The landslide victory of the Labour Party in the UK means that Keir Starmer is now the British prime minister. Starmer managed to take over the Labour Party leadership in 2020, after years of disastrous electoral results when the party was led by the antisemitic and anti-Israel Jeremy Corbyn, who once called members of Hamas and Hezbollah “my friends” and invited them to visit Parliament as his guest. Starmer first suspended, and then expelled, Corbyn from the party, and several of the most extreme Corbynites who shared his deep animus to Israel followed him out of the party.
Following the many accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party during Corbyn’s tenure, Starmer pledged to end antisemitism in the party during his acceptance speech as leader in 2020, saying: “Antisemitism has been a stain on our party. I have seen the grief that it’s brought to so many Jewish communities. On behalf of the Labour Party, I am sorry. And I will tear out this poison by its roots and judge success by the return of Jewish members and those who felt that they could no longer support us”
During the campaign, Starmer rejected pressure from his party’s left to come out publicly in support of recognizing a state of Palestine, as had recently been done by Ireland, Spain, and Norway. Nonetheless, he said that he wanted to recognize a Palestinian state, but that such a move would need to come “at the right time in a peace process.” Since that peace process may be years away, the pro-Israel groups have time to make their case and change his mind.
In the latest election, four Labour veterans lost their seats, having been judged insufficiently pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel by the large number of Muslim voters in their districts. More on their losses can be found here: “Despite Labour Party win, MPs lose seats to pro-Palestinian opponents,” Jerusalem Post, July 5, 2024:
While Britain on Friday saw the Labour Party win the most seats during the election, some well-seasoned party veterans have lost their seats over their stance on the Israel-Hamas war, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
Labour lost four seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates. These losses all occurred in constituencies with a large number of Muslim residents, the Times claimed.
Of course, four seats is less than 1% of the total number of seats — 650 — in the House of Commons.
Shadow cabinet minister Jonathan Ashworth was one of the four to lose his seat for Leicester South; an area where 35% of the population identify as Muslim. His seat will now belong to an independent candidate running on a pro-Palestinian ticket who won by 979 votes.
Shockat Adam, the independent who took Ashworth’s seat, said his win was “an indication to those who have been in power for so long that you cannot forget the people that you serve.”
“This is a humble gesture,” he said. “This is for the people of Gaza.”…
Apparently Shockat Adam believes that in the British Parliament, he should be furthering the interests not of the British people, but of the Muslims in Gaza. This is like the praise the former Somali Prime Minister, Hasssan Ali Khaire, lavished on Ilhan Omar at one of her recent campaign rallies in Minnesota, where he said that “Ilhan’s interests aren’t those of Minnesota or the American people, but those of Somalia.”
These four seats that Labour lost to pro-Palestinian independents are just the latest, and most dramatic, expression of Muslim political power, growing pari passu with the growth in the Muslim population. Right now the mayors of London, Oldham, Luton, Oxford, and Blackburn are all Muslims.
Muslims are now able in those ridings where they constitute more than a third of the population — they need not be a majority, for Muslims vote as a bloc — to elect those who will demand that the government adopt anti-Israel policies, including enacting BDS measures. There are now four million Muslims in the U.K., and only 310,000 Jews. Mene mene tekel upharsin. The writing is on the wall.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I knew things are bad in the UK, but it’s still shocking that 4 openly pro-Hamas people managed to defeat the Labour candidates as independents. The Leicester one in particular, since that was also the site of brazen muslim attacks on Hindus a couple of years ago. As Hugh notes, muslims vote as a bloc, so it’s not inconceivable that in a few election cycles, they could put up candidates of $MUSLIM_PARTY_UK and such a party would get more seats than the Lib-Dems (never mind Farage’s Reform)
Brits who recognize this threat and are serious about it should forget all the fakes, be it the Tories or Farage, and just go straight to Paul Golding’s “Britain First”. A couple of years ago, I’d have advocated Anne-Marie Waters’ “For Britain” party, but since they’ve successfully used lawfare to destroy it, Britain First is the only alternative. And for non-ethnic Brits, screw the multiculturalism: muslims have already shown their legendary tolerance for Jews & Hindus in the country, and it’ll spread to all other non-muslim ethnicities in the UK
Oh, and finally Tories – please go away, if you want your country to survive, so that all the Right leaning votes go either to Reform or to Britain First
Barbara says
Should the Muslim first attitude take control of England, what will that do to the peers of the realm? How will the royal family continue at any capacity? There would be a huge change of privilege in the country.
What will their colonies do?
James Lincoln says
Good questions, Barbara.
Phil Copson says
??? When did Britain last have any colonies?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There are a few countries that are still a part of the “realm” i.e. still have King Charles as their king officially – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and a few others. I think that’s what Barbara was thinking about. Otherwise, Britain just has a few random islands here & there, like Falklands, St Helena & a few in the Pacific
Granted that they’re not colonies, but Australia, Canada & NZ have been only too happy to follow Britain’s lead
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Going by King Charles’ past inclinations, I believe he’d have no difficulties in embracing islam, and I suspect that the same would be true of a lot of Canterbury Archbishops, who like the Pope & Patriarch of Moscow, have had a record of kissing up to various imams. Question is – how willingly do their subjects follow suit?
England Invaded says
Check out the islamic state of Dewsbury now with their new hamas MP Iqbal Mohamed.
They recently changed the constituency to merge both Batley and Dewsbury to make it easier for them.
Both places full of these animals causing what they always cause.
On the 7th of July, it will be the anniversary of the UK 7/7/ bombings. That had links with Dewsbury of course.
40 rounds says
Sorry lads and lasses, Hamas has already pissed on your fire hydrant and the stench will last forever. What a shame
somehistory says
It’s as if thousands of people just woke up one morning having been hypnotized to do whatever mozlums want them to do; like a mass suicide.
Or they sniffed the air, felt defeat, and just gave up without a fight.
OLD GUY says
Islam is the new and revived NAZI party. Lots of blood will be shed in its defeat.
somehistory says
“However big the headline change in the vote between the past two elections, drill down into two demographic pockets of Britain and you find staggering shifts.
Leicester South, with a Muslim population close to 30%, where Shadow Paymaster General Jon Ashworth lost his seat to independent Shockat Adam.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/election-fallout-deep-shifts-in-muslim-and-jewish-voting/ar-BB1px5xD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=0e9d989e372f4fc785dbc6dd21f321b7&ei=35