“Labour Party In Worse Position Than When Under Corbyn”

Labour’s candidate in Rochdale fell for an online conspiracy theory related to the October 7 attacks in Israel, according to a shadow minister.

Councillor Azhar Ali alleged that Israel deliberately allowed the massacre to occur to justify invading Gaza. After facing criticism for his comments, he issued an “unreserved” apology, acknowledging the remarks were offensive, ignorant, and false.

Despite the controversy, Ali remains Labour’s candidate for the upcoming by-election.

Kevin O’Sullivan and Alex Phillips speak with former government advisor James Price.

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Now the labor party is once again embroiled in an anti-Semitism route after councelor azir ali uh who is standing in the upcoming Rochdale byelection said that Israel had allowed the October 7th Massacre to give it the green light to invade Gaza Ali has now apologized for the comments which he

Called deeply offensive ignorant and false uh but the Tories are still calling for labor to suspend its byelection campaign remove AAR Ali’s party membership uh we’re still joined in the studio by former government advisor James price we have to tread carefully here because you’re not really supposed to talk about byelections uh in

The uh kind of weeks and months leading up to them but we have to talk about this uh because it is Labor’s anti-Semitism head rearing its ugly head once again uh you strip away the surface from so many of these people and they start start saying this nonsense he now

Says I’m I’m really sorry what I said was offensive ignorant and stupid and all that well why did you say it then I mean you can’t help speculating that uh his anti-semitic bile that he’s was caught saying was recorded saying uh was to appeal uh to a constituency uh that

Probably is not too favorable towards Israel yeah absolutely right on this why why did he say there’s two reasons he said it one this chap believes this stuff believes these kind of horrible anti-semitic ideas that Israel would allow 14400 of its people to be killed

Or to be kidnapped and have to be forced to live underground just they had an excuse to go in and attack Gaza and all the rest of it or as you say The other reason why he said it is he thinks it’s a big vote winner for him because the

Other people in the labor party in that constituency and that Community think that’s true uh and have similarly what do we call it problematic anti-semitic views and either one of those very clearly renders somebody completely unsuitable to be a member of the British Parliament yeah I mean Labour’s response

Was oh well he just gone down a wormhole of Conspiracy Theory online great that’s what we want as an elected representative I mean I think though you know when this guy was first nominated as a candidate he stood there and made his acceptant speech as the you know

Candidate for the labor party in a language that wasn’t English and had translators there and stuff and I thought to myself what’s going on here I don’t think this is acceptable I don’t think it’s right to say well look there’s a big Muslim Community in watch so we’re going to have the Muslim

Candidate speaking in the first language of many of these people you are going to be you want to be a British MP I’m sorry I find it deeply concerning yeah absolutely right and and you know we should expect to see a lot more of this as demographic changes keep going and

Our attitudes to demographics don’t change uh to say as you said we should be a kind of uh no matter what religion you’re from or what your skin color is or anything else that you’re British which is the way that the Americans manag to do this stuff a lot better than

We do right unless we start changing the way that we kind of police the way we think about this stuff it’s not going to get any better and and for the labor party right it’s they’re almost in a worse position than they were under Corbin at least Corbin’s line was

Consistent it was oh it’s all all this stuff is all a lie all the antisemitic stuff it’s just a slur against us it’s all mean blah blah blah whereas starm has come and said yep there was a problem with it all now antisemitism very bad oh this guy said this stuff but

I’m gonna stand by him anyway P mcfaden said uh oh yeah you know he made a mistake uh but he has apologized and he’s learned his lesson does he believe thaty that’s what he says that’s what that’s just ridiculous absolutely ridiculous but uh the law of

Media requires us to read read out the full list of the candidates standing yeah I’ll do the I’ll go down to the second howth how’s that uh here we go these are the other people standing in the Rochdale byelection Azar Ali as we said Mark Coleman independent Simon

Danuk reform UK Ian Donaldson liberal Democrat Paul Ellison conservative George Galloway Workers Party of Britain Michael howth independent William howth independent then you got guy utton from the green party or we can speak about him in a bit can’t we uh Raven rodent sorner that’s the official monster

Raving Looney Party candidate we always look forward to saying their names don’t we and David Tully who is another independent now you showed me before you came on air a very interesting tweet by the green party candidates in the purpose with with it in mind that we treat everybody equally uh what what

What he tweeting about so some very robust tweets Unearthed by the Green Party candidate talking about how the Quran the holy book of Islam is full of rape and murder and pillage and all these sorts horrible things and therefore it wasn’t fit for the 21st century that was the Green Party

Candidate saying that that’s now come out and he said oh uh KY the green party mission is so important I don’t want to be in the way of this I’m going to stand aside now as well but of course just like with the labor Party candidate it’s

Now too late for these to move from the ballot there’s nothing do about this I mean what is so stunning actually about this watcho by election more than any others is I think it really is emblematic of huge shifts that we’re seeing in society in politics not just

In the way we’re talking about the woke uh you know infiltration of the British Army and its recruitment policies there uh we’ve talked for weeks now about these Pro Palestine marches the fact that you’ve had things like primary schools with bomb threats shutting down because they said to their kids look we

