Milton Keynes Labour Party are calling for the MK Conservatives to pull their support for their candidate in the up-coming Bradwell by-election after shocking social media posts came to light.
MK Labour are calling on the Conservatives to remove their support for Krishna Panthu and say the party has questions to answer over why someone who had made derogatory posts on numerous occasions was allowed to stand for election.
Posts made by the candidate on social media site X (formerly Twitter), between November 2023 and this month, include accusing of female former Conservative peer Baroness Warsi playing “an Islam card” to gain her position, with Krishna Panthu stating that she was “crying Islamophobia” and “playing the race card”Baroness Warsi resigned from the Conservative Party in September claiming the party was drifting “to the far right.”
Panthu has also used the social media platform to brand the UK media as “worse than terrorists” and claim that the BBC is “controlled by extremists/Islamists”. The candidate has also labelled the German media “Nazis”, also saying “many in the country still praise Hitler.”
In other shocking posts, the candidate has said that the former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, who, the first Muslim party leader in Great Britain, behaved as a “religious cult leader” and referred to the first female and male Sikh MPs to be elected to the UK Parliament as “extremist Khalistan supporters”.
Other extreme views include posting Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a “Stalin communist” and that we in the UK live under a “communist government”.
An MK Labour spokesperson said:
“The posts by Krishna Panthu are hateful, Islamophobic and derogatory. The MK Conservatives should immediately condemn the posts and remove their support from him as their candidate.
“It is well documented that the Conservative Party has an institutional problem with Islamophobia and strong action needs to be taken here in Milton Keynes by the local Conservatives to show they do not tolerate such views.
“However, the posts go further than just spreading hate about Islam and call into question why this individual was allowed to stand in the first place when all his social media post could have been viewed and checked before his nomination.
“The reality is that far from being a moderate mainstream party, the Conservatives are drifting towards becoming more and more extreme, with the choice on offer for their leader between even more extreme views.
“Mainstream politicians cannot stand by while extremist views take root in our politics. The people of Bradwell and Milton Keynes deserve a representative who promotes unity and inclusivity, not someone who uses their platform for hateful comments and the MK Conservatives should act now.”
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