(Brigg and Goole)
(Con):...Then of course there was the shocking
Wileyincident, when he was tweeting on average
every 87 seconds, which is incredible. There were 600 tweets, on a
conservative estimate, which were seen online by more than 47
million people, of vile antisemitic abuse. Let us just consider
some examples of it. He tweeted:
“If you work for a company owned by 2 Jewish men and you
challenge the Jewish community in anyway of course you will get
fired.”
Another one was:
“Infact there are 2 sets of people who nobody has really wanted
to challenge #Jewish & #KKK but being in business for 20
years you start to undestand why:”
Then—something completely disgusting:
“Jewish people you think you are too important I am sick of you”
and
“Jewish people you make me sick and I will not budge”.
It took days. As I said, it took, at a conservative estimate, 600
tweets before anything was done about it. Instagram videos were
posted. When one platform closed it down it ended up elsewhere.
That is despite all the terms and conditions in place.
Enforcement is, sadly, all too invisible, as the hon. Member for
Cardiff South and Penarth () has highlighted, with regard to Radio Aryan. I was
pleased that Wiley was stripped of his honour,
but he should never have been able to get into the position of
being able to spout that bile for so long. The best we have been
able to do is strip him of an honour. It is completely and
utterly unacceptable...
