The Liberal Democrats have had a bad few months from believing Joe Swinson could become Prime Minister to Joe Swinson losing her seat. The party now languished with only 12 MPs in Parliament and at 6% in opinion polls. And this weekend it got worse. So they were forced to suspend a candidate to be the mayor of London, the Lib Dem candidate or someone who was a perspective for the mayor of the mayoralty of London after an anti-Semitic video of her emerged. We're going to show you that in one moment, first of all some background. So this is the now ex-candidate in question. It's Gita Sidu Robb, she's a millionaire health food entrepreneur who recently held the position of vice chair of the People's Vote campaign. And so you can see how she would become a prospective mayoral candidate for the party if she's come straight from the People's Vote. But last Tuesday, so last Tuesday that they announced that Sidu Robb would be on their short list of two to become the party's mayoral candidate for the London elections next year. So it's whittled down to two. I think Lib Dem members in the city were going to get to vote between Sidu Robb and one other candidate. Now her short listing originally caused controversy because of comments that Sidu Robb had made on the Channel 5 show Rich Home Poor Home. Remember this woman's a millionaire. Let's go to an article in Politics Home which sort of gives us some background as to what she had said on that Channel 5 show. So in October last year, Ms. Sidu Robb appeared on Channel 5 reality show Rich House Poor House where she swapped her 7 million pound London home for two bedroom flat in a community housing project in Lambeth. During her appearance, the former vice chair of the People's Vote campaign said staying at the top of the council tower block was her idea of hell on Earth and describe leaving the safety of Chelsea as an edgy experience. The Lib Dem hopeful was also filmed alongside a friend struggling to use a can opener and saying she did not want to drink tap water. So far so Lib Dem and I presume there were many at the top of the EU flag waving party who were nonplussed as to why anyone think it would be problematic to put someone forward as a candidate for London mayor who had said such things about living on a council estate. However, a second video would be harder to ignore. So this is a clip from a BBC documentary called Campaign Confessions. It followed candidates in the 1997 election. One of whom was Sidu Robb. She was then standing as a conservative candidate for Blackburn. Actually, I should give you also a contact warning. There is racism in this video. Very explicit racism. In Blackburn, the message from one and labour van prompts decisive action from Guy to Sidu. Hello. The Labour party is going round with the microphone at the moment saying she is against Islam. She is not Muslim. She is not one of us. Don't vote for her because she is against Islam. This is making it racist. It is making it personal. Particularly considering the fact that my husband actually is Muslim. So we are just going to pull the gloves off. I am going to get a car and walk around to drive through town telling everybody Jack's throw is a Jew. And some Muslim are going to vote for someone who is Jewish. That is it. That is what happened and that is what we are going to do about it. I didn't want racism to be a bigotry to play a part. In anything that I have anything to do is I objected strenuously to it. I did it because I was furious. So I must admit I wish I hadn't done it. You shouldn't laugh because it is incredibly serious. Someone shouting about a candidate there are a Jew. And also assuming that Muslims are going to be anti-Semitic. It is racism on so many levels. It does that pause and then I shouldn't have done it. At the beginning I would never want to be involved in a racist campaign. That is the most overtly racist campaign. I have seen a clip of it in a long time. She wasn't suspended from the Conservative party. She made it to two general elections. Obviously she lost. She came second in that seat. It was won by Labour. It was only after that video emerged this weekend that the Lib Dems had no choice but to suspend her. Ash watching that video. This was in 1997. Since then the Conservative, since then this person has become a vice chair of the People's Vote. She then moved into quite high positions or potentially quite high positions in the Lib Dem. She was shortlisted to be one of the two people who would stand as the Lib Dem candidate for the Mayor of London. This has come out and they have had no choice but to kick her out. What do you make of this story? Watching that video is completely shocking. It is like spherical racism. Whatever standpoint you use to look at it, you see racism. It is racist against Jewish people and it is also racist against Muslims in terms of the expectations she has of how Muslims and Jews will relate to one another. It is horrible. It is absolutely disgusting. But I think what it demonstrates, and I think what this woman demonstrates more generally, is that what is often identified in the left as being a crank actually is not unique to one part of the political position. Here is someone who is pretty firmly on the centre right. She was a Conservative. She moved towards the People's Vote. She then became a Lib Dem. That is a pretty moderate quote unquote centrist political journey to go on. And throughout that, she has always had this kind of coccyled worldview. Whether it is her appalling behaviour on that loudspeaker or some of her other interests, she has been on the record saying that she thought that her son's vaccinations caused his eczema. She is interested in this alternative nutrition kind of stuff. It is that real kind of guana paltrow, goop kind of thing, which I absolutely have no time for. And it is cranky. In its way, it is cranky except it is seen as more acceptable because it is not on the partisan wings of the right of the left, but it is 100% crank behaviour. I would say easy mis for Londoners, but whoever becomes a Lib Dem candidate, there is no way that they are going to win the London mayoral tea next year. I think Londoners would always have been spared, but this is obviously incredibly embarrassing for the Liberal Democrats that this person got so far. Presumably, I think just because she had ex-vice chair of the People's Vote next to her name and without looking seriously into the depths of this person's horrific politics.