Lee Anderson has confronted ridicule for a social media put up celebrating St George’s Day – the place some dodgy spelling was arguably the least of the issues.
The previous Tory deputy chairman introduced in March that he was switching to Reform UK following the fall-out from saying “Islamists” had “management” over London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.
The Ashfield MP already has a historical past of constructing controversial statements – he has argued meals financial institution customers “can not price range” and criticised England footballers for taking the knee. Final summer time he stated migrants ought to “fuck off again to France”.
Now freed from the governing celebration, “30p Lee” on Tuesday posted a particular message to mark the day that celebrates the dragon-slayer of legend and England’s patron saint.
He wrote in an X message introducing a video: “Set off Warning.
“In case you are a Guardian studying, advacado consuming, Palestinian flag waving, Eddie Izzard supporting Vegan then this clip might be not on your consumption.
“Glad St George’s Day!”
Observe the spelling “advacado”.
In an accompanying video, he factors to his St George’s flag cufflinks and says: “Have a look at these right here look, flag of St George.
“It’s St George’s Day right this moment and this nation of ours has been a present to the world. Have a look at the economic revolution, tradition, artwork, music, sports activities.
“All over the place you look on this planet, you see a few of that. Oh by the best way, blissful birthday William Shakespeare.”
However many had issues along with his interpretation of, nicely, most of it.
The web site of English Heritage, the charitable belief that appears after the nationwide heritage, factors out that St George was born in what’s now Turkey, and died in a Roman province of Palestine.
The Christian martyr St George, who’s the patron saint of Georgia and Portugal amongst others, can also be a “Palestinian hero”.
It’s this background that knowledgeable most of the mocking responses to Anderson’s put up.
The Ashfield MP already has a historical past of constructing controversial statements – he has argued meals financial institution customers “can not price range” and criticised England footballers for taking the knee. Final summer time he stated migrants ought to “fuck off again to France”.
