Arron Banks jokes about Greta Thunberg and ‘freak yachting accidents’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Insurance tycoon Arron Banks has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Leave&period;EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta’s voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht&comma; writing&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Freak yachting accidents do happen in August …”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He later tweeted that it was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;joke” after his comment sparked outrage from social media users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among those to criticise his post was actress Amanda Abbington&comma; who tweeted&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You’re wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl&comma; why&period;&period;&quest;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138282" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;08&sol;E8ADB199-54A3-4769-AB3F-67E99A69589A&period;png" alt&equals;"Aaron Banks tweet about Greta thunberg" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"736" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She had earlier written&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>If you are a grown up&comma; fully-fledged adult and you are mocking this young girl for trying to save the planet then I genuinely feel sorry for you&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Twitter user responded to Mr Banks’ post by saying&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know she’s 16&comma; right&quest;” while another described his comment as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;despicable”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Banks later defended his post and&comma; in response to another tweet which highlighted the fact Greta was a child&comma; he said&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Quite and one being used&period; Obviously I don’t hope she encounters a freak yachting accident&excl; I just enjoy watching the ludicrous tweeter mob following the next outrage …”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also replied to someone accusing him of showing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;his true colours”&comma; saying&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was a joke &period;&period; you lefties have no sense of humour …”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Greta is embarking on a two-week voyage across the Atlantic on a carbon-neutral racing yacht&comma; the Malizia II&comma; so she can attend high-profile climate events without using planes or cruise ships which emit greenhouse gas emissions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;school strike” have inspired a global protest movement by young people demanding urgent action on climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed0ad57aaf5">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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