“This column has long argued that mass, uncontrolled immigration was a deliberate policy to secure electoral advantage for Labour. Back in 1987, after Mrs Thatcher’s third victory, Labour concluded it could no longer rely on the old white working class. So it decided that it would import a new working class, which would then return the favour by loyally voting Labour.
“This was part of a wider strategy that also included the creation of a vast client state and putting as many members of the middle classes as possible on the payroll. It’s now coming to fruition in the London mayoral elections.
“There are 350,000 new voters on the electoral roll in the capital, most of them immigrants. There’s also a huge Muslim vote. Ken Livingstone reckons that 200,000 of them will swing it for him. So he’s sent his goons into mosques to rustle up support and lavished hundreds of thousands of pounds in grants on Muslim organisations. One of his most dedicated cheerleaders in the Islamic community is a big fan of suicide bombings and a supporter of Hamas, which wants to wipe Israel off the map.
“Now you know why Livingstone embraces Islamist headbangers, insults Jews and smears anyone who challenges him as a ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobe’. It’s all done with a cynical eye on the ballot box. Vile he may be, daft he ain’t.”
Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail, 18 April 2008
You do rather feel that Littlejohn is preaching to the converted here. A Daily Mail online poll on the London mayoral election currently has Livingstone at 11% and Boris Johnson at 78%. Now there’s a surprise.
A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion. David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only.
“When confronted about his infamous choice of language to describe black people – ‘piccaninnies’ with ‘watermelon smiles’ – Boris Johnson’s responses ranged from claims of being misinterpreted to apologies for the offence caused. And when, a few days ago, Nick Ferrari questioned him on his no less distasteful statements on Islam, the Conservative candidate for the London mayoralty denied ever making them. He insisted that Ken Livingstone, the mayoral incumbent and his fellow guest on the breakfast show, was seeking to smear him. Islam, he emphatically declared, was ‘a religion of peace’.
“Osama Saeed, who has openly called for ‘a caliphate’, a pan-Islamic global state, has a serious chance of being elected for Glasgow Central when the failing Brown government finally calls a general election. Salmond doesn’t seem to care about the harm being done to the Muslim community by elevating someone such as Saeed, who last week was appointed to be a member of the Scottish government’s working group to look at the issue of Trident replacement.”
Muslims in Oxfordshire have denied they had plans to broadcast a call-to-prayer from their mosque. In January, there were reports of an application to attach a loudspeaker to the Central Mosque in Oxford. The Bishop of Oxford, Rt Revd John Pritchard received a death threat after he lent his support to the idea. But the mosque’s treasurer, Masood Ahmed has now said no planning application to broadcast the call-to-prayer was made.