00:00Yeah, it just shows you some of the Tories we took, maybe we shouldn't have done.
00:03They weren't all Tories.
00:05The most egregious comment was made by somebody who came to us as a Tory councillor.
00:09Look, if you were to go and speak to hundreds of councillors from any party
00:14and provoke them with questions, you'd get all sorts of answers.
00:19But there is a certain, yeah, some of the comments are appalling,
00:22but there is a snobbery about this.
00:23There's a real snobbery about this.
00:25You know, you speak to working-class people about what they think about, for example,
00:32the rape gangs from Rochdale or Rotherham.
00:35You'd be very surprised by what they said.
00:37You can't vet for what people say in the future.
00:40And by the way, the Conservative Party don't vet local council candidates at all,
00:44which is perhaps why a convicted neo-Nazi was going to stand for the Conservative Party.
00:50That was discovered.
00:52His candidacy was taken away.
00:54He was then promoted by Kevin Badlok.
00:55I accept, out of thousands of councillors, there are some people who say stupid things.
00:59One or two say horrible things.
01:01But if you apply that equally across the political spectrum,
01:05you will find we're pretty much the same as everybody else.
