Il consigliere riformista britannico ha criticato a Senedd l’incontro dei genitori con il gruppo di estrema destra
Reform UK councillor slammed in Senedd over parents meeting with far-right group
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Il consigliere riformista britannico ha criticato a Senedd l’incontro dei genitori con il gruppo di estrema destra
Reform UK councillor slammed in Senedd over parents meeting with far-right group
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Politicians in the Senedd have slammed the “politically motivated behaviour” of a Reform UK councillor who chaired a meeting with parents and a far-right group to promote misinformation about a Swansea school.
Last month, Nation.Cymru reported how Mumbles Councillor Francesca O’Brien had led a public meeting in Mayhill with parents from Sea View Primary School to discuss allegations about religious education lessons.
O’Brien claimed that during a religious lesson taught by a representative from a local mosque, pupils at the school were forced to pray on Muslim mats and recite prayers from the Quran.
She also claimed that Christianity wasn’t getting the same representation in lessons on religion at the primary school.
Swansea Council strongly refuted the allegations branding them “misinformation”.
The claims had been amplified online by members of the far-right group Voice of Wales
The anti-Islam group is led by failed UKIP candidate Stan Robinson and convicted fraudster Dan Morgan.
The pair have links to anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.
Cllr O’Brien was later accused of “inciting hate” and causing stress to the teachers that work at Sea View Primary School.
In the Senedd on Wednesday (November 12), South Wales West Senedd Member Tom Giffard raised concerns about the safety of teachers at the school following Cllr O’ Brien’s allegations.
In an exchange with Cabinet Secretary for Education Lynne Neagle, Mr Giffard said: “You’ll probably be aware that, last month, Sea View Community Primary School in Swansea was at the centre of a media storm, when Swansea’s only Reform UK councillor teamed up and chaired a public meeting, seemingly organised by conspiracy theorist groups with links to the English Defence League, to tell parents and others that their children were being taught Islamic prayer in their school, that they would pray on mats and recite Koranic verses, and that they would all be Muslim by year 6.