The 2024 General Election is probably the first time that we have seen an Islamic agenda openly influencing an election in the U.K.
This influence is seen clearly in the extent to which parties and candidates are keen to present themselves as supportive of Palestinians in the Gaza conflict. There is also a concerted campaign to get Muslims voting on Islamic issues.
Muslim votes may swing marginal constituencies
The Henry Jackson Society has released a report showing that Islam is the largest minority religion in 129 of the 220 most marginal seats in the General Election. That’s 58.6% of the marginal seats. A marginal seat is one where the margin of victory is expected to be no more than 10% of the electorate. There are 220 marginal seats in this election which is just over a third (33.8%) of all available seats.
Islam is the largest religious minority in more than half of the marginal seats currently held by the Conservatives (98 out of 176, or 55.6%). Islam is also the largest minority religion in all the marginal seats currently held by Labour (three out of three, or 100%).
The Henry Jackson Society website, has a helpful table showing the Muslim population in each constituency.
In 2011, Muslims represented 10% or more of the population in 82 constituencies. Today, they represent 10% or more of the population in 120 constituencies.
In 2011, Muslims represented 25% or more of the population in 21 constituencies. Today it is 30 constituencies.
Muslims now represent 50% or more of the population in four constituencies.
Support for a state of Palestine
Polling carried out in April this year found that British Muslims are more likely to have a positive view of Hamas than a negative one. Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th 2023. Almost half of British Muslims feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel.
One in four British Muslims (25%) name the Israel-Palestine conflict as their most important election issue, compared with just 3% of the public. In the Rochdale by-election in February, George Galloway overturned a Labour majority by running an explicitly pro-Palestine campaign. After winning, Galloway said in his victory speech: “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza.” In the May local elections, pro-Palestine candidates were victorious in areas with high Muslim populations.
Mindful of all this, political parties and candidates have been keen to declare their support for the Palestinian cause.
The Labour Party manifesto states that it will call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages. It says that:
We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
These statements are clearly in the manifesto in order to attract the Muslim vote. Israel believes that recognising a Palestinian state would be rewarding terrorism and that the result would be a new terrorist state. Recognising a Palestinian state will not help to achieve peace in the region.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto also says that they will call for an immediate ceasefire, and “provide the space to reach a two-state solution based on 1967 borders with security and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians”. 1967 borders means prior to the six-day war of 1967 when Israel managed to capture the strategically important Golan heights. Remembering that almost as soon as Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, missiles were being fired from Gaza into Israel, the situation would be even worse if Israel was to withdraw from the Golan heights. Palestinians would then be able to fire missiles into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The Green Party also intends to recognise a Palestinian state, as does the SNP. Plaid Cymru goes further by also calling for Israeli Government ministers to be held accountable for war crimes, including genocide, and calls on “the U.K. Government to expel the Israeli Ambassador until such time as the Israeli Government ends its apartheid and illegal actions”. It also wants a ban on arms sales to the state of Israel.
In addition to the manifestos, we have seen individual candidates calling for recognition of a Palestinian state. Labour candidate Sarah Owen is one example, tweeting her support for the Palestinian cause in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
The Labour candidate Sarah Champion, who has been MP for Rotherham, has also tweeted her support for the Palestinians in a tweet with Palestinian colours.
This is quite a turnaround for Sarah Champion who resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities in 2017 after writing that: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.” This is merely a statement of fact, and a fact that has particularly affected her constituency in Rotherham. Nevertheless, it is a politically incorrect fact for which she was forced to resign and apologise. She has gone from being a fearless campaigner for the victims of these grooming gangs to promoting the Palestinian cause in order to attract Muslim voters.
Many other Labour candidates are endorsed by Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East, which calls for “immediate recognition of the State of Palestine by the U.K. Government”. The website currently lists 70 former Labour MPs as amongst its supporters.
The Muslim Vote
Earlier this year, a new initiative in British politics appeared – The Muslim Vote. My colleague Carys Moseley did a detailed exposé of The Muslim Vote (TMV) last month.
TMV has tweeted 17 demands to Keir Starmer. These include: recognising a Palestinian state, ending military ties with Israel, allowing Muslims to pray at school, removing the new ‘extremism’ definition, adopting the APPG definition of Islamophobia, and ensuring sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace. That’s quite a list and, as I have written before, adopting the APPG definition of Islamophobia would result in an Islamic blasphemy law.
