The by-election is Batley and Spen was always going to attract some level of controversy due to the fact it was where a teacher had to go into hiding after death threats from Islamic extremists. The entry of George Galloway into the fray with a stated agenda of bringing down Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party and playing his false championship of Muslims to the large local community was going to cause divisions.
However the situation has got out of hand. First of all the Labour candidate was targeted for being a Lesbian by local activists from the Muslim community and an extremist who was already well known for protesting against LGB rights outside a Birmingham school at which he had no children.
The fact that the Iranian Clerics Press TV happened to be in toe at the time suggests this was not co-incidental. Also present were the extremists of the Five Pillars website/group which is currently ru by an ex-employee of guess what TV station?!
The twitter storm that arose around the issue showed that conservative elements in the local Muslim community were doing their best to undermine Labour with straightforward homophobia and religious instruction.
Five Pillars had the nerve to say the return of a Labour MP would make the local Muslim community look foolish. Frankly the only people taking the piss out of the local Muslim community were charlatans like George Galloway, Five Pillars and Press TV.
The physical attacks on Labour Canvassers by "youths" shows how low that the Islamist extremists and opportunistic outsiders have dragged local politics between them. When they go they will bewteen them leave a very divided constituency having wrecked community relations and stirred up more trouble than any visit by Tommy Robinson could ever have achieved.
I was and am critical of the local Labour candidate and her campaign but regardless of that if I lived in Batley and Spen I would not only vote for her but campaign for the Labour Party in order to fight back against both the Islamists and the odious Galloway who should be exposed for the deceiver he is.
Further Info: batleyandspenlabour.org.uk
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