On the eve prior to the eve of Chankukah and Xmas, Brent Lib Dems issued a press release in which they were trying to make political gain by accusing a Tory Brent Councillor of holding some anti-semite views over comments he said that appear to be taken out of context.
SomethingJewish has the story:
Tory party leader David Cameron has been asked by the Liberal Democrats to take action over a Conservative Councillor who said at a meeting: "Jews run everything in Britain and practically run America."
The comments were made by Brent Councillor Jack Sayers at a health conference in Cricklewood, north west London in June this year and he says they were taken out of context and used against him to get political gain by the Liberal Democrats. The matter was referred to the Standards Board and Mr Sayers was cleared.
"It was a private conversation I was having and was not a sinister comment," said Mr Sayers, a Tory Councillor since 1990. "You've got to admire the Jewish people and what they have done and achieved. That is what I was getting at. This has been blown all out of proportion and is a political vendetta against me. The Liberal Democrats are trying to court the Jewish community by taking what I said all out of context."
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