Who are the media kidding? Paulette Hamilton is ‘moderate’ for the Labour Party

Today’s by-election in the Birmingham seat of Erdington was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Labour Party candidate, Paulette Hamilton, who is campaigning to become Birmingham’s first black MP. The election follows the death, in January, of veteran Labour MP Jack Dromey, who won the seat at the 2019 general election by just 3,601 votes over the Conservatives.

Labour should hold the seat, though their fantastic odds may have shortened slightly, thanks to unearthed comments Hamilton made back in 2015. Speaking at an event, ‘The Ballot or the Bullet – does your vote count?’ Hamilton was talking about increasing ethnic minorities’ representation in politics:

Although I believe in the votes, and I believe in our right to use that vote or destroy that vote, I’m not sure that we will get what we really deserve in this country using the votes. But I don’t know if we are a strong enough group to get what we want to get if we have an uprising. I think we will be quashed in such a way we could lose a generation of our young people. So I am very torn. I went away and watched the Malcolm X film to make sure and listen to a lot of what he said, to make sure I was ready.

Here she is at the same meeting, on the possibility of abusing the postal vote system in-line with Muslim communities:

We can do a postal vote. There are other ways to vote rather than going out on the day. And the postal vote is the way some of our ethnic minority communities actually lock it down. Because, what they do is whole families just have the postal vote; whoever comes in, hold this one tick postal vote goes back. And in one household, you can have eight votes, and it’s on lockdown our community.

While, naturally this has drawn widespread condemnation from the Tory benches, this is nothing new from Labour. The Party seethes with thinly-disguised anti-white, anti-British, ‘get elected any which way’ sentiment, and has done for many years.

Take Tottenham MP, David Lammy, who argued he was not on the Labour front bench because of ‘the white men who run my Party’. He was also quite happy to cost Africa £8M in aid from Comic Relief, as long as he could complain, ‘The world does not need any more white saviours’.

Or how about Labour stalwart, Diane Abbott, who takes a break now and then between mojitos, to opine, ‘White people love playing divide and rule. We should not play their game’. Or more soberly, ‘Every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us’.

Then there was Labour LGBT adviser, Munroe Bergdorf, who made the innocuous statements, ‘All white people are racist’, and ‘The white race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth’

Labour’s dedication to being anti-white is impressive – who can forget their 2018 plans to charge white members a surcharge for attending their events? If it’s not Labour’s National Executive Committee’s Mark Ferguson, telling Brighton delegates, ‘There are too many white men putting their hands up’, it’s Zarah Sultana referring to Jewish people as ‘YT’ (a derogatory term for a white person), or Naz Shah retweeting that Rotherham sex abuse victims ought to ‘shut their mouths for the good of diversity’.

Despite the change of leadership, and Starmer’s attempts to drag the Labour to the centre ground, it appears the Party is still operating on one simple principle: ensure their candidates have the widest possible ‘victim statuses, and claim racism whenever extremist views are flagged up.

After all, Labour makes little attempt to hide its desire to promote diversity come what may, with a fierce adherence to all-women shortlists, and even Keir Starmer openly calling for BAME-only shortlists.

So of course, in rebuttal to Hamilton’s remarks, the race card has already been deployed. One Labour source commented, ‘These attacks on a black woman seeking to become the city’s first black MP are deeply disturbing’, and that her comments were ‘misrepresented’.

It is a foregone conclusion that Paulette Hamilton will cruise to victory in today’s election. The question we should be asking is not, ‘Why is Labour promoting extremists?’, the question surely is, ‘Why has that only suddenly become an issue?’