Lichfield and Burntwood’s MP has said he intends to carry on interacting on social media despite coming under fire for a number of posts.
Michael Fabricant made his comments during an interview with Adrian Goldberg on BBC Radio WM over the weekend.
The Conservative MP hit the headlines for calling a teenage Burntwood residents “a complete twat”.
In his interview Mr Fabricant maintained he was not aware of the meaning of the word.
“I genuinely didn’t know it was a very rude word,” he said. “I thought it was just another version of twit. Someone shouted it a week earlier in the House of Commons.
“But she was a twit.”
Mr Fabricant had also said he would end up punching a female journalist in the throat if he appeared alongside her on TV.
“It was a silly thing for me to say and anyone who knows me knows I don’t even use that phrase,” he said.
“I tweeted it following an interview she did. It was silly tweet to do. People implied I was threatening her, but I wasn’t.”
Asked whether he would continue to use twitter in the wake of recent controversies, including his posting of an offensive tweet about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Mr Fabricant said he was keen to keep using the platform.
“I like interacting with people,” he said. “It’s a modern way of communicating.”
The full interview can be heard online.
