Zia Yusuf has responded to Peter Kyle’s comments this morning saying Nigel Farage is on the side of Jimmy Savile:
“To use that allegation against Nigel is one of the most appalling and disgusting things I have seen in the political arena in my lifetime and I think it is upon him to apologise.”
Yusuf went on to attack Kyle as a ‘dinosaur’ with no experience in tech:
“And whatever horrors you think your child is already looking at, I promise you as a parent, once they go into that rabbit hole, it is your worst nightmare as a parent. And if you have, for example, BT or Sky, one of the child safety locks that you have, if you’re a parent, those VPNs defeat them because it basically hides the metadata. So it defeats all your existing child safety locks. The person in question who’s using these slurs, I just want to make this point, has never worked in tech. From what I can tell, he’s never even worked in the private sector. And this is the problem. You have MPs and politicians who are frankly dinosaurs do not understand the world that they’re trying to legislate. And the kids whom they are trying to protect running rings around them.”
Kyle has doubled down. Heat on the Science Secretary here – Starmer will have to defend the comments…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”