Former British MP Douglas Carswell sparks outrage with call to 'make England Abdul free'
Former British MP Douglas Carswell sparks outrage with call to 'make England Abdul free'
Former British MP Douglas Carswell sparks outrage with call to 'make England Abdul free'
Former British MP and media commentator Douglas Carswell has sparked outrage by saying "let's make England Abdul free". Carswell, who regularly writes for the Telegraph, was a Conservative MP from 2005 to 2014, and then an MP for anti-immigration party UKIP until 2017.
On Sunday, Carswell took to social media platform X to share his views on a Daily Mail story about locals in Epping vowing to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled asylum seekers can stay in a hotel.
"From Epping to the sea, let’s make England Abdul free," Carswell declared in an apparent spin on the pro-Palestinian slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".
The original slogan is often accused of implicitly advocating for violence against Jews, which pro-Palestine protesters strenuously deny. In contrast, Carswell's version appears to explicitly call for the removal from Britain of everyone called Abdul.