Bob Vylan's actions at Glastonbury were 'attention seeking', Wes Streeting tells GB News

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Wes Streeting has criticised the BBC for airing controversial remarks made by Bob Vylan during a Glastonbury festival performance.Speaking to GB News, the Health Secretary stated that the broadcaster "has questions to answer" over the incident.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Should he be investigated by the police? Should Tim Davey resign? What's your view?

00:07I think the police are investigating, so I probably shouldn't say more about that. I do

00:11think the BBC have got questions to answer, as of the organisers of Glastonbury, about how this

00:17particular act came to be given such a prominent platform. And of course, the comments that he

00:23made were completely disgraceful, but I also suspect were attention-seeking and publicity

00:28seeking. And actually, I think what we ought to be focusing on is the violence against

00:36Palestinians in the West Bank this week, the conduct of Israel's war in Gaza, and the fact

00:42that even now, and this is the perverse irony of what we saw at Glastonbury, the people,

00:46the Israelis who were taken from a music festival, killed, raped and still being held captive,

00:53those are the serious issues we should be talking about, which shouldn't be minimalised in the way

00:59that I think this act did.

01:01OK, but why aren't you mentioning the violence of Hamas in that little statement?

01:04Well, I certainly did, in terms of what happened to those innocent Israelis at the music festival

01:14on October the 7th.

01:15Hamas continues to use its own people as human shields. I mean, why have we got people at

01:21Glastonbury not saying death to Hamas? I mean, it's an unbelievable situation. You must look on

01:27Britain right now, see those scenes at Glastonbury, this complete normalisation of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish

01:33hatred. And I hope, like me, have your head in your hands.

01:39Well, absolutely. Hamas is a death cult. We should be in no doubt about that. And I suspect

01:44that half of those drunken revellers, in fact, most of those drunken revellers, wouldn't want

01:49to live a single day in life under Hamas. As I say, they are a death cult. And, you know,

01:56none of us would choose to live under that kind of oppression. And I think we should, it's not

02:02for me as a government minister to start dictating to arts organisations, or indeed broadcasters,

02:09who you do and do have on your programmes. That's Orwellian. But I do think we should think

02:14seriously about how we exercise the freedoms that we enjoy in this country. And if people

02:20are serious about peace and ending violence, think about what on earth did that achieve

02:25yesterday, that sort of language.

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