Britain's looming grooming gag
With public anger creating a tinderbox, the Starmer government is playing with fire
This is an expanded version of my column in today’s Times (UK £)
Are the grooming gangs the new Brexit?
An opinion poll has shown that if Britain’s Labour government brings in a definition of Islamophobia, as it is planning to do, the “populist” Reform party would gain a 106-seat majority at a general election.
The deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has appointed a panel to draw up this definition to be applied across the public sector. The idea is that it would provide a benchmark by which speech and actions deemed to be “Islamophobic” could be policed and suppressed.
The poll of 2000 people, carried out by J L Partners, found that before voters were told about this proposal Reform polled at 29 per cent and Labour at 23 per cent, indicating a Reform majority of 20 at a general election.
However, when respondents were asked how they would vote if Labour brought in a definition of Islamophobia, Reform rose to 30 per cent and Labour fell to 20 per cent, indicating a Reform majority of 106.
As the polling company’s founder said, the Islamophobia definition would be like Labour “setting off a tinderbox under what remains of their working-class vote”.
Just as with Brexit, Labour and the chattering classes are quite clueless within their smug echo chamber about the profound and dangerous disconnect between them and large numbers of ordinary people over this.
And as with Brexit, the disconnected feel their country has been taken away from them by an elite class that tars them with accusations of racism and Islamophobia if they object.
Please continue reading on Melanie's page - Islamophobia if they object
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