A Tory councillor and member of a Derbyshire MP's staff has apologised after he swore at NHS nurses wanting a pay rise for battling coronavirus in a series of insulting tweets.
Jake Gilbert, 20, a representative for Loscoe ward on Heanor and Loscoe in Derbyshire, tweeted on July 21: 'If the nurses "refuse" the pay rise, f**k them and don't give them one'.
As well as insulting immigrants, saying students just wanted to pop pills and complaining the green belt should be built on, he retweeted insulting comments about a woman on universal credit.
Cllr Gilbert is currently a caseworker for Conservative Amber Valley MP Nigel Mills.
NHS staff across the country received a three per cent pay rise after a year on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. The pay rise was originally meant to be just one per cent.
Conservative councillor and MP staffer Jake Gilbert, 20, (pictured) criticised nurses who asked for a pay rise after they battled Covid in Britain's hospitals during the pandemic. He tweeted: 'If the nurses "refuse" the pay rise, f*** them and don't give them one'
The 20-year-old set his account to private after Derbyshire Live reporters discovered the comments from July.
Cllr Gilbert had also previously tweeted a slew of inflammatory views between June and July 2021.
Although his MP boss is an advocate for protecting the green belt in his constituency, Cllr Gilbert tweeted: 'Just build on the green belt. Imagine the amount of houses that could be built on this area, and there's still loads of green spaces left.'
He also accused young people of only supporting left-wing parties so they could 'go around popping pills in clubs every night'.
Cllr Gilbert took to Twitter earlier this year to express his distaste at nurses wanting to be paid more after their heroics on the front line of the UK's fight against coronavirus
He added: 'I wonder how many people will drop out of uni because they got grades they shouldn't have done and they find the course too hard.'
Meanwhile he said: 'Why do lefties think we care about them saying Thatcher's dead? I don't get it, it's weird. Like so is your grandma, lol'.
The Tory councillor said his party was 'already known as the nasty party so f*** it'.
'They just hate us because we're Tories so let's do stuff to make them hate us,' he added.
During the Euros he said: 'Me and the homies hate Italy, come on Ingerland', accompanied by a picture of him with his middle finger up.
The Derbyshire councillor also suggested he held anti-vax opinions as he commented '£7k of taxpayers money for this s**t' on a video urging people to take the Covid vaccine.
All those tweets came after Cllr Gilbert wrote on the social media site on June 23 'The amount of times I've had to think "no I can't tweet/comment that" now I'm working for an MP is mad'.
The Derbyshire Tory also tweeted plenty of other shocking opinions, including one that pressed for houses to be built on the green belt, an issue his MP boss has spoken against
As well as his own tweets, he shared a tweet from another user's accounts that chastised a mother on Universal Credit.
He also berated immigrants as he retweeted a fellow user who wrote: 'Can't wait for tens of thousands of refugees to arrive and help ensure my generation will never be able to buy property.'
He shared another that, along with a video of immigrants arriving on a beach, said:
