WATCH: 'Disgraceful!' Danny Kruger 'two-tier justice' after controversial Glastonbury performance

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Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Danny Kruger has condemned the BBC as "disgraceful" for broadcasting Bob Vylan's controversial Glastonbury performance, during which the rapper led crowds in chanting "death to the IDF".Speaking to GB News, Kruger said it was "distressing" to see the performance and blasted the "two-tier justice" in Britain.He said: "He's not an artist I'm familiar with, but I have heard all about him in the last few days. This is pretty disgraceful that firstly, Glastonbury would host this. Secondly, that the BBC would broadcast it."Thirdly, that the crowd would chant along in the way they did. Some infantile artist trying to make himself famous by being anti-Semitic on stage is one thing, but it is really distressing that so many people thought it was acceptable to agree with him that we should be inciting the death of IDF soldiers."READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00The Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, Danny Kruger.

00:03Danny, I don't know if you got a chance to hear what we were saying

00:06or if you watched any of Glastonbury or this Bob Villan guy

00:12and what he came out with yesterday.

00:14What do you think about what's going on there?

00:19Well, he's not an artist I'm familiar with,

00:21but I heard all about him in the last few days.

00:23Yeah, I mean, pretty disgraceful that, first, Glastonbury would host this,

00:27secondly, the BBC would broadcast it,

00:30and thirdly, that the crowd would chant along in the way they did.

00:33I mean, you know, some infantile artist trying to make himself famous

00:37by being anti-Semitic on stage is one thing.

00:40It's really distressing that so many people thought it was acceptable

00:43to agree with him that we should be inciting the death of IDF soldiers.

00:48So, I mean, pretty appalling,

00:50and I hope that the police are looking into it now.

00:53So there's already been criticism of the police

00:55that they haven't arrested this guy

00:57over the appalling hate speech at Glastonbury Festival,

01:01and also comparisons being drawn with the case of Lucy Connolly,

01:05who was, of course, jailed for 31 months last year

01:08for inciting racial hatred after publishing a post on X.

01:13Can you see that comparison?

01:14What do you make of that?

01:16Is it two-tier justice?

01:18Yes, I can.

01:18Well, I think it is.

01:22I mean, you know, I don't think that the Lucy Connolly sentence

01:25was proportionate to her offence.

01:27It was wrong what she did,

01:29but they really threw the book at her,

01:31and they should do the same in this case.

01:34I mean, this is, in a sense, more serious.

01:36This was a public figure on a public stage

01:38inciting the death of others.

01:41And, listen, I don't know what exactly

01:43the appropriate police action should be

01:45or what the sentence should be if this artist is convicted.

01:49But I think it is important that we take it really, really seriously.

01:51We can't give the impression that aggressive and unpleasant messages

01:55about one side of our terrible culture war are unacceptable,

01:59but on the other side, it's OK to say this sort of thing.

02:02So we've got to have balance and fairness.

02:04And, as I say, I think there's an aggravating factor

02:07that this was a very, very public act

02:10that this artist was performing.

02:11Danny, what sort of message are you giving out on the benefits bill?

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