The approach of TMV is sometimes quite threatening. In a now deleted tweet, TMV said: “Now @UKLabour the scary thing for you is we’re only going to get stronger from here. You may win the 2024 battle but we are here for the 25 year war. And it is not going to look pretty for Labour if it continues as it is today.”
TMV has recommended candidates for multiple constituencies in this election. Many of these are independent candidates. Some are standing for the Green Party, and some for the Workers Party of Britain – George Galloway’s party. A couple of endorsed candidates are Liberal Democrats.
TMV has introduced Islamic sectarian politics into the U.K. Islam has not influenced U.K. politics before in any meaningful way. Now it has started to. This influence is only likely to increase from here.
Candidates exposed
A candidate endorsed by The Muslim Vote, Akhmed Yakoob, is standing as an independent candidate in Birmingham Ladywood which has 42% Muslim electorate. He has been forced to apologise after saying on a podcast earlier this year that “70% of hell is going to be women”. He also made inappropriate comments about domestic violence. His campaign is centred on support for Palestine, with posters calling on people to “lend Gaza your vote”.
A Plaid Cymru candidate was dropped after the Telegraph revealed that she had liked tweets from Nick Griffin, the former leader of the BNP, and had liked a social media post describing Hamas as “the resistance”.
More exposures will doubtless emerge over time.
Islam is now influencing U.K. politics
Whatever happens in this election, which may turn out to be historic for other reasons, it may well go down in history as the first U.K. election in which Islam had a significant influence. The influence of Islam is only increasing over time as Islam grows faster than other religions. If this is the first election with Islamic factors playing a part, it certainly won’t be the last.
Tim Dieppe is Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern.
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Galloway’s son has just been beaten up while canvassing.
No, not Galloway, but one of his party candidates named Wajad Burkey. Here’s the story in the Birmingham Mail and the BBC. For all the “gang attack with baseball bats and machetes”, the son only had an injury to the back of his head (self-inflicted?).
It may well turn out to be YET ANOTHER FAKE HATE CRIME, like the Pakistani Muslim man years ago who claimed a BNP gang beat him up and left him for dead in a forest, as he turned up bruised & battered at a police station. All lies, proven by the police.
Election candidate Wajad Burkey suspends campaign after leafletters beaten by armed gang in Sutton Coldfield (msn.com)
Sutton Coldfield election candidate ‘fearful for life’ after son attacked – BBC News
The rise of islamic politicos will seal the fate of the Labour Party by the time of the next election. Labour thought they were being clever by widening the postal vote and didn’t they abuse it via compliant local councils. A mosque here, a sweet shop there for a bit of money laundering, dodgy taxi firms and all the rest. Now, the muslims have decided they don’t need the Labour Party and they can graft just as well on their own and no need for the middle man. The downside is that the islamic vote is defiantly anti British. All well and good for Kneel as a WEF chimp★ but not for the hard-core Labour supporters or the rest of the people trying desperately to save their country.
Sectarian politics will definitely have its feet under the table after this election and highly islamic impregnated towns will see a widening of divisions and most likely Sectarian violence as stand-offs become inevitable.
Well done the arch traitor Bliar.
★ a ‘chimp’ is commonly used in the building fraternity when referring to an apprentice.
Don’t ignore the real problem. The reproduction rate for people of Northern European stock in the UK is 1.5. For people of sub-continental stock it is 3.0. Even without further immigration, how many generations before the latter are in the majority?
Sorry mate. ——Incase you haven’t noticed immigrants get older as well which means you keep needing to top up with even more immigrants. How many people do the mass immigration people think can comfortably live in this country —70 million? 80 million? 100 million? ——-The ageing population argument is bogus. Why do Japan with an aging population not import millions of migrants? Mass immigration is a political agenda and would still be happening even if no one had thought of the aging population excuse.
Good point.
Great comment and dangerously true. ——–How has it come to this? As I write this comment I am looking at the beady eyed parasite Stermer on my TV on GB news. What a disgusting piece of crap this is, and it is our next Prime Minister. He is standing there with this glint in his eye knowing him and eco scum Miliband will soon be running our lives for us.——Well as someone once pointed out “The people get the governments they deserve”
Thanks for the kind words.
Islam may now be influencing UK politics but the young pretender has yet to catch-up with Israel. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if politicians weren’t pandering to either.
” grooming gangs”….Just say rape gangs FFS. Grooming is another word for seduction that can be placed at the feet of Footballers who have had underage relationships that are Statutory rape.
Yes exactly. And that Sarah Champion ( unfortunate name ), what a bloody disgrace. Is it possible for anyone to do more of a 180 U-turn??
