No poverty in Britain, says '30p Lee' Anderson at Tory party conferenceConservative Home
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00:00 I cannot believe in this day and age that some people are so intent on fitting a high-speed
00:05 railway the length and breadth of the country, digging everywhere up, kicking people out
00:08 of their houses. Like I say, I go back to my first point, is that people can't get from
00:13 one village to another on a bus. If everybody could get to that, you know, from one village
00:18 to another on a bus, I'd have no arguments at all. I'd say fine, go for it. This poverty
00:24 nonsense, you know, going the time machine back into when I was growing up in the 70s,
00:28 that was real poverty. I've got my friend at the back there, Andre, he'll know about
00:31 poverty in Mansfield. When you add notes, and it's nonsense now, it's absolute nonsense.
00:36 Yeah, things are tough, things are difficult for families, people are struggling to budget
00:39 sometimes but this is not an impoverished island, this is a wealthy country and the
00:44 opportunities here are limitless in the UK. If you want something, you can go and get
00:48 it. If you need to get off your arse, then go and get it for yourself.
00:51 [Applause]