Meet Corbyn’s new MP candidate – who calls Waitrose shoppers and Prince Charles ‘scum’
A MOMENTUM supporter who branded Prince Charles and Waitrose shoppers as ‘scum’ will stand as a Labour candidate at the next election.
Jane Aitchison has been selected to fight Pudsey in Yorkshire, where Tory MP Stuart Andrew has a majority of 331.
It emerged last night that she had deleted a tweet in which she called the Prince of Wales ‘benefit-scrounging scum’.
But her Twitter feed is full of other offensive messages, including labelling the Royal Family ‘lazy scroungers’ and saying 115,000 McDonald’s employees have ‘s*** jobs’.
And she praised Marxists as ‘the best class fighters’.
According to the Guido Fawkes website, five years ago, Miss Aitchison wrote: ‘Just the McJob: 2,500 new burger jobs this year. S*** food. S*** jobs. This is what they want for us #alternative.’ She also wrote: ‘Waitrose faces middle- class revolt over free coffee. From the comments seems real scum already shop there.’
In another post, she said: ‘On my way home from speaking at Marxism Festival. Young, vibrant and so many of the best class fighters there. Thanks for inviting me.’
Miss Aitchison also took aim at a moderate Labour donor who opposed Jeremy Corbyn, writing: ‘Labour Party donor Assem Allam offers to fund MP breakaway against Corbyn. Paying to overturn democracy #scum.’
In an attack on the Royal Family, she objected to a story about a Buckingham Palace advertisement for a new housekeeper, writing: ‘Palace seeks housekeeper to run baths. I am sick of paying for these lazy scroungers. #alternative #republic.’
Another message said: ‘Time to strip Harry of his royal title. Why stop at him?’
The potential MP also enjoyed a Russian TV programme which suggested the Royal Family were Nazis: ‘Russian TV mocks royals. “If anyone knows real Nazis”. #BOOM #alternative #republic.’
A series of other tweets also reveal she had demanded Britain should stop paying its Royal Family a salary. And she attacked Sarah Ferguson, saying: ‘Enough of taxavoiding royals.’
Tory MP Mr Andrew said the comments were ‘pretty appalling’.
‘I’ve had decent longstanding members of the Labour Party complain to me that the hard-Left are taking over,’ he said.
‘People in the constituency are known to be very supportive of the Royal Family.’
Pudsey – which covers some western suburbs of Leeds – has been mostly Conservative, although it was won by Labour in 1997.
It came as the lead singer of Welsh band Manic Street Preachers attacked Mr Corbyn. James Dean Bradfield said: ‘I don’t think he understands what makes the working classes tick outside of London.’
‘Sick of paying for these lazy scroungers’