What was posted
Grant Shapps shared a Conservative graphic promoting the cuts to beer duty and bingo tax in George Osborne’s 2014 Budget.
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Why it mattered
Critics called the graphic patronising for the way it described working people’s leisure. Nick Clegg, then Cameron’s coalition deputy, publicly dismissed it as silly.
Sources
- Scorn for ‘patronising’ beer and bingo tweet from Tory chair Grant Shapps
- Shapps Ridiculed For ‘Patronising’ Bingo Tweet