UK Has Gone MAD! Ex-Terrorist Allowed to Stand in Election!
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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UK Has Gone MAD! Ex-Terrorist Allowed to Stand in Election!
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A 60-year-old Muslim activist with a past terror conviction is running for local council in Birmingham, and the internet is fuming.
😡 In this show, we break down the shocking story of Shahid Butt — a community figure with a controversial past involving an armed terror plot overseas — who is now standing for election to represent Sparkhill on the Birmingham City Council.
We explain: 🔥 What he was convicted for 🔥 Why he's legally allowed to run 🔥 The social media outrage and political implications 🔥 What this tells us about UK politics today
👉 Let me know in the comments: Should people with terror convictions be allowed to run for office?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the John Gaunt podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Wah, it's a big story tonight. |
| 0:08.1 | Has the UK gone mad? |
| 0:11.3 | A terrorist, a convicted terrorist, is being allowed to stand in a council election. |
| 0:17.8 | And guess where? |
| 0:19.2 | Just 18 miles up the road from where Gawnti is in Birmingham. |
| 0:24.4 | Should this man be allowed to stand? Is this just the clearest example of sectarian or religious |
| 0:31.8 | politics which only belongs in the third world and even then I'm against it? |
| 0:37.0 | How the hell has it come to this that we've now got a convicted terrorist, although |
| 0:42.5 | of course he says he was set up, convicted in the Yemen. |
| 0:46.8 | I think he's the son of Abu Hamza. |
| 0:49.3 | Do you remember, Captain Hook, he's standing for election. |
| 0:53.9 | He's 60 years old |
| 0:55.0 | It happened a long time ago |
| 0:56.5 | But should there be any period |
| 0:59.8 | whereby it's okay |
| 1:01.3 | For this man |
| 1:02.3 | To now stand in an election |
| 1:05.1 | It's all over the internet |
| 1:06.6 | Everyone's going crazy |
| 1:07.9 | We're going to talk about it |
| 1:09.2 | We're also going to talk about |
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