Somerset councillors wasted an hour of a full council meeting yesterday on a motion from Labour and the Greens to evict international military technology company Elbit Systems from a council property because it supposedly supplies arms to the IDF. All prompted by protests from crazed activists…

Today they’ve had to apologise after Elbit got in touch to clarify that it does no such thing. Always worth checking the facts presented to you by raving quacks…

The Council would like to apologise and withdraw the statement that Elbit Systems UK Limited supplies military equipment to the Israeli Defence Forces or the Israeli Ministry of Defence. (4/4)

— Somerset Council (@SomersetCouncil) April 26, 2024

The motion was, of course, supported by the LibDem leadership. Maybe they could have spent the hour trying to work out how to avoid imposing a 10% increase in council tax. Somerset Council budget shortfall: £100 million…