As the red dawn breaks in the aftermath of the General Election, it’s time to take stock. Keir Starmer’s victory may be about as convincing as Jeremy Corbyn’s tailor, but he is nonetheless safely ensconced inside Number 10. The media meanwhile are too busy fixating on the Right-wing fracture in U.K. politics to notice the real story of the election: the impact of the Muslim vote.
This realpolitik was of course not wasted on Starmer’s predecessor, who not only won his Islington seat on a pro-Palestine ticket, but must have been kicking himself that his particular brand of terrorist sympathy and tolerance for antisemitism failed to meet so receptive an audience back in 2019.
Merely crunching the numbers does not tell the whole story. Those who put ‘Gaza’ at the forefront of their campaign won seats in Blackburn, Dewsbury and Batley, Birmingham Perry Barr and Leicester South (as well as Islington). But the Muslim vote was also highly influential, almost unseating Wes Streeting in Ilford North and Jess Phillips in Birmingham Yardley, and bizarrely returning Iain Duncan Smith to his Chingford and Woodford Green constituency after a former candidate split the Labour vote.
While the overall tally was short of the 20 seats Labour were predicted to lose over the Israel-Palestine conflict, Starmer will be gravely concerned by the exodus of Muslim voters. Polling just ahead of the election suggested their support for Labour would be down around 20%, but in constituencies where the Muslim population approaches 40% this turned out to be a whopping 33.9 percentage points.
With the obvious anger bubbling beneath the surface and indications that the Muslim vote is preparing to go it alone, one would have thought analysis of the situation would be of profound interest to the Labour Party. And yet, the science of extrapolation does not appear to apply to Muslim voters in the same way it does with the rest of the populace. Most commentators appear reticent when asked to draw conclusions, terrified of “lumping everyone from a Muslim background into having the same view”, as per Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika.
This is a curious state of affairs. I don’t recall UKIP’s “fruitcakes”, Brexit-voting “Nazis” and Reform U.K.’s four million “racists” being afforded such nuance. Moreover, the ‘not all Muslims’ canard is misplaced, if not downright deceitful. A cursory analysis of Muslim opinion should be enough to illustrate that: three out of four British Muslims do not believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th; 44% ranked the Israel-Palestine conflict in the top five issues of the election; almost half claim Jews have too much power over Government policy, and the same number would support the removal of an MP who took a different stance on the conflict. The majority of British Muslims have a favourable impression of Hamas, and these views increase rather than decrease among the younger population.
‘Not all Muslims’ then, certainly, but not a small minority either. A majority in many cases. Majority agreement on these matters is mainstream by definition. And while of course nuance is always welcome, what precisely would constitute the requisite level of agreement for the commentary to be permitted?
Naturally, the Israel-Palestine conflict is an emotive issue, and it should be perfectly possible to condemn the actions of Hamas while praying for an end to civilian casualties. It should not however, be governing U.K. politics. After all, iniquity is hardly in short supply across the globe. And yet, it’s not the injustice of ongoing African slavery that gets the protesters riled up each weekend in London. Neither is it the innocent slaughter in Ukraine, nor even the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China. No, the pro-Palestine mob reserves its anger for Israel having the temerity to defend itself. Perhaps then we should drop the ‘pro-Gaza’ euphemism and call it what it is – anti-Jewish sentiment.
While there is a certain delicious irony watching those who lit the multicultural fuse come face-to-face with the explosive consequences, it is profoundly depressing to see the left continually kowtow to the Muslim vote, even as it deserts them. Jonathan Ashworth, whose Leicester South seat hosts a 30% Muslim population, is a regular critic of “anti-Muslim hate” and “rising Islamophobia”. Alas, it wasn’t enough to save him. Jess Phillips, intimidated and booed during her acceptance speech by a pro-Palestine mob, insisted “They didn’t do it because they were Muslim, they did it because they were idiots”. I’d love to know why Phillips believes “idiocy” rather than “Muslim” is the appropriate causal explanation.
To those who say this is simply democracy in action, I prefer Churchill’s line: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the man in the street.” Democracy it may be, but it’s also mob rule, characterised increasingly by intimidation and violence. It’s not Reform voters issuing death threats to MPs in heavily Jewish constituencies, bullying Parliament into submission or forcing Batley schoolteachers into hiding. If that’s what constitutes democracy in action, then at the very least it deserves to be challenged frankly.
Britain is out of luck there unfortunately, because Starmer – a man who’d kneel for anything if there was a vote in it – is clearly not up to the job. Instead, Labour is more than likely to criminalise ‘Islamophobia’, and it is telling that Starmer’s first act in office was to demand a “clear and urgent” ceasefire from Netanyahu. The question now remains, how many concessions will the Muslim Vote extract from Starmer before it goes it alone in 2029?
Frank Haviland is author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and Editor of the New Conservative, where this article first appeared.
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the true objective is surely to get to all children injected with the experimental shit. Doesn’t matter about keeping anyone “safe” as it’s not about a virus.
Children must learn to be jabbed.
Anything else is a bonus.
Or jabbed to learn? Not that schools are a good place to learn, unless you want them to learn to be compliant and not think for themselves.
What I don’t get though is what do the teachers’ unions have to gain from the jabbing of children? It’s obvious enough what the doctors have to gain, but the teachers? Are the teachers’ unions not in fact looking out for the teachers’ interests but working for some other agenda? I could understand the teachers’ unions wanting to keep the schools closed to give the teachers an extra holiday, but instead they seem to be pre-occupied with getting the children jabbed in lock-step with the WHO etc.
“Are The Unions Running The Country?”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/08/are_the_unions_running_the_country_20210829.php
Clearly, senior union officials have been in receipt of brown envelopes from Billy boy’s people.
