Last week’s local elections were revealing. With the loss of almost 500 councillors, the Tories are toast. Reform UK performed in line with polling, but are still not quite getting over the line without Farage at the helm. London might as well be boarded up, having elected Sadiq Khan for a third term despite his record. The Labour Party meanwhile performed reasonably well, but are shitting themselves at the genuine possibly of losing the sectarian Muslim vote – the power of which is now incontrovertible.
Faced with the spectacle of ‘Green Party’ councillors screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ in lieu of a victory speech, the mainstream media downplayed its conclusions:
It has raised fears in some quarters that it is a sign of things to come, with regional votes being determined based on overseas conflicts and foreign policy, rather than local issues.
Perhaps the mainstream fails to recognise that Jew-hatred is a local issue in many UK constituencies.
Starmer is right to be worried about the exodus of the Muslim vote – a vote it relies heavily on, as The New Conservative reported late last year:
According to the last Census (2021), just shy of four million Muslims live in Britain – that’s 6.7% of the population. While the figure alone is not extraordinary, its electoral significance is likely much higher because Muslims are not evenly-dispersed throughout the country; tending instead to establish enclaves. Perhaps because of this, a recent report argued that up to 30 UK constituencies were majority Muslim. That’s not strictly true, but it doesn’t need to be. Even without a technical majority, beyond a certain point the Muslim block vote is unstoppable. Consider the ten seats with the highest Muslim populations: the margins are so overwhelming, the other parties might as well not bother fielding a candidate:
| Constituency (* denotes Muslim MP) | Muslim % | Labour vote share % | Majority |
| Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 62.4 | 78.7 | 63.7 |
| Bradford West * | 58.7 | 76.2 | 61.0 |
| Birmingham, Hall Green * | 55.9 | 67.8 | 53.9 |
| Blackburn | 46.0 | 64.9 | 40.9 |
| Bradford East * | 43.8 | 63.0 | 41.1 |
| Ilford South | 43.7 | 65.6 | 45.1 |
| Birmingham, Ladywood * | 43.0 | 79.2 | 67.9 |
| East Ham | 41.2 | 76.3 | 60.7 |
| Bethnal Green and Bow * | 41.2 | 72.0 | 62.0 |
| Manchester, Gorton * | 39.0 | 77.6 | 68.1 |
All of which holds true, until the Muslim votes decides its loyalties are better served elsewhere – as was clearly on the cards last week. George Galloway-endorsed independent Akhmed Yakoob picked up 69,000 votes in the West Midlands mayoralty, almost enough to deprive Labour of the win. The Labour Party shockingly lost control of Oldham council, thanks to independent candidates campaigning on ‘Gaza’. And a comprehensive BBC analysis revealed that Labour’s vote share dropped by 21 percent in areas where the Muslim population was higher than one in five.
Starmer’s attempt at damage limitation came faster than a coked-up Keith Vaz at a rentboy convention:
Where we have not been able to persuade people who might otherwise have voted for Labour, it is important to acknowledge that – to say I’ve heard, I’ve listened and I am determined to meet the concerns that they have, and to win back their trust and confidence.
This was then leapt upon by ‘Muslim Vote’, a seemingly small but vocal group which describes itself as ‘a network of Muslim individuals & organisations uniting so that our votes are never taken for granted again insha’Allah’. The group claims to speak for 25 Muslim bodies, and has promised to mobilise Britain’s four million Muslim voters and ‘punish’ MPs who fail to support Palestine, unless Keir Starmer caves to their list of demands.
The full list is included below:
1. Apologise for your comments green-lighting a genocide and for not backing the ceasefire in Oct/Nov 2023
2. Sanctions on companies operating in occupied territories. Sanctions on settlers
3. Recognise Palestine as a state
4. Travel ban on all Israeli politicians that prosecuted this war and support the illegal occupation
5. End military ties with Israel
6. Issue guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray at school
7. Implement findings of people’s review of Prevent — not Shawcross
8. Remove the extremism definition that [Michael] Gove introduced
9. Commit to full implementation of Royal Charter re media regulation
10. Adopt the APPG definition of Islamophobia
11. Commit to a review of public sector equality duty
12. Increase council and public health funding for the 10 per cent most deprived areas in the country to finally address systemic and chronic health inequities as detailed in the Marmot Review and revisited by the Health Foundation 10 years later
13. Deliver alternative student finance
14. Ensure Sharia-compliant pensions are available at every workplace, so the one-third of Muslims without a pension get one
15. Ensure insurance quotes don’t cost more for someone called “Muhammad”
16. Commit 7 per cent of the local government pension scheme/public sector pensions to ethical and Islamic funds
17. Oppose Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) bill. Kick it out of law
18. Remove the archaic “spiritual influence” offence from statute
While the demands stop short of an open call for Sharia Law, Islam flexing its electoral muscles is hardly news. Dudley North turned Tory for the first time in 2019, largely insiders claim due to broken Labour promises over the building of a new mosque. In 2021, 10,000 local Muslim voters switched allegiance to George Galloway at the Batley and Spen by-election (although Labour held on with a majority of just 323). Three years later, Galloway blew Labour out of the water, comfortably securing the Rochdale seat.
All of which is bad news for Britain, given that sissy Starmer, the milksop’s milksop has never met an issue he wouldn’t u-turn on, nor a disingenuous cause he wouldn’t offer a blowjob; provided he thought the votes were in the bag. He’s also 99% odds-on to win the next election, according to Sir John Curtice.
What’s worse news for Britain, is that an emboldened Islam progressing to the ‘demand’ stage of takeover, is an indication that the need to employ the Labour Party as a conduit for its goals may be coming to an end. Thus far, a fully Islamic party has failed to get off the ground in Britain, but it’s surely only a matter of time. Even Nigel Farage has predicted a radical Islamic party will be up and running by 2029, at which time Starmer’s genuflections will be irrelevant.
In the interim, Starmer can of course be relied upon to do the wrong thing. Arguably, he is even right to do so – after all, those votes have to go somewhere: why shouldn’t Labour sell the country down the river in exchange for high office, when the Lib Dems and the Greens are more than prepared to?
Whatever your stance, sectarian politics are now firmly on the agenda. Over the next days and weeks, watch out for subtle Labour concessions. More to the point, keep an eye out for subsequent Islamic political demands. As ‘Muslim Vote’ confirms: “There’s more, but that’ll do for starters.” How right they are.
Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West, and writes a Substack here.
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That Muslim sectarianism is out in the open is good news, much, much better than it and leftism giving each other support on the quiet.
From a sociological point of view it is interesting observing the takeover, which Brigitte Gabriel had seen in action, as had Ayaan Hirsi-Ali, happening before one’s very eyes. Certain fringe political figures, (condemned as ‘far right fascists), used to bang on about the populations of the West needing to ‘wake up’ to what was happening before it was too late. Perhaps it’s a positive thing that, at last, they seem at last to be stirring, realising the danger they may be in? Will ‘Gays for Palestine’ finally realise the implications of their charity? The only question which needs answering now is, is it too little and too late.