Liberal Democrat MP uses term 'WTF' while talking to schoolchildren

A Liberal Democrat MP is in hot water after using a slang term for ”what the f*ck” while addressing a group of school children. Steve Gilbert used the text abbreviation ”WTF” as he discussed university costs with 200 kids at Penrice Community College in St Austell, Cornwall.

He told the assembly: ”You will all be thinking about leaving school in a few weeks and must be thinking ‘WTF’ about going to university.” Parents have described his choice of words as ”ridiculous” but the MP for St Austell and Newquay has defended them as ”a throwaway remark”.



Local Tory councillor Steve Double, whose 16-year-old son Tom attends the school, said: ”I don’t think Mr Gilbert was giving out a very appropriate message or in a very appropriate way. It is absolutely ridiculous that a politician, who is supposedly a respected member of the community could behave like this. Perhaps he was trying to be ‘cool’ but as a politician, that isn’t your job.”

But Mr Gilbert is unrepentant. ”All I have to say in reply to this is OMG,” he said. ”From my perspective this is a nonsense political attack and is a bit petty. It was nothing more than a throwaway remark.”