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Labour’s Erdington by-election candidate says she is ‘torn’ between the ‘bullet and the vote’ in newly rediscovered recording where she complains democracy might not allow black Britons to ‘get what we really deserve in this country’
- Nurse Paulette Hamilton is the favourite to win Birmingham Erdington tomorrow
- She admitted to being ‘torn’ between democracy and armed struggle in 2015
- Footage revealed from event organised by the Organisation of Black Unity
Labour is facing questions about its choice of candidate in an upcoming cy-election after footage emerged of her claimed to be ‘torn’ between democracy and an armed uprising against the Government.
Nurse Paulette Hamilton is the favourite to win Birmingham Erdington tomorrow in a vote triggered by the death of MP Jack Dromey.
But footage from 2015 has come to light from an event organised by the Organisation of Black Unity, in which she claims to be unable to decide between voting and an armed struggle as the best way to achieve political aims.
In footage first uncovered by GB News she is shows saying: ‘So you talk about the bullet or the vote. I’m not sure, although I believe in the vote and I believe in our right to use that vote or destroy that vote, I’m not sure that we will get what we really deserve in this country using the vote.
‘But I don’t know if we are a strong enough group to get what we want to get if we have an uprising. I think we will be quashed in such a way we would lose a generation of our young people. So I’m very torn.
Tory MP Scott Benton said: ‘Shocking to think this person could be an MP by tomorrow evening. Deplorable comments which Labour need to condemn immediately.’
Nurse Paulette Hamilton is the favourite to win Birmingham Erdington tomorrow in a vote triggered by the death of MP Jack Dromey.
Footage from 2015 has come to light from an event organised by the Organisation of Black Unity, in which she claims to be ‘torn’ between voting and armed struggle.
Tomorrow’s by-election comes after the sudden death of Mr Dromey, 73, at his flat in Birmingham.
The husband of the party’s former deputy leader Harriet Harman, he served as the MP for Birmingham Erdington from 2010 and was appointed shadow minister for immigration by current leader Keir Starmer in December.
He is understood to have died from natural causes. Mr Dromey and Ms Harman, who married in 1982, share three children, two sons and a daughter.
Ms Hamilton has been a Birmingham City councillor for 17 years and is the current cabinet member for health and social care.
Her campaign to be elected tomorrow was backed by a visit from Sir Keir Starmer at the weekend.
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