Days after the new Labour Party leader Kier Starmer announced that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan—a welcome departure from the earlier stance of the Labour Party—the Islamists in the UK are scurrying around haplessly to gather attention and recover the lost ground.
In a related attempt, over 100 mosques in the UK have written a letter to Keith asking him to take back his comments on Kashmir. The laughable but cute attempt by the proxies of Pakistan to pressurize the party must be a good conversation starter for the political leaders in the UK.
The labour party under vile Jeremey Corbyn used to champion the cause of Pakistan and a global-left. But after the drubbing received in the general elections (worst performance of the Labour Party in the last 80 years) left the party wounded, a change in strategy was required.
So when Keith took the reins of the party, he took a complete 180-degree turn from that of his predecessor’s philosophy. He understood that riling the Indian diaspora will be repeating the same mistakes and therefore one of the first plans of action he undertook after assuming the chair was coming out with a statement that the Labour party will not meddle in the affairs of India.
Suddenly, the feeling of having no party to turn to left the Islamists desperate and the letter is being seen in a similar light—a means to hold on to the glory days of Corbyn and his pro-Pakistan love.
The letter issued by the mosques threatened the Labour party if it did not side with their ideas saying, “We will have no option but to support a call for the Muslim community to abstain from voting for Labour at all upcoming elections.”
While the Pakistani diaspora issued a threat, one cannot help but wonder why the Labour party lost so crushingly last year in the elections if the Muslims were backing it in the first place, and what difference will it make in the future whether they support Labour party or not.
And if they are looking to vote for the Tories, the statement in the letter itself becomes paradoxical and hence there is no need to comment further.
You mean 100 mosques and their devotees will boycott Labour party and vote for the Tories?? Go for it I say… https://t.co/MENMzsgYd2
— Neutrino (@knee_jerk) May 11, 2020
The 1.5 million-strong British Indian populace voted en masse for the Conservative party leader Boris Johnson and gifted him the keys to the 10 Downing street and therefore if the Muslims want to vote for him, we say let them.
Corbyn had taken his and his party’s fortune down the drain when he brought in an emergency motion saying there was a “major humanitarian crisis taking place in Kashmir”.
The situation in Kashmir is deeply disturbing. Human rights abuses taking place are unacceptable. The rights of the Kashmiri people must be respected and UN resolutions implemented.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) August 11, 2019
This was the moment, the Labour Party’s quashing in the elections was written. After the abrogation of Article 370, Kashmir is a non-issue. Period. And therefore if even a whiff of meddling in India’s internal matters comes from the colonial power hungover Labour Party, then the Indian voters will likely, steer away from it.
Starmer’s statement is a major step towards mending the relationship-ties with the Indian diaspora in the UK. And therefore it will be unfortunate if the Labour Party succumbs under the pressure of a single letter and goes back on its earlier stance.
It would emerge as one silly goofball party in the proceedings that does not have any sense of direction. Keeping these permutations and combinations in mind, it is imperative that the Labour party sticks to the novice yet fresh approach of Starmer—wooing the British-Indians.
While for the Pakistanis, they should learn from their Prime Minister Imran Khan, the ‘art of dealing/begging’ so that they can come up with better strategies than a letter to threaten a party which has moved past its vicious demands.