The Liberal Democrats have launched an independent investigation into a speech made by a spokesperson for the party in Bromley, south London, who claimed the “fake antisemitism campaign against Labour is the worst single episode of misinformation I have ever witnessed.”
Jonathan Coulter, a former editor of the Liberal Democrats Friends of Palestine newsletter, was a speaker at the December 12 launch of an organisation called the Campaign for Free Speech.
Declaring he had been a Lib Dem member for five and a half years, Mr Coulter claimed that since 2015 the mainstream media had “put out a uniform wall-to-wall narrative” on Labour’s antisemitism issue “and failed to report evidence that disputes it.”
Mr Coulter, who is regularly quoted as the local Bromley party’s spokesperson, then claimed: “It is a surreal situation, where BBC produces a documentary about Chinese treatment of Uighurs, called ‘How to Brainwash a Million People’ (broadcast 25/11/19), while itself contributing to the brainwashing of tens of millions of British people, by more subtle means, in the run-up to the 2019 General Election.”
