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Brothers and sisters, comrades and

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friends,

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uh first the next counselor for little

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Horton, a very happy birthday.

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He's only 30.

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This campaign has aged him already,

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but he's thrown himself into this

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campaign with such heart, such ver.

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He's like a man of 25 and I'm sure that

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it's going to be rewarded inshallah with

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a great victory on the 22nd of May. We

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did come here to meet. We also came here

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to eat. Thanks for your invitation for

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that. I myself I'm hungry. Uh and I'm

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sure the brothers are too. Uh so I'll be

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brief. I had to take time out from

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election hearing today to visit the

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mosques that were attacked uh on

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Saturday afternoon by a formation called

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Britain First, which is a breakaway from

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the BNP,

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uh a vicious right-wing fascist

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breakaway whose sole purpose is to

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provoke and fight Muslims in Britain. If

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you look at their website, their Twitter

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feed, if you look at their activities in

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other places, then you can see very

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clearly uh what they are about. For

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those of you who don't know, up to 10

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mosques on Saturday afternoon in

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Bradford were attacked by two carfuls of

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10 people, nine men, one woman, who've

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put their own pictures on the internet

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inside the mosques that they attacked

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and desecrated

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and have caused fear and alarm,

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trepidation

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across the whole community. Actually,

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elders who would normally go to the

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mosque in the afternoon are now afraid

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to do so. Doors that were normally left

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open from late in the night until very

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early in the morning are now locked.

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Uh women who were used to putting their

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children into the madrasa while they

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attended to their daily tasks are now

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afraid to do so.

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These people acted with a semi-ilitary

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precision.

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Their operation was brilliantly planned.

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No other group like them has ever done

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such a thing before. This is the first

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time in the history of this country that

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10 mosques have been successfully

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invaded without uh opposition and the

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mosque desecrated. people walking around

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inside the mosque with their shoes on,

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uh, handing out Bibles in the mosque and

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handing out leaflets, accusing

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Pakistanis and Muslims in general of

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pedophilia and grooming and all the

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other uh,

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hobby horses that they have. The fact

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that the vast majority of such crimes

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are not committed by Muslims but by

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others. The fact that the vast majority

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of such crimes are not committed by

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Pakistanis but by others. Jimmy Sabo was

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not a Pakistani. He was not a Muslim.

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All these big cases that are in front of

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the high court now are not cases

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involving Pakistanis and Muslims. Of

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course, such vice exists in all

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communities and we are absolutely

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committed to rooting it out. But these

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leaflets were a deliberate provocation

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being tossed around in mosques attacking

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Muslims, attacking Pakistani Muslims in

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particular. They acted with precision

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almost as if they knew exactly what they

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were doing. They chose a time when there

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would be few people in the masids to

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repel them, to force them out. Uh, and

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the the public relations operation that

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they mounted immediately afterwards,

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showing their pictures and their videos

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from inside these mosques was a very

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real provocation to us. And worse,

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they've promised to come back again.

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And when we met the chief, the commander

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Atkin of the uh police today, we made

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this point clear to him. The police and

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the home office for that matter who've

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been utterly silent since Saturday

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afternoon until now

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have to protect the people and have to

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protect the religious property of the

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people. And if they don't, the people

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will have to protect themselves,

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excuse me, and protect the property

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themselves. And how will that look? How

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will that look to the public? It will

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say that we have no confidence in the

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police. How will it look for the police

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that they're unable to protect tens of

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thousands of Muslims here in Bradford?

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look good for us either.

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allow the mosques to be invaded and

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Islam to be insulted and the people of

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Bradford to be insulted. So we made it

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clear to the police and we just have now

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to Theresa May the home secretary in a

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letter which we will release later this

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evening made it clear that this is

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completely unacceptable and the silence

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of the mass media has been unbelievable.

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Can you imagine, God forbid, if two

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carfuls of Muslims had invaded churches,

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handing Qurans around the churches,

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desecrating the holy places in the

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churches? Can you imagine? It would be

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the number one item on the television

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news. Well, this hasn't even been on the

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television news.

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Hasn't been in a paper. Whilst if the

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book had been on the other foot, it

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would have been the front page lead of

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the Sun and the Daily Mail and the

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likes, day after day, which would would

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be in danger of being invaded and

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occupied

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by the British and the Americans if such

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a thing had happened. God forbid that it

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ever would. And no real Muslim would

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ever dream of doing such a thing.

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So the silence, the shame and the

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silence of the government and the media

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in this uh speaks volumes. When they

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when they discovered that Subway was

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selling halal uh chicken in its

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sandwiches, it became a national issue.

