Hard-Left’s trolls target Esther again

THE hard Left yesterday restarted its vile campaign of online abuse against Esther McVey as s he returned to the Cabinet. Labour supporters bombarded the former television star with vicious posts as she was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary.

A Left-wing hate mob singled her out for abuse on Twitter, branding her a murderess, a witch, the grim reaper, a whore and a bitch.

The 50-year- old, who attended Cabinet meetings as employment minister under David Cameron, was the most high-profile Tory casualty of the 2015 general election when she was ousted from her seat in Wirral West. But after returning to Parliament following last year’s polls, she has been fasttracked for promotion by Theresa May. As she returned to her former department, online taunts included a mocked-up image of the minister holding a gun and screaming, ‘Get out of the wheelchair’, at a disabled person.

One Twitter user called Red Forever, who identified themselves as a Labour member, posted: ‘Esther McVey back to finish her job of killing the sick and disabled. #DWP murderess.....’

Prominent Corbyn supporter Rachael Cousins, who uses the online name Rachael Swindon, tweeted to her 55,000 followers: ‘Some might say Esther McVey lost her seat in 2015 because of her work [at] DWP & their policies, & l et’s be straight, the multiple deaths associated with those policies.’ Another Twitter user doctored a photograph so it showed Miss McVey painting, ‘Evict the poor’, onto a front door.

Corbyn- supporting website Skwawkbox wrote: ‘Theresa May could not send a bigger “f*** you” to disabled and disadvantaged people if she had it painted in huge l etters along the sides of the Houses of Parliament.’

Miss McVey, a former GMTV presenter before entering Parliament in 2010, is one of the party’s strongest media performers and is now expected to become one of the Cabinet’s most prominent public faces. She started her ministerial career at the DWP in 2012, rising to become deputy to former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. He said last night the viciousness of the attacks exposed the true character of the Left.

He said: ‘The Left are just angry, vile, misogynistic people who lie the whole time. The whole game of Labour now under Jeremy Corbyn is very straightforward and simple... what you do is try and destabilise the other side by sowing lies that people begin to repeat to each other as though they were the truth, and they use social media to do that.’

In 2014, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell – who was then a backbencher – joked at a comedy night about how party activists wanted to lynch Miss McVey.

‘Vile and misogynistic’