Media caption, Watch: Video offered by activist Sayed Alwadaei reveals his conflict with Bob Stewart A Conservative MP who informed an activist to “go back to Bahrain” hasactually been discovered guilty of a racially intensified public order offense and fined £600. Bob Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, got into a row with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outdoors the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in Westminster on 14 December. He informed Mr Alwadaei: “You’re taking cash off my nation, go away.” Labour and the Liberal Democrats haveactually called for him to lose the Tory whip. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard the 74-year-old hadactually been participatingin an occasion hosted by the Bahraini Embassy when Mr Alwadaei, the director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, yelled: “Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini program?” Stewart responded: “Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of difficulty. Go back to Bahrain.” Mr Alwadaei challenged Stewart on his connections with the nation, asking consistently whether he had accepted any cash from the Bahraini federalgovernment. The MP, who was stationed in Bahrain as an Army officer in the 1960s, informed the advocate to “get packed” and included: “Bahrain’s a fantastic location. End of.” In a post on X, previously Twitter, Mr Alwadaei stated: “No-one must believe twotimes about holding an MP or members of the federalgovernment to account since of their skin colour. “When I reported Mr Stewart to the Conservative Party, they didn’t take action versus him and when he was charged, they declined to suspend him. “Given today’s decision, I anticipate them to take instant action.” Image source, PA Media Image caption, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei called the decision a “significant action towards
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