MP Shockat Adam just slammed deputy prime minister David Lammy’s despicable stance on Gaza during a powerful speech at the Your Party conference.

Speaking about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Britain’s complicity in it, he said:

One of the most frustrating things that I find in parliament is when they tell me… that ‘we are doing everything we can to stop this conflict from happening’…

One exchange that will stand with me forever: when David Lammy, the then foreign secretary, was asked, ‘let’s have economic sanctions like we did on apartheid South Africa to make a change’… and David Lammy, who summons his slavery ancestry at every opportunity that he can, says this: ‘it is simply too expensive for this country to have economic sanctions against Israel’.

Adam said:

Let me tell you, David, one of the biggest obstacles for the abolition of slavery was ‘it was too damn expensive’. The irony now that the child of somebody who was from slavery is saying ‘it’s too expensive’ is unbelievable!

A statement linked to his speech added:

Remember, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

The only people whose interest it is for you to believe you have no power are those who do!

Adam also highlighted in his speech that:

Apartheid was not ended by [F.]W. de Klerk. It was thousands of Nelson Mandelas. It was thousands and thousands of ordinary people like you and me that made that change.

As the Canary has reported previously, Shockat Adam didn’t just help to free Leicester from the awful Jon Ashworth. He has also been a consistent opponent of Israeli war crimes and prime minister Keir Starmer’s elitist government. And while he may not align completely with every issue Your Party will stand for, he is clear that unity is the best way to defeat the far right and its Labour-Tory enablers.

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By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.