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‘Poor Katy’ trends as Lee Anderson uses staffer to make food bank point

"Calling all London employers: Please offer poor Katy a better paid and more rewarding role", one person tweeted.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2023-01-19 12:03
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Lee Anderson used one of his employees to make a bizarre point about food banks today.

The Tory MP, widely known as ’30p Lee’ following previous food bank comments, said his staffer, called Katy, is single and earns less than £30,000 a year, has student debt and spends money commuting – but still “does not need to use a foodbank”.

Last year the Ashfield MP provoked outrage after he invited “everybody” on the opposition benches in the House of Commons to visit a food bank in his constituency, where, when people come for a food parcel, they now need to register for a “budgeting course” and a “cooking course”.

He claimed food bank users in his constituency are shown how to cook meals for “about 30 pence a day.

When asked by a Labour MP if it should be necessary to have food banks in 21st century Britain, Anderson said there is not “this massive use for food banks” in the UK, but “generation after generation who cannot cook properly” and “cannot budget”.

Hi Katy do you mind posing for a photograph, I want to tweet out your salary and living arrangements in order to shit on people in completely different circumstances that have been forced to use food banks because of our callous and shitty government, cheers

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 19, 2023

Calling all London employers. Please offer poor Katy a better paid and more rewarding role to save her from working for 30p Lee! #SaveKaty https://t.co/8SmMP6JDI9

— Nigel Gamble (@Nigel_Gamble) January 19, 2023

Is your point that you should be paying people better & that renting a single room for £775 is a disgrace?

— Jake Tucker (@_JakeTucker) January 19, 2023

Maybe you should pay her more, Lee.

— Keith (@tweeting_keith) January 19, 2023

Related: Steve Bray reports Lee Anderson to police following scuffle outside Portcullis House

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