Our politicians don't understand what it's like to be poor

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Our politicians don't understand what it's like to be poor
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A British MP this week made the woefully insensitive claim that families using food banks amid soaring inflation should simply learn to budget better. That seems to be par for the course from Boris Johnson's government at this point, writes Piers Morgan.

And as always when this happens, the heaviest burden falls on those with the smallest resources - the poorest.

Oh, of course, how stupid of us! There was me thinking people go to food banks it's because they have no other option.They should simply be shown how to knock out a nutritious meal, he says, for 30 pence! Anderson and Eustice’s tone-deaf, woefully insensitive attitude reminds me of haughty French queen Marie Antoinette who infamously said ‘let them eat cake’ when she was told peasants couldn't afford bread.Police today revealed they’ve issued a staggering 100 fines now for illegal lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall... meaning the very place with the most fines in Britain was also the very place where the rules were actually made.

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