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Monday 4 June 2018

Bob Blackman MP's Colourful Associations

The Muslim Council of Britain has recently complained about Bob Blackman MP claiming he more than once demonstrated prejudice against Muslims (which he denies). 

In fact Bob Blackman has a long history of working with peculiar people, dating back to when he was Leader of Brent Council in the 1990s.  As allies at that time, he had councillors who seemed to relish being given disproportionate perks as well as being involved in dubious defences of FGM as "cultural practices" and renaming Harlesden as "Paradise on Nirvana."  Both then and subsequently he was associated with a number of policies ignoring the long term issues of Brent Council.

More recently, he played a key part in shepherding Bertha Joseph into the Conservative Party, a coup I suspect he and his colleagues regretted the minute that they had to sit through her first speech as a Conservative Councillor in which she chose to describe herself as a "black witch".  They subsequently dumped her as a candidate in Kensal Green following her disgrace by the Standards Board.  Boris Johnson managed to get himself caught up in the scandal.  Despite her defeat in 2010 as an Independent, she reappeared as a Tory candidate in 2018, whereupon she was defeated in Brondesbury Park

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