Minority Report

‘Social cohesion’ cannot be imposed by a heavy handed state.

The recent Gorton and Denton by-election has proven quite the wake up call for Keir Starmer’s useless, unloved government.

Beaten into third place by a lady plumber with a toddler’s dress sense, a six year old’s grasp of economics, and the loved up- ‘let’s all just be nice to each other’ (except you Zionists obvs) positivity of an eight year old schoolgirl, off her nut on Sunny Delight, Labour has been left under no illusion about the perilousness of its predicament.

Muslim voters, who hold the key to a huge number of Labour seats, are deserting the party for the boob bothering Greens, the Gaza Independents, and whatever bonkers coalition of madness George Galloway is fronting these days.

And at the next election, the loss of these voters could prove the difference for the party, between a mere wipe out, and complete and total annihilation.

That’s why Labour has abandoned any pretence of tackling the costs of living crisis. Securing our borders. Fixing the NHS. Or even pursuing Keir Starmer’s self avowed ‘number one priority’, of importing into this country as many Britain hating Egyptians as possible.

And has instead invested all its time, energy, and political capital on something far more important.

Introducing an official definition of ‘Islamophobia’.

Which it has magically rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility”.

Presumably as a way to pretend it is not really ushering in a new, religion-specific blasphemy law, by the back door.

Which it absolutely is.

The left loves a rebrand.

Illegal immigrants are rebranded ‘undocumented migrants’. The genital mutilation of confused minors is rebranded as ‘gender affirming care.’ And a job in customer services is rebranded as ‘working as a top economist’.

The unhinged progressives have even tried to rebrand harmless, misunderstood, paedophiles as ‘minor attracted people’.

A campaign which thankfully remains in its infancy.

Which is just the way they like it.

In a way you can’t blame Labour trying to win back potential voters.

Especially since the Muslim population of Britain no longer represents a niche voting block.

Here’s a fact that people often find suprising.

There are already significantly more Muslims living in Britain (4 million) than there are Welsh people. (3.2 million)

And since these figures are based on the 2021 census, the numbers are now likely to be much, much higher. (I’ve rounded up slightly to 4 million)

Yet even at this level there are now more than enough Muslims in Britain to exclusively populate seven cities the size of Manchester.

But of course the standard liberal response to someone like me pointing out these jaw dropping numbers is to shrug and say, ‘So what?’

Before smearing me as a bigot, a racist, and an ‘Islamophobe’. Merely for having the temerity to do counting.

And fair enough. Maths is racist after all.

But let’s be honest here.

The Muslim population of Britain is no longer a ‘minority’ in the traditional sense of the word. This is a whole different order of magnitude. And absolutely unprecedented.

And anyone claiming this massive influx of people from foreign, sometimes hostile, cultures does not represent an existential challenge to our traditional British way of life, is either deluding themselves. Or is attempting to delude the rest of us.

Steve Reed, a key Starmer ally, and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities (There’s the problem right there. We should be promoting one community, not dozens of them) and Local Government, stood up in the Commons last week to announce the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’

It’s all part of Starmer’s broader ‘social cohesion’ strategy. Which largely seems to involve solving the myriad problems caused by the multitude failures of multiculturalism, by pretending there aren’t any.

Or by blaming the native white population for not doing nearly enough to ‘integrate’ with immigrant communities.

But please don’t feel bad, it’s not all your fault.

Also in the dock , is ‘Tory austerity’, which Reed claims made ‘some Muslims feel unwelcome by their compatriots’.

And fair enough. The hopeless Tories did so much damage to this country during the fourteen years that they pretended to be in power, that I see no reason not to blame them for ‘Muslim hostility’ as well.

Though without wanting to sound like a gammony old grump-a-lump, I’m not sure that ‘some Muslims’ blowing up all those buses, tube trains, and kids, did much to help either.

But of course Reed never mentioned any of that, because to remember is to racist. And that would never do.

Still, If Reed genuinely thinks the Tories are the ones responsible for fermenting the ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ which his government insists infests so much of our society, it’s kinda surprising that he hired one of them to define it for him.

Labour’s definition has been drafted by Conservative grandee Dominic Grieve.

A Tory so wet, he makes Rory Stewart look like Enoch Powell.

Of course this isn’t the first time Grieve has been at the forefront of a cross party, anti democratic campaign to destroy Britain.

Back around 2018 he was leading the charge to ignore the voters, cancel the EU Referendum, and overturn the largest plebiscite in British history.

No wonder Labour loves him.

But credit where it’s due. Grieves’ definition is not all bad.

After all, it is at pains to condemn

‘practices and biases within institutions [that are] intended to disadvantage Muslims in public and economic life.’

And I agree wholeheartedly with that condemnation.

Because, as I often point out on this Substack, I genuinely abhor racism, and firmly believe that no British institution should intentionally disadvantage any race, religion, or ethnicity, when it comes to careers, opportunities, or earning power.

But maybe Grievesy could mention this aversion to institutional racism, discrimination, and prejudice, to the British police force, the British armed forces, the British security services, and the BBC.

All of which are British institutions, notorious for discriminating against white applicants in their recruitment processes.

Of course Labour’s scheme to favour one identity group above all others, create government mandated divisions between sections of society, marginalise the white majority, encourage sectarianism, and make different ethnic and religious groups compete for limited resources, is all well and good.

But it means nothing if you can’t appoint a faceless, unaccountable, bureaucrat to police it all.

