Election – done!

So, the election is over, congratulations to Kier and his team, especially in removing George Galloway from Rochdale.

Now the dust has settled a little, there are some worrying facts within the election data.

·         Labour obtained only 33% of the votes cast, only a 1.6% increase on 2019.

·         Each labour MP required 23,000 votes, Conservative 56,000, Lib Dem 90,000 and Reform 823,000.

·         The 3 other main parties polled more than twice the votes of Labour but achieved less than half the MPs.

·         40% of those eligible to Vote did not vote over 19 million voters- shame full.

Maybe more fundamentally there are two threads that should be concerning.

The move to the right evidenced by the Reform vote. Despite the party putting forward some very distasteful candidates and having some dubious polices they still achieved 4 million votes almost 50% of Labour’s votes. What is going on here?

The rise of the single aim vote, I make no apology in calling out the Muslim influence in this election canvassing on the “Gaza” issue. Whilst I have every sympathy with all parties in that conflict. There is something intrinsically wrong with this in the UK.

First, this is an aim that fails to improve the position of anyone in the UK – it does not fix roads, get hospital waiting lists down, enhance social care, improve education or grow the economy. This begs the question, do those standing on this basis care at all about the UK? The issue they pursue is not “local” neither to the UK or more importantly local Muslims. They are foreign issues and if not checked can we expect UK politics to eventually be driven by global Muslim issues only!

Second, for some inexplicable reason we see non-Muslim individuals who feel they have some skin in the game, they don’t, they are either, jumping on a band wagon for the attention it brings and the sense they are in some worthy spotlight, but more likely, they have been duped into being political “human shields”. The shame of this is that they don’t see their own weakness.

I wonder why we don’t see these same people protesting where it really counts, Gaza or Israel. I suppose the answer is easy – that would be way too much hassle and risky for them. Let’s just achieve nothing in the comfort of our own homes with a sense of some vague morale high ground. I don’t recall the same people protesting or canvassing on the basis of the exploitation of women’s rights in fundamentalist Muslim states nor the treatment of ordinary Palestinians by Hamas or even the disarmament of Hamas and Hezbollah