Read this Guardian article and be dismayed. It may be easy to dismiss the non-Muslim Lefties who are supporting the Lutfur Rahman in Tower Hamlets as only representing the extreme Left, but it seems that the Labour Party is severely infested with those on Lutfur Rahman’s side. Senior supporters, funders and NEC members are all mentioned as being supporters of a pro-Rahman event.
Utterly disgusting. This is yet another instance of where a vote for Labour is a vote for those who support Islamic corruption.
The Guardian said:
“The leader of Britain’s biggest trade union has expressed his support for the former mayor of Tower Hamlets, east London, who was removed from office after being found guilty of electoral fraud.
Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, Labour’s biggest donor, gave his backing on Thursday to Lutfur Rahman, who was dismissed after a court ruling last week.
The intervention, at a rally for the ousted mayor, will cause some discomfort for Labour, whose councillors and MPs have praised the decision by Judge Richard Mawrey.
It came as Rahman spoke publicly for the first time since he was removed from office. Addressing hundreds of supporters in Stepney Green, east London, Rahman confirmed that he was “exploring the possibility” of challenging the judgment. He also endorsed a close associate, Rabina Khan, as a candidate for the mayoral election on 11 June.
Rahman insisted that last year’s election was free and fair. “People in Tower Hamlets are smart. They did not vote because they were bribed, coerced or intimidated … I was voted in on my record of delivering for the people of this borough where the political establishment.
“The judgment’s treatment of this borough and the assumptions it makes about us – including our Muslim residents – shows how out of touch they are.”
Earlier, Andrew Murray, the union’s chief of staff, told the rally in Stepney Green: “I am not speaking in a personal capacity, I am speaking on behalf of the union … and I am sending a message of support from our general secretary, Len McCluskey. Unite is proud to associate ourselves with Lutfur Rahman.”
He called the judgment “an undemocratic assault on the people of Tower Hamlets” which was both “racist” and “Islamophobic”.
George Galloway, the former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, sent a recorded message that described the decision as “an anti-democratic, anti-Islamic and racist coup”.
The mayoral election will be rerun after Rahman and his supporters were found to have used religious intimidation through local imams, vote-rigging and wrongly branding hisLabour rival a racist to gain power. Mawrey, the election court judge, found Rahman guilty of seven out of nine allegations.
Rahman, who has been banned from seeking office again, was also found to have allocated local grants to buy votes and used free meals to buy political support. He was ordered to pay immediate costs of £250,000 from a bill expected to reach £1m.
Police are considering whether to launch a criminal investigation relating to Rahman over the multiple corruption allegations.
Christine Shawcross, from Labour’s national executive committee, said: “The lack of a sound evidence base, the factual inaccuracies, the dangerous claims made about British Muslims and the powers given to the state to intervene in elections set a disturbing precedent.”
She is acting as a trustee of Rahman’s legal defence fund.
Ken Livingstone, the former Labour mayor of London, said in another recorded message that the judgment was “politically motivated”.
Read the source of this story here
So we have a former senior Labour figure, Ken Livingstone, a member of the party’s NEC, a union baron and a senior union executive all backing one of the most corrupt figures in 21st century British local government. Does this look to you like a party that could be trusted to govern honestly and fairly? It certainly doesn’t look like that to me. In fact I’ve seen Pikey scrap metal dealers that I’d trust more than the current incarnation of the Labour Party.
Remember, if you vote Labour you get shariah and Islamic corruption. What an absolute mess, Keir Hardie must be spinning in his grave at what the Labour Party has become.
But they’ll STILL vote Labour.
No cure for stupid……
unless it’s a bearded savage sawing their heads off.
That should cure it.