MP tells young to get a farm job with ‘gorgeous EU women’

A CONSERVATIVE MP has said young people should “get on their bikes” and take farming jobs where they can work with “loads of gorgeous EU women”.

Craig Mackinlay told a fringe meeting at Manchester

‘It seems the spirit of Norman Tebbit is still running the Conservative Party’

that youngsters needed to show the same motivation as low-skilled workers from elsewhere in Europe.

“I was struggling to think why wouldn’t a youngster from Glasgow without a job come down to the south to work for a farm for the summer with loads of gorgeous EU women working there?” he said.

“What’s not to like? Get on your bike and find a job.”

Mr Mackinlay later said that his “flippant” remarks had been misquoted and that he had been making the point that people in the UK should be more willing to move to find work.

Christine Jardine, a Liberal Democrat MP, responded: “These remarks are as misogynistic as they are ignorant. It seems the spirit of Norman Tebbit is still running the Conservative Party. Rather than making dismissive and offensive remarks, the Conservatives should be investing in training to get more British young people into work.”