When a footballer is more of a statesman than anybody in government ...

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2. A governor at the school Bradley maligned has popped up to contradict him on Twitter:

Link to tweet

Bradley is now whining abjectly about poor him being pilloried for his own words on Twitter today:

Link to tweet

Ben Bradley MP
@BBradley_Mans
Angela. Please remove this clickbait nonsense. If the context is not clear, I will clarify, but thats 100% NOT what I've said. Please don't drag this debate in to the gutter. What you've put here is NOT TRUE.

🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈
@AngelaRayner
A Conservative MP has said that free school meals are effectively a direct payment to brothels and drug dealers.

Notwithstanding the fact that the vouchers in summer could only be used to purchase food, this stigmatisation of working class families is disgraceful and disgusting.

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Ben Bradley MP
@BBradley_Mans

Pretty clear that I'm about to get hammered across social media/papers for the crime of a tweet where the context wasn't as clear as I'd thought it was. Needless to say, I haven't said what I'm being accused of, nor would I ever. I'm sorry if others get dragged in to the fire.

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Ben Bradley MP
@BBradley_Mans

If you want a proper debate you have to accept that sometimes you get it wrong. Proper debate is important. You learn from it, you move on. We're all human.

That last sentence is open to debate.

Meanwhile, Labour Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has written to the Tory Party asking for an apology from Bradley:


A large number of Bradley's constituents are lighting up Facebook and Twitter tonight. They're not very supportive of him ...