Labour panders to communalism in Batley & Spen

 

When Kim Leadbeater was pictured with a group of extremists sporting t-shirts with maps that wiped out Israel out of existence I gave her the benefit of the doubt. After all this a woman whose sister had been murdered by a racially inspired extremist and she had been endorsed by the Starmer leadership by being parachuted into the after just 4 months  membership really couldn't be anything but naive surely?

Her initial leaflets showed she was going to take an interest in primarily local issues as can be seen in her tweet below.

Yet the entry of George Galloway has the local party panicking. There is a large Muslim community in Batley which according to figures provided by the Muslim Council of Britain have up to and around 9,000 potential votes. There have also been interventions by extremist groups locally as seen in the deliberately provoked demonstrations and threats against a local teacher who dared to teach his students about the world around them which would include things they might not necessarily like.

Unfortunately for him he was forced into hiding after threats and the cowardly actions of the Head teacher not backing him. The fundamentalists managed to achieve the intimidation of others as is their way.

This factor no doubt encouraged political carpetbagger and charlatan George Galloway who earns a buck or two by pandering to the politically and religiously backward  with the anti-imperialism of fools. His avowed intent was to damage the Labour Party by attracting the Muslim vote by pandering to the communities prejudices over the Middle East with his fawning support for the Palestinians. 

As one can see from the leaflet now in circulation from Leadbeater the Labour Party despite everything also panders to the perceived prejudices of one section of the community about Palestine and adds Kashmir to the mix. The Islamist agenda taken on board.

It comes at a time when the "Labour Muslim Network" led by the Corbynites has been undermining Keir Starmer as Labour List reports:

Momentum’s Mish Rahman, who sits on Labour’s ruling national executive committee, said the polling “reflects a disastrous failure of Starmer’s leadership to represent millions of Muslim voters, who are a key bedrock of Labour’s support”.

He added: “I was canvassing in Batley and Spen this weekend, and over and over again voters wanted to talk to me about Palestine. They were justifiably angry at the Labour leadership’s failure to take a clear moral and practical stance in support of the Palestinian people.”

Comments like this show why the hard left is so keen to ignore antisemitism and the genocidal aims of groups like Hamas and their Iranian allies.

Of course the problem for Labour is that the bulk of the constituency is unlikely to be impressed by this leaflet and may find it backfiring badly. The betrayal of not just the Jewish community it tried to woo back after being thrown to the wolves by Corbyn but also the Indians will not be forgotten by either group.

I don't have a vote in the constituency and the liklihood of what I say having any influence in the by-election with a small blog being non-existent makes any view of mine irrelevant but for those who are listening I would not now vote for Leadbeater, Labour candidate or not.

The people of this country deserve an opposition party that seeks compromise and peace when it comes to complex conflicts. Pandering to communalism as does Galloway is a dangerous and thoroughly reactionary road to take.