So Reed also announced the appointment of a new anti-anti Muslim hostility ‘tsar’ (surely ‘ayatollah’) to enforce his government’s new, noxious and self defeating inclusive and balanced, social cohesion policy.

We don’t yet know who will be given this controversial position, but it is clear that whoever takes on the role will need to demonstrate an almost super-human level of sensitivity, balance, and impartiality.

Which is why Starmer will no doubt appoint some kind of radical far left activist, shriek voiced progressive, and uncompromising, fanatical ideologue.

Who, under the guise of fighting ‘racism’, tackling ‘hatred’ and building ‘social cohesion’, will stifle debate, silence criticism, and significantly advance the cause of authoritarianism, despotism, and over reaching state censorship.

Of course I could be wrong. But Starmer hasn’t exactly got a great track record when it comes to appointing top officials to highly sensitive government positions.

Right Mandy?

While some might feel the government has go too far, others believe it has not gone nearly far enough.

Bradford East MP Imran Hussain stood up in the House of Commons to claim than in Britain right now, it feels like there’s an

“open season of hatred against British Muslims”

But that just nonsense.

Many of us, I’d suggest most of us, me included, have individual Muslim friends, co workers and acquaintances who we like very much, and who we value as fellow citizens.

And while some on the right might wish to deport millions of perfectly legal, perfectly law abiding British citizens, I’d suggest most of us consider such calls both counterproductive, and morally objectionable.

With such demands merely feeding into the divisive fake narrative of a ‘hostile’ British public which Steve Reed, this government, and Imran Hussain, seem so desperate to exploit.

(Please feel free to disagree with me on this point. But if you want to throw the insults about because we don’t share the same perspective on the issue, please don’t bother.)

The reality is that despite the progressive left’s constant contempt, disdain, and derision, most British people are incredibly tolerant, welcoming, forbearing, and amenable.

To the extent that we have spent years bending over backwards to accommodate every gripe, grumble, and grievance cooked up by the most extreme, and often self appointed, ‘leaders’ of the Muslim community.

From using the police to enforce ‘no-Jews’ bans on our major cities, to the refusal to ban sharia courts, and cousin marriage.

From standing by as a schoolteacher is forced into hiding for teaching the national curriculum, to turning a blind eye to wholesale electoral fraud, rebranded, (here they go again) as harmless ‘family voting.’

From finding ‘no dogs’ signs in our parks, (hilariously the local MP suggested they might have been put up in the night by the imaginary EDL!), to halting major football matches mid way through, so as not to inconvenience Muslim players during Ramadan.

And I’m trying to not even mention the way government institutions like social services, the police and the Home Office, not only ignored, but actively facilitated, the ‘grooming gang’ scandal.

Which let’s not forget, the now Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Lucy Powell MP, was quick to dismiss as a mere right-wing ‘dog whistle’.

We have tolerated all this and much, much more.

Only to be told time after time, concession after concession, that it is not enough.

That we are the awful ones.

The small minded set-in-our ways bigots who must change our society, ‘integrate better with newcomers’, turn our back on our traditions, deride our own history, and even replace the national heroes on our banknotes with woodland creatures lest dead white people’s ugly mugged colonialism offend factional sensibilities.

We are the ever pliable majority who must re-write our laws, accept a two tier justice system, and abandon centuries old cultural norms, so as to better serve the needs of an ever vocal, always demanding, minority.

And it’s not just Islam of course. I’m not ‘picking on Muslims’ like Imran Hussain claims.

It’s just that amongst all society’s divas; the unconvincing men in dresses, the doom drenched enviro apocalypticians, the people too sad to work, the ever needy ‘asylum seekers’, foreign crooks and their nugget loving children, the mad scientists who want to cure gay kids by cutting off their body parts, and a myriad other clients of the tumorous ‘human rights’ industry, it is self appointed Muslim ‘community leaders’ who seem to be the most vocal, the most petulant, and the most imperious.

I’m not suggesting for a moment that we should uniquely refuse to indulge the foot stamping tantrums of Islamists.

I’m suggesting we refuse to indulge all of them.

If we are genuinely seeking to create a ‘cohesive’, open, and tolerant society, and we should be, then writing special laws to accommodate each and every favoured constituency’s moans, grumbles and demands, while allowing it to skip and ignore any rules or customs which offend its particular religious, personal, sexual, or cultural sensibilities, cannot possibly be a good way to go about it.

Ultimately our government should not be wasting its time, and our money, cooking up ever more harsh and oppressive means, to prosecute, harass, and silence the majority, every time some disgruntled minority feels it has been insulted, disrespected, or inconvenienced.

In fact it should go much further, repeal all ‘hate crime’ legalisation, and explain clearly, robustly, and definitively, to every newcomer, every fractious, testy, identity group, that while we will do our best to accommodate them, it is wholly their responsibility, if they want to live as part of this society, to obey the nation’s laws, adhere to its rules, and respect our cultural norms.

And if they don’t think they can manage that, well maybe Great Britain is not the country for them.

Danegeld, appeasement, call it what you will.

Whatever concessions we make will never be enough.

Of course not.

Our ruling elites have worked incredibly hard over the last thirty years to teach unreasonable people the lesson that the more they demand, and the louder they demand it, the more the government will give them, and the more the rest of us will be forced to change our culture, our nation, and our society, to accommodate those demands.

And in the end, we cannot really blame them for learning that lesson.

Just last week. Sir Keir himself whinged that there were “too many people in politics” who wanted to promote “grievances” between different groups of people.

He’s right for once.

Only thing is, he, and his nation wrecking party, are chief amongst them.

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