising,” he said.
Mr Bray first became known around Westminster for shouting “Stop Brexit” through an outsized megaphone at the Palace of Westminster after the 2016 referendum. He has latterly taken to using a sound system to play protest songs and insult Tories.
On Thursday, Mr Bray told the Telegraph he would consider Mr Anderson’s offer. “I will think about it. I might have to get into a bit of shape first,” he said.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Mr Anderson said he took strength from the flak he attracted on social media like the cartoon character Popeye when he used to eat spinach.
He said: “This week I’ve been called lard a— pot belly MP. I’ve been called a fat b—— all over Twitter. Most of them are hidden profiles, keyboard cowards.
“I used to watch Popeye as a kid. Every time he had his tin of spinach, he got stronger and that’s what it is like for me every time I got one of these horrible comments. My haters are my motivators.”
Diet.
After a Twitter month of being labelled as fat, porky, pot bellied, obese, lard ass and other names not allowed on a family page like this I have decided to diet. No more carbs, chocolate, beer and weetabix. Target weight 15st 8. Anyone joining me?
Weigh in next Monday. pic.twitter.com/3pReOgHeTq
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) January 16, 2023
Mr Anderson said that he was going on a diet after tipping the scales at 17 stone two pounds.
He said: “I want to go down to about 15 stone eight, 15 stone ten. That’s still officially overweight, but that’s what I feel comfortable on.
“I’ve got a few shirts and suits in the wardrobe that they need to be fitting me again. I want to ‘take back control’ of my eating and drinking and my own personal health.”
[deleted]
Bray is either going to get his arse kicked or look like a massive public coward for turning him down. Marvelous stuff.
Anderson pinched the guys hat in the video mentioned in the article.
The fact that the telegraph describes this as “Mr Anderson confiscated Mr Brays top hat” is perplexing
Confiscated = “(of property) taken or seized with authority.”
I’m not quite sure why people think violence is an answer to political arguments. Other than the spectacle I can’t imagine what this will accomplish.
“If I can punch you in the face harder than you can punch me in the face then it means that you’re wrong when you describe all of the harm that Brexit is doing to people.”
I think that the least shit argument that the Brexiteers have got left.
I am sure plenty of people are willing to stand in for Steve Bray and give this MP tosser the absolute pasting he deserves for being a so and so.
Should a GE just be a battle Royale instead ? Is Ed Miliband tuss enough yet ?
Francis Ngannou just got out of his UFC contract and wants to do boxing. Book it Rishi.
I thought the thumbnail was Roy Walker from Catchphrase. It was a good guess but it wasn’t right.
Brexiteers have finally achieved the same level of maturity as Uwe Boll. Congratulations.