Lee Anderson appears to have admitted, without any shame, that in his previous job with the Citizens Advice Bureau he actively involved himself in defrauding the state in order to have it pay welfare payments to people who weren’t necessarily eligible for them.
“Before I came into politics, I worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau,” he said.
“We used to fill the form out for clients … I can tell you now, we were gaming the system.”
Mr Anderson described the process as “a competition” between the adviser and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Reform chief whip told reporters: “I could take the fittest man in Ashfield and we could get him a 100 per cent claim on DLA”
Presumably that’s one reason why he and his ilk are so obsessed with the idea of weakening the already fragile welfare state that some people so desperately and legitimately depend on. They know that they themselves when given half a chance would greedily break the rules to get what they’re not entitled to.
But we have no evidence to suggest that the majority of Britons are as similarly devoid of ethics or morals, or are as comfortable with breaking the rules, as he is.
All we learn from this is Lee Anderson isn’t trustworthy and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near any position of power or trust.