Thago 13.54 BST [8 raw
Dan Jarvis urges Glastonbury to drop Kneecap from this year's
festival line-up
Mark Francois, the Conservative MP who was a close friend of David Amess,
tabled the urgent question.
Responding to Dan Jarvis, he asked why they government is not appealing
against the court decision saying the last government was wrong when it
decided to block a government grant to Kneecap worth ยฃ14,000. He asked
Jarvis to name the minister responsible for this decision, which he described
as a โsurrenderโ.
And he asked if Jarvis agreed that it would be โunconscionableโ for Kneecap
to appear at Glastonbury this year, at least while a police investigation is
underway.
Jarvis said he did not accept that way Francois characterised the grant
decision. He said the last government approved the grant, and then
withdrew it without taking proper legal advice. He says the new government
did not contest the court decision because it did not want to end up ina
costly legal battle.
The government is now reviewing the scheme under which the grant was
given, he says.
Referring to the Glastonbury invitation, Jarvis says it is not for the
government to decide who performs at the festival. But he goes on:
44 There is an on-going live police investigation. So the government would urge
the organisers at the Glastonbury festival to think very carefully about who is
invited to perform there later this year.
Jarvis did not name the band in his response to Francois, or in his opening
statement. He said he had chosen not to name them deliberately to avoid
giving them further publicity.
Fuck off Dan Jarvis
Mark Francois isn't allowed near women, and we all know why.
This fake morality from the Establishment sickens me, their hands are bloody from a Genocide and they want to police our speech?!
#Kneecap #GlastonburyFestival #MarkFrancois #AntiColonialism #UKPOL #UKpolitics
