Tory MP told families to buy own brand baked beans – saucy responses

Tories love to give advice to the poor on how to budget better, stop spending all their money on fags and booze, as they imagine all poor people do. Own Brand baked beans is the new battleground!

It wasn’t long ago Tory Lee Anderson invited opposition MPs to visit a food bank in his constituency, where he said that meals could be made for about 30p a day, and which also provided a mandatory teaching course to its users.

After he made these comments he has been nicknamed ’30p Lee.’

Food banks

Who can remember back in 2017 when Jacob Rees-Mogg said the rapid increase in food banks showed a “rather uplifting” picture of a compassionate country.

Challenged by a caller to a radio phone-in Rees-Mogg argued they fulfilled a vital function. “I don’t think the state can do everything,” Mogg said at the time. “It tries to provide a base of welfare that should allow people to make ends meet during the course of the week, but on some occasions that will not work.

“And to have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.”

Own brand baked beans

Now Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith MP has handed out some pearls of wisdom to the hungry people of this nation.

Appearing on LBC he said: “‘Buy the Tesco value one.’

Tory MP @Bren4Bassetlaw offers up a solution for soaring food prices.

'Buy the Tesco value one.'

Tory MP @Bren4Bassetlaw offers up a solution for soaring food prices.

 @IainDale | #CrossQuestion pic.twitter.com/9cBm3jOfqv

— LBC (@LBC) May 16, 2023

He wasn’t done there! He also took to Twitter and did a little price comparison, thanks Brendan!

https://t.co/1cgwWGTitl pic.twitter.com/wWxPjM5Yts

— Brendan Clarke-Smith MP (@Bren4Bassetlaw) May 17, 2023

Reactions

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To put this into context, a year ago these items were priced at £1, 35p and 22p, so that's an average price increase of 35%. https://t.co/EbiHT6aCi3

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 18, 2023

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The current Tories: where a tin of Heinz beans is now aspirational. https://t.co/atsDnfy70M

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) May 18, 2023

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Hey Brendan. I'm interested. Do you think that people aren't doing this already? https://t.co/kiZMZTzFUQ

— Otto English (@Otto_English) May 18, 2023

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https://twitter.com/DrDavidJeffery/status/1658807435467915268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1658807435467915268%7Ctwgr%5E42803f0965787c8a0cb16bb55a93e5cab5ffcbb9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepoke.co.uk%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Ftory-mp-tells-people-buy-own-brand-beans%2F2%2F

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Yeah but if you haven’t got 25p then you cannot afford any beans. https://t.co/v6CnITWb9O

— Freddie (@FreddieBailey96) May 18, 2023

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https://twitter.com/michaelglasper/status/1659162164190498816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1659162164190498816%7Ctwgr%5E42803f0965787c8a0cb16bb55a93e5cab5ffcbb9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepoke.co.uk%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Ftory-mp-tells-people-buy-own-brand-beans%2F2%2F

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2015: ‘here come the sunlit uplands!’

2023: ‘buy the cheap beans if we’ve made the good ones unaffordable you fuckwits’ https://t.co/VVTqo6AgG0

— Gary Brannan (@garybrannan) May 18, 2023

Practice what you preach?

Folk should go for the cheaper option to save money, eh Brendan. pic.twitter.com/ngK85SLfmh

— Skew Spew Barmy Hairdo Curmudgeon Bigot and Smug (@SkewSmug) May 18, 2023

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