When this dreadful sectarian Labour Party gets crushed into near oblivion at the next election there will be many many many reasons why. But not least among them will be the incomprehensible welcoming of a seemingly hideous Brit-hating, Jew-hating Islamist to these shores. 

In a year where political credulity has been pushed to hitherto impossible levels, when the patience of good and decent Brits has been stretched way beyond breaking point, the tale of Alaa Abd El-Fattah still boggles the mind.

El-Fattah, you can’t have failed to notice, is a man with only the most tenuous links to this country. A man who has said: "I am a racist, I don't like white people so **** off". He has said the police "are not human, they don't have rights, we should just kill them all". He has called for the killing of Jews and he has referred to the British people as "dogs and monkeys".

As el-Fattah applied for British citizenship from an Egyptian prison cell in 2021 one wonders if he fancied himself as a dog or a monkey.

Bit of a Marmite figure then is our Alaa, bit divisive. But then division and renting British society asunder is one of the very few things Starmer’s government is good at.

The 44-year-old’s gossamer thin links to Britain amount to this: His granny came to study in Britain. While she was here she got herself up the duff meaning his mother was born in the UK. Whether getting herself up the duff was an act of love or expediency is sadly lost to history. El-Fattah was born in Egypt, but while languishing in a prison cell on some very serious charges he applied for British citizenship.

Successive Governments then moved heaven and earth, and spent an awful lot of your money, campaigning to free this questionable Egyptian man and bring him to London. Our leader - for the time being - Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” that Al-Fattah had landed at Heathrow. (Well, that’s one more Muslim vote in the bag eh Keir?)

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest there are now roughly two people in Britain who are “delighted” el-Fattah is here.

The rest of us I suggest are horrified and depressed that the needs of the apparent scumbag racists with no real connection to Britain seem to have once again been placed above those of the decent folk.

Anti-terror police are currently looking at his tweets. But that is a really high bar. Why aren’t the actual boys in blue looking at them given their obsession with hate speech?

Because most of his outbursts are far more hateful than Lucy Connolly’s ill-advised tweets about asylum seekers - and she was sentenced to 31 months. Or does hate speech only work one way? And yet something doesn’t sit right here.

Yes El Fattah he has apologised for his outbursts - but so what? Any simpering cur who needed a council house and benefits as an alternative to an Egyptian hell-hole would do that. No, it’s that El-Fattah describes himself as a human rights activist. He has said out loud he supports LGBT rights - something no nut-job radical Islamist would ever do.

He also seems to have played active, even brave, roles in trying to bring democracy to Egypt. Which is what landed him in prison of course.

Author and darling of the left Naomi Klein wrote the foreword to El-Fattah’s book so she’s clearly a fan. But she also wrote in today’s Guardian “Many people tuning into the manufactured storm know little of Abd el-Fattah, and less about his role in a historic revolution for democracy and human rights. They see only the ugly screengrabs, designed to paint a picture of a religious sectarian who must hate Jews and white people, and who celebrates terrorism that targets civilians.”

And yet, he said what he said. So is he just a schizophrenic nutter? What is the actual truth about this man? Why did two governments see El Fattah as a British problem (the world is full of El-Fattahs)? Did El Fattah have another role we have not been made aware of?

Don’t expect to get that from politicians or police, they are only interested in saving their skins. No what he needs is a proper sit down with an experienced journalist and a full and frank conversation. If you’re reading this Mr El-Fattah, I’m not too busy over the next few days…