Lee Anderson Roasted Online Over 'Battle Of The Somme' Post On X
Lee Anderson has been roasted online after he was triggered by a tweet about periods and the menopause.
The Reform UK MP harked back to World War One as he insisted that men have suffered as much as women.
X user Jessica posted: “Women deal with periods, pregnancy, and menopause. What do men have to deal with?”
Anderson, a former Tory deputy chairman who defected to Reform UK last year, replied: “Try the Battle of the Somme.”
The 57-year-old Anderson was not even born until half a century after the battle took place.
Try the Battle of The Somme.
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) December 9, 2024
Other users of the social media platform were predictably brutal in their response to the Ashfield MP’s bizarre reply.
Lee Anderson trying to get to a constituency meeting.
pic.twitter.com/GyFXSRdKyIhttps://t.co/KAPiIcNVTF— Mark (@sparkymf86) December 9, 2024
BREAKING 🚨🚨: New footage has emerged from the Battle of The Somme showing Lee Anderson MP providing brave soldiers with 30p meals. pic.twitter.com/Ll7lA1aM60
— Mr A 🍉 (@acatcalledkeith) December 9, 2024
After taking PR advice from Gregg Wallace, Lee Anderson has now released a statement, saying: "It's mainly a handful of middle-class women of a certain age that are questioning my experience of The Somme." pic.twitter.com/dJPd1S4H2G
— Moog (@a_toots) December 9, 2024
Lee Anderson on his way to work this morning. pic.twitter.com/r2IFrXp6C5
— Parody Keir Starmer (@Parody_PM) December 10, 2024
“Do you have a copy of ‘My Time at the Front: a Somme Survivor’ by Lee Anderson?”#ThirtyPeeLeepic.twitter.com/FH9TBkyZaX
— lifeintheartslane 🕯 (@life_arts_lane) December 9, 2024
