The tragic thing for the Labour Party is that their bizarre behaviour isn’t even working in the way they thought it would.
Keir Starmer should face up to his hypocrisy (Image: Getty Images)
Sectarianism corrodes the soul of every society it infects. Its deadly poison undermines democracy, promotes discord, spreads distrust, and fuels dysfunction. Having grown up in Northern Ireland in the Seventies, I recognise that dark truth only too well. My homeland was scarred by communal hatreds that descended into some of the worst violence, and terrorism seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War. Fortunately, the historic Good Friday Agreement of 1998 heralded a new era of peace.
But with tragic irony, just when sectarian politics began to lose their potency in Northern Ireland, so they put down new roots in Great Britain, through the rise of militant, politically engaged Islam, fed by unprecedented levels of mass immigration and officialdom’s attachment to identity politics. Against the backdrop of a revolutionary transformation in our social fabric, civic life in modern Britain, with its ideological emphasis on hierarchies of victimhood and ever more exquisite calibrations of racial differences, is the ideal environment in which this kind of separatism flourishes.
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Labour, which until recently had the overwhelming support of Muslim voters, is the party most threatened by this change. That explains why it resorts to ever more desperate acts of appeasement to shore up such support, like this week’s shameful handling of the Pakistani rape gang scandal, where groups of Muslim men groomed and abused vulnerable white girls on an industrial scale. Back in January, the Labour Government had promised a series of local investigations as an alternative to a full national, statutory enquiry, which Ministers had refused.
At the time, Labour was accused of a cynical cover-up driven by its wish to avoid alienating the Muslim electorate and to prevent scrutiny of the failure by its own local authorities to tackle the abusers. The critics were right. In a confusing statement to the Commons on Tuesday, the Home Office Minister Jess Phillips appeared to imply that even the limited pledge of local reviews has been downgraded.
This conspiracy of silence over the scandal reveals Labour’s epic hypocrisy. The pose of compassion is a sham. Its anti-racist credentials are bogus. This is a movement so lacking in humanity or morality that it is willing to conceal mass exploitation simply to uphold its own political position and the narrative of its propaganda about the success of diversity. Imagine if this scandal had involved systematic assaults on Muslim girls by aggressive gangs of skinheads. Labour
But in this case, the victims’ ethnicity meant that most Labour representatives regarded them with indifference and even contempt. As campaigner and abuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse put it this week: “Labour won’t push for the truth because they fear the perpetrators’ race and religion. The children of the UK have been sacrificed for votes.”The party’s pandering for electoral support can be seen on other fronts, like the tacit acceptance of Sharia laws and tribunals, or the tolerance of extreme Islamic dress codes in public places.
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The Government is also planning to dump the principles of equality and free speech by criminalizing expressions of Islamophobia, including criticism of the Koran. The sense that Islam is uniquely privileged is further highlighted in the suspicions of a two-tier justice system, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators, for instance, are said to treated more leniently than other groups.
Yet Labour’s disgraceful opportunism is not working. In fact, the effort looks increasingly counter-productive, since it shows the political power of Muslims in Britain and thereby encourages sectarian breakaways. At last year’s general election, four independent Muslim candidates were elected in traditional Labour heartlands, and that advance is likely to be reinforced at the local elections next month. Only last week, at a council by-election in the East London borough of Redbridge, Noor Jahan Begum stormed to victory as an Independent while the Labour vote plummeted by 45% place.
The Labour Party was the chief architect of open door immigration, believing that the vast, unceasing influx of new arrivals would strengthen their voter base. But it now looks as if the revolution could devour its own.
