
Annunziata Rees-Mogg, the sister of Jacob Rees-Mogg and a former Brexit Party and Tory MEP, has come under fire after she gave her thoughts on food poverty.
The UK government has unveiled plans to tackle obesity in the UK, which is said to include prescribing exercise to the public, putting an end to deals on junk food and labelling calories more obviously.
However, the campaign has already come under scrutiny as healthier food is often more expensive in high street supermarkets than "junk food", which often easily and more financially viable for a family to live on.
This exact point was highlighted by reported Hollie Borland but it prompted a response from Rees-Mogg who attempted to explain why a bag of potatoes is cheaper to buy that a bag of oven chips.
@HollieBorland @NatashaC Tesco 1kg potatoes =83p, 950g own brand chips =£1.35— Annunziata Rees-Mogg (@Annunziata Rees-Mogg) 1595846249
Although Rees-Mogg might have thought that she was making a reasonable point (despite the fact that potatoes you buy in a supermarket aren't necessarily healthier) she soon found her notifications flooded with critical comments accusing her of completely missing the point.
@zatzi @HollieBorland @NatashaC The focus is being misplaced. It's not the cost of the ingredients (chips/potatoes)… https://t.co/mj06B0DsXY— Monners 💙 (@Monners 💙) 1595847262
Rich conservatives like Annunziata Rees-Mogg really think poorer people are poor because they spend an extra 53p a… https://t.co/o9JNcO4U2F— Jack Duncan 🔻🏳️🌈 (@Jack Duncan 🔻🏳️🌈) 1596029720
Items you missed off: Rent Heating An oven Utensils Oil Energy and time after the 12hr care home shift You… https://t.co/oyqlmGclJe— Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈 (@Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈) 1596014974
Tesco sunflower oil: £1.10 So homemade chips in this example = £1.93 (40% higher) So often people on twitter who… https://t.co/HRpFBlMu40— James Wong (@James Wong) 1596011035
+ Tesco own brand oil £1.10 + table salt at £0.35 = £2.28 You're privileged enough not to have to think about t… https://t.co/jMP0KQaVO2— RACHELLE (rhymes with gazelle) (@RACHELLE (rhymes with gazelle)) 1596016054
Can’t bear it when the wealthy act like they could do poverty better. Clueless! Yes, for a night you could make scr… https://t.co/xXsh1ETPW8— Coco Khan (@Coco Khan) 1596009856
@zatzi @HollieBorland @NatashaC The absolute cheek of someone called Annunziata Rees-Mogg trying to lecture anyone on poverty.— Pepe Silvia (@Pepe Silvia) 1596007193
Apparently daughter of baronet Annunziata Rees-Mogg has graced us with her views on food poverty and her extensive… https://t.co/hlYFpfFx8K— Ya Boy Porg 🇵🇸 #ToriesOut #JohnsonOut (@Ya Boy Porg 🇵🇸 #ToriesOut #JohnsonOut) 1596020782
And yes, there are jokes.
"Let them eat Tesco 1kg own brand potatoes." https://t.co/IdqIWwteoW— Otto English (@Otto English) 1596021257
https://t.co/3mLJN1AWa8 https://t.co/BakCQmFyRi— David Jenkins (@David Jenkins) 1596022847
'Cooking tips for poor people. With Annunziata Rees-Mogg.' https://t.co/azREfa6iY0— TenInchWheels // Beershots 💙 (@TenInchWheels // Beershots 💙) 1596013439
Dear Annunziata Rees-Mogg, I took her to a supermarket I don't know why But I had to start it somewhere So it sta… https://t.co/utIObR66mm— Garret Keogh (@Garret Keogh) 1596025569
Annunziata Rees-Mogg using her experience of slumming it in the East Wing of the mansion to tell the poor to live o… https://t.co/3UW2caTMrN— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻) 1596017753
I would like to thank Annunziata Rees-Mogg. Before her compassionate intervention, I was eating cooked food like a… https://t.co/3moRC9vs7H— Toussaint Douglass (@Toussaint Douglass) 1596011557
Even celebrity cook Jack Monroe weighed into the debate.
Rees-Mogg, who originally posted her tweet on 27 July, did add to her tweet by saying that learning to 'budget for food is important alongside learning to cook.'
The oft repeated but inaccurate belief that low quality/ unhealthy food is *always* cheaper than raw ingredients is… https://t.co/OgYcZZvzKB— Annunziata Rees-Mogg (@Annunziata Rees-Mogg) 1595846865
The Brexiteer has sparked similar fury in the past on Twitter when she complained about MEPs in the European Council being given iPads to work on as well as questioning other's parenting skills.