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Lee Anderson

lines on the record: 70
first: 2023-03-03
most recent: 2023-03-03
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Yeah, it's difficult when you go from going to work and providing for a family to all of a sudden finding out you're on your own and looking after children. Got great support from my family, obviously. I spent a little bit of time out of work, but I was volunteering at the same time at a local charity.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It seems to me like if I It's okay to agree on some things, Nick. You know, we're human beings at the end of the day. We don't have to disagree on everything.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, absolutely. I mean, I look at my dad getting up in the morning to go to work at half past four to a coal mine. Remember every morning his alarm clock going off, that woke me up. And that sort of conditioned me to thinking that, you know, when I leave school, that's what I'll be doing. I'll be having my own alarm clock. But just a few years later, I was getting up with my dad and going to the pit. And going to work together and doing a shift underground.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like I said, we had a garden full of vegetables, chickens at the bottom of the garden for the eggs, and that was our food bank. You know, our garden was our food bank, so if it was short or anything, my dad went in the garden or the allotment and got the food out. So, I mean, we didn't think it was in poverty. I didn't think we were impoverished or in poverty or dirt poor. I didn't think that. Perhaps if people, some people today could go back in a time machine and see how we lived, they'd probably think we were very, very poor. But I didn't see that at the time.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that was typical of households in Asheville at the time. The men worked down the pits, some did seven days a week, my mother worked at the factory. And, you know, things were more expensive, I think, back in the 70s. Food was definitely more expensive, relatively speaking. People were paying a lot more as a percentage of the wages on food then. That's just how it was. But there was also a culture of, you know, a lot of the miners went out for a drink as well. They liked the odd pint. We had one holiday a year, which was a caravan in Skegg Ness.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it wasn't that you thought it's in the Blair period. You didn't get a brown period, you didn't get the Ed Miliband period.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I forgive her. And I look back now, and I will repeat the story every week. This country needed Margaret Thatcher in the 70s and 80s. The country was being held to ransom. The unions were running amok. Yeah, we thought it was unfair because we suffered. We got the blunt of it. But you cannot have a situation where the trade unions are going on strike every five minutes, holding the country for rant. Someone making everybody miserable. And that's what was happening.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Repeatable things we did. We were conditioned to, you know, it was a coal mining community. Things are being taken away from you. Who do you blame? You blame the Nasty Tories. And Maggie was leading the Tories. And that just follows. That was most.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believed it because in a Caulfield community, in the constituents where most men work down the pit, we saw the nasty Tories as taken away our pits and our livelihood. And you go to these rallies and these speeches and you've got real important people who you think they're important, like your skins, your scarges, and your Tony Ben, and they're telling us the same message. And the people we've got to blame is the Nasty Tories. So you come out here, you're a Tory hater, you hate Maggie, and you want to start the revolution”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was the contract, I think. They were pretending they were fighting for our class, I think. That's what they're trying to do.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did. I mean, growing up in the 70s, and I tell this story very, very often. It was Scargill Skinner, Tony Ben. That was our political diet, that's what we listened to on the wireless. That's what we watched on the TV. If they ever came on. And just a few miles away, Chesterfield Town Hall, sometimes on a Friday night. I would go and watch Tony Ben speak. I can remember going to one event, I think it was Tony Ben, Scargill, and Skinner, all on the same bill. As a 16-year-old, listening to those three people speak, you come out that building feeling twenty feet tall. It doesn't matter what they said, it's just the delivery. It was absolutely superb. Well, it mustn't matter.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Labour man through and through, trade unionists, been on strike 72, 74 and 84. He's got the badge. He did all that because he thought it was right what he was doing to protect his job, to protect his community. And then 40-odd years later he finds himself voting for me at a general election.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's mine in a tree. And your dad was a miner. Yes. All my family would call miners, all the male members, should I say. There weren't many females working down the pit while there weren't any. But I followed my dad into the pits when I left school, and I was encouraged and proud to do that job.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ashfield is a coal mining constituency, it's built on coal and textiles. In the south of the constituency, we've got Eastwood, which is the birthplace of DH Lawrence. He wrote many a good book back in the day. To the north slightly is a place called Dunkergate, and that's where Arald Lawwood and Belvose were born. They played for England and the Bodyline series back in the 1920s, 30s. And further to the north we have a lovely village called Teversaw, which is where DH Lawrence actually wrote, where Dattle's lover. That's my constituency.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there's that much talent within the Labour Party then, within the Conservative Party that we've got some really good people, old habits. Old habits die, huh? Yeah, well, that's true. Rishi is a smart man. He's a smart man.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The coal mine in Cumbria was very supportive of it. You know, when everybody and the dog really was campaigning against it, we had a really tough time in the chamber from the opposition, from the Green Lobby, et cetera. But, you know, Rishi stood his ground and said, this makes sense. So for me, a working class ex-coal miner, that's great news.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, absolutely not. I left a blue collar as chair, obviously, because I've got this new role within the party. That's a great privilege. Rishi is a low tax. He was a low-tax politician. He's told me that to his face, but he's inherited. A rum deal. We've gone through two years of COVID, war in Ukraine, got lots of debt, over £500 billion spent on taxpayers' money. We've got to balance the books. And I'm pretty sure, and I'm confident for next year, I think Rich has just proved with the Northern Ireland issue. And he's thrown us some other bones as well since he's had this job.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't really read the papers, to be honest with you. They're definitely not the God in all the daily mirror. Look, if they're printing about me and putting me on the front page, they're getting my name out there. And the more they do run stories on me and put me on the front page, the more people contact me by email to say, well done, Lee, you're saying what we're thinking. So as long as they're advertising me, it's a free advert. So I'm happy it's a win-win.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing is planned, Nigga. I mean, what I say is not controversial. I don't think it is. It may be controversial to the BBC. It may be controversial to the mainstream media. It may be controversial to people in Parliament. I mean, I'm saying what I believe most people in my constituency think. And when I get home on a Thursday, people will come out to me as I walk up home from the train station and say, Lee, you're saying what we're thinking, keep doing it.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, two weeks ago when I got the job, I was on a Home Affairs Select Committee visit to Uruguay on the legalisation of drugs. And then I think the week after we was on recess. So this is my first four-week bike. Not been any controversies, I don't think this week. But I keep looking at my phone for updates to see what I've said, see what I've upset.”
2023-03-03 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Lee Anderson One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source