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British General Election 2024 – Highlights and Lowlights – Loveless Landslide, Sandcastle Majority. Far-Right Hiding in Plain Sight, House of Paisley Falls in Antrim – and a Message of Hope from new MP Shockat Adam, Leicester South

Let’s start with positive news :

Shockat Adam MP, Leicester South – “This is for the people of Gaza”.

Shockat Adam MP, Leicester South, who defeated a high-profile labour candidate, the former MP Jonathan Ashworth https://t.co/giXzk8X4WX
— John Meehan (@johndmeehan) July 6, 2024

When you listen to this June 25 car-crash interview with former Leicester South Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth, you would be forgiven for thinking he was a member of the far-right racist party, Reform.

Jonathan Ashworth's car crash interview on returning asylum seekers to their country of origin

Jonathan Ashworth, "Rather than sending flights to Rwanda, we're going to be sending flights to the countries these people came from"

Victoria Derbyshire, "Most asylum seekers ceom… pic.twitter.com/s4G75wcrSl
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 24, 2024

Shockat Adam was not alone. Five pro-Gaza independent candidates (including former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North) are members of the new Westminster parliament :

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Jul 6, 2024 at 3:22 pm

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