Shock for Tories as they learn austerity affects THEIR voters too
Steve Baker: the pro-austerity, pro-Brexit High Wycombe MP is claiming surprise that his constituents are starving, and trying to blame it on Covid-19 rather than the policies he wholeheartedly supported.
Tories like Steve Baker, whose High Wycombe constituency has been found to be suffering high levels of poverty-induced hunger, are trying to blame it on Covid-19.
This is not true.
And the falsehood should be pointed out to them.
Yes, the claim that “Mother” puts, below, is correct:
High Wycombe has been identified as being one of the worst constituencies in the country for levels of hunger among its people.
Hunger.
It's a @Conservatives
seat with pro-austerity, pro-Brexit @SteveBakerHW
as its MP.14% of the people reported experiencing hunger.
Hunger.
— Mother (@YourMotherSaysU) August 2, 2021
But High Wycome – and Buckinghamshire in general – were identified as suffering from these problems eight years ago. That’s long before anyone ever heard of Covid-19:
https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1422179996106379273
So it seems that Tom Bradley has the right idea:
High Wycombe Tory MP and brexit fan Steve Baker is astonished to find that the austerity and anti-poor measures he has enthusiastically voted for since 2010 have put more people into poverty, and not just in the north and midlands.
— Tom Bradley (@TomBrad18427379) August 2, 2021
It seems some Tories are using the revelation (in fact nothing of the kind, as the information has been available since 2013) to call for the loss of the £20 Universal Credit “uplift” to be rethought.
Doubtless they will want more for their constituencies as well.
But can you see what this means, for austerity-loving economic incompetents like Rishi Sunak?
He’ll say the money will have to come from somewhere else, and will cut vital funding to constituencies that haven’t voted Tory. See if he doesn’t!
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Steve Baker should be more that aware of the problems in High Wycombe he is connected with a food bank there.