The constant arguing between government and the teaching unions is just theatre.
You may be right, but it would be good to have some hard evidence of that if it is indeed the case.
The teachers’ unions have lost their minds to the Covid Craziness as much as many other sectors of society. The New South Wales state government in Australia (now in 10-week, and counting, lockdown) has recently mandated the jabbies for all state and private school teachers (and non-teaching support staff) if they want to keep their job. The NSW teachers union has just come out in support of No Jab, No Job for their members.
As a life-long unionist and shop steward, and (very minor) union office-holder, and a former high school teacher, I am utterly dismayed by how the teachers’ unions have lost their marbles, spooked out their minds by a virus which children don’t get and transmit, and, even if they did, would be innocuous to teaching-age adults.
In despair,
Phil, South Australia
I was thinking about it from a conspiratorial point of view when I wrote the above comment, but on calmer reflection I think you’re probably right, the unions may just simply have fallen for the propaganda on the whole. Being of the left they probably just accept what the left leaning media tells them to think.
I’ve known several teachers in my life, the majority of whom I wouldn’t trust to teach my children how to put the lids back on pens. The general perception of teachers as national heroes providing education and enlightenment to the younger generations is complete hogwash. Most enter schools straight from academia with no real experience outside their compulsory school classroom hours, ergo most are wokeydokey alt-left jellyheads who automatically defer to the perceived authority of state run institutions, especially where it provides them with an excuse to either moan about their ‘struggles’ and/or dodge their responsibilities. Teachers should be rallying against the government imposed disruptions to our children’s education. Where are they? At home in their dressing gowns completing netflix.
Is it correct that school children in Sweden are NOT tested and If a child is unwell with symptoms they are not tested but are sent home to recover – no other children are tested or sent home?
This simple system works well in Sweden – for what reason would it not work here or anywhere else?
Because it would undermine the narrative / propaganda and intentional disruption, and people would stop being afraid and hence compliant.
The only problem wrt reopening schools as planned is the teacher’s unions invariant.
While we’re at that, I have a nice money-saving suggestion: Redirect whatever funding the WHO might receive to something sensible, say, repairing pot holes. They can surely survive as subscription and advertising based service for those who enjoy the press releases. If not, nobody will miss them.
Yes, what does the WHO actually do, apart from making fans of one-world-government feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
When they’re not busy eradicating diseases, they do stuff like publishing statistics claimed to prove that people drinking milk will die of cancer and stuff like that.
It turns out they’re quite good at providing cover for global depopulation programs, providing the money is right and correctly funneled to the relevant Swiss bank accounts
Awh, don’t the WHO come across as warm and cuddly, only thinking of the children.
They have realised that children not in school might, just might, develop some feral thinking and that would never do. Better to have them in class were they can be tormented sufficiently to be ready for their Orwellian future.
Actually how we run our schools has FA to do with the WHO.
It was the generation that was kept out of school during the Cultural Revolution in the late 60s that carried out the Tiananmen protests in 1989.
hope the photo is just a covid promotional
I think it’s for real, from life. It’s an old picture from last year, that illustrated what measures had been taken in at least one kindergarten in one East Asian country.
If they’re putting them in coops they should at least have a bowl of water in there, and a six foot run.
Yes, I remember it from last year. Thailand, was it?
Official child abuse, sickening. That done 18 months ago would have had the authorities and social services prosecuting the offenders. How did times change?
We can’t stop testing children. Where would the income streams be for the testing companies?
Is this genuine concern re childrens education or the fact that they can’t vaccinate them if they’re not in school?…I know which I believe.
It’s a reminder that the terrible pandemic is still ongoing and that testing of healthy people, especially, continuous high-frequency testing of healthy pupils, must continue lest someone could fail to notice this.
Considering that the testing procedure is reportedly physically unpleasant, one could also interpret this as WHO demands children be tortured.
That is what this is about – torturing the children so that when they leave school they will simply Obey.
Amy teachers reading this? Do they really give a shit? What is it they say… Actions speak louder than words.
Scottish schools will be closed before Christmas.
Oh, thanks WHO.
Whilst I agree with you, I thought it was the elected governments of the countries of the world that decided what their educational policies should be, but OK. You’re running things now. Good to know
Erm, anyone know what WHO/Unicef actually mean when they say, ‘do everything possible’ to keep schools open?
Any words from our politicians, WHO, and other NGO’s I simply invert what they have said.
An unfailingly accurate way to understand the lies.
Schools must stay open WHO says. “All the better to brainwash and stab you, my dear.”
What I don’t understand is why parents give consent for their kids to be tested at all – I have not given my consent for the entire ‘pandemic’ – simply said no you can’t and they didn’t. The kid starts at a new school in a few days and I also did Not give my consent to testing. FFS – over the 14 years of her life she’s had many corona viruses and each time I’ve kept her home because she was too sick to go to school – all doctors ever said before 2020 was – oh it’s just a virus – keep her home til she feels better. No we can’t test for it because there is no proper diagnostic and anyway it’s not serious. Oh and it’s building up her natural immunity. Yawn. Bore fest. Say NO testing. NO jab.
With you 100%. Unfortunately, from my direct experience of ‘chatting’ with other parents, the majority of parents with school age children are operating on a level of intellect which probably peaked around age 11 before entering a phase of steady decline. It genuinely breaks my heart when to consider the effects of such degenerate ‘parenting’ on children. IMO it borders on child abuse where a parent imposes their own overtly destructive neuroses onto a child, with immeasurably negative consequences wrought upon the child.
The mere fact that the WHO are still looked upon by the MSM as a credible, trustworthy, infallible and incorruptible source of expertise and guidance should be enough to destroy the facade of credibility of both the WHO and the MSM completely.