Labour “Set to Lose in West Midlands” as Muslims Desert Party Over Gaza
Labour is set to lose the West Midlands Mayoral election because of anger among Muslim voters over its stance on Gaza, party sources fear, adding to the shock loss in Oldham and struggles elsewhere. The Telegraph has more.
Insiders warned that a marked shift in support amongst the city’s Muslim population could cost them their chance of victory.
They said Muslim voters had swung heavily behind an independent candidate, backed by George Galloway, who campaigned predominantly on Gaza.
A failure to unseat Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, would represent a setback for Sir Keir Starmer after otherwise good local elections for his party.
A loss would raise more questions over how his stance on Gaza, especially his early refusal to back a ceasefire, has damaged Labour’s standing among Muslims.
While the election took place on Thursday, the votes are not set to be counted until Saturday, when the result will be announced at around 3pm.
Surveys ahead of the race suggested that it was neck-and-neck with Richard Parker, the Labour candidate, polling just two points behind Mr. Street.
But it appears the Labour campaign has been derailed by Akhmed Yakoob [pictured], the independent who has been backed by Mr Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain. …
Failure to win the Mayoralty would represent another blow after Labour lost control of Oldham council and struggled for support in Bolton and parts of Newcastle.
In all three places, it faced challenges from pro-Palestinian independents and the Greens, who have called for an arms export embargo on Israel.
Defeated councillors in Oldham said anger over Sir Keir’s stance on Gaza had been a decisive factor in the loss of several seats to independents.
Darren Jones, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, admitted the loss of support amongst Muslim voters was worrying for the party.
Worth reading in full.
It could be that this is a kicking in the local elections that voters won’t give in the General Election. But either way, it shows that the Israel-Palestine conflict is at the very top of concerns for many Muslims and that this is a threat to Labour’s long-cultivated multicultural support base.
Stop Press: Labour has become embroiled in an internal racism row after a party source told BBC Midlands Today: “It’s the Middle East, not West Midlands that will have won Street the Mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains.” MPs have claimed the remark conflates Muslim voters with Hamas and the central Labour party has distanced itself from the “racist” comment.
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A warning if one was ever needed that the “In Britain, but not of Britain” people will always vote for politicians of their own culture or ones who defend it like the imposter Galloway. The larger the Muslim population becomes the more Muslim politicians will be making decisions based on what Muslims want. (Sharia etc)
It’s the same as pushing for allowing children the children vote… No surprises who the chronically online 14 year olds will vote for…
Kids aren’t quite as dumb as they look, and not all are brainwashed to the red. All it means is that you have to get your policies and messages right, educate and inspire the 16 y-o to vote for you (I don’t think 14 is suggested, yet…). Then as soon as you get back in power raise the age to 35.
It often depends how based their parents are.
Free Oreos would mandatory.
I’d vote for that.!
Reminds me of the idiotic woke people in that town in the US who voted for a Muslim mayor, so proud to embrace those from other cultures, only to find their new Muslim mayor started implementing anti LGBT policies.
It s at once tragic and hysterically funny that Labour may be forced ito chose between being openly anti-semitic or be voted out by those they’ve so eagerly invited in.
I think there are some very interesting moves in the results. ‘F*** the Tories’ has done well overall, but instead of a defection from blue to red, it has scattered to independents, the LibDems and the Greens (Lord, help us.!)) as much as it has to Labour. Sunak is a busted flush, we all knew that, but Starmer can’t take much from this either, imo. Of course local elections were made for protest votes, but the political landscape is shifting from two parties to something more fragmentary. There is a vacuum at the heart of our politics and thats an opportunity if someone is brave enough to grab the Tiger by the ears and hold on..
This shows clearly that Multiculturalism = Cultural Marxism has failed miserably, in every possible way.
What the blazes has a foreign war thousands of miles away got to do with the British People electing politicians to use British People’s Money to make life better for British People? All we have done is import Third World conflicts, so that Muslims fight Hindus on British streets, as they have done in recent years, and show that they have no interest in Britain other than turning it into “Outer Pakistan”.
