A Labour councillor has provoked anger after he was apparently filmed doing a Nazi salute before shouting that he is a ‘fascist’ during a council meeting.
The bizarre moment occurred when Cllr Alan Gardiner, speaking at a meeting, told a Liberal Democrat member to ‘shut up’.
Then, with background applause and laughter, the Labour politician appears to do the Nazi Sieg Heil gesture.
To make matters even worse Mr Gardiner then recited ‘I’m a fascist’ several times.
He has since apologised saying he was being ironic.
However, the move was described as ‘deeply disturbing’ by councillor Sarita Robinson who spoke to the Express.
She said the Labour Party needed to act ‘clearly and swiftly’ about this after saying they would get ‘serious about tackling antisemitism at every level’.
She added: ‘Hull is a proud and welcoming city and this action does not speak for us.
‘As a Jewish person and minority in the city, it was horrific to see this display of ambient antisemitism.’
Since this, the councillor has now apologised for his comments, saying in a statement: ‘I wholeheartedly apologise for my comments made in the chamber earlier today’.
‘After a heated debate, I made comments in irony which upon reflection I know are highly inappropriate.’
Mr Gardiner was contacted by MailOnline for comment.
This comes after tech billionaire Elon Musk was embroiled in a scandal after claims he seemingly made the same salutation at Trump’s Inauguration.
Following this, he responded to this by posting a string of offensive puns to his X account.
His post made light of the names of Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess; Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Reichstag President Hermann Göring; and Schutzstaffel (SS) Commander Heinrich Himmler.
Conservatives rushed to Musk’s defence after a liberal meltdown over the gesticulation where he put his hand over his heart, then shot his hand out to wave to the crowd in Capital One Arena.
Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk ‘is being falsely smeared.’
A few weeks later, a former Trump aide was also attacked for doing a similar hand signal at a Conservative convention in the US.
Steve Bannon yelled ‘fight, fight, fight’ before extending his right arm, fingers pointed and palm down, during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) near Washington DC.
This led to the French far-right leader Jordan Bardella cancelling his planned address at the same event and calling Mr Bannon’s action a ‘gesture referring to Nazi ideology’.
Bannon denied the Nazi comparison and called the gesture a ‘wave’, saying it was the ‘exact same wave’ he did on stage at a speech seven years ago in France to Bardella’s party.
‘If he cancelled [the speech] over what the mainstream media said about the speech, he didn’t listen to the speech. If that’s true, he’s unworthy to lead France. He’s a boy, not a man,’ he told the French news magazine Le Point.
These are the sought of people running our country. Our country is under communist rule and comrade Starmer is simply loving the power. He will fall back to earth when he’s ousted – hopefully from a significant height.
It appears every day we get a Labour politician ‘wholeheartedly’ apologising, the fact that they need to apologise demonstrates the calibre of those who are supposed to be representing us.
Notwithstanding their claim to socialism, the present Labour Party is unquestionably crypto-fascist. Without a doubt, it possesses all the characteristics of political authoritarianism, including the propensity to impose limits and bans on our society based on ideology and to tolerate no criticism or debate.
It’s that fantasy world that our friends on the left live in, that’s the reason, and Labour are out of control, but then, when have they ever been in control?
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