Tory MP Chris Skidmore says cuts aren't so bad as people aren't 'lying dead in the streets'
Rising Conservative star insists his conference remarks to the Thatcherite Free Enterprise Group were taken out of context

A rising Tory star has played down the impact of Government cuts because they have not left people “lying dead in the streets”.
Chris Skidmore made the remarks at the Conservative conference during a meeting of the Thatcherite Free Enterprise Group.

The 32-year-old MP for Kingswood, near Bristol, was one of three people pictured walking with David Cameron on the opening day of the conference. He also introduced ministers Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove when they addressed delegates.
But the historian said his quotes had been taken out of context.

He added: “The point I was making was that when we were making cuts, people suggested they were so bad that people would be lying dead in the streets. That has clearly not happened.
"With the economy recovering it is not the picture of doom that was predicted.”

Furious Labour MP Lisa Nandy said his remarks exposed the Tories’ callous attitude to people hit hard by their austerity measures.
She added: “It’s a pretty extreme measure by which to assess the impact of cuts. Hundreds of thousands have been hit by the bedroom tax and a million youngsters are out of work.

“People will be shocked to hear the dismissive way Tories treat suffering.”

The comments sum it up:

Do we need a "Dick of the Week" nominations thread?

He should take a look at the figures for deaths of the homeless, and the typical age they die at. You don't see much publicity about it, and the corpses get shifted quickly, but he's a very ignorant sod if he doesn't think there are poverty-stricken dying in the streets, and there's plenty going on now to ensure those numbers rise.

He gets my 'Dick of the Week' vote.

mmhmm
fukushima wasnt so bad. the world isn't a mutant wasteland
ww2 wasnt so bad. not everyone got shot.


someone get this man an ivory tower.

feather wrote:
That would be good.

And Skidmore says, "With the economy recovering..."

Magpie wrote: He's probably fucking stupid enough to actually believe it.

The only reason there aren't bodies in the streets is because of food banks. Presumably, then, the Tories will be thankful for this vital service?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/conservati...maynard-food-2335762
Yeah, it's terrible when people become "reliant" on food.

If you were writing a farce or a satire, you wouldn't put this stuff in it because it would seem too far-fetched.

He's absolutely right. There are plenty lying around sleeping in shop doorways round my way though. They can't be dead as they are gone by the next morning.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
I'm starting to think that whole rapture thing actually did happen and this is what we've been left with...

Ab Origine wrote: They got raptured and we got ruptured?

feather wrote: