Oh dear. The Green party is in hot water after it emerged that one of its newly-elected councillors labelled a rabbi a ‘creep’ and a ‘kind of animal’ as far back as February. The party is under fire for failing to suspend Mothin Ali, who was elected to Leeds city council in last week’s elections, after the new councillor was revealed to have directed an angry tirade at a Jewish chaplain during a self-made YouTube video.
Ali labelled rabbi Zechariah Deutsch an ‘absolute low-life’, ‘absolutely disgusting’ and ‘shameful’ in the clip he made three months ago and on the day of the 7 October attack by Hamas, Ali took to Twitter to post that ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism must end’. Golly. Despite the revelations, Ali – who yelled ‘Allahu Akbar!’ when he won election last week – still managed to stand as a local candidate for the Greens. Talk about falling standards…
The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh condemns Green Party councillor Mothin Ali shouting “Allahu Akbar” after his election in Leeds.
“It was really unpleasant seeing someone angrily shouting in the name of Allah… this is a very sinister development for British democracy!” pic.twitter.com/lc6hRgwX0C
— Talk (@TalkTV) May 6, 2024
Green co-leader Carla Denyer refused to answer questions on the party’s vetting procedures in an interview last night, before saying she was ‘not familiar with all of the details’. Mr S is curious about her claim, given the Mail reports that it highlighted comments made by Ali as far back as February. The Greens still haven’t managed to suspend their new councillor for the videoed remarks, which it says it is currently ‘investigating’. You could hardly accuse them of being too quick to jump to conclusions…
