Veteran Tory MP Bob Stewart was convicted last week of committing a “racially aggravated public-order offence” during an altercation with a heckler on the street. The trouble is, says Fraser Myers in Spiked, “anyone who has seen the footage of the incident will see that this is not the sinister act of racist abuse that it has been portrayed as”.
A video, taken by Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei from the U.K.-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, shows Alwadaei confronting Stewart outside the Foreign Office’s Leicester House. Alwadaei can be heard, off-camera, accusing Stewart of “selling” himself to Bahrain (Stewart had just left an event organised by the Bahraini embassy and had previously enjoyed an expenses-paid trip courtesy of the Bahrain government). A flustered Stewart then responds with a few jibes.
“Go away. I hate you. You make a lot of fuss,” an indignant Stewart says to his heckler. He also calls Alwadaei a “stupid man” and tells him to “shut up” and to “get stuffed”. “You are stupid!”, Alwadaei hits back. So far, so childish. Then, Stewart can just about be heard telling Alwadaei to “Go back to Bahrain”. This single off-the-cuff comment is what turned this otherwise banal altercation between an MP and a protester into a police matter.
Last week, Westminster Magistrates’ Court decided, after a one-day trial, that Stewart’s comments demonstrated “racial hostility likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to those present at the time”. Stewart has now surrendered the Tory whip while he considers appealing the conviction.
When quoted in a news report, shorn of any context, the words Stewart used certainly look dodgy. But the footage makes clear that this was just an argument that got out of hand. Stewart was clearly responding in the heat of the moment, as he tried to dodge Alwadaei’s questions and heckles. He wasn’t harassing or intimidating him. And while he certainly chose his words poorly, it hardly seems fair to damn him as a racist hate criminal on the basis of one thoughtless insult alone.
Anyone reading the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) press release about the case would think Stewart had organised a KKK rally. “Hatred of any kind has no place in society… the CPS will not hesitate to prosecute those who perpetrate hate crimes,” says Claire Walsh, the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor. Stewart’s fine was even increased from £400 to £600 because of “the seriousness of the hate crime he committed”.
The fact that prosecutors ever considered this spat to be a serious offence demonstrates, all too clearly, why they must never have the right to police our speech. It shows that ‘hate’ is an entirely subjective accusation. And it shows that what constitutes a hate crime is determined not by any objective criteria, but by the sensitivities and political biases of those working for the state.
Myers adds that last month, the same Metropolitan Police decided “that there was nothing untoward about a group of Islamists chanting ‘jihad’ on the streets of London. Nor do they seem to think that activists calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel are hate criminals”.
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It seems a remarkably temperate response to the slanderous accusations from the heckler
There will be plenty of heckling this Remembrance weekend when two tribes clash as engineered by TPTB , Tommy & Katie ( legends btw ) are back on X just in time to whip up a frenzy !!..
No sympathy for this man. It’s his wretched Party that has allowed the whole woke culture to flourish and poison our society.
Still wondering and waiting to read the CPS press release what sanction was applied by MetPlod to the heckler?? Anyone got a link to that….?
How is it racist? It refers to the other person’s nationality which is not at all the same thing.
If only Bob had been an MP in the party of Government, he might have been able to speak out to prevent dangerous laws like this ever reaching the statute book.
Rightly or wrongly, his conviction demonstrates why the Tory party must be annihilated and replaced by an actual centre right conservative party.
THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. Parliament is a Punch & Judy show to keep the great unthinking/unwashed entertained while the BoE steals our wallets. Why do you think a Remembrancer sits in Parliament? To serve the interests of The City. The City runs the country and we are merely collateral because we are too stupid or too lazy to rid ourselves of their monetary system with local currencies, gold, silver and whatever else you can trade with. Cut them out. They are a cancer.
No idea if the chap was Muslim or not but because it is that time of the month no encouragement is needed to share this beautifully accurate ( and old ) video from Pat Condell.
( 6mins )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJ6FpabknY&ab_channel=PatCondell
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-glorious-dead-and-a-civilisation-crushed/
John Ellwood putting “Our glorious dead” into perspective. What a bloody legacy we will leave and bloody meaning the red stuff.
“Our birthright has been sold for a mess of pottage.
The civilisation our glorious dead openly or silently cherished has been crushed.
Those we remember on November 11 perished to preserve a way of life which has been destroyed by corrupt and weak-willed fools.
Our self-serving, self-congratulatory, self-centred ‘establishment’ hates us.”
Their sacrifice bought us nearly 75 years. But their time has passed. The subsequent generations should hang their heads in shame.
Bought us nearly 75 years of what, exactly?
The Nazis didn’t seem to hate this country, its people, its culture, its history or its landscapes, unlike our governments.
If the Germans had won, might the population of London still be majority British?
