Politics: the Gaza effect

By Richard North - May 5, 2024

We didn’t realise it then, but the 2019 general election was probably the last of its kind, fought entirely on political issues.

If this round of elections just past is an indication of things to come, future elections will be heavily distorted by sectarian voting, putting us on a par with Northern Ireland, where religious differences used to be (and still are, to an extent) the primary drivers.

However, in mainland Britain – and certainly England – the battle will not be between Protestants and Catholics. Rather, the distorting factor will be Islam, where Muslim ghetto-dwellers exercise the power of their substantial block votes in support of their own sectarian agendas.

As the mayoral results came in yesterday, with much wailing over the re-election of Sadiq Khan, the strongest example of what, for convenience may be called the “Gaza effect” was to be seen in the West Midlands contest.

There, the popular incumbent Andy Street was deposed in what the Sunday Times called a “knife-edge” finish by Labour’s Richard Parker, who scraped in by 1,508 votes after a partial recount.

With Street polling 224,082 votes to Parker’s 225,590, and Reform’s Ruth Williams taking 9,086 votes, the Mail’s Andrew Pierce was quick to blame the “insurgents” for robbing Street of votes he needed to win in what, at first sight, look to be a classic example of the “Ukip effect”.

In this contest though, multiple factors were at play and one of those had a far more powerful effect in the final result. This was the presence of independent candidate Akhmed Yakoob, a Muslim who had deliberately set out to wreck Labour’s chances, over the Party’s stance on Gaza.

Taking 69,621 votes in all, Yakoob drew heavily from the Muslim inner-city areas of East and West Birmingham, which accounted for two-thirds of his support, areas which had previously been Labour strongholds. But for that, there would not have been a “knife-edge” contest and Parker would have cruised easily to a substantial victory with a 12 percent margin.

As an aside, there were 4,747 rejected ballot papers – three times Parker’s majority – and, with an overall turnout of 29.8 percent, only 601,828 ballot papers were issued, for an electorate of 2,018,546. Parker takes the seat with a mandate of 11.26 percent of the electorate, carrying the votes of 1 in 9 of the eligible voters.

Arguably, therefore – in common with most of the contests – the battles were won by default, with by far the majority of voters staying at home. In the London contest, the turnout was 40.5 percent. This was relatively high for a local election, but the stay-at-homes assured Khan of his victory.

It was this tendency of voters to reject the choices on offer – sometimes confused with apathy – and the single-minded determination of the ghetto-dwelling Muslims to vote as a block, which gives them their electoral power.

This was certainly the case in the Leeds ward of Gipton and Harehills, where Muslim Mothin Ali, fighting on the Gaza ticket but masquerading as a Green candidate, stormed to victory with 3,070 votes, on a turnout of 33.1 percent.

That meant that a 17 percent block vote, from an electorate of 18,095, carried the day, allowing the victor to declare that his election to the council was “win for the people of Gaza”, screaming “Allahu Akbar” in front of a Palestinian flag (Pictured).

It turns out that Mothin Ali – with distinctly unsavoury views expressed on 7 October – is not the only one to be hiding behind the Green Party.

Angry with the Labour Party for not acceding to their demands on Gaza, it seems that a growing number of Muslims are turning to the Green Party which has been “consistent” in its advocacy of a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as pushing for an embargo on UK arms sales to Israel.

Thus, while a feature of the local council elections has been a surge in votes for the Green Party, which has acquired an extra 74 councillors, things may not be quite what they seem. The Party has willingly acquiesced in turning itself into a Trojan Horse for Muslim Hamas supporters.

This is a further dimension to the growing political power of the Muslim ghettos. As we saw with the Rotherham grooming gangs, politicians are reluctant to interfere, for being branded “racists” or, currently, “Islamophobes”. Thus, they perform the role of Lenin’s “useful idiots”, facilitating the poisoning of the political process by Islamists.

That dynamic was very much evident in the West Midland mayoral contest, when, quite correctly, Labour campaigners told the BBC that they believed Parker was on course for defeat, with support siphoned off by Akhmed Yakoob, standing on a pro-Gaza ticket as a major factor.

The source had said: “It’s the Middle East, not West Midlands, that will have won [Conservative candidate] Andy Street the mayoralty”, adding: “Once again Hamas are the real villains”.

But, instead of acknowledging was nothing other than the truth, an official Labour spokesperson immediately disowned the remarks, saying they had not come from anyone speaking on behalf of the party, declaring: “The Labour Party has strongly condemned this racist quote, which has not come from anyone who is speaking on behalf of the party or who’s values are welcome in the party”.

Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips also piled in, calling for the individual responsible for the comments to be “thrown out of the Labour Party”, declaring her satisfaction that the Labour party had quickly condemned it.”

Tahir Ali, MP for Birmingham Hall Green, described the comment as “vile racism” – even though Hamas does not exactly qualify as a race. “I unequivocally condemn it and am glad that the Labour Party has done the same”, he puffed.

Not content with that, he pronounced: “Such anti-Muslim bigotry will only serve to alienate a community that has long supported Labour in its efforts to transform this country for the better”, adding: “Treating voters with such a lack of respect is deplorable and should not be tolerated”. Predictably, reflecting the way the “Uniparty” closes ranks, a Conservative source also dived into the fray, described the comment as “vile”.

But it doesn’t stop there. As the BBC calculates that, in 58 council wards where more than 20 percent of residents identify as Muslim, Labour’s share of the vote was 21 percent down on 2021, the last time most seats were contested, Labour’s deputy campaign coordinator says her party needs to rebuild trust with Muslim voters, amid an apparent backlash over its stance on Gaza.

This is Ellie Reeves, who says the party has “a lot of work to do”, to rebuild support before the general election, conceding that her party’s position on the “Israel-Hamas war” appeared to have dented its support in Muslim areas in England’s local elections.

Thus, instead of condemning the abuse of local elections to pursue foreign policy aims which are not shared by the party as a whole, the Party is set to pander to the Muslims ghettos, essentially adopting a policy of appeasement.

This has profound implications for our electoral system – none of them good. With cowardly, principle-free politicians prepared to kowtow to the Islamists, who are increasingly voting on sectarian grounds, it is up to the electorate to redress the balance or perish.

In the areas where we are still in a majority, non-Muslim voters will have to unite. Fighting fire with fire, they will have to learn to vote not on party lines but on their own sectarian grounds, picking the most promising non-Muslim candidate. By this means, they need to send a message to the politicians that the Islamic encroachment must cease.

As Laurence Fox points out, the Mayors of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Oxford, Luton, Oldham and Rochdale are Muslims, achieved by only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people in England.

This happens because we let this block play by its own rules. If our political system is to survive, the non-Muslim electorate will have to fight for religious neutrality and cleanse the system of its malign, Islamist influence. Failure cannot be an option.