David Lammy’s speech at the Manchester synagogue terror attack vigil has been slammed by the British public after he was booed
David Lammy was slammed on LBC radio (Image: Getty)
A caller on LBC has slammed deputy prime minister David Lammy after his controversial speech at a vigil for victims of the Manchester synagogue terror attack this week. The Labour minister was booed and heckled as he delivered his speech, which some are now likening to “something written by an AI bot” in another blow to the deputy PM.
Lammy was greeted by chants of “off, off, off” and “shame on you” as he was forced to stop speaking at points when the heckling became too loud. In the speech, he said: “Friends, we must stand together today. We must stand in grief, in solidarity and in defiance. Grief – for the innocent lives that were taken so cruelly. Senseless murders carried out on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year. Grief that causes so much pain, so much suffering.”
He went on: “That’s why we stand in defiance of those terrorists who seek to divide us. Who want to pit neighbour against neighbour, to weaken the bonds that bind us together.
“As one nation, one people, one United Kingdom, we cannot, we must not let them divide us. On days like today, we must show who we really are, not what they want us to believe.”
Now LBC caller Paul has hit out at Lammy live on-air, fuming: “Regarding David Lammy’s speech, I’ve always thought the man a booby, but that speech was awful. Was it written by a bot?
Lammy was booed and heckled at the vigil (Image: Getty)
“It was insensitive, it didn’t grasp the situation, it didn’t deal with the situation, it was just full of platitudes. It was awful. He deserved to be booed, he deserves to be sacked. Just how awful and insensitive and bot-like his speech was!
“Was it written by some AI programme? Let’s take one element of his speech – he talks about ‘We must not let them divide this society’. I’m not quite sure who ‘them’ is, he almost talks as though some sort of alien is coming to invade our cosy little UK society, sitting around the hearthside.
“We are divided, the fact that 100,000 people march in London every week and you’ve got 300,000 terrified Jews, that alone – apart from all the other problems we’ve got in the country – shows we are divided.”
