‘Why the hell are you living in Britain?’ LBC host erupts on air in furious rant

The presenter was speaking out ahead of the annual “Al Quds” march.

Shelagh Fogarty raged at Iran sympathisers live on her LBC radio show (Image: LBC)

LBC presenter Shelagh Fogarty made her feelings known towards Iran sympathisers as she had a lengthy rant while presenting her show. She spoke out ahead of London’s annual Al Quds march, which usually draws crowds of up to 3,000 and is due to take place on March 15. It has been linked to the Iranian regime and is organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, which is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission over funding concerns.

“Nobody’s suggesting Britain is a perfect society. It patently isn’t,” she said. “But I can speak from the point of view of a woman and tell you that I have been totally free all my life. Totally free, free to dress as I wish, free to think as I wish, free to study what I wish to study, free to travel where I wish to travel, free to be with who I wish to be with.”

She continued: “And it is the opposite for every woman and girl in Iran…We’ve got hard evidence of it, putting your life in danger by merely showing your hair, or a bit of it, or too much of it.

“For speaking up against a tyrannical regime that abducts people, imprisons them for no good reason, and they disappear and speaking up against them, dead.

“And you go and celebrate the man who oversaw it. You go and weep for the man who oversaw it? What are you celebrating about him?

“If you go to this vigil, what are you commemorating that is so good, and if you are what you doing living in Britain, what you want to live here for? Doesn’t everything about us antagonise you? In that case, if you if you favour him, what the hell are you doing living here?” she raged.

Shelagh Fogarty slammed those thinking of attending the Al Qud march in London (Image: LBC)

Last year’s gathering, on Sunday March 23, descended into chaos as protesters against the march led to multiple central London streets being closed off, with police activating powers.

The Al Quds march was scheduled to meet at 2.30pm at Marble Arch and move towards to Portland Place via Oxford Street. A static rally was then planned take place in Portland Place. Conditions were imposed to make sure it finished by 5.30pm.

However a counter protest, organised by Stop The Hate, took place at the same time, with activists holding an assembly in Oxford Circus.

As a result multiple roads around Bond Street and Oxford Circus were shut. At the time Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell, who led the policing operation in London for the demonstrations said: “The role of the police is to ensure that groups can exercise their right to peaceful protest, while also balancing the rights of those in the wider community to go about their lives without serious disruption.