{"id":110517,"date":"2024-08-08T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/kent-labour-councillor-ricky-jones-suspended-after-telling-walthamstow-protest-fascists-need-to-have-throats-cut\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:22:17","slug":"kent-labour-councillor-ricky-jones-suspended-after-telling-walthamstow-protest-fascists-need-to-have-throats-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/kent-labour-councillor-ricky-jones-suspended-after-telling-walthamstow-protest-fascists-need-to-have-throats-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Labour councillor Ricky Jones suspended after telling Walthamstow protest ‘fascists need to have throats cut’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labour have suspended a local councillor who told a protest that fascists needed to have their throats cut.<\/p>\n

Ricky Jones, a local councillor in Dartford in Kent since 2019, was filmed giving a speech at a protest in Walthamstow, east London, surrounded by protesters.<\/p>\n

He told the crowd that members from the TSSA transport union, which he is a member of, “had to go home on trains and take stickers off the trains with razor blades on the back of them”.<\/p>\n

“And razor blades stuck between seats, where people sit,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Now these people don’t give a shit about who they hurt – we’ve got children and women using those trains, it’s during the summer holidays.<\/p>\n

“They are disgusting fascists and we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”<\/p>\n

The crowd cheered and Mr Jones appeared to gesture slashing his own throat with his hand as he said it.<\/p>\n

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A spokesman for the Labour Party told Sky News Mr Jones has been suspended from the party.<\/p>\n

He will no longer be able to sit as a Labour councillor as he has had the Labour whip removed, so will sit as an independent.<\/p>\n

A Labour spokesman said: “This behaviour is completely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

“The councillor has been suspended from the party.”<\/p>\n

Sky News has contacted Mr Jones and the TSSA for a comment.<\/p>\n

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted a video of the speech to X and called for Mr Jones to be arrested, saying if he is not “we know there is two-tier policing”.<\/p>\n

He also asked Sir Keir Starmer why he had “not taken action”.<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Police said it was “aware of the significant public concern around this video”, adding: “Officers are investigating as a matter of urgency.”<\/p>\n

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During the recent riots, Mr Farage has accused the prime minister of “two-tier policing” – the suggestion that some protests and demonstrations are dealt with more harshly than others.<\/p>\n

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