While much of our attention is focused, rightly, on Iran and the ongoing efforts by the United States and Israel to liberate the Iranian people from the vicious Bronze-Age barbarians currently running that country, there is another nation with a burgeoning Muslim population: The United Kingdom. How that will affect the UK in the future remains to be seen (I'm guessing it will forever and irreversibly alter the country that was once America, Original Recipe), but one thing is certain: This is a constituency that regularly votes for the UK's political left.
For the most part, that means that Britain's Muslim population has been pretty reliable Labour voters. But the even-farther-left Green Party has been courting the Muslim vote as well - while not telling them some things that the Muslim constituency won't favor.
The Green Party may be jubilant about their triumph in Gorton and Denton, but some voters are already expressing buyers’ remorse. Waqas Khan, 40, owns Al-Mecca Butchers on Stockport Road, where a “Vote Green” poster hangs in the shop window. He has lived in the constituency for almost 20 years. He and his family had previously been lifelong Labour voters, but all switched to the Greens on Thursday.
Until informed by The Telegraph, however, Khan was unaware of the Greens’ plans to legalise drugs and prostitution and to remove restrictions on pornography. “I checked the manifesto before, but I didn’t see that. It seems they hid those policies,” he says. Khan, who is a Muslim, adds that he would not have voted Green if he had known and would have stuck with Labour. He is particularly concerned about drug policy. “We’ve got families in the area,” he says. “I’ve seen many kids here involved in drugs, selling and using, even the girls. That’s why I’m very disappointed.”
Now, I'm inclined here to point out to Mr. Khan and his fellows that there is this new thing all the cool kids are doing called "the internet," where it's ridiculously easy to look up a political party's platform, including their stances on issues exactly like these. But British Muslims are now registering surprise over this.
Waqas Khan is not the only local who voted Green only to be surprised by their other policies. Mahwish Kamal, 45, owner of the Himalayan Flowers shop down the road, where a “Vote Hannah Spencer” poster is in the window, says she switched her vote from Labour to Green because of the party’s pro-Gaza stance. “I’m not very happy with Labour about Palestine, and I like what the Greens were saying,” she explains. “That’s why I switched.”
But, yeah, most Muslims are of a pretty traditional, not to mention theocratic, bent when it comes to issues like legalizing drugs and prostitution, the problems with grooming gangs in Britain notwithstanding.
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What's more, the Greens appear to have been playing fast and loose with elections in other ways as well.
Labour was bitten by its own 'monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes' in last night's by-election, Kemi Badenoch said today as police were urged to investigate allegations of illegal activity at polling stations.
The Tory leader lashed out at beleaguered Keir Starmer amid a growing row over claims of coercive 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton raised by independent observers of the shock Green victory.
Nigel Farage lashed out at 'cheating' and wrote to Greater Manchester Police about a warning from observer group Democracy Volunteers that it witnessed 'concerningly high levels' of the practice - where two voters use one polling booth and potentially direct each other on voting.
Election shenanigans by a leftist political party? That has a familiar ring to it.
There's an opportunity here for Nigel Farage and his Reform Party. In any political system, be it a two-party system like ours or a multi-party parliamentary system like the UK's, there is always an opportunity when your opponents are splitting their vote. That's what the British right is doing with Nigel Farage's Reform Party, as well as Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain Party. The catch here is that, in the British system, it's not necessary to gain an outright majority; if the Tories, Reform, and Restore Britain gain a 51-49 percent majority between the three of them and can successfully form a coalition, then they win - and they have to make deals among themselves.
Ditto for the Greens and Labour, of course.
But the Greens are making British Muslims feel like dupes, if this report is accurate. These Muslims won't turn to the Tories, and sure won't turn to the Britain-first Reform and Restore Britain parties. They may just walk away, but that doesn't seem likely.
Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe should be sitting down for a heart-to-heart, right now, to hammer out their differences, target constituencies where each of them can win, and oh, yes, talk to the Tories, too. There won't be another general election in Britain, barring some emergency, for three years, but if the left wins that one, the current waves-of-refugees policies and other idiotic leftist ideas will be turbocharged. A few years after that, and there may no longer be a Britain in any recognizable form.
The United Kingdom is at a crossroads, and the British right had better get their webfooted fowl arranged in a linear fashion if they want to keep their country.
