Brexit boss Nigel Farage lamented that “sectarian politics is here to stay” in Britain as dozens of Islamic candidates running on the issue of Gaza won local elections across the country this week.
While the left-wing Labour Party was the clear winner of the local council and mayoral elections held in Britain on Thursday, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives continuing to flounder, there is increasing concern over Muslim voters abandoning Labour in favour of single-issue candidates.
According to an analysis by The Telegraph of election results, in areas with the highest proportion of Muslim voters, such as Blackburn, Bradford, Pendle, Oldham, and Manchester, the Labour Party saw its support fall by an average of 25 points.
Labour Party leader Sir Kier Starmer’s attempts to distance himself and his party from the anti-semitism scandals which plagued his predecessor socialist Jeremy Corbyn has come at the cost of Muslim voters — traditionally one of Labour’s key voting blocs — many of whom abandoned the party in favour of independent candidates who centre their campaigns around the conflict in Gaza.
Commenting on the shift in the British political landscape, Brexit’s Nigel Farage said: “There have been no democratic elections in Gaza for nearly 20 years, yet Gaza is being voted on in English towns and cities. What a mess we have allowed ourselves to become.”