The Lib Dem MP for Bradford East, David Ward, is fast moving into a league of his own as far as digging himself even deeper into a hole is concerned. 

Here, here and here is a short recap of the saga’s earlier stages. Then came this Tweetand a car crash of an interview in The Guardian in which Ward said:

“There is a huge operation out there, a machine almost, which is designed to protect the state of Israel from criticism. And that comes into play very, very quickly and focuses intensely on anyone who’s seen to criticise the state of Israel. And so I end up looking at what happened to me, whether I should use this word, whether I should use that word – and that is winning, for them. Because what I want to talk about is the fundamental question of how can they do this…