Glastonbury must drop Kneecap: Why are we giving a platform to agitators who call for MPs to be killed?
1 May 2025, 08:32 | Updated: 1 May 2025, 12:32
By Chris Philp MP
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.” “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah.” These are both statements shouted by the Irish Republican group, Kneecap, at their concerts.
Despite the incitement of violence and murder and support for terrorist groups, which is a criminal offence, this group are due to perform at Glastonbury Festival.
I have written to the Glastonbury organisers asking them to remove Kneecap from the line-up.
The Glastonbury Festival should not be providing a platform or legitimacy to a group which has incited the murder of democratically elected MPs, especially when MPs have been murdered in the........
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