Esther McVey caused outrage by appearing to blame families living on their breadline for their own poverty - saying they prioritise mobile phones over food.
Esther McVey priorities bullshit over sense
Heartless.
The woman bleeds evil
Reading anything by EstherMcVey1 (aka McVile) takes me back to a pre-Dickens 19th Century.
That patronizing comment by McVey isn't even original. In the US, the Republican Chair of the House of Representatives' Government Oversight Committee said it first. He resigned before his term was completed. Let's hope history repeats itself.
Um WTF you need a phone to access benefits office,you also need internet to do job searches,you also need libraries for those who do not have internet access,but wait the Tories shut the job centres and Libraries~
Such a Tory thing to say! Last time I checked they can’t afford phones because of sanctions. Plus contract phones with handsets cost the same as a bt landline plus internet so next she’ll say that phones of all types are a luxury!! They have them in Africa where we send £’s aid!
And why do the unemployed afford Nike trainers and labelled clothing I’m in work and can only afford £10 trainers.
Put her on benifits see how long she would last perfectic how torys hit the poor and value the 1%ers they have almost gone as far as to admit there just buffing there bank accounts with our money while spunking billions on a brexit they don't want they want to have cakeandeatit
EstherMcVey1 is such a vile creature i truly wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire. thickasabagofshit
Don’t forget gambling holidays new TVs as well and all on benefits
The same Esther who mislead parliament without a sanction?
So she just said let them eat cake, right?
Correct!
How much is she on a week? What's her expenses allowance? Is food & drink subsidised in her workplace? How does her pension scheme work?
Well reading some comments it seems that some folks really resent poor families. With that logic poor families will have no TVs,no holidays,must not smoke or ever drink,no mobile phone,no tattoos, no pets,no internet.Begrudging the poor..Well done Tories.
True ..
They prioritise alot of things over their families. U should see em In the nail bars, tattooists, pubs etc! When I was struggling I d rather go without myself but this lot only care about themselves. A generation of selfish parents!!
No Ms McVey. I’m a working single mum and I have to sacrifice my food so my daughter can eat.
She forgot pets. Dogs don’t come cheap
You can’t do shit if you don’t have dispensable 💴 . Not fucking rocket science. Even if poor people priority was a new phone. Anew phone is internet, entertainment , contact and email. It more then just a phone. As well as if you poor you have right to have some escapism.
Esther McVey - callously cruel or callously thick?
Dead right..
Can we claim the phone back on expenses?
....kinda true 😂
Completely out of touch, vile creature
Poor families are statistically more likely to be fiscally irresponsible in the same way poverty is linked to criminalisation. Facts are facts.
Correct
Esther McVey may have a point. MargaretThatcher caught on. As a teen, the then Prime Minister caught on that many young female teenagers were leaving schools early to start a family. This meant they'd need a Council home. Maggie stepped up & blocked many
Where is the lie?
Truth hurts - but don’t let stop the leftie bullshit!!
Of course. How else could they tell their Facebook friends how poor they are. 😂
And cigs and weed too Gorton Longsight Clayton
She’s no more than a vacuous ex TV presenter who misses the limelight. These comments are simply to try and prove her credentials to the next party leader so she can get back in the cabinet and to get her face in the papers.
Please, tell this Tory dunderhead that the poor need mobile phones because they can't afford laptops for regular Internet access. Searching for jobs & using the UniversalCredit require regular Internet access. Yet they mock the poor for looking for cheaper ways to get online
Watch Jeremy Kyle. All her evidence is right there 😀
Oh do we fuck. Actually, seeing as Universal Credit REQUIRES YOU to do everything on line, a new phone is more accessible than a PC + helps families and friends keep in contact, allows for job searching, and to keep up with the bullshit that spouts from her mouth.
Shes a Tory, she would think such things because she dont have the struggle of poor family's but instead belittles them based on what facts? perhaps a few poor families with the wrong priorities, dont chuck us all in the same basket, ya slab of meat.
Nasty generalisation are fodder to the rabid right.
Some do, some don't. If there's a foodbank you can get food there and spend the money you save elsewhere.
She’s right though.....
Scrap benefits, work or starve. Happy Mother’s day
Christ, what a vile viewpoint
Poor families suggest that tories priorities mp's over ordinary people!!!
TBH, she is telling the truth.
Politicans proritise ambition over ethics
She ain't wrong. I bet those who disagree have never been to a working class town and watched the people
They do. Can't eat but smoke like chimneys and have a £30 a month phone contract
In very many cases she is correct. Very few of these pov cases without Sky packages or the latest phones or tablets. EstherMcVey
Booze, fags & mobile phones. Yep. She’s right.
They can do it if there are food banks to support them
Modern definition of 'poverty' seems to include the lack of iphone and sports package on sky. I was a kid in the 50s and 60s and find it incredible what people expect the state to provide. Real poverty is a myth.
Just because you're overpaid and can afford whatever don't knock the people who struggle all the time shame on you
Shes 100% right, some do. But she's gonna get some poop for this comment
She needs to disappear from politics she caused enough problems with UC whilst flicking her hair and posing no time for the woman at all
When are the males going to return to the media? Screeching females with an answer to everything as long as it is verbal.
