Moment man tells Tory activist to ‘go back to a white f***ing country’ and calls him ‘sick in the head’ for voting Conservative as he campaigns in east London
- Has Ahmed was canvassing for the party ahead of next month’s general election
- East London Tory was branded ‘sick in the head’ by a furious member of public
- Mr Ahmed has been praised for keeping a cool head during the seething rant
A young Tory activist has been subjected to a foul-mouthed rant by a screeching man who told him to ‘go back to a white f***ing country’.
Has Ahmed, a member of East London Conservatives, was canvassing for the party ahead of next month’s crunch election when he was suddenly harangued by a furious member of the public.
Stalking the grassroots campaigner along the road, the unknown aggressor spat out a slew of insults, branding his target ‘sick in the head’.
Has Ahmed (left), a member of East London Conservatives, was canvassing for the party ahead of next month’s crunch election when he was suddenly harangued by a furious member of the public (right)
Mr Ahmed has been praised for keeping a cool head and calmly continuing on his way down the road.
He later joked on Twitter: ‘Politics and differences aside, this man was extremely hostile and aggressive while campaigning today. Can we put him down as a “maybe” for the Conservatives?’
The tweet, which has been viewed over 300,000 times, sparked a police appeal for information – but Scotland Yard is yet to make any headway.
In the short clip, Mr Ahmed, who has a blue Conservative rosette pinned to his jacket, films himself walking down an urban street.
Pacing behind him, with his face contorted with rage, the seething aggressor is midway through a rant.
Stalking the grassroots campaigner along the road, the unknown aggressor spat out a slew of insults, branding his target ‘sick in the head’
Mr Ahmed seemed to shrug off he abuse with a joke, but also slammed the man as ‘extremely hostile’
Jabbing a finger towards Mr Ahmed, he screams: ‘You are a f***ing fascist!
‘You’re stupid! You are f***ing sick in the head if you are voting for Conservative!
‘You are a bloody idiot. Go somewhere else, go to a white f***ing country!’
Seemingly unshaken from the nasty encounter, Mr Ahmed simply says ‘thank you’ before turning his camera off.
This unruffled reaction has been applauded on social media including by senior Conservative figures.
Tory minister Johnny Mercer, a former army officer, said: ‘I’ll come campaigning with you next time. Top man. Good work.’
The general election campaign has been condemned by many across the political divide as one of the most divisive of modern times.
Before Parliament shut, the level of debate in the Commons chamber was slammed as ‘toxic’, fearing the stoked tensions would spill out into the wider public.
At the ITV leaders debate last week, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn both shook hands on an ‘honesty pledge’ and agreed to double their efforts to take the ‘nastiness’ out of politics’.