Tory apology for Labour antisemitism jibe

A Conservative councillor has apologised for shouting “for the many, not the Jew” at a group of Labour Party activists in a London pub.

Billy Greening, a district councillor from Horsham in Sussex, reportedly approached Guardian columnist Owen Jones, Huck Magazine editor Mike Segalov and Ash Sarkar, senior editor of Novara Media, in the Falcon pub in Battersea, South-West London on Saturday.

The group of activists, who were campaigning for Labour, said Mr Greening then shouted “for the many, not the Jew” – a play on the party’s slogan under Jeremy Corbyn.

Conservative Party councillor Billy Green just came up to me and @OwenJones84 in Clapham, and said “for the many and not the Jew.” When we called him out, he said “it’s a joke, it’s funny.”

It’s not funny. It’s antisemitism and it needs to be booted out of politics.