Dining across the divide: ‘It was like a conversation with my grandad 40 years ago’

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Did a Tory and a Green who disagreed on the cost of living crisis and statues really spend a very enjoyable evening together?

We talked about the cost of living crisis and I mentioned the number of people in poverty.There’s poverty and there’s relative poverty. There’s been a lot of talk about young people and adults who can’t afford period products. I have seen that in my work but in a lot of cases it’s a choice. So you might have somebody ordering Starbucks coffee delivered by Just Eat, and an hour later they’ll be going to the charity box for period products.

Are we going to go up north and rip down cities built on the back of child labour?She also said: “Are they going to take down pictures of Henry VIII in the National Portrait Gallery because he chopped his wives’ heads off?” There is a difference, because in Bristol, if you are from a West Indian background, it’s probably not nice to have to walk past the public veneration of that person [Edward Colston]. We did touch on Margaret Thatcher’s statue because she recently got egged.

 

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