Comments by Conservative councillor Joe Miller were described as “balderdash” at an online meeting yesterday.
His comments came as councillors discussed whether to write to the government asking for a “right to food” to be made a legal right.
He said Green and Labour councillors should have amended Brighton and Hove City Council’s recent budget if they wanted more money put into supporting those in food poverty.
Councillor Miller said he was quoting a volunteer at the Whitehawk Food Bank.
He said: “Her view is that some people who use that food bank – and this is pre-Covid, granted, and this is not me saying this – 'have their priorities wrong'. That is sometimes the case.