A MP’s bid to drop the price of a meal deals has been met with fury as his proposal for supermarkets to engage in an ‘arms race’ for lower prices has resulted in serious backlash on social media
A member of parliament has launched a campaign to bring down the skyrocketing prices of meal deals, urging supermarkets to declare an “arms race” on each other in a bid to drop prices.
Luke Charters has written to supermarkets and encouraged an “arms race” to see which one can be the first to get “the meal deal back down to £3.50″.
Charters, the MP for York Outer, wrote on social media, as a “tight Yorkshireman” he’s “always grabbing the three most expensive products” when he picks his meal deal in order to “get the biggest discount”. Posting on his X social media account the MP told his followers prices had “skyrocketed” over the past years.
The MP noted people see and feel it “every single day” when it comes to buying supermarket meal deals. Charters said: “So I’m campaigning to bring prices down and cut the cost of living, starting with a UK favourite: the meal deal. It’s time to give something back to the grafters out getting their lunch.”
While many people are struggling with rising food prices across the country due to the cost of living crisis, many on social media found the video from the MP to be tone deaf and branded the video as “shameful posturing”.
One commenter slammed the MP for the video and said: “Please be more professional. You’re not a TV presenter.”
Liz Webster, the Founder of Save British Farming, said: “Your short term plan to collapse farms and import substandard foods leaves Britain exposed to health crises and being held to ransom.
“If you want to bring food prices down you need a food production plan which includes price controls to protect producers and subsidies or grants for farmers.”
The furious farmer added: “Hoping that fire sale of sustainable family farms delivers corporatisation/americanisation of food factories is not sustainable nor popular.”
The Daily Star previously reported on the introduction of a foreign snack to the iconic Tesco meal deal which left Brits in a “furious” rage.
Tim Tams – the Australian chocolate biscuit bar similar to a Penguin bar – can now be purchased alongside a main, usually a sandwich, and drink. The move by Tesco, which has 3,000 UK stores, has divided the nation with some dubbing the Aussie favourite “disgusting”. Angry Brits flooded TikTok with disapproving comments. One said: “We don’t want that Aussie crap infiltrating our meal deals.”
Another raged: “Tim Tams are disgusting, Penguins are superior.”
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