MP wants Tories to kick out T-shirt shame students
A TORY MP has branded one of the shamed students in the “F*** the NHS” row a “d**khead”.
Johnny Mercer said there was no need for the inquiry launched by the party.
Instead he wanted the Plymouth University Conservative Society members involved to be expelled by the Tories.
The Mirror’s exclusive story yesterday caused political shockwaves.
Witnesses called the students “obnoxious and offensive” after they piled into a takeaway after a session at a nightclub.
One had the anti-NHS slogan scrawled on a T-shirt. An onlooker said: “I remember one telling anti-Semitic jokes.”
When it was revealed that one of the group, society president Jake Thurman, had been pictured campaigning with Mr Mercer he was unapologetic. The Plymouth Moor View MP said: “My powers of predicting when someone is going to be a d**khead eluded me.”
Earlier he tweeted of the group: “No need to suspend; eject and bar for life.” Student Rory Patten, 21, who saw the drunken group scrawl on their T-shirts in a pub said: “To write things like ‘f*** the NHS’ is mindlessly dumb.”