Arron Banks under fire for Greta Thunberg 'joke' about 'freak yachting accidents'

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Arron Banks, the insurance tycoon and leading Brexit figure, has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

The Leave.EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta's voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August ..."Among those to criticise his post was actress Amanda Abbington, who tweeted: "You're wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why..?"

 

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It’s almost as if Arron_banks was being deliberately disgusting to distract attention from other significant issues. Well Banks we can multi task - get you banned from Twitter and continue to pursue other matters. Hope you have a terrible day

Why can't people just leave this really nice, honest, law-abiding, establishment-fighting multi-millionaire banker alone? All he is trying to do is make a simple joke about a teenager who is highlighting the world's most pressing issue dying at sea? What's wrong with that?

It seems that an amazing amount of leavers seem to struggle with any form of compassion. Maybe from having wanker parents or maybe a form of autism? It would explain their cold attitude and why politics is broken . brexit immigration prison guns populism

He acts like this because the negative attention he receives helps feed the narrative he is trying to build of himself (that he 'says it like it is') Plus, he's scared of people like Greta, he can't process their intentions (to think of others) so he mocks them

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