The BBC faced angry criticism for giving an Election platform to ‘mini Russell Brand’ Gareth Shoulder (above) who mocked David Cameron over his disabled son . The BBC faced angry criticism last night for giving an Election platform to a ‘mini Russell Brand’ who has mocked David Cameron over his disabled son. Self-styled ‘angry Leftie revolutionary and magician’ Gareth Shoulder, from Liverpool, has been recruited by the BBC to comment on the Election as a member of its ‘Generation 2015 Election youth panel’. Shoulder, 24, who is a big fan of Brand and regularly messages the comedian on social media, used his ‘@bbcgen2015’ Twitter page to make the disparaging remark about Mr Cameron and Ivan, who died aged six in 2009 after being born with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. After Mr Cameron spoke movingly in the first leaders TV Election debate about the NHS care given to Ivan, Shoulder sneered: ‘A new record for Cameron… 34 minutes before he pulls out the Ivan card and pretends he cares about our NHS.’ Shoulder also said that, in the debate, the Prime Minister had ‘really annoyed’ him and made him want to tear politicians ‘a new one’ – a shorthand reference to an extremely offensive phrase. Following Thursday’s TV Election debate, Shoulder then imagined the three female party leaders taking part – SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Woods and the Green Party’s Natalie Bennett – to be the subjects of a lewd parlour game, tweeting: ‘Bennett, Sturgeon, Woods. ****, marry, avoid.’ He also called Chancellor Osborne a ‘briefcase w****r’. The BBC says it ‘hand-picked’ its 200-strong Generation 2015 youth panel to ‘address fundamental questions about the relationship between UK young adults and democracy’. The 24-year-old used his ‘@bbcgen2015’ Twitter page to make the disparaging remark about Mr Cameron and Ivan, who died aged six in 2009 after being born with cerebral palsy and epilepsy . Mr Cameron is pictured with his wife Samantha and children, Ivan, Nancy and Elwen, near his Oxfordshire home in 2009 . Last night Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: ‘It is disgraceful that the BBC should give a platform to someone to spew such Left-wing bile.’ Mr Shoulder said: ‘Speak to the BBC,’ and refused to comment further. A BBC spokesman said that Mr Shoulder was speaking in his own capacity, not as a representative of the BBC.
Gareth Shoulder is a member of the 'Generation 2015 Election youth panel'
Used Twitter to make disparaging remark about Cameron and son Ivan.
24-year-old was speaking in his own capacity, a BBC spokesman said.