Daft cat

A week in the life of Lee Anderson Starts the week filming himself walking around town pointing at homeless people for content, acting like he’s discovered poverty personally while somehow still missing every reason it exists. Monday: Wakes up furious about something he hasn’t read yet. Goes on GB News to explain Britain was better when chips came in newspaper and nobody had feelings. Later shares that infamous “bacon bum” picture online like it’s the height of political commentary, seemingly more interested in winding people up and stoking division against Muslims than saying anything remotely useful. Tuesday: Visits a food bank. Says it proves community spirit is alive and well, while carefully avoiding the question why the food bank needs to exist. Later spends 45 minutes in frantic phone calls with Nigel Farage trying to decide which post he should put on X, before finally posting: “The left hate Britain because I had beans on toast for breakfast. Sad!” Wednesday: Announces common sense has been cancelled. Nobody knows by who. Possibly tofu. Writes another strongly worded letter to the government demanding action on whatever made him angry that morning. Receives absolutely no reply. Thursday: Blames net zero for the weather, immigration for potholes, and Labour for the fact his Greggs sausage roll was lukewarm. Friday: Gives a speech about hard work from a taxpayer-funded office, then says people on benefits should “just graft more”. Mentions he’s still waiting to hear back about his letter. Saturday: Posts a photo of a full English breakfast with the caption: “This is British culture.” Blocks 400 people before lunch. Then backs some grifter called Robert Kenyon, because apparently “common sense politics” now means falling for anyone with a webcam, a PayPal link and a persecution complex. Sunday: Says he’s being silenced on his national TV show, newspaper column, radio interview and 9 separate social media accounts. Writes yet another letter to the government and immediately complains they’re ignoring him again. Then, after a full week of telling everyone else to tighten their belts, we discover the “man of the people” — elected as a Conservative MP, later reinvented as a Reform MP — claimed £264,074 in parliamentary costs in 2024/25, around £39k above the published MP average. That’s £723 a day, every single day of the year. Not illegal. Not even top of the league. Just very funny from a man whose entire brand is telling everyone else to live on “common sense” and graft harder. Another hard week defending ordinary people from the elite — mainly by shouting at them, reposting rage-bait from anonymous accounts with Union Jack profile pictures, pretending every criticism is an attack on free speech, platforming chancers, mistaking outrage for policy. Common sense, taxpayer-funded edition.