Or what if we’d never made that moronic commitment to Poland and had never gone to war?
May I suggest with all sincerity that you examine the document that was prepared for the Wannsee conference which estimated the number of Jews throughout Europe including Great Britain? Then look at the list of prominent people who would not have survived a successful Operation Sealion.
Prima facie evidence that “The Nazis” did exactly what you state they did not. It is true from all I have read that Hitler did not see England as an enemy over Russia but that changed dramatically post May 1940.
“Or what if we’d never made that moronic commitment to Poland and had never gone to war?”
If that “moronic commitment”, as you state with evident far sightedness, had NOT been made, the very small group of brilliant Polish mathematicians who broke the Enigma machine in operation in the mid 1930’s would not, perhaps, have been convinced to share their expertise with the French initially then British mathematicians. I encourage you to think very hard what might have happened if Bletchley Park had not been given that “golden goose” – may not as quickly established supremacy in decoding some ( and for sure not all ) Enigma codes, Lorenz codes; may not have enabled Turing et al to continue the development of the – initially French – “Bombe” technology; may not have meant that Tommy Flowers developed “Colossus”; may have not lead to what we know call “Five Eyes”; may have meant that SIXTA in Hut 6 at BP would not have developed “sigint” analysis techniques (which I know beyond any doubt, are still employed by GCHQ and elsewhere).
Conjecture that may be; however, life would have been very very different and very possibly not in any good way.
It just isn’t true that they died to preserve our way of life.
Our way of life wasn’t threatened by the Germans in either 1914 or 1939.
I have not stated that our war dead gave their lives to preserve our way of life but I’ll warrant they believed so.
What is beyond dispute is that our war memorials have a sacred nature attached to them through societal cohesion and frankly I believe that is to our benefit as a nation.
Those members of the Armed Forces who have given their lives for their country did so with honourable intentions no matter what the lessons of history have subsequently proven. We owe those men and women a high degree of respect and anybody seeking to undermine that part of the national psyche is an enemy of mine.
As it happens if the German invasion had been successful in 1940 the British way of life would have suffered enormously under the onslaught of Nazification. To assume differently is naiive at best.
There was no unsuccessful German invasion in 1940.
Never mind. Forget it.
I think he has never led a non thirsty horse to water…..
Then you make enemies far too easily – which is one of the reasons there are wars. And of course making oodles of $ for the US and the banking cartels as we pay the interest on their eye-watering loans of money that never actually existed. To those who clearly don’t understand the geography of London or the aim of the marches where Jews and Arabs walk side by side with plenty of English families – all calling for an end to the 33 day carpet-bombing of Gaza – the US Embassy is in 9 Elms which is nearly 5 miles from the Cenotaph. Get a grip lads.
As it happens if the German invasion had been successful in 1940 the British way of life would have suffered enormously under the onslaught of Nazification. To assume differently is naiive at best.
There was no realistic prospect of such a German invasion ever happening because the German navy was way too small to control the channel for long enough to transfer an army, let alone supply it, and nobody forced England to go to war because of not-yet ethnically cleansed German territories which had been transferred to Poland. Nobody forced England to remain at war after the 1940-campaign in western continental Europe had ended with a French defeat, either. Not to mention that nobody forced England to pave the way for the Nazi regime by insisting on the effective destruction of Germany because the French had wanted that 15 years earlier. Coming to think of it, nobody forced England to sabotage all efforts to localize the the Austrian-Serbian conflict in 1914, either.
Imagine an IRA commando would covertly come into Britain to shoot Prince William and his family during a public celebration, say, remembrance day. What would you think of that? And what would you think of another European country ‘proudly’ siding with the murderers because its ruling class sensed an opportunity to get rid of undesired economic competition?
“ Nobody forced England to remain at war after the 1940-campaign in western continental Europe had ended with a French defeat, either. Not to mention that nobody forced England to pave the way for the Nazi regime by insisting on the effective destruction of Germany because the French had wanted that 15 years earlier.”
Very laughable ignorance; I think you need to read up on the attacks by the Luftwaffe up and down Great Britain, why they were ordered and by whom, how the nazis developed their own versions of WMD, what their intended targets were, how successful their targeting was; sufficient reason to remain “at war”?.
Don’t pass off your own ignorance as somebody else’s just because somebody else wrote about something you were ignorant about. The futile attempt of the Luftwaffe to achieve something in England with it’s ground support aircraft hadn’t occurred had England not voluntarily declared war on Germany or had been willing to end the war after the continental campaign was lost.
You demonstrate, very adroitly, a highly developed ability to displace ignorance. If Junkers 88’s and Heinkel III’s were just “ground support aircraft” pull the other one and do some research into Portsmouth, Southampton, Hull, Coventry and especially the East End of London. The damage inflicted amounted to a “futile attempt to achieve something”? Not so futile, was it?
