What Muslims Will No Longer Tolerate
Like a great many other controversies, this one stems from the impressive determination of freerange Muslim “communities” to take charge of their immediate surroundings by any means necessary. I was already mulling over the performative circus of vote-casting when the “Muslim Vote” suddenly became an electoral hot-potato.
There’s nothing like blood in the water to bring sharks to the surface, but so far the upcoming Rochdale by-election doesn’t seem to have attracted any Great Whites. Perhaps because the blood is being spilled over 2000 miles away. On paper, this minor election has somehow devolved into a pro-Palestine toss-up between front-line Muslim sympathiser Azhar Ali and a back-door Islamophile called George Galloway. There will be crowds, chanting and Hamas flags either way, and in certain nostrils, the sweet scent of victory.
I invite readers to view their children’s future in Britain 2034 through the prism of Rochdale’s mini-referendum on a middle-east war that is none of our business. Britain is now -incredibly- persisting with an electoral system that is literally wide open to capture by alien extremists. Foreign bodies are poised to grab our levers of power, at every level from deciding the day of your garbage collection to the choice of uniform your son will wear to fight their next war. Really.
This is the direct result of our useless, impotent, debased and pointless electoral machinery. Courtesy of the system, you didn’t vote these people in but soon you won’t be able to vote them out. So without further ado, lets take a trip to the understandably popular new website called The Muslim Vote. It’s a very straightforward read, and gets to the point with almost indecent haste:
Absolutely the number one priority for British voters I’m sure. In case you think this whole Israel/Palestine malarky is some flash-in-the-pan three-day wonder, the organisers of The Muslim Vote are happy to set you straight:
Does that concentrate your attention? It certainly got mine. Perhaps you are surprised to learn that you have been “taking Muslims for granted” -as if their very presence in Britain is a generous gift for which we are insufficiently grateful. But the punchline is even more compelling. Being “taken for granted” is something The Muslim Vote “will no longer tolerate”. Do you get that? Muslims in Britain will no longer tolerate your assumptions about them.
[To visit TheMuslimVote CLICK HERE]
Anticipating that 2024 would be a bumper year for elections I spent quite a lot of January studying the mapless minefield of voting. It irked me that people get so excited about a noisy, time-consuming ceremony that gets everyone shouting but has b-all effect on what follows. Perhaps if I understood the electoral system better, I would break the habit of a lifetime and actually participate this time round.
So I did some serious swotting. Exploring the evolution of British elections I could see right away that voting wasn’t always such a pointless exercise. There are several historical examples of meaningful electoral change -occasions when the government’s behaviour after a public vote seemed to shift in accordance with the voters’ wishes. Not very many, however, and mostly before I was old enough to take part. By the time February dawned I was no more inclined to put an X by some chump’s name that I ever have been.
I’ll admit it we had a halfway reasonable system in the beginning. Certainly an improvement on everyone kissing some stroppy King’s arse under threat of execution. The trouble started after WW1. The end of that first “global” conflict marked the beginning of the decline in democratic efficacy where Britain was concerned.
We the people were outgunned from the get-go. The dramatic novelties of state-controlled radio and television were very much to the benefit of the wartime ruling-class, which saw elections as a dirty but unavoidable chore. The establishment gripped the media like a club and proceeded to beat us into submission. From speakers and screens, the ‘voice of the people’ would first be challenged, then matched, and finally drowned out by the deafening oratory of the state.
One way and another from 1918 onward, the elections themselves have been tweaked, altered and gradually rendered impotent. Our collective journey became a mystery tour, as successive regimes steered the nation towards an unspoken destination of their own choice. We the people became passengers on a ship of state, increasingly encouraged to stay below decks and keep quiet. Now that the skipper has finally announced the next port of call, there is a degree of confusion among the weary travellers. Where the hell is Net Zero? Why should I want to live there? And by the way, when did we vote for this?
But lets not get the yacht in front of the sea-horse. The farce being played out in Rochdale is a direct consequence of the gradual perversion of a once-functional electoral process. The issue is much simpler than you may imagine. It comes down to this: who gets to cast a vote? That really is the crux of the whole damn thing.
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