She was bang on with her original statement, as has been proven time and again with prosecutions and arrests of the culprits since then, so why not just defect to another party rather than stay and brown-nose your way into favour again? Shameful behaviour.
Totally agree Mogs
In Sweden you can be arrested for saying migrants commit 20 times more rapes and sexual assaults than the indigenous Swedes. (Despite that being true) —Watch this space. In Liberal Progressive land truth is determined by what the Liberal Progressives say is true and data gets chucked into the trash.
And now a major backer of Reform is a Muslim…..Don’t know what to make of that.
It suggests that the trope of Muslims vote Labour is maybe bit over-simplified, as is the view of treating Muslims like a bloc of English hating thugs, bent on turning the UK into a Caliphate. There are some significant cultural differences of course, but there are some deep similarities with the conservative English too.
Open your eyes, and see what is plainly before you.
My eyes are open thanks.
Get ready for the “Bait & Switch”.
It seems Muslims are doing what they have done for the last 700 years, spread Islam.
They hate being in the minority because they are used to pushing everyone else around, but the way things are going they won’t be in the minority for much longer.
They tend to be more politically engaged than white people (I won’t say Christians because that would be absurd). Is it a duty to be politically engaged? It is if you’re complaining about the influence of a more energetic group. I sp0ke to a couple of white English women who converted to Islam and I asked them why and they said because the churches in England are dying and the faith has lost its vitality and the Church of England is truly twisted. I have family who live abroad and when they visit England they make jokes about how few white taxi drivers there are. I wonder why white people don’t run corner shops anymore. Perhaps the Brits with any vigour have left the country. The brain drain started in the 1930s. I spoke to members of an expat community in Gozo and they were like untainted old school Brits who lamented the fact that their country had let itself be sold down the river.
“They tend to be more politically engaged”——Yep because they don’t want to be the minority forever. They cannot afford complacency if they want their own way. ——As for those ladies you say who changed to Islam because the churches are dying, this is almost certainly FALSE. The real story will be that they got involved with Muslim men who now cover their possessions in cloth.
Somewhere you don’t tend to think of as being under threat from Islamification is the gigantic Russia, but it seems to be happening, if these numbers are anything to go by. And I don’t recall this latest massacre over there getting much coverage either;
”In 1991, the Soviet Union had 120 mosques. Within twenty years, they built 8,000.
These are the numbers that make Vladimir Putin sleepless, together with the massacre against the churches and synagogue in Dagestan.
In the next 15 years, a very probable scenario will be one in which in the largest metropolitan areas of Russia – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg – the majority of the population will be made up by the Muslim community.
This is why in Moscow they blame “foreign forces” for the massacre in Dagestan. They are afraid of the immense black hole inside the country.
They are afraid of the family responsible for the attacks in Dagestan: the Omarovs. The patriarch, Magomed, provincial secretary of United Russia (the Kremlin party) who made a career in the times of the USSR when Marxist atheism was an obligation, had his children graduate from the best schools. Yet two of his sons, Osman and Adil, and a nephew, Ali, are among the terrorists who on Sunday set fire to churches and synagogues, slaughtered a pope and killed as many officers as possible.
A report by the Jamestown Foundation, entitled “How Islam will change Russia,” explained what will happen:
“Given demographic changes, by 2050 Muslims will represent between a third (according to the most conservative estimates) and a half (according to the most ‘alarmistic’ assessments) of the Russian population. This ‘Islamization’ of Russia – not in the sense of radical Islam but of a number of citizens referring to Islam – will impact both Russia’s domestic situation and its medium- and long-term foreign policy options. The growing importance of Islam in Russia will shape the country’s future in five directions: the country’s demographic balance; the ‘normalisation’ strategy of the North Caucasus; Russia’s migration policy; the positioning of Russia on the international scene and the transformation of Russian identity”.
By 2035, a third of Moscow will be Islamic. And Pravda, in the English section, published an article entitled: “Will Islam be the first Russian religion in 2050?”.
Five of Russia’s republics – Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachayevo-Cherkessia – have Muslim majorities, and two others – Bashkortostan and Tatarstan – are approaching this figure (Chechnya is an Islamic state under the patronage of Moscow). Muslim nationalities are growing 60 to 90 times faster than the Russian average, with Chechens increasing by 1.82 percent per year. 7 of Russia’s 22 republics are already Islamic.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/392295
I wonder how many Muslin voters will interpret Starmer’s statement about the sanctity of Friday night dinner in an antisemitic way.
