Guardian columnist and food blogger Jack Monroe has received a Tory backlash after suggesting the Prime Minister used "stories about his dead son" in order to sell off the NHS "to his friends".
David Cameron’s son Ivan died at the age of just six in 2009 after suffering from cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
He had previously declared his admiration for the way NHS staff had cared for his son.
He also asked how the Labour party could “dare” claim that he was unsupportive about the Health Service at the Conservative party conference in 2014.
Monroe, a poverty campaigner, posted the following series of tweets on Twitter last night:
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Because 1 million families needed food from a food bank last year, & emergency services are cut while MPs get a 10k pay rise: #CameronMustGo
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Because he uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends: #CameronMustGo
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For Linda, and all the other people judged fit to work by ATOS etc who subsequently ****ing DIED, #CameronMustGo
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Before y'all judge her please know the facts.
Basically whenever someone criticizes him privatizing the NHS (aka. selling it to his friends), he says that because of his dead son he knows how important the NHS is.
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