Since Pakistan has no trouble at all in booting Afghan illegals out of Pakistan, shouldn’t we in the West be following their excellent example? No, because even our own young people are busy mobbing the transport buses trying to deport hostile illegal aliens to Rwanda, in order to keep them all in Britain. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
What varmint said. ”In election campaigns in democracies, struggling parties threaten voters that the victory of the enemy represents the end of democracy for their country and the advent of dictatorship in it. But there is a far greater threat to a country than the weakening of its democracy — it is chaos, anarchy, the loosening and even disintegration of civil society, and perhaps even civil war. The huge flow of immigrants into Europe is creating social chaos. The leaders of European countries, thinking they were in control, created chaos that turned against the indigenous population of their countries. They proceeded from the theory of multiculturalism, but a few months after mass immigration began, they admitted the failure of their policy. They had created turbulent flows of populations alien to Europe. In the summer of 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been more active than any other European leader in promoting the resettlement of Arab refugees in Europe, summarized the German government’s failure to integrate them: “Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany, in which people of different cultures live in full harmony, have finally and irrevocably failed. The integration of foreigners is one of the main political… Read more »
Mogs, have a look at my post in “Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories.”
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Mogwai——How do we integrate this?
Haha…Well I think we’re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole there aren’t we?
Wasn’t it a policy of New Labour to import masses of foreigners so as to rub in the noses of the Tories, and when they complain, call them racist. I think that information came to light around 2010 id I recall.
‘Rub their faces in diversity’ was a phrase that has stuck in my mind…
“Diversity is our strength.”
I have never believed this and always used to consider this an out and out lie but to those pushing this trope, the likes of Bliar, Lammy, Abacus Abbott and all the rest it is far from being a lie, it is in fact an eternal truth to them. Their strength comes from convincing us that in rejecting “Diversity is our Strength” we are the racists, the bigots, the right-wing hate mob. Our refusal to accept “cultural enrichment” therefore defines us forever as ‘white van man.’
“Diversity is our Strength” used in the manner of the above named criminals has simply been inverted. They use the phrase deliberately in an Orwellian manner thus challenging us to challenge them and therby inviting all the opprobrium they can muster in attempting to slap us down.
G T F with diversity.
By this way of thinking Japan with hardly any diversity at all and with no immigrants flooding into the country CANNOT have strength. These are just silly political slogans and mean NOTHING. It is like when you hear politicians say “It is time for change”. ——–What the f..k is that supposed to mean?
Even the dreadful Beeb has to report on the dreadful Biden’s comments here;
”US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic”, grouping them together with Russia and China as countries that “don’t want immigrants”.
His criticism of Japan comes just weeks after he called the US-Japan alliance “unbreakable” during a state visit from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
India is also a key US partner, despite US concerns about human rights and religious freedoms there.
The White House says that Mr Biden meant no offence to either country.
Speaking to a predominantly Asian-American audience at a campaign fundraising event on Wednesday evening, Mr Biden said that the US election this November was about “freedom, America and democracy”.
“Why? Because we welcome immigrants,” he added. “Think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble. Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68947042
Ron, have a look at my post in “Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories.”
I walked down a road in my very recently nearly completely white town has now been almost totally overrun by new arrivals. A lady was raped in the town by one and the lefties tried to pretend that the perpetrator was a local, yet oddly he needed an interpreter in court.
Latest Mark Steyn article including families pulling out of the AstraZeneca court case
https://www.steynonline.com/14263/small-print-and-big-government
While it is amusing to see the enemy engaged in internal fighting the lesson to be learned (if the Labour candidate for West Midlands Mayor does not win) is the invidious nature of single issue politics. In this case Gaza sympathisers voting as they think Gaza sympathisers should vote rather than influenced by local issues or anything in the candidates’ manifestos.
A similar thing affects Scottish voting. The single issue of independence (or not) dominates all other issues to the extent that SNP had to embrace climate alarmism from the Greens to remain in government.
Love the picture. “Support Your Local Drug Dealer” vibe.
“Support Your Local Drug Dealer”
…or else.