Former British MP and media commentator Douglas Carswell has sparked outrage by saying “let’s make England Abdul free”. Carswell, who regularly writes for the Telegraph, was a Conservative MP from 2005 to 2014, and then an MP for anti-immigration party UKIP until 2017.
On Sunday, Carswell took to social media platform X to share his views on a Daily Mail story about locals in Epping vowing to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled asylum seekers can stay in a hotel.
“From Epping to the sea, let’s make England Abdul free,” Carswell declared in an apparent spin on the pro-Palestinian slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.
The original slogan is often accused of implicitly advocating for violence against Jews, which pro-Palestine protesters strenuously deny. In contrast, Carswell’s version appears to explicitly call for the removal from Britain of everyone called Abdul.
No surely not. A conservative been a massive bellend, well I never.
So a guy that used to be a Tory MP, then UKIP MP (founder of Vote Leave) and now lives in the US as head of a conservative think tank in Mississippi.
What kind of a person pushes their country to leave a beneficial federation, then leaves the country themselves and then still spews racist bullshit about the country he shit on and abandoned? That’s not a rhetorical question, the answer is “a cunt”.
I came here to comment that he is a nobody and his opinion doesn’t matter, but I think it’s more important to highlight his past and also that he’s a megacunt.
Racist piece of shit continues to be a racist piece of shit. Colour me shocked.
Carswell hit back against Afzal’s comment - not to deny inciting racial hatred but instead to note that he cannot be prosecuted because he now lives in the US.
“I live under the protection of a free Republic where free speech is protected and your courts have not held jurisdiction in 249 years, Mr Afzal,” Carswell declared.
Good let’s revoke his citizenship then he clearly doesn’t need it.
Not if we can get him expelled from the US first! But that’ll have to happen in the post-MAGA era.
Though a strong argument could be made that living in Mississippi is its own punishment.