The spirituality of northern Europe is that of the sun. Islam is a moon-based spirituality which longs for the night and the tides and the oceans. It cannot take hold in northern Europe because the archangelioi of northern Europe won’t allow it. Of course we have to factor in the coming tide shift. In Russia the common people are talking about it. They are building an alternative to the Suez Canal in a northern arctic trade route. They are going to use high tech icebreakers at first but the expectation is that things are going to thaw out a bit.
you never see George Galloway and Elvis Costello in the same room….
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elvis-costello-furious-over-reports-he-is-struggling-with-cancer
Lets face it the situation comes down to a simple test. I am well are that Englishmen have become physically timid in recent years but the fact is that you can’t match the virility of the average Muslim.You can see it in posture and musculature. Twenty years ago the average European looked way better than the average Muslim. I bet it doesn’t take the Muslim half an hour to get it up. He can have 5-12 children. You are lucky if a clinic managed to extract enough semen from you to have one troubled child. I am not happy about this situation but a time comes when you have to submit to the virile because your virility was lost long ago.
Speak for yourself mate, I’ve got no problems in that department and have done my bit in helping to create and bring up two children, and trying to persuade my fellow citizens of the merits of preserving white European Christian civilisation
As for musculature and posture, I can deadlift my body weight for reps and my shoulders are back and my chest is out, and I’m no spring chicken, so once more I think you must speak only for yourself.
Take a trip to Knightsbridge and see the swaddled fat ladies and their spoilt podgy kids shopping at Harrods and tell me about Muslim Musculature.
I wouldn’t bother engaging tof. I think he’s got his drugs mixed up.
You may be right!
As someone who trains, I totally agree. I have a trap bar Deadlift that is safer than standard Deadlift, some call it the ‘squat-lift’ because you get inside it so as not having to lower the bar over the knees. The small Gym I used, I could beat the Rugby boys at heavy lifts and when they did a circuit test where they times and scored everyone on a board, I came second to this tiny, extremely fit postman. I was happy with that. At 114KG last time I weighed myself, I do Dips with 20KG for several reps.
Weird but true – I used one of those bars for deadlift the other day for the first time! I came to this very late in life and it has done wonders for my back. Can’t compete with weighted dips yet – can only manage a few unweighted – but I am working on it. For the older commenters here (and the middle aged ones) – your muscles waste away as you get older, and you need to make sure you stress them and feed them to postpone old-age-induced frailty for as long as possible.
Dry Stone walling helps.
Yup I’ve not done it but I imagine that will do the job nicely and probably more fun and satisfying than being in a gym. My day job is sedentary so I need to make sure I keep physically active.
If you ever want to give it a try let me know. Our Branch run weekend training courses.
Thanks! I don’t think we have so much of it Down South.
I can never seem to get the calories right, too many and you get a spare tyre, too few and you lose your gains. I read a book in 2004 called Hard Gainer based on natural bodybuilding. I lost count of the amount of times he emphasised a high calorific diet.
I guess it can be tricky, and depends what you are aiming for. I’m getting stronger and heavier in roughly the same proportions so based on that and a visual check I think most of the weight gain is muscle – but my body fat level is pretty normal – not ripped but not blubbery either – and I’m OK with that. If you want to get stronger and be really ripped I guess it requires more effort, especially as you get older, and probably serious calorie counting, which I can’t be bothered with. I do tons of sport in addition to the lifting – the sport is for fun, the lifting is for health and wellbeing.
Blimey.
Actually I meant 30KG. I Dip with a 20KG plate and add two fives. That is one five per set. Five sets in all and finishing with the weight I started with.
They have seeds thay have women they have culture and patience and the understanding of God. You have none of these things.
They are a sex and death cult worshipping a Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Satan/Shiva.
THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF GOD, AND NEITHER DO YOU.
THEY UNDERSTAND ONLY SATAN, SEX, DEATH & DESTRUCTION.
I’m hoping for a hung Parliament. The fracturing of Labour’s vote may be a factor.
Doesn’t matter about the configuraton of parliament. The whole reason that Sunak called the election was that the armed forces told him that we are at war with Russia and that it would become a world war by August. Are you really going to care about party politics at that point. All decisions would be immediately deferred to Washington and we would receive our fate as Airstrip One.
As someone said, “religion” is merely a “cloaking device” for this sex & death cult bent on world domination.
