Lee Anderson launches GB News present by spoon-feeding fellow MP baked beans
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onservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson launched his GB News present by spoon-feeding a fellow MP baked beans, naming a “wokey of the week”, and that includes as a “token lefty” an ex-Labour MP suspended after experiences he despatched lewd texts to a teenage lady.
The controversial MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire is being paid £100,000 a 12 months for presenting the present.
The first episode of Lee Anderson’s Real World, which aired on Friday night time, started with Mr Anderson declaring: “I’m so proud to be a British person, even prouder to be an Englishman.
Open your mouth, here comes the train
“Everything that’s good in this world started on this great island of ours.”
He has turn into the most recent in a string of Tory MPs to host a GB News programme, becoming a member of his colleagues Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Philip Davies.
In one section, Mr Anderson interviewed Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Tory MP for Bassetlaw, about claims a trainer at an East Sussex faculty pushed again in opposition to a pupil for refusing to simply accept her classmate recognized as a cat.
Despite Rye College saying none of its pupils “identify as a cat or any other animal”, Mr Anderson quizzed Mr Clarke-Smith concerning the story and instructed him that though “we used to play cowboys and Indians”, “it just seems that we’re going a step too far”.
As they spoke over pints of beer, former trainer Mr Clarke-Smith bemoaned that “teachers used to be able to do this at lunchtime once upon a time”.
Mr Anderson proceeded to conduct a blind style take a look at of baked beans along with his interviewee, after Mr Clarke-Smith lately instructed individuals combating hovering grocery store costs to purchase worth manufacturers.
The Conservative Party deputy chairman ladled baked beans into his colleague’s mouth, saying: “Open your mouth, here comes the train.”
In one other a part of the present, Mr Anderson spoke to former Brexit Party chief Nigel Farage, once more over pints.
Mr Farage mentioned the Tory Government had “sabotaged Brexit”, with out his remarks being challenged by Mr Anderson.
To give the view of a Remain voter within the EU referendum, Mr Anderson then launched “token lefty in the corner” Simon Danczuk.
Mr Danczuk is a former Labour MP who was suspended by the get together in 2015 over allegedly exchanging express messages with a 17-year-old lady.
Another section consisted of Mr Danczuk nominating a “wokey of the week”, having been given the selection of Glastonbury-goers paying to glamp, the Rye College trainer on the centre of the self-identity claims, and LBC presenter James O’Brien. He selected the latter.
A former Labour councillor earlier than becoming a member of the Tories, Mr Anderson has been no stranger to controversy since being elected to Westminster in 2019, having referred to as for the return of the dying penalty and claiming individuals on common credit score weren’t in poverty.
He has been dubbed “30p Lee” for claiming that meals may very well be ready for that sum and suggesting individuals utilizing meals banks couldn’t funds.
The former miner’s £100,000 price for presenting the present makes him the very best incomes amongst serving Tory MPs with programmes on GB News, though Mr Rees-Mogg is but to reveal how a lot he’s being paid by the channel.
Mr Anderson has been accused of hypocrisy after beforehand hitting out at MPs taking second jobs, saying in 2021: “We are paid handsomely for the job we do and if you need extra then you should really be looking for another job.”