David Ward

Few things depress me in life, but one of them is how nasty people keep rearing their ugly heads in public.  A few weeks ago that just happened.

Former Bradford East Lib Dem MP David Ward was elected as a councillor in Bradford.  During his tenure as MP, he made several horrendous anti-semitic comments about Jews in relation to Israel Palestine conflict, including the one below on Sky news.

He was then suspended from the Lib Dem whip and followed it up with this little titbit that compared the Palestinian situation to the holocaust

Ward lost his seat in the 2015 general election but now despite all of this the citizens in a part of Bradford have elected him as a councillor.  In the midst of the Labour antisemitism scandal, Nigel Farage said that Labour antisemitism was to do with Labour appealing for Muslim votes due to the institutional antisemitism in the Muslim community.  It seems that this appeal to a very low common demoninator is happening in the Lib Dems and in the left generally.