A Jewish group said the Tory MP's use of a poem about the Holocaust to describe a potential smoking ban was an 'ill-considered and repugnant action'
A Jewish group said the Tory MP's use of a poem about the Holocaust to describe a potential smoking ban was an 'ill-considered and repugnant action'
She wrote: “First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist.“Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.Then they came for the Jews⁰And I did not speak out⁰Because I was not a JewThe Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned the post, saying: “The use of Martin Niemoller’s poem about the horrors of the Nazis to describe a potential smoking ban is an ill-considered and repugnant action.
She said: “Nobody is suggesting that banning smoking outside pubs can be equated with what happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. It is ridiculous for anyone to even suggest that was what I was doing. She said there was already too much “politically correct bullying” designed to “silence free speech” and said “someone has to make a stand against the metropolitan politically correct bullies”.
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