Wes Streeting’s Condemnation of Cousin-Marriage is Inconsistent with His Accusation of “Racism” Against Nigel Farage
The 2025 Labour Party conference focused obsessively upon one theme above all others: smearing Nigel Farage as a closet white supremacist. One Labour Cabinet member happy to make such accusations was Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who, when asked if he thought Nigel was a racist, answered like this:
I remember the leaflet that Reform put out in Scotland in the by-election that said that Anas Sarwar would prioritise the interests of the Pakistani community. If that leaflet directed against a proud Scot of proud Pakistani heritage was not racist, then I don’t know what is. And, if Nigel Farage allows that to go out from his party, what does that make him?
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Anas Sarwar? Don’t you mean Humza Yousaf?
I was thinking the same, but perhaps they are the same.
He’s the leader of the Scottish Labour party but it was Humsa Yousaf,leader of the SNP, that made the ‘white white white’ speech, if think there maybe some crossed lines.
Not surprising when most of our leaders are of Pakistani descent!
Sarwar did the same whingy anti-white speech. He’s Yousaf’s ‘brother from another mother’;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxSxHTmuXM
Right 👍
Sarwar and Yousaf both made ‘white, white, white’ speeches in the same debate in the Scottish Parliament.
Right, got yer 👍
That 37% marry cousins is also indicative that the community is refusing to integrate with society at large. This, I think, could also store up long term issues.
What percentage of South Asian governments is white, non-Islamic?
Exactly what I was about to write
Yes, definitely an open goal. Where are the forwards?
“Is this not in itself suggestive of some form of racial favouritism going on?” Or it could be an inaccurate hypothesis. It could be more likely that it reflects the Imperial history, especially from the formation of Pakistan and immigration therefrom.
Anyway, those who immigrated from that part of the world might have realised that Scotland was a challenging environment (especially weather and light intensity – such as ultra violet levels) to non-whites.
‘Imperial history… formation of Pakistan..’
Presumably you’re referring to the Moghuls?
I doubt Wes Streeting cares about “racism” – he just sees Farage as an electoral threat and it’s a useful slur though becoming less so through over use.
Wes Streeting only just managed to hold on to his seat at the General Election. While Ilford North had been a swing seat (until Lee Scott, the incumbent Conservative MP was unable to campaign publicly due to threats from a particular demographic), Streeting faced a challenge from a Pro-Palestine candidate in 2024 – his margin reduced to around 600.
I’m not sure he sees Reform as his biggest threat – trying hard to placate and not lose any more support from those making up an increasing proportion of his electorate.
That too I suppose. Reform are the biggest threat to his party though, nationally.
Blood and marriage ties are the based form of human trust. But cousin marriage is vital for the survival of kin groups. Such a group has blood and marriage ties out to cousins, but is unlike a clan which can include others. The ‘Pakistanis’ here would be the Mirpuris, who also featured in the rape gangs investigations.
It is the kin group especially that has “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”. That is, they have tight social and business obligations. In politics, they move as a herd, attempting to gain the biggest slice of the pie for themselves.
In the subject of cousin marriage can be seen the dilemma of the British state’s policy of diversity as a form of governance. The imperial centre in SW1 has increasing difficulty in delivering satisfaction for the needs of each community. The beneficial needs of one – cousin marriage – become deleterious to another – the cost to the NHS of caring for the disabled.
Dowry also stays within the family.
Pakistani is not a race, it’s a nationality, Muslim is not a race it’s a religion.
The motto of the Left is: Do as we say, not as we do.
P A K I stands for Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Sind (Balouchistan is in there somewhere). Used I think during the 1930s to denote muslim groupings not a geographical region hence East P a k istan now known as Bangladesh.
“Stronger extended family support systems” – is this where the so-called honour killings come from? Support your extended family by murdering family members who annoy you.
‘supposedly intelligent Labour party politicians’
Therein likes the bulk of this country’s problems when added to the supposedly intelligent other Uniparty politicians.
See it for what it is, an ill thought out plan by not very bright people to try to destroy Farage and Reform for the benefit of attendees to the Labour conference. It’s obviously falling apart quite quickly.