Arrivals from ‘countries like Bangladesh’ are not being deported, Keir Starmer complains
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Keir Starmer has created consternation among supporters and potential supporters with a bizarre singling out of migrants from Bangladesh for fast-track deportation.
In a display of machismo, Starmer insisted that “I’ll make sure we’ve got planes going off.”
Andrew Feinstein, standing against Starmer as an independent, has posted a brief video expressing his outrage at Starmer’s statement and the political outlook that informs it.
And Sabina Akhtar, Deputy Leader of the Labour group in Tower Hamlets has resigned in protest, to sit as an independent councillor.
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This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Wed 26 Jun 2024. Read the original here.
UK election 2024: Arrivals from 'countries like Bangladesh' are not being deported, Keir Starmer complains
His shadow minister also highlighted migrants from India, Bangladesh, Albania and said ‘we’re gonna send people back’
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If only one of these Politicians spoke about Why, so many people are fleeing from their homelands. Let’s start with that, let’s see a list of reasons forming, then deal with the reasons!! If only a Political Leader started the discussion, we might start dealing with the real problem/s.
We can dismiss this statement, Why are they going through safe Countries to get to the UK AND it isn’t the Benefit System, it’s the fact that English is taught in schools in many parts of the World and if you speak the language, you have a better chance of employment etc.
No, they go down the racism line, The Tories and Farrage’s Reform Party have used it for years. Now we have a LP Leader that’s a proven racist, by his treatment towards LP MPs and Councillors, then there’s his attitude towards the Palestinians.
“We’re gonna send people back” [John Ashworth MP, quoted above]. I was born and brought up in Leicester in the 60’s and 70’s, living through the era of violence and extreme racism of The National Front, with their Union Flags and banners saying exactly what Ashworth has said. In a proud multicultural City, this is incendiary language and will stir up a backlash against the Labour Party. The City Council now has only 31 Labour Councillors after 19 [40%] were “deselected” [banned] from standing for re-election in March 2023. [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/23/labour-tells-19-leicester-councillors-they-cannot-stand-in-may-election] This opened the door to the Tory`s and a handful of independents, where previously the Council was over 90% Labour. In a city with a population of 60% from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities – mostly the Asian subcontinent, John Ashworth typifies the accepted racism now endemic in the Labour Party. I know Muslim members and residents in the City who are extremely opposed to Starmers complicity in with the Zionist Genocide against Palestinians. Labour had a solid multicultural base in the City, with many long-time activists and campaigners. Many have either resigned or become completely disengaged from the party. Sat on a fat majority of over 23,000, Ashworth has eight candidates against him in the forthcoming General Election. It will be interesting to see how that result reflects the disaffection and anger in the City. His stoking the flames of racism is something Leicester South voters had hoped had been left in the bin in the 70`s, along with the neo-nazi National Front. Clearly, the hierachy of racism is alive and well in Leicester. Shame on the Labour Party!
Starmer’s frantic backpeddling is almost worse than his disgusting attack on the Bangladeshi community. What a contrast between sleaze bag Starmer and Andrew Feinstein, a true man of the people.
I was born and raised in Leicester in the 60`s and 70`s.
The language used by Starmer echo’s the incendiary language of the racist National Front. Nothing more highlights the hierarchy of racism within the Labour Party.