Grant Shapps, The Tory MP Trying To Deal With His Party's UKIP Defections And Sexting Scandal, Is Following A Porn Star On Twitter

    His Twitter follows are anything but conservative.

    Grant Shapps is the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield. He's also the chairman of the Conservative Party and heading up #team2015, the party's social media campaigning strategy for next's years elections.

    But the real reason to love Grant Shapps is his interesting approach to Twitter.

    He's currently following over 27 thousand people on Twitter, a feat likely to have been accomplished with the help of a Twitter bot which rapidly follows unsuspecting Twitter users. This has led to much confusion among ordinary Brits in the past.

    So who's part of the not-very-exclusive club of Grant Shapps' followees? There are plenty of people you'd expect, like politicians and journalists.

    But he also follows people who really don't like the Tories.

    And a few charming members of the EDL.

    And this Texan man, whose tweets are so aggressively racist that they're not worth sharing here.

    Shapps also follows a few animals, including this dog, and this aristocratic Russian Blue cat.

    Probably to break up the racists in his Twitterfeed.

    He used to follow this VERY ANGRY SEAGULL, but doesn't anymore.

    Oh yeah, and he follows this porn star.

    And this Sussex-based dominatrix.

    He also follows this erotic writer.

    Stay sassy, Grant Shapps MP.

    BuzzFeed has reached out to Shapps' team for comment.

    UPDATE:

    Shapps no longer follows the porn star, dominatrix or erotic writer.

    He still follows @EtonOldBoys, the EDL guy, the aggressively racist Texan, and assorted animals.