A village shop is being investigated by the police on the performance of a picture. Hanok Powell With its most controversial anti-rigging speech.
Mmford, an Ironmongar in Cleobary Mortimer, ShropshireIn his window, along with a frame -rich picture of the split former Tory MP, his 1968 “rivers of rivers” speech is with a part of speech.
Shopkeeper Elizabeth Griffiths said he put a picture in his window in February, to highlight “the need for strong vocal leadership during the difficult political time”.
But West Mercia Police Said that it was assuming the performance as a “incident of hatred” after receiving a report on May 16 of “aggressive materials”.
Mr. Powell caused a national political firstorm when he used inflammatory language to criticize immigration in the UK in a 45 -minute speech to local conservative members at Birmingham Hotel.
For the Wolverhampton South West, the former orthodox MP said that white British people would find themselves “stranger in their country” as a result of migration.
He was dismissed from the conservative front bench to give a speech and his senior colleagues were angered at that time.
An incident of hatred is any non-criminal offense that a victim thinks that a person’s race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or hostility or prejudice towards disability.
Last week, sir Kir Stamor Mr. Powell was accused of copying the words when he warned that a “island of strangers” was being formed to tighten the UK immigration.
Sir Kir said that he would withdraw control “as a country” to reduce the number of people coming to Britain “the risk of becoming a island of strangers, not a nation that moves together”.
Norwich South MP Clive Lewis said: “It is not durable for the Prime Minister to echo the language of Hanok Powell’s ‘blood of rivers’ speech. Such language does not just do different communities, it takes people completely away from our country.”
Downing Street dismissed the comparison made with Mr. Powell, which is a political hero of the reform leader Nigel Faraj, and said that Sir Keir “stands perfectly” according to his language.
Ms. Griffiths told Independent This picture was in the window of his shop from the first week of February and “he was not praised at all times”.
He said that it was placed with books on Sir Winston Churchill, St. Francis of Asi, “our Lord Jesus Christ”, Churchill Mug and Churchill and Donald Trump.
A West Mercia Police spokesman told Independent: “On 16 May we received reports of aggressive materials displayed in a shop window on Church Street in Cleobary Mortimmer.
“It is believed to be a hate incident and the inquiry continues.”