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Whilst here are mosques, 10 of them

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perhaps being invaded and desecrated

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without a cheap publicity.

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We have no intention of making this

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issue bigger than it is. We don't want

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the boys out on the streets burning

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tires. It's the 25th anniversary of the

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Rushi matter coming up very soon. We

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don't need that. We don't want that. But

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neither will we collaborate in making it

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smaller than it is because that would

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merely be to invite more such attacks

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and worse attacks. Imagine if they had

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come when the mosque was full, the

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trouble that would have ensued. It might

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have ended up with burning tires. Now,

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they knew the time they chose, which is

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interesting in itself. They obviously

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studied the timets of the salah uh to

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choose their time carefully.

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So, we will not make it bigger, but we

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will not make it smaller because nothing

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like this has ever happened before. And

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the fact that it's happened here

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where we're so strong is a real

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provocation to us. They're saying we can

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strike you where you're strong and we

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will strike you again. And who knows

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what their tactics will be next time.

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What we waiting for? or are we are we

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going to wake up one morning and

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discover they've been in the mosques and

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committed some heinous acts uh in the in

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the mosques and film them and

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photographed them. It's as serious as

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that. So, everyone has to be very

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vigilant. These people have promised on

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their website and on their Twitter to

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come back and we have to be vigilant and

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ready. You've got the strength uh to

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help. But not every mosque. I mean, I

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was speaking to some old men in the Abu

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Bakr mosque there who were terrified by

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the whole thing. Really terrified. And

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now in the mosque scared. They saw us

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white people in cars coming today and

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they were scared. That's how bad uh this

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is. So we have to be vigilant. We have

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to be ready. But above all, we have to

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be demanding that the uh political class

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takes this very seriously. Indeed, there

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has been total silence from city hall.

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The MP, the Labour MP for Bradford South

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is on holiday and doesn't even appear to

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know that it happened. I don't know why

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he's on holiday cuz Parliament's

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sitting, but he's on holiday. David Wart

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has been silent as far as I can see. If

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I'm doing him an injustice, I apologize

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for that. But the council leaders have

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said nothing and done nothing at all.

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is a reason for our existence. That is a

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reason for the fact that we are all here

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and that we're all fighting this

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election campaign because our civic

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leadership

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is so poor, so weak, so vacasillating

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that frankly we need to change them.

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They're not good enough to be our

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leaders. We deserve better leaders than

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them and we intend to uh provide it. So

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that brings me back to my final point.

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the

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death of the late John Smith.

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20th. Imagine the the last labor leader.

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The last man that deserved to be called

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a labor leader in that 20 years. Labor

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has gone from the defender of the people

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to I don't know how you would define it,

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but it's certainly anything but labor.

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And I'm the only person commemorating

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the 20th anniversary of John Smith's

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death. Labor hasn't said a single word

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about it. It tells you all you need to

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know about the Labor Party today. So,

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we'll eat quick if we may after your

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speeches. Uh because uh we have other

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election work to do. I'm going to tour

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all the wards where our candidates are

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out with their workers and uh do my uh

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bit. Uh and then I'm going to Scotland

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in the morning and the next day I'll be

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back here. So, I'll be back here

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campaigning on Wednesday and on uh

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Saturday and part of Sunday and then

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into the final week. Uh so, it's a big

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push. We've still got lots of work to

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do. Even in award like this where I'm

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convinced that we're winning, there's

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still work to do right up to 10:00 on

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polling day itself. There's still always

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one more voter that we could have got to

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the polls. And remember this ward was

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won by how many votes last time? 17. 17.

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17. One of the narrow. Yeah. 17. One of

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the narrowest in the city. And of course

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the head that we chopped that day was

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the leader of the council himself. And

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now we're going for the former Lord

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Mayor. Uh we specialize in

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in such operations. So the best of luck

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to all of you. Uh Ron is here, my

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assistant Selma, I brought her up from

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London to strengthen the team uh today

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and tomorrow and over the next few days.

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Uh so if you need anything, badger on

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them. If they're bad tempered, never

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mind. Uh they'll get over it. Uh they

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they can't work miracles. And people do

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have to pay. By the way, leaflets are

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not free. Uh people are demanding

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posters, leaflets and so on. Not you, of

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course, but uh not not many others have

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yet paid their way. They have to. But

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badger them by all means. That's what

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they're here for. Um sorry, Ron to uh

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invite more badgering. But uh it is

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important that we fight this right up to

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the wire. And if we do, we'll have a

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famous victory again here in Bradford.

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[Applause]