TOO many Brits think it is “fashionable to have mental health problems”, Reform MP Lee Anderson has blasted.
is today expected to use his party conference speech to lambast the and rise in sick claims.
as a coal miner to warn the current generation has gone soft.
He said: “I don’t ever recall any of our team having a day off work ever because if you dropped a day off sick you didn’t get a day’s wages, simple as that.”
The Ashfield MP added: “It’s become fashionable now to have problems, to have your own counsellor, to go for therapy, to have attacks, to get down to the local you benefit centre and sign on for PIP or ESA.
“It’s just fashionable. People complain about anxiety problems, and now I’m sure that back in the day in the village I grew up in where all the men worked down the pit and the women worked the factory, and they had nowt at the end of the week, I’m sure they were stressed, I’m sure they were anxious, I’m sure they had their problems.”
“We didn’t whinge or complain… we just cracked on and got on with it because for us in that village that was normal.”
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was forced to abandon a £5billion package of savings before the summer amid a MP rebellion.
opens conference in today as his party opens up a
Ahead of the two-day get-together, Labour accused him of selling voters promises he could not keep.
Environment Secretary said: “Nigel Farage is a disgrace. All anger, no solutions.
“You can’t run a country with ‘don’t know’ answers. It’s time Reform came clean and gave the British public the answers they deserve.”
Lee Anderson is expected to use the Reform Party conference speech to lambast the ballooning benefits bill and rise in sick claims 
