Asking Matt Hancock's constituents about the cost of living crisis

We went to West Suffolk, Matt Hancock's constituency, to find out what they're worried about while he eats a sheep's vagina.

Reporter: Ed Campbell
Camera: Joanne George

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[kerrydevlin]

STOP VOTING TORY seems fecking obvious to me! 😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[lb]

I have a colleague who’s husband works for the American company that the NHS outsource all their admin to. They’re looking to have the NHS fail so they can privatise it.

[geqbxqm]

Answer was Corbyn in 2019 but the establishment/media gaslit us so much we held back

[steveparker]

I just think we're lucky those generous Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and services while growing our economy. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed while destroying our economy for the past 12 years...

[andishawjfac]

"I think Rishi has a kind heart"

Rishi: I don't want to be friends with poor people and am continuing auserity

Is that woman that stupid?

[DavoInMelbourne]

12 years of Tory rule. What did people expect?

[ZackZick]

Sunak took money from poor areas and transferred it to the rich. There is zero compassion in him. Zero.

[loooodoooog]

I work in the NHS and the agency’s and the doctors and constants with private clinics are making an absolute killing .. the worst things get for us the better business is for them !

[TomTapping]

Solution: Cut MP's salaries and benefits to the National living wage and heavily tax THEIR wealth and see how they like it.

[FarObserver]

Brexit, COVID, Ukraine. All reasons why inflation is rocketing. However, I am very surprised no one mentioned the £70 billion cost of furlough and paying people not to go to work. We will be paying for this for a very long time.

[brainbane]

"Let's give him a chance"

Yeah, let's give the tory a chance to be in any way different to other tories. Let's see if this tory, the latest in a far too long line of tories, is any different to its predecessors, which were all tories. After all, the other tories were just normal wealthy elites and this one is an ultra wealthy elite. Let's give him a chance. And while we're at it, let's give cancer a chance. All cancer we've encountered so far has been disastrous, but maybe the latest form of cancer will be good for us. And AIDS. Let's give AIDS a chance.

I swear to the gods, it's like we're raised not to think.

[sparkysue]

what do politicians actually have to pay for? im sure most things are covered by expenses, its disgusting.

[Vee-jcqh]

Well said to all those who were interviewed and reflecting what many are thinking. It truly is time to redistribute the wealth in this country and stop the greed.

[shesawitch]

West Suffolk has been a Conservative safe seat for the past 7/8 years. Hancock is bought and paid for by the Jockey Club in Newmarket to stop things like affordable housing to be built in the area (which is why you end up with huge housing estates like Red Lodge - real NIMBYism.) Newmarket is a town clearly divided by wealth and poverty, and Hancock has no interest in serving his constituents who he can't make a bit of money with or who are suffering; unable to afford rent, bills, food.

And yet, people are still willing to vote for him!

[mattstevenson]

The UK is an absolutely awful place to live and work now.

[jonnorris]

Brits you are being milked, I am a Brit, moved to NZ 13 years ago, it’s been tough, I work in construction, but in comparison to what you guys are going through it’s bloody amazing here.
What one of the guys said about someone’s making a lot of money is correct.
You have a look at Britains GDP against our GDP, something is deeply wrong

[attackpatterndelta]

You lot voted for him. You know what the Tories are like and you still returned them as the governing party in 2019.

I have little to no sympathy for these people, which is more than they deserve.

[basildon]

Politicians know what's going on. They simply don't care.

[stereomagic]

I struggle to understand why nobody interviewed here didn't demand an immediate GE. To even allow this present 'government' any slack after the 12 disastrous years they've been in power astounds me.

[karenohanlon]

It's sad that Jezzer was vilified and not given a chance. Brexit had been a disaster for Northern Ireland.
What part of the Tories understand the country is broken. They just dont give a dam.