In
this video clip (see link), Angela Rayner MP, the Deputy Leader of the
Labour Party, can be seen pleading for the Muslim vote in her constituency of
Ashton-under-Lyne and Failsworth. Rayner can be heard thanking Muslim voters
for getting her "over the line"
at the 2019 election.
The
footage, is believed to have been shot at an event on Sunday. Angela Rayner -
who appears to be the only woman in the room - can be heard calling on Muslim
voters to back her and the Labour Party at the General Election on July 4.
Rayner told the meeting that Labour would recognise the state of Palestine if
it gets elected to government in July and that Labour 'supports' the
International Criminal Court (ICC), whose chief prosecutor, Karim Khan KC, is seeking an arrest
warrant for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Hamas leaders, for war
crimes in Gaza. In the video clip, Rayner also said she would commit UK aid to
rebuilding Gaza.
The
Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer-oid, have alienated many Muslim Labour
voters because of its stance on Gaza and its unequivocal support for Israel.
Starmer-oid initially refused to back calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
and said that Israel had the right to defend itself and had the right to deny
energy and water, to the people of Gaza. Some critics said this constituted a
war crime and he was accused of supporting collective punishment of the
Palestinian people. He's also said that he "supports Zionism without qualification."
Over
36,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7
October 2023 and many of these deaths, have been innocent men, women and
children. Although Angela Rayner told the meeting that if "Labour get into power we will recognise
Palestine", this doesn't seem to accord with the views of the Labour
Party leader. Starmer-oid recently said that he wanted to recognise a
Palestinian state if he won power, but added that such a move, would need to
come at the right time in the peace process. Ireland, Spain and Norway have
already recognised a Palestinian state.
Angela
Rayner is vulnerable in her constituency because she's defending a 4,263
majority. George Galloway's Workers Party of Britain (WPB), have threatened to
boot her out of her Parliamentary seat in Ashton-under-Lyne and are standing a
candidate against her called Aroma Hassan. Galloway has said that his party can
"vitally affect" her chances of re-election. Galloway says he has
15,000 supporters in Angela Rayner's constituency. Galloway has said that
Tory-lite Starmer-oid and Sunak are two cheeks of the same arse. I entirely
agree. A vote for either Labour or Tory is a vote for genocide in Gaza.
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The decision by Labour to ban Faiza Shaheen from standing in Chingford and Woodford Green should make it even more difficult for Angela Rayner to get the votes of Muslims in her constituency. Faiza has expressed criticism of Israel, and antisemitism and supports the BDS movement, which calls for economic sanctions against Israel.
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