She's got a point .If you haven't seen it you need to get out more
Sky sports get it right
And can’t tie everyone to the same brush some people who are on benefit are struggling because of nasty Tory’s like her who claim for all there expenses and think about them self lining there own pockets
I still would, though!!
Awful woman but she is probably right
The British people deserve all that they get because they keep voting the these nasty MPS in
That's true glad it's been said
She's right. Come to any jobcentre and see the claimants with iPhones asking for food vouchers.
MirrorPolitics she has always hated the working class
Keep living in your deluded, rich, rainbow bubble hun. I hope you never have to go through poverty. 😤
She's exactly what the country needs A wonderful politician
I am irish I don't understand why rhe English votr Conservative tories in to power the English are supoeto be fair minded vote the evil tories out of power and don't let them in again for your countries safety
MirrorPolitics Well she would. That fits perfectly with the narrative of dismissing their credibility and significance. Makes the poor ripe for exploitation by the far right.
Just another out of touch Conservative who doesn't care about the welfare of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people of this country. GTTO
And nails,eyebrows and drink
She should set an example by have a less expensive hairstyle.
Definitely 70' TVs are priority over food and maybe... Nappies?🤔
It’s easy to just dismiss what she’s said as some vile or disgusting prejudice comment, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a ring of truth to it!!!!
A tv hasn’t been a luxury item for several decades.
New phone v Food...ummm, iPhone 10 v Months groceries...ummm.
Yeah and they need the phone to stay in contact with job centre otherwise they get sanctioned. Wicked woman she probably know this as it was Cons who introduced all the new Draconian rules. Just so they fall away from benefits. You know the ones without phones.
Tvs and holidays also. They have no sense.
True
Some people a few doors from me. All on benefits, I see them driving a flash BMW and wearing all designer gear. Makes me sick.
I remeber this. Vote Obama u get a free phone
Evil witch just like theresa may heartless and Evil and sly
MirrorPolitics Wish she’d pxxxs off
And massive tv's
I agree with her
2017 'Americans have choices, and they’ve gotta make a choice. So maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they wanna go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest it in their own health care.'
Get ready for this monstrosity to be PM within 6 months.
How are they going to call Their job, children job centre, nhs Police GP or help If Their phone is not working. How will They get Their zerohour contract job is their phone is broke Where are this people coming from. O from The parliament
MirrorPolitics Funny ( not) last week i saw a guy sitting on the pavement in london with classic dog and cardboard sign flipping throo his i phone
DavidDog111 She's a twonk
When many govt services are only accessible online, having a smartphone is quickly becoming a necessity, not a luxury.
Same old rhetoric - same with flat screen tvs - so tired of it all
Such thought processes are why she shouldn't be allowed anywhere near becoming Prime Minister
Whilst claiming huge expenses 👏🏼
🐷🐍🐄
Cuckoo land 🤪
And she’d be right! No one likes to say it but it’s true! And guess what? Benefit claimants go for foodbanks to free up benefit cash to spend on the finer things in life! But no one likes to say it!
MirrorPolitics 🤢🤮
Plus sky TV ,broadband
She's not wrong. One of my friends recently did exactly that.
marcuschown Vile noxious woman.
Reading some comments on this feed I think it should be legal to hunt humans 🙄
She is playing to a particular audience whose vote she wants to attract, but it is not a shift in her ideology as she really is that ignorant.
MirrorPolitics Words fail me on this complete crackpot
What, so they can access their Universal Credit claim . Tories at it again.
MirrorPolitics Pity she hasn’t got a ounce of compassion in her entire body so she is definitely in the running for Tory leader.
Think Esther should provide mobile phones to everyone seems as so much as to be done online nowadays are does she live on the clouds ?
And politicians put themselves before people.
marcuschown Opening her leadership campaign
Also suicide
MirrorPolitics The Mirror,can’t except some people’s life choices.?
MirrorPolitics Yes. This is true
BlueUKIP, the tories are finished
and this one may want to be prime minister and the public none the wiser ... dwp insist on a phone, to get a phone they have to go without food and looking at a fortnights worth at least
the political class are so out of touch with reality the amount of homeless people i see in Manchester is shocking
McVey is an embarrassment to the scouse accent. People have died because of her policies
Classic McVapid.
MirrorPolitics They sadly also priotise TVs smoking and drinking.
marcuschown They will be using liberal as an insult next .
And mps only care about themselves. And couldn’t give a shit about how underworked they are and how over paid they are
MirrorPolitics That’s a Tory!!
Looks like she’s wanting too get herself noticed is there something happening in the Tory party ie need a new leader
MirrorPolitics Ya gotta be online ta use jobcentres now
Arrogance personified.
not sure this woman could get any worse. 😟
Cunt
I'd prioritise the electric chair for that horrible woman
Could be true
An Apple a day and all that 🤔
She's just looking for some attention. Alston_UNSR a Conservatives failure. Which your full report will show clearly. poverty
She's not wrong.