Scottish Tory chief whip Stephen Kerr was called out by the top anti-poverty campaigner
SCOTTISH Tory MSP Stephen Kerr may have gotten more than he bargained for after “having a punt” at one of anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe's tweets.
The moment came after Monroe had posted on Twitter about the news that energy firms such as Shell wereOn July 28, the campaigner wrote: “I’m being contacted by media outlets about the energy companies’ record profits and my stance on this is very clear. As with supermarkets, while a single one of their customers is forced into poverty by their racketeering prices, not a penny should be paid in shareholder bonuses.
She added: “It’s no coincidence that the amount paid out in in-work top-up benefits to supermarket staff, as an example, is exactly 50% of those supermarkets’ annual profit statements. So they COULD afford to pay their staff enough to live on and STILL make a lot of money. They CHOOSE not to.” The call to “nationalise everything” was jumped on by the usual array of anonymous Twitter accounts – and one Stephen Kerr.
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