This is the moment a Green Party councillor shouts 'Allahu Akbar' after being elected in Leeds - as he declares his victory 'a win for the people of Gaza'.
It was the moment that defined the local elections, though you won’t have seen it on the BBC . Mothin Ali, newly elected to Leeds City Council for the Green party, punched his fist in the air and, to the delight of his supporters, yelled: ‘We will raise the voice of Gaza, we will raise the voice of Palestine . Allahu Akbar!’
Indeed, an extrapolation from Thursday’s vote shows Sir Keir Starmer falling short of an overall majority – a very different picture from recent opinion polls and constituency surveys, which predict Labour winning by more than 100 seats.But what is happening goes way beyond party politics. We are seeing something that has for a long time been almost unknown in mainland Britain, namely sectarian voting.
Bands of ‘goondas’ slaughtered patients in their hospital beds, children in their classrooms, worshippers in their mosques, temples and gurdwaras. Trains would arrive from across the new border with blood seeping from every aperture. There have been two malign developments. First, there has been what I can only call an Arabisation of Islam. Most first-generation Muslims in Britain were from the Sufi tradition that emphasises personal piety.
But in Britain, our moral code, like our legal system, emphasised personal autonomy. Vendetta, carrying your quarrel against your enemy’s family, is the default setting of a tribal species like ours. Britain was unusual in making it unthinkable. For one thing, it does no favours to the communities concerned. If the main parties stop competing for your vote, you lose influence.
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