Karen Buck
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 65 |
Date of birth | August 30,1958 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Castlederg |
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Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Spouse | Barrie Taylor |
Party | Labour Party |
Books | London's Population and the 2011 Census: First Report of Session 2009-10, Report, Together with Formal Minutes and Oral and Written Evidence |
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ID | 419679 |
Karen Buck Life story
Karen Patricia Buck MP is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament since 1997, firstly for Regent's Park and Kensington North until 2010, and for Westminster North after that. She is a former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
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Tory MP Lee Anderson branded out of touch for food bank remarks
A Tory MP has been branded " out of touch" for saying people needed to learn How To cook and budget " properly" rather than use food banks.
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson made the comments in The Commons while praising a " real food bank" in his local area.
He claimed there was " not this massive use for food banks in This Country " and those Who Knew How To cook and budget could make meals for 30p A Day .
Labour's Karen Buck said his remarks were " Beyond Belief ".
But fellow Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith said his colleague was " absolutely spot on" tweeting a link to an article claiming that learning to cook was " one of The Best ways of fighting poverty and combating obesity".
A Tory council leader and mayor in Kent have also come Under Fire for posing for a photograph and cutting a ribbon at the opening of a local food bank.
Dartford Borough Council leader Jeremy Kite defended himself on LBC, saying the picture and the ribbon cutting were " entirely" the idea of The People who ran the centre.
'Cooking course'Asked by presenter James O'Brien if the smiling picture was appropriate, He Said : " If The People at the food bank volunteering for it, running it, organising it, thought it was appropriate, then frankly as a guest it is not for me to suggest that I would do this, [and] not do that. "
The pictures were later removed from The Mayor of Dartford Rosanna Currans' Social Media .
The two incidents come as soaring inflation and energy costs have hit the pockets of UK households.
The Trussell Trust charity said it had distributed over 2. 1 million emergency food parcels to people in crisis in The Past year, with growing numbers visiting food banks across the country as a result of the cost of living hikes.
Mr Anderson invited MPs to visit a food bank in his Nottinghamshire constituency where He Said people " have to register for a budgeting course and a cooking course" if They receive parcels.
" We show them How To cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget, " he added. " We can make a meal for about 30p A Day and this is cooking From Scratch . "
Asked by an opposition MP if there should even be food banks " in 21St Century Britain" the Tory MP replied: " He makes a great point but that is exactly my point.
" There's not this massive use for food banks in This Country . We've got generation after generation who can not cook properly. . They can not budget. "
'Extreme Poverty 'The comments led to a backlash on Social Media , with poverty campaigner Jack Monroe saying: " You can't cook meals From Scratch with nothing. You can't buy cheap food with nothing.
" The issue is not 'skills', it's 12 years of Conservative cuts to social support. "
Shadow Work and pensions minister Ms Buck added: " In The World where people actually live, we now hear daily stories of families going without food and others unable to turn their ovens on In Fear of rising energy bills.
" The idea that The Problem is cooking skills and not 12 years of government decisions that are pushing people into Extreme Poverty is Beyond Belief . Out of touch doesn't even cover it. "
Posting on his Facebook page following the criticism, Mr Anderson said: " I did not say Poor People can not cook or there is no need for food banks.
" I said there is not the need currently being parroted out by the MSM [mainstream media]. "
Source of news: bbc.com