London Muslim as many of my regular readers will know is an admirer of Sadiq Khan despite occasional slip ups and for a Tooting lad his peculiar glory seeking support of Liverpool FC.
Sadiq writes an interesting although in part rather desperate plea for Muslims to vote Labour in Left Foot Forward. The measure of desperation can be judged when any politician is compelled to scrape the barrel somewhat by amongst things claiming credit for Labour granting India independence.
Without wishing to dissect the article completely I fear my only agreement with Sadiq is when he states there have been "some problems" in the relationship between Labour and British Muslims. Sadiq is slightly disingenuous with claims that Labour friendly unions encouraged new arrivals to improve their working conditions, that may have been the case at Grunwick but Union dockers also marched on Parliament in support of the racist Enoch Powell.
Sadly on Gaza I'm sorry to say Sadiq's example of Labour support is very feeble. The reality of David Miliband and New Labour's position has been explained in detail by me previously along with the manner in which Miliband has acted as Israel's rather than Britain's Foreign Secretary.
Despite Sadiq's assertion that the Lib Dems have no ethnic minority MPs the irony is that this has not prevented Muslims feeling the Lib Dem's have the fairest foreign policy rather than the admittedly more diverse PLP.
However, my real problem with the article is when Sadiq signs off by asking Muslims who can we "trust" with our future. Sadly but honestly the answer has to be while we may be able to support certain progressive Labour candidates like Sadiq, Muslims will never be able to "trust" Labour again particularly on Foreign Policy.
when sadiq khan makes cast iron promises that he will go against the labour whip on issues that effect Muslims he will get the vote.
ReplyDeleteSo he needs to go and speak to his boss and get approval to go against the party line if it is not in the interest of the community he represents, or he is out.
someone please tell him
In the interests of British democracy please set up your own UK Muslim Party so that those of us who wish to keep religion out of mainstream politics can see who you are and avoid you at all costs. Muslim entryism in mainstream British political parties is an unwelcome development. Thank you for listening.
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ReplyDeletewe are talking about the same British democracy that has been ruled by the labour friends of israel for the last 12 years and soon to be ruled by the conservative friends of israel.
If you are against religion in politics, best bet move to wimbledon common and move in with uncle baghira
well if you don't approve of Labour and Conservative parties set up your own UK Muslim party which will serve your own interests. what are you frightened of? this is a democracy and you can set up your own muslim party here, and all the muslim fundamentalists who are currently hiding within our mainstream parties can come out into the open and stand for a muslim party. stop the cheap ranting on this blog. be brave and set up your own muslim party. there are a lot of us here in Britain who want to see who you are and what you really stand for.
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