Don’t want you to wear sort of ribbons and badges saying I support Palestine or anything else for that matter and now you actually see across the country and the forcoming general election this organization called Muslim vote who I think and I need to check this is run by

A guy who uh purportedly used to learn that hasb but Al to hear organization which is now prescribed um and this organization Muslim V vote is plotting to unseat at least 55 labor and Tor MPS who voted against or abstained on the Gaza ceasefire votes by essentially putting

It around their Community saying don’t vote for this person because but also Fielding their own candidat Ates where there’s big Muslim communities to try and make sure that they split votes and potentially even win seats in Parliament now what really does strike me here is the tail is wagging the dog and this

Isn’t a siren Call this isn’t me going you know old xenophobic Alex old not comfortable with multiculturalism I’m saying this is the Muslim Community saying do as we demand or we’re now going to mess with your politics right and this is this is a very dark dangerous road for this or any other

Country to to seek to go down and it’s not too late that we can turn our politics away from all of this right we have at the moment a a brown skinn prime minister from the Hindu background right who’s as British as anybody else my old boss was Chancellor was born in Baghdad

Come over here much more British even than I am right likes Man United and football in the weather I don’t understand any of that going on but these things it’s not about skin color it’s not about any of this stuff but it is about the British way of life and

It’s about all those nice senses of fair play and all those things that we all like and care about if we’ve got big pockets of big communities now who are getting involved not just in the social aspect and cultural aspects and you know forcing people to cover up hair if they

Don’t really want to and all the other problems that we’ve seen now getting involved into National Politics as well right and you start seeing a big representation either at the next election or afterwards of a big group of people whose primary loyalty is to a certain set of religious ideas rather

Than the communities they represent the constituencies or the country more importantly that’s a very very dark dangerous sectarian Road for us to go down you ready forari let’s talk about I mean I mean I suppose the problem is if you have a a Multicultural Society and

People want to do this uh that’s a function of democracy but it is a problem I agree uh talking of problems rishy sunak they say and uh who would dispute it is in is uh presiding over a kind of Tory death spiral uh and not

Expected to do uh very well in the by elections or indeed the general elections huge calls now for him to swallow his pride pick up the phone uh call Boris Johnson who for all his faults is a very good campaign and remains quite a popular figure in order

To give the Tores a better chance uh at the next election uh but Boris apparently has let it be known uh well I might do this but he’s going to have to phone me personally do you think uh that Richie will eat Humble Pie and beg Boris

To come back uh I wouldn’t Never Say Never to any of these sorts of things uh Egos and personalities are nothing new in politics I think what would be even better for the PM who is one of the most hardworking people and is finding that no matter how early he wakes up however

Long he stays however much he reads however much he works that he can’t get a fundamentally broken system to deliver the kinds of results that he wants and so I think actually the kind of break glass in case of emergency thing him is not about calling up Boris or anybody

Else it’s about doing the kinds of Hail Mary pass as Americans would call it in terms of policy terms that would actually get the the votes in and say you know what if I win this this election I’m going to fundamentally reform the way the Civil Service Works

Maybe that involves getting out of the ECR so we can actually stop the boats it’s about dealing with the illegal immigration it’s about locking up enough criminals it’s about that kind of red meat that actually the country is crying out for and is he going to have the the

Ability to do that I really hope so because that’s what we need I think the problem is though if he does stand up and say I’m going to leave the ECR I’m going to reform uh the Civil Service I’m going to deport foreign criminals that is literally the record that’s been

Played ahead of je every General ction by the conservative party for over a decade now we’ve not seen any of those things happen so I think he’s in trouble there but what’s interesting yes is that I mean I think the conservatives must Ru the day they harried Boris Johnson out

Of office because despite essentially being a liberal Democrat who actually is the one who opened the doors to mass immigration and Net Zero he is kind of liked by people but but what is interesting now is sort of leaks from number 10 suggesting that they’ve told

All these MPS who are going to step down ahead of the next election realizing they’re not going to win their seat again they may as well go go and uh get a p45 and look for the next job to to stagger their step Downs Tracy Crouch was today’s uh turn on the resignation

Wagon yeah well I mean the hope is that uh the polls will tighten I suspect right at the moment I think as more people start to see just what an absolute shower the labor party under starma still is and how they’re so policy light and that you start electing

These kinds of Nutters in this in this by elction if that happens and anybody else with these horrible views that things will tighten but what we really have is as I said the civil service is a big problem but actually the quality of MPS of all parties has been steadily

Reducing over each Parliament and so I just hope that the the conservatives and any other Pary start getting higher quality people right you want have think that what a tough job being an MP is what what an unpleasant job it would be and you think the number one

Disqualifier for anybody doing that job would be wanting to do that job in the first place so perhaps we just move to a lottery system and say right for the next few like your conscription or like your conscription idea right right 650 of you unlucky souls are going to have

To go in there and just have to do this for 5 years and see if you do it cuz then maybe we get some maybe we could run on a joint ticket and both be shared MP for Gloucester a great idea I know be good it be so the question sort of

Undercutting the uh election is what kind of dangerous lunatic would want to be an MP here 650