EX-MP appears to call child in hospital ‘pathetic cretin’
‘What a pathetic cretin.’ After an angry backlash, the former MP deleted the tweet and said the jibe had been aimed at the boy’s stepfather
LONDON: The former chief of staff to David Davis has provoked an uproar after appearing to call a hospitalised child a “pathetic cretin”.
Stewart Jackson, a former Conservative MP, was responding to a Twitter user who had posted a picture of his ill stepson DRAPED In An EU LAG.
MPS demanded the former Brexit secretary’s aide make a “grovelling apology”. The comment was in response to a member of the public saying his stepson had been “gutted” to miss Saturday’s March for the Future, organised jointly by the People’s Vote campaign and The Independent, which saw 700,000 take to the streets of London to demand a fresh referendum on Brexit. Anthony Hobley tweeted: “My stepson had an operation yesterday at Great Ormond Street. He’s incredibly brave but gutted he can’t be at the People’s Vote march today with his brothers and sisters. You can see he’ll be there in spirit and his brothers are saluting him with a dab.” The tweet was accompanied by a photo of the child in a hospital bed, covered with An EU LAG. Another IMAGE showed two other children “dabbing” while wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” hats and standing BEHIND THE same LAG.
Jackson replied: “What a pathetic cretin.” After an angry backlash, the former MP deleted the tweet and said the jibe had been aimed at the boy’s stepfather.
Writing on Twitter, Labour MP Wes Streeting told him: “This is beneath you. You should delete it and issue a grovelling apology.” Jackson, who was appointed to work for Mr Davis after losing his seat in 2017, replied: “What sort of individual invades their sick child’s privacy at a sensitive time to make a political point about the so called People’s Vote? Really. Awful.” It Is not THE irst time that Mr Jackson, who was MP for Peterborough between 2005 and 2017, has insulted a member of the public. Days after losing his seat last year, he called one of his former constituents a “thick chav” on Facebook.
Jackson has contacted a former constituent who had been critical of him on Facebook to call him a “thick chav” days after losing his Peterborough seat to Labour.
Jackson, a prominent Brexiteer and ex-parliamentary Private Secretary to David Davis, warned Christian Stanley, a businessman in his constituency, “If you print any shit about me on Facebook in the future you will regret it.”