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I've never seen anything like the abuse during this election
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- Several were congratulatory - he's a popular figure in the Park ward of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, having served there for Labour since 2021.
- But there were also more than 200 posts containing vile abuse, including branding him a paedophile and a terrorist, with another asking how many women and children he had sexually assaulted.
- The Halifax-born politician was also told to "get out of the UK", "speak English" and another poster said he was a "cancer" who needed to be deported.
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Rebecca Woods Shazad Fazal Yorkshire-born Shazad Fazal was told to "speak English" and "get out of the UK"In the hours after he was re-elected, councillor Shazad Fazal scrolled through the messages he had been sent on Facebook.
Several were congratulatory - he's a popular figure in the Park ward of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, having served there for Labour since 2021.
But there were also more than 200 posts containing vile abuse, including branding him a paedophile and a terrorist, with another asking how many women and children he had sexually assaulted.
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