Coventry man hailed a ‘legend’ as he tells Tory MP to ‘read the room’ during BBC Question Time

A Coventry man is a hailed ‘legend’ on BBC Question Time, which was hosted in the city yesterday (Thursday 23 May). Kam Anthony, believed to live in Coventry, said he was “a bit overwhelmed” after his “national TV rant” in which he grilled Tory MP Mark Spencer about the state of the city centre, energy bills, the NHS and youth violence.

He posted on X (formerly Twitter) following the event, saying his “phone blew up”. He wrote: “Phones are blowing up and I’m a little overwhelmed. but thank you for all the nice messages about my move on national TV tonight #bbcqt”.

Loose Women’s Denise Welch even hit back at Kam saying she was “overseas just reading” about him. She said: “I’m abroad just reading about you!!! Well done sir”.

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In his release, Kam said, “Mark, I think you need to do some reading in the room. When you said you delivered for the country and the economy turned the corner, people here laughed at you because nobody feels. This one.

“You know, take a walk around Coventry city center now, it’s changed. I mean, people have to choose between heating their homes and feeding their children, the NHS is on its knees, knife crime and youth violence are on the rise all over the world. the country.

“Your party has failed us for the last 14 years. You will lose, you will lose terribly and you deserve to lose.”

Alt text: The link below is a Twitter embed of a video shared by Politics Now featuring Coventry man Kam Anthony speaking on BBC Question Time.

As the audience erupted in applause, Mr Spencer, the Tory MP for Sherwood, who is currently minister of state for food, agriculture and fisheries, replied: “Look, I didn’t say everything was fine and I admit it there. there are huge challenges there.

“We’ve faced huge global challenges, the war in Ukraine sending food and energy prices through the roof, we’ve seen a global pandemic cost the country billions and billions of pounds and the shock has led to long NHS waiting lists “.

Before he could go on, BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce said: “Waiting lists were long before that.”

“Clearly Covid has had a huge impact on that as well,” Mark continued. “And the only way you solve that is with a strong economy that allows you to finance and deal with the challenges we all recognize we face.

“I’m not saying for one second that all things are rosy in the garden because of those challenges that we’re facing, but my view is that we’ve just started to turn that corner and the economy is now starting to pick up. Not my words, not my words, the Bank of England, the OBR and the IMF are all saying that we have now turned the corner and we are now getting better.”

In response to Kam’s introduction on the show, legions of people flocked to X to show their support, hailing him as a “legend” and saying he “spoke for Coventry”.

Philip Priestly said: “You are a legendary friend. Well said. You spoke for me.”

“Thank you very much for speaking up for all of us in Coventry.” Collette Flood wrote.

Big Rob added: “Mate never met you in my life but he’d buy you a pint in a heartbeat.”

Martin commented: “Let the truth feed my friend. You just spoke for millions of people. All power to you”