In the Rotherham by-election, the Respect Party and Yvonne Ridley have been implicated in a campaign leaflet that accuses Labour of racism.
Campaigning in the Rotherham by-election, the Respect Party appear to have shown their true nature yet again.
LabourList has reported on this campaign literature sent to Asian households in the constituency (see right).
This divisive and regressive style of campaigning has been denied by Yvonne Ridley (the Respect candidate in the election) and her campaign, but Labour is still claiming it to be a violation of election law.
There is past precedent to this, however, during George Galloway’s Bradford West campaign, when a targeted was letter sent out, reading:
“God KNOWS who is a Muslim. And he KNOWS who is not… I, George Galloway, do not drink alcohol and never have. Ask yourself if you believe the other candidate in this election can say that truthfully.”
Although denied at the time, the Galloway team told The Guardian the day after the election that it was in fact them who had distributed the letter.
This comes after continued controversy on the views of Yvonne Ridley herself – Left Foot Forward has previously reported on Ridley and what she believes in: Ridley rails against Zionism, its permeation throughout society, the West and its foreign policy and Israel.
She has also personally donated money to Hamas.
This latest leaflet it is a disgusting example of electioneering at its very worst. It worked in Bradford – let’s hope it doesn’t work in Rotherham…
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24 Responses to “Respect implicated in aggressive and slanderous Rotherham campaign leaflet”
Newsbot9
That’s right, I disagree with your far right views, so you spring into Magic Social Darwinist mode.
You can keep talking about this, but…
treborc1
yawn
Newsbot9
Yea, the truth’s like that.
illiberalconscious
Love that the respect party are taking votes away from Labour. These leftists who support mass immigration, cover up all the grooming gangs (Rotherham is the grooming gang capital of Yorkshire) who are racially targeting white children for sex. Look at other European countries they’re doing the same and you can see all the Muslim vote moving away as they form their own parties.
Adam
I am a Tory and for the first time in my life I will be voting Labour to keep the fascist, anti-Semitic Respect Party out. The Respect Party really are no better than the BNP and they employ exactly the same tactics of intimidation and violent thuggery. Who can forget the disgraceful attack on a Liberal Democrat MP by Respect Party activists?