Glastonbury Urged to Ban Hamas-Supporting Band Kneecap Over “Kill Your MP” Rant
Glastonbury festival organisers have been urged to cancel a performance by Hamas-supporting Northern Irish rap group Kneecap over a rant in which they urge fans to kill their local MP. The Mail has more.
The Belfast trio are facing mounting criticism over a performance in which one of them said “the only good Tory is a dead Tory”.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheal Martin led political condemnation of the band, which is also under fire for voicing support for Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah at Coachella.
Labour MP David Taylor wrote to Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, urging him to take the rappers off the bill for the festival in June.
They are due to perform on the Saturday alongside acts including Charli XCX, Neil Young and Raye, and also did a set last year.
In his letter, Hemel Hempstead MP Mr Taylor wrote that if reports of the remarks were true “the group’s actions and statements go beyond the realm of legitimate political expression and into the dangerous territory of inciting violence and promoting extremism”.
The chilling remarks were made in November 2023, little more than two years after Tory MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death in his Essex constituency.
Sir David’s daughter Katie today demanded an apology for her self and her upset family.
Today, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman called the group’s lyrics “completely unacceptable”.
Asked about Kneecap’s remarks, he said: “It is obviously completely unacceptable and he completely rejects those views and condemns them in the strongest possible terms.”
He added: “We do not think that individuals expressing those views should be receiving future government funding.”
Asked if he agreed with Ms Amess’s call for the band to apologise, he replied: “Of course, those remarks were completely unacceptable. And calls for violence towards anyone, including MPs, is clearly completely unacceptable.”
Katie Amess, whose Conservative MP father was fatally stabbed at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in 2021, told BBC News NI’s Good Morning Ulster programme that she was “absolutely gobsmacked at the stupidity of somebody or a group of people being in the public eye and saying such dangerous, violent rhetoric”.
The mystery of course is why the police – ever eager to prosecute ‘hate speech’ that stops well short of incitement to violence – aren’t already all over this.
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The mystery of course is why the police – ever eager to prosecute ‘hate speech’ that stops well short of incitement to violence – aren’t already all over this.
Ahh, but you see there are two forms of hate: good hate, and bad hate. Good hate is whatever plays to the Establishment’s agenda – anti-whitism, for example. Bad hate, by contrast, is whatever doesn’t play to the Establishment’s agenda – hating the rape and murder of our children at the hands of the people the Establishment has imported to replace us, for example.
Thus the police will look at this band’s “songs” and apply the good hate/bad hate “lens” to them.
Spot on!
And notice how the late Jo Cox’s activist husband has been strangely silent about this incitement to murder MPs, only 7 years after she was murdered, and also Steven Timms MP has been strangely silent about it, only 14 years after an evil Pakistani Muslim Woman tried to stab him to death in his own constituency office, in order to win her entry ticket to “Paradise”, but failed to kill him, so she will have to attempt murder again, according to the most fundamental tenets of her faith.
I would like to see them turn up in Palestine with their rosary beads and see what Hamas do to them.
They remembered and honoured the faces of their forefathers. And I like the aesthetics especially the guy in the mask. Sometimes we are gifted with these events like an injection of real potent spirit.
Ah, I’m sure there will be no police visiting them to “check their thinking”.
Oh, no, of course this is no hate crime.
What was it for Lucy Connolly? 31 months for a tweet? For these guys, applause at Glastonbury.
The comparisons never end. Who did the most harm? Lucy with her words on a screen, that she later deleted, or these scummy gits?
”7 Romanian traffickers brought 14 young women into the UK to be r@ped, beaten, & financially abused.
4 walked free with suspended sentences.
Only 3 were jailed – the longest sentence was just 2 yrs 8 months.
The same as Lucy Connolly- jailed for an X post
Deport these men!”
https://x.com/Wommando/status/1916739035030041057
It is hard to keep it alive in times such as these and those who do so should be honoured.
I lived in Northern Ireland and in the Proddie and Catholic areas so it is a place that I view with reverence. You would be so surprised it is Europe’s best kept secret in terms of beauty and enchanting places to visit. There are certain light phenomenon in Northern Ireland that are unique in the world.
You look at the violence of the waves of the Atlantic hitting the north Antrim coast. That is a serious drumbeat. The mysterious black towers that are everywhere. I think these allude to an older technology. Places like the mountains of Mourne. Northern Ireland is a very beautiful place and nothing like the horrorshow they show on the news.
It is utter nonsense unless you let it be otherwise. They will lead you seven ways to Sunday if you let them. We wake up tomorrow and hopefully make things better by a bit of connection.
They are pathetic kids spouting transgressive bollocks because they have no knowledge or understanding.
And with no consequences. Because far from transgression it’s actually the credo of the governing class.
Gosh! No arrests. You would almost think that we had two tier policing and justice in this country. What’s that Sooty? Oh, we do.
The Bold Boys have now apologised to the Cox and Amies families, so they have. But if their stunning and brave remarks were made in 2023, why have they come to light only now – this smells like a good old fashioned fading pop star publicity stunt.
I see from the festival bill which you’ve helpfully included that Glastonbury looks even more Ghastly than usual. Fortunately, I don’t work for the BBC, so I’m not obliged to attend.
To save yourself the trouble of going all the way to Glastonbury, go to Charlies Stores in Shropshire / Mid-Wales instead, where you can hear equally cheesy and insipid tunes all day long.