Tory MP tells one-legged beggar to "get a job"
A Conservative MP berated a one-legged wheelchair bound beggar outside Parliament telling him to “get a job”.
Daniel Kawczynski scolded disabled drug addict Mark McGuigan for begging and told him to find work using a Government scheme.
The 6ft 8in ministerial aide towered over Mr McGuigan as he told him: “Get a job, find some work.
“Yes, I know it is hard, I have struggled too.”
The jobless father-of-one accused the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham of being “aggressive” and said he was left feeling humiliated and intimidated.
peaking to the Daily Mail, he said: “He made me feel really small. He was so sanctimonious.
“I can’t get a job. I can barely read and write. Look at me, I am missing a leg.
“I said that to him but he just started getting more and more aggressive. It was horrible.
“I felt very intimidated by the way he was leaning over me saying, ‘Get a job, get a job’, he was towering over me.”
Mr Kawczynski, who is a strong supporter of welfare reform, insisted he was simply offering the beggar useful advice.
He said: “There are better and more productive ways of helping people to spend their time.”
The 41-year-old politician claimed beggars should be challenged on why they were not looking for employment.
He said: “He asked me for money so I asked him what he was doing to find a job.
“He said, ‘I can’t get a job’.
“He had difficulties in literacy and numeracy. I told him there were Government initiatives to help him with this.
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