Ann Widdecombe: don’t have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them
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Ex-Brexit party MEP says there is no ‘given right’ to low food prices despite families struggling with cost of living

Ann Widdecombe, who joined the Reform UK party this year, made the comments when she was asked what she would say to consumers who could not afford to pay for basics such as the ingredients of a cheese sandwich. The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said: “How out of touch can you get? Ann Widdecombe joins a long line of rightwing politicians who pin the blame on hard-working families for this government’s failures."

  • alyaza [they/she]M
    4•1 year ago

    coupled with this moment last month from a Bank of England economist it’s been a great stretch for open contempt of the working class in the UK, it seems

    “Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they’re worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers etc,” he told the Beyond Unprecedented podcast from Columbia Law School.