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Former British MP Douglas Carswell sparks outrage with call to 'make England Abdul free' (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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.

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[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

No surely not. A conservative been a massive bellend, well I never.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

Racist piece of shit continues to be a racist piece of shit. Colour me shocked.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good let's revoke his citizenship then he clearly doesn't need it.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.