Labour’s support among Muslim voters has dropped by around a third amid anger at Keir Starmer’s Israel stance, according to a poll. The Mail has the story.
Research by Survation found that the party was backed by around 86% of Muslims at the last election in 2019.
However, that has seemingly dropped to 60% in a new survey.
The findings will raise fresh concerns in Labour circles about the impact of the raging war in Gaza. Sir Keir repeatedly refused to call for an immediate ceasefire as Israel responded to the Hamas massacre of civilians on October 7th.
The Opposition is facing a crucial test in the Rochdale by-election on February 29th, with George Galloway running against their candidate on a pro-Palestinian platform.
Simon Danczuk, who previously held the seat for Labour, is also standing for Reform U.K.
Survation highlighted that its poll was carried out using a “probability based, telephone-led approach”. Owing to the difficulty of polling such groups it was a relatively small sample.
The research found that Labour had 60% support, the Tories 8% and other parties 32%.
That compared to a study from 2021, when people were asked to say how they voted in the 2019 general election. That showed support for Labour at 86%, the Tories on 10% and other parties on 4%.
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Brilliant, absolutely brilliant
Nails the modern world!
I haven’t given up on The Land of Spells coming soon
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, men are women, criminals are victims, the workshy are really just ill, migrants don’t need passports, everyone is a racist and an islamophobe, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
That policeman in the story was quite mild in his strictures compared to the radically topsy-turvy Met police in La-La Londonstani-Land.
In that benighted city (formerly the English capital, now Sadist Khunt’s personal fiefdom) the police kowtow to hamas-terrorist-supporting, anti-Semitic, yelling flag wavers and do all they can to save them from being upset by the sight of an openly Jewish person in their vicinity.
However, try to wave the St George’s England flag in England and ‘You’re nicked’ is the pusillanimous plods’ reaction. Same happens if you’ve got the nerve to agree with the government and display a placard announcing the fact that ‘Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation’.
In Blyton’s fiction, you’re only forced to walk on your hands. Here in the UK in 2024, we’re forced to do outrageous mental contortions such as accepting gross insults to our nation and its flag being supported by the ‘authorities’; and supporters of izlamic terrorist scum being allowed to rule the streets as they spit in the faces of the government, the English people and our whole society & culture.
What happened to Boris’s water cannon (the only decent idea he had) after they were vetoed by DisMay (the most stupid PM we ever had)?