A JEREMY Corbyn ally has insisted he is not a liar after being caught on camera saying “Zionism is the enemy of peace” – despite having previously denied ever saying it.
Richard Burgon spent several years insisting he never made the smear and that it was not his view.
Richard Burgon says he did not lie, he simply forgotPA:Press Association
Challenged about the remarks on BBC‘s Newsnight, he said: “I certainly didn’t lie.”
Presenter Emma Barnett shot back: “You said, not only did you ‘not say that’, you said ‘I don’t believe that’.
“Why on earth should we believe anything you say when you outright lied?”
But Mr Burgon insisted he forgot he had made the comments when asked by a newspaper in 2016.
He said: “I couldn’t remember using that turn of phrase half a decade ago.”
Mr Burgon insisted he would not use the phrase today, saying: “Lumping all Zionists together was clumsy and wrong.”
The Sun Says
A MEASURE of how far our once great Parliament has sunk is that Labour MP Richard Burgon may soon run the justice system.
Five years ago this thick Corbynista called Zionism, the right of Jews to their homeland, “the enemy of peace”. “I am proud to say,” he crowed, “I wouldn’t be a member of ‘Labour Friends of Israel’.”
Then the spotlight fell on his party’s anti-Semitism. Burgon denied saying any of it, only for footage to turn up revealing he did. But the Shadow Justice Secretary insists his denials weren’t lies. He just forgot what he’d said.
So that’s OK, then.
Imagine our future under Corbyn’s prejudice-fuelled mob: With Marxists casually spitting out bile, making denials, then excuses.
And this one would run our courts.
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Corbyn with shadow cabinet member Richard BurgonEyevine
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