A bill to make racial and religious hate-mongering and insults punishable with six months’ imprisonment or a 100-pound fine was presented to the House of Commons today by Sir Leslie Plummer, Labor MP.
The measure will be presented for a second reading on March 18. Sir Leslie, in offering the measure, recalled the recent spate of anti-Semitic and swastika daubings and said they might be the work of an international fascist gang.
He warned that “something must be done to prevent these manifestations from growing to disastrous proportions.” His bill is not supported either by the Government or the shadow Cabinet, nor by Jewish communal organization which feel it might drive a wedge between the Jews and the rest of the British people.
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