The offensive suggestion from MP Lee Anderson that poor people can’t cook is straight from a familiar Tory playbook, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
It would be easy to dismiss such comments as thoughtless anger-bait, but they serve a political purpose. Discrediting food banks or casting work as an easy route out of poverty suggest that hardship isn’t down to low wages, benefit cuts, high energy prices or unaffordable housing, but rather that working-class people are too stupid to budget properly or too lazy to look for a better job.
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