Those we remember on November 11 perished to preserve a way of life which has been destroyed by corrupt and weak-willed fools.
The 11th of November was the day the armistice for the first world war was signed and the people who perished perished exclusively for Lloyd George’s desire to eliminate Germany as (monarchical) great power and to wipe Austria-Hungary off the map. The Germans never had any designs on Britain and originally went to war exclusively to defend their empire against the combined Russian-French attack from the west and east. They wanted to end the war in favour of a negotiated peace in 1916 and 1917 and had started negotiations for an armistice as eary as possible at the beginning of October 1918¹. The reason why it finally came in November was not that this negotiations had had any success (or that there was any good will for them) but exclusively, because the Spartakist (ie, bolshevist) uprising in Germany had rendered the German army incapable of further fighting because its supply lines had been cut.
¹ Demanded by the military technocrats of the 3rd OHL (Hindenburg/ Ludendorff) after it had become clear that there were no further chances of Germany ending the war in its favour through military force. Ludendorff ultimatively came to the conclusion that there was no other choice but the keep fighting as the other side simply didn’t want to end the bloodshed but by that time, the SPD (German pseudo-socialist party) had already become powerful enough that it could demand his immediate dismissal.
“The Germans never had any designs on Britain” – they built up they Navy for show?
According to the political/ military doctrine of the time, a globally operating merchant fleet required creating a navy capable of global operations for trade protection. The strategic goal for imperial Germany navy was to be so large that it would serve as deterrent against attacks of stronger naval powers, ie, Britain. Superiority was never intended (or achievable, considering that Germany – as opposed to Britan – also needed a strong army). Apart from that, here’s a nice quote from the operational plan of the Prussian general staff from 1901/02 said to be still valid in 1914 by people who ought to know this: “We don’t want to conquer anything, just defend what we have. In all likeliness, we’ll never be the attackers but always the attacked. Nevertheless, we’ll only be able to achieve the quick success we need when taking up the offensive.”
[„Wir wollen nichts erobern, sondern nur verteidigen, was wir besitzen. Wir werden wohl nie die Angreifer, sondern stets die Angegriffenen sein. Den notwendigen schnellen Erfolg kann uns aber mit Sicherheit nur die Offensive bringen“, quoted in Reichsarchiv: Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918, Mittler & Sohn Berlin 1925, vol 1, p. 24]
The Kaiser fully endorsed that I’m sure; perhaps that is why German submarines were active in South America, Caribbean, off the coasts of North America and attempted to blockade Britain ( as in 39-45). So I bow to your vastly superior intellect and knowledge; I never did succeed in selectively seeking quotes to underpin a predisposition to validating a conclusion already made…
“Hatred of any kind has no place in society… the CPS will not hesitate to prosecute those who perpetrate hate crimes,”
Does that include chanting about “rivers to the sea” or generally praising Hamas and their vicious attack on Israeli citizens or attacking the right of Israel (a friend of the UK) to its very existence. Ah, no – I though not; too many of the employees of the CPS wouldn’t like it.
I’m guessing you’ve never attended one of the marches. Empty vessels and all that. Jewish orgs have asked if the marches (following this weekend) can be moved to Sundays so they can also attend. Are they anti-Semite too? No-one is cheering Hamas. You and your 77th ilk are just fanning to flames of hate, probably for minimum wage.
Let’s have some wonderful dark humour:
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/the-frank-report-lxviii/
Excellent as always.
All bases comprehensively covered. Rowley and Lineker coming in for some justified approbrium.
Mr Stewart is my MP and he and I do not see eye-to-eye since he refused to ask a question in the house about the de-classification of Covid-19 as a HCID and why he supported the lockdowns. Add some other stuff and it escalated from there. We got off on the wrong foot when he wouldn’t respond, so I had to report him to the local conservative association and that got his interest. Then it went downhill from there, including reporting him to the Standards Commissioner. He has multiple mailboxes and loads of staff (£146,722.91 in 2020/2021) and most of the time it all seems a bit of an inconvenience to him.
My email to him and his entire staff – “Bob Stewart, you are a vile human being voting for the introduction of mandatory vaccination in the U.K.” in connection with the vote for care home workers I had appealed to him not to support. He didnt respond to either..
Then there was his apology he need to make to the house about Ethics. I also shared this with his local Facebook page and I got awarded Top Fan status, which of course he didnt acknowledge.
“Mr Stewart,
My experience of you is not good. All of your colleagues I have contacted seem to be able to respond but despite your significant expenses for staff, this doesn’t happen with you.
Perhaps you should focus on your constituents, rather than other matters. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-five-tory-mps-broke-24581846
Please do let me know when you are apologising to the house and I will do my best to watch or record it.”