What does Christianity say – don’t be lukewarm. From my point of view contemporary Muslims and contemporary Islam is essentially true Christianity. I see the true Christian spirit in the Islamic faith. I doubted the revelation from Gabriel to Mohammed for a long time but I am beginning to see and understand it.
— Christianity says “REPENT YOUR SINS, and GO & SIN NO MORE.”
— Christianity says “Without true repentance, there can be no salvation”.
— Christianity says,
“Our Father, who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On Earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory,
Forever and ever.
Amen.”
Flaming Nora.
It’s either a change in wacky baccy, too many orange Smarties or you’ve acquired your Andrew Tate ‘PHD’ and finally bent over for 
Islam.
Oh that’s firkin class Mogs. I would be chuffed to bits if I’d put those words together.
Ah, cheers hinny.
I did warn him about sniffing the old Ajax though. Rots your brain and your septum…
So what was the point of the Crusades then?
I never really understood how Islam is the completion of the Abrahamic saga but I do now. Just from behaviour. The behaviour of Muslims over the last few months has been so much better than the behaviour of other religions that they have proved themselves in my mind and spirit
You forgot to add “Inshallah”. Go on, you know you want to.
You sound like you’re working on the beard situation…
You’ve got a beard haven’t you?
Fair play, you gave me something to laugh at this miserable morning!
I think it will be a positive influence. Not because of its teaching but just that it comes at this time and takes over a cultural and spiritual wasteland. Would you rather have reductionist materialism or Islam. Give me Islam any day of the week.
Name a majority Muslim country that is objectively more successful in any desirable respect than Christian Europe, and name any country with a Muslim majority that you’d be happy to live in and explain why you are not already there given the “reductionist materialism” rampant here.
There is no Christian Britain and it will never come back.
You didn’t answer Transmission’s challenge.
Britain and Europe have Christian roots, and you didn’t answer my questions
Jesus didn’t mention it expicitly but perhaps he was priming us for Islam.
Kali-Allah is a Giant Moon Spider Goddess of Death, and her Toyboy is Satan=Shiva, God of Destruction, whose symbol is the Crescent Moon & Star, worshipped by millions of Idiot Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, pagans and Assorted Cannibals all around the world.
You’re right, E-zus never mentioned her.
I never used to even care about Muslims or Islam but I have to say these last fe months my respect and admiration for them has grown and I can entertain the idea that in terms of spirituality they are the future. They have beaitifed themselves and made themselves whole in the eyes of God. I used to think that Islam was too paternalistic and authoritarian. Now I realise that it is simply the only antidote.
Enough with these tricks. You’ve been a Muslim all along.
Not really but I wouldn’t be ashamed if I was. There is simply no alternative. Christianity isn’t going to come back and neo-paganism is a dead end. You have to look at where the energy is.
Off you go, then, to the Islamic Hellhole of your choice.
Christianity is alive and well in Russia. Unlike UK they have had a Christian leader.
You’re not in some HMP in the Midlands are you, hedging your bets for self preservation?
They played the long game get the numbers up to a few million and then seep outwards. The blindsided you. You have nothing to fight back with. The only people that I have met in the UK who can fight back are those living in Northern Ireland. Great people great place. You are no match for them. You sold your identity long ago and your new identity is as a Muslim whether you like it or not. You don’t have to give up booze, many Muslim countries allow it. Just make sure that you eat the right sort of meat.
Then why doesn’t Northern Ireland declare itself to be an INDEPENDENT NATION?
I was offered Beer in Morocco but I will assume these people were not as devout. Great place for all types of Leatherwork and love the Moroccan Tea. I got a Moroccan tea pot but that was more to do with the hard selling techniques. That said, would not want to be living in a Muslim majority county.
You know, thinking about all the Jabby McStiff posts I’ve seen so far on DS, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is some kind of AI thing created by the 77th Brigade taking the Michael, not an actual human. See how it makes bold statements, but rarely responds to replies or discussion. I mean, look at the name— you can almost see the Brigade laughing.
Nice try, lads.
Wait a minute. Thinking about it some more, that’s no robot AI thing, but a real human winding everybody up and having a laugh. The 77th don’t need to use robots to wind us up!
The ramifications?
In 25 years time we won’t have a democracy.
Mass deportations, outlaw islam or inevitable civil war.
And put a limit on Mosques.
Hard to disagree.
On the plus side, Starmer won’t DARE indulge in any Iraqi-style illegal wars in the Middle East.
This is why mass immigration is killing our country. Killing our culture, and killing our National Identity. ——Once the Muslim population reaches 20% then 30% then 40% this country might as well be Islamabad.