A cheering crowd
Labour has suspended a councillor over a speech at a counter demonstration calling for the throats of anti-immigration protesters to be cut.
Dartford councillor Ricky Jones has been suspended by the party over the video, which shows him in the middle of a cheering crowd at a protest in Walthamstow, east London, organised to stop the far-right from targeting asylum centres and the offices of lawyers helping asylum seekers.
In the speech on Wednesday evening, he said: “We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them.”
Not what you want in a councillor.
He followed his speech with leading a chant of “free, free Palestine.”
Or what? We’ll cut your throats too?
Updating to add:
He’s been arrested.
“Mostly harmless” too, I’ll wager.
I see someone wearing a dayglow Amnesty International vest smiling and applauding along. Is throat-slashing opponents now an approved form of political action for AI? Going for the Full-Orwell, War is peace/Freedom is slavery/Ignorance is strength trifecta? I guess it’s okay so long as you’re
punchingslashing up, right?That is a damn good question. I would like to know.