The Ashton MP said people in the 1970s 'didn't complain about poverty on Facebook or TikTok'
has claimed it is ‘nonsense’ to suggest there is poverty in the UK and told struggling families to ‘get off their arse’ and fend for themselves.
Speaking later in the event, he said he was able to say things that other Tory MPs have not, referencing his own hardships growing up and his previous jobs, including as a coal miner.‘When we’d not got enough food at the end of week we had to go down and pull some potatoes out and cabbages and go and get a chicken and that was our Sunday dinner. It’s as simple as that.
Elsewhere in the event, the MP courted more controversy by saying: ‘I always think a dictator is a good idea, if they’re a good dictator, but there’s no good dictators is there, really. I think Jesus might have been one, but it’s not.‘In a perfect world you would have a brilliant man who would make all the rules and be fair to everybody … but we don’t.
He also defended his second job at GB News, saying as a result he pays around £85,000 in tax which contributes to public services.
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