Families should go without cheese sandwiches if they cannot afford the ingredients, Ann Widdecombe has said.
The former Brexit party MEP said there was no “given right” for low food prices, despite being told families “cannot afford to feed their children” and were having to make huge sacrifices as the cost of living crisis deepens.
Widdecombe, who joined the Reform UK party this year, was on BBC’s Politics Live programme 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.
“Well then you don’t have the cheese sandwich,” Widdecombe replied. “None of it’s new. We’ve been through this before. The problem is we’ve been decades now without inflation, we’ve come to regard it as some kind of given right.” » | Aletha Adu, Political correspondent | Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Disgusting! Such a cruel woman! And such an ‘I’m alright Jack’ attitude!
This woman is supposed to be a devout Roman Catholic. There is clearly no hint of Christianity in this attitude of hers. Is this woman so out of touch with reality that she cannot empathize with families struggling to put food on the table for their children?
Furthermore, and very importantly, why has the government failed to control inflation anyway? That inflation is running so high shows clearly that this is government mismanagement of the economy, the international economic circumstances notwithstanding. – © Mark Alexander