Thanks for the feedback. The guy is still not guilty of a crime but your opprobrium is well placed.
His colonial attitude sucks though.
Western civilisation is in decadent, self-destructive decline. And it is reaching a stage of collapse, signalled by the way the establishment now actively supports all the forces that are driving this decline.
First and foremost is economic collapse. We are now in a downward spiral of spending increasing amounts of money we don’t have and giving it away to the unproductive among us.
The population is collapsing and to make matters worse, homosexuality and deviant ideas about gender are being actively promoted which can only accelerate the collapse.
Western culture itself, the history that binds us together, is being actively dismantled in an organised premeditated way with the compliance if not support of the intellectual class that should be preserving and burnishing it.
Our industrial and economic resources are being actively misdirected towards dead end, unproductive technologies that will make our lives worse and impoverish us.
The population is deliberately being replaced by people that are not of western culture and many of whom actually despise it and want to destroy it and replace it.
These are all now the stated projects of the establishment and will direct the full force of the law against those who dare challenge these projects or even, as this chase shows, might encourage others, even unwittingly, to do so.
Among the population there are a few who realise what is coming, but the majority are either sleepwalking through it sedated by a level of prosperity that is about to collapse, actively working to bring about this collapse or useful idiots who don’t understand what they’re supporting.
It’s all very bleak.
100%.
I don’t quite understand which part of this was hateful. An offhand suggesting that some loudmouth apparently very much concerned for the domestic situation in Bahrrain should perhaps live there can hardly be called hateful.
Not sure of the ins and outs of what constitutes a hate crime but surely setting fire to a war memorial fits the bill more than just telling someone to go to a particular country? They just need to find the culprits now;
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1721905942504374482
Those responsible for this are absolute scum.
Interesting that it was the Chief Magistrate, a District Judge, that was given the case. One man sitting instead of the usual bench of 3 local Magistrates. I can’t help feeling a different decision would have been reached if the 3 JP’s had dealt with it?
State interference with freedom of speech. Both should be allowed to say what they like about each other so long as they do not call for violence. Anyhow, millions of Britons would support the MPs comments given the increasingly dangerous situation we are in in this country regarding the ‘peaceful’ religionists who seem to have invaded us without our permission.
In my view, this alleged crime was not committed at all. It appears that the CPS, and more strangely a magistrate, believe that a mention of another persons country of birth is a hate crime? Ok I have been called English many times, often with something rude attached. Were these hate crimes? Why is the Country of origin of the magistrate not mentioned? Perhaps we can all guess, but this is WOKE on steroids. Our laws (bad agreed) are being subverted for the agenda. The CPS and Police are complicit. It is becoming very difficult to live iun my land of birth. I am probably a bit old to leave, but even Afganistan seems almost friendly, because my countrymen obviously hate everyone of my ethnicity.
Magistrate is Anglo Saxon????
I will add one more point, shouting Jihad and other slogans in the UK is a hate crime. Why no action? Clearly the Police want to eliminate us from our own Country. God save the King, he will need it!
The Windsors need to go or more appropriately be got rid of. Bloody parasitical leeches who care nothing for this country or its people.
And be replaced by anyone of the following nomenklatura – The Starmer/Corbyns/Camerons/Cleggs/Lammys/Raynors/Sunaks/Blunts/O’Briens/Bradys…..this list goes forever on….?
We import people from places with no democracy. We bring them here because they allegedly flee from tyranny. When they get here they want to turn it into the hell hole they left. If we are going to import millions of people who want to stone women for adultery and throw gay people of buildings what do we expect? The future is very grim and anyone who points that out is apparently a “racist”, which is ofcourse is just another one of those name calling attacks like “climate denier” used to silence opinion.
Meanwhile Crispin Blunt shouts Hamas has legitimate targets. Britain has fallen and Enoch Powell will be proven a visionary.
“Rivers of blood” I have always considered to be very prescient, if very undesirable.
If this was the USA and not the UK Bob Stewart MP would be a Republican and the judge a Democrat and it would all be so obvious.
Another set up. We need to be on high alert for this. Bob Stewart was trapped just like poor Lady Susan Hussey at the Palace.
Hate crimes happen all over this country, visibly on the streets in attacks & marches and behind closed doors to 100s of 1000s of young white British girls over decades. They are committed by racists who hate this country, hate the British, hate our culture, hate our laws: enemies that should never have been allowed to come here or live here. Their steadily increasing numbers were foisted upon us by arrogant politicians against our will and without our consent. We are supposed to watch the ruination of our homeland and heritage without saying a word in protest unless we want a visit from Dimwit Thought Police and persecution by treacherous Marxist Prosecutors.
The traitors who created the ingredients for a future civil war should be the first casualties of it if there is any such thing as justice.