Starmer & Ashworth's racist attacks cause fury!

Right, so several clips have been doing the rounds in the last day or so, where both Keir Starmer himself and Jonathan Ashworth, his shadow Paymaster General have both made frankly unprovoked attacks on Bangladeshi’s and people of Bangladeshi heritage in this country as if for some reason they shouldn’t be here, that they exemplify the sort of people who, should they come here as migrants, should they come here as asylum seekers, they are somehow underserving of that, an example of the wrong sort of migrant as Labour pitches a view of the right sort versus the wrong sort, but by both picking on Bangladeshi’s, not only are they stupidly attacking a demographic that again mostly backs Labour as a rule in elections, but is doing so in order to deflect the narrative away from the true causes of those coming in small boats and where they come from originally, ignores the fact that most people who risk their lives to do that, do for the most part get asylum, not because of weak legislation, but because they have valid claims and is frankly engaging in what amounts to dishonest petty racism against ethnic minorities yet again, in order to steal some thunder from the likes of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK limited company that masquerades as a political party and once more highlights the hierarchy of racism that has become endemic and signatory of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer’s rule as he continues to not only ignore the problem, but actually be part of it himself.
Right, so that was I think an absolutely belting clip of Victoria Derbyshire, clearly angry frankly, with shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth, who in a recent video clip on another of my vids that I covered, was running away from people demanding answers from him, people from the Muslim community, in Leicester South demanding to know why he didn’t back a proper ceasefire in Gaza and now here he is attacking Bangladeshi’s, he mentioned them specifically three times in under two minutes, along with people from India and Albania, just casually throwing these people under the bus to justify Labour’s attack stance which was people apparently staying in hotels for the rest of their lives, which is ridiculous, yes the Tories have failed badly on asylum, but people awaiting their asylum claims do not sit there forever, do not move in permanently, that is a stupid and quite unnecessary claim when we know the Tories have failed on this and are electorally toast.
Keir Starmer echoed a lot of what Jonathan Ashworth said there in a televised interview he did, however given that he did his with the Murdoch S*n, the Scum as I prefer to call it, and this channel refuses point blank to use that hateful rag for so much as litter tray liner, let alone play a clip of it, I won’t be playing that one, but he complained on the matter of migration that people from Bangladesh were not being removed, so how many Bangladeshi’s if that is going to be Starmer’s target now, having already upset a great Muslims in the country over Gaza, most Bangladeshi’s already being amongst that Muslim demographic, are coming here to the UK then?
According to WorldData.info the number of Bangladeshi’s who made new asylum claims to the UK in 2022, was just 3,468. Many fewer than for example went to France or Italy. Of that, 35% of them won their right to claim asylum, meaning their case had been proven and to do that they will have had to evidence a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or being a member of a particular social group, for example, disabled or LGBTQ+. So what human rights issues does it have in which case, which might prompt such asylum applications? Here’s what Amnesty International said about Bangladesh last year:
‘The government intensified its crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly ahead of general elections scheduled for January 2024. Authorities used the powers in the Digital Security Act and other legislation to target journalists and human rights defenders, subjecting them to arbitrary detention and torture. There was a concerning increase in enforced disappearances and lack of accountability for deaths in custody. Occupational safety remained a distant dream for many workers. Refugees endured homelessness due to a fire in a camp and a cyclone as well as food insecurity. Rations for refugees were restricted due to the UN’s acute funding shortfall. Bangladesh remained extremely vulnerable to impacts of climate change.’
Sounds like some people very much do have a valid case to claim asylum elsewhere then, as Keir Starmer and Jonathan Ashworth choose to pick on them specifically.
Last year 67,337 people made asylum applications in the UK according to the Refugee Council. If I assume Bangladeshi arrivals for last year were ballpark similar to 2022, the only year I have figures, because they aren’t one of the bigger asylum demographics, not that you’d get that from listening to Starmer and Ashworth, Bangladeshi asylum seekers make up just 5% of all asylum claims. As Victoria Derbyshire stated, the majority come from Afghanistan and Iran, both oppressive regimes, under the Taliban and the theocratic regime of Iran’s Ayatollah.
So all in all, in my view, this is Starmer’s Labour making a pitch at Tories perhaps being attracted to Reform, scapegoating a community, they’ve already lost the votes of and are therefore figuring they might as well attack them more broadly.
The fact is there are large numbers of British Bangladeshi’s people have come from there to here, much like people di from around the world post war to help put this country back together, and you have large Bangladeshi communities in this country.
The chair of the Muslim Council of Britain in Bangladeshi, but also notably are a number of Labour figures too, so why are they not speaking out against what white men in their party are saying about people they share common bond with?
Rushanara Ali, her reputation is already mud having stood by and abstained over a Gaza ceasefire vote, but she is also of Bangladeshi descent, the first British Bangladeshi to ever be elected to parliament in fact. Tulip Siddiq is another and in fact her silence is arguably even worse, since her aunt is Sheikh Hasina, who has been the literal Prime Minister of Bangladesh since 2009! Her grandfather is regarded as the founding father of the entire nation of Bangladesh! Instead of speaking out about this on her social media however, she posted a story about an antisemitic attack on some children in a London tube station, absolutely awful and condemnable sure, but why post about that and not slam your leader and Ashworth for their dogwhistling, or are you too fearful for your own position and if so, how can we possibly expect Labour politicians to put country before party if you’ll be too afraid to?
Of course the other part of this discussion is that not everyone who comes here from Bangladesh is seeking asylum. Many come here to work, in hospitality, in care, doing jobs that can’t be filled by British people because of the pay, and many do all of this whilst coming here to study as well. This language is not welcoming to them, it failed the Tories, it is the main reason why sensible, empathetic people in this country despise the likes of Nigel Farage and the rancid far right outfit he represents, fundamentally using these people as scapegoats for all the ills the rest of us suffer as the rich end up exploiting us and we pay more for crumbling services they are exploiting and bleeding dry. Giving us someone to hate, rather than the people we should hate, those avoiding paying their share and those politicians refusing to make them do it either, by saying a wealth tax isn’t needed. It’s needed more than ever before, because this country needs a big fat reset. Only those who represent vested interests are depraved enough to scapegoat minorities to keep people looking the other way. You expect it from the Tories, you expect it from Farage, you expect better of Labour but not anymore, not a Labour as demonstrably racist as Starmer’s Labour, the rhetoric of Starmer and Ashworth now could have come from any Tory or Reform UK spokesperson and you wouldn’t know the difference in my view. Don’t associate yourself with this, don’t be part of this ongoing sickness in our politics, take your vote elsewhere, certainly in Leicester South, there is that option, where one of 19 former Labour Leicester City Council members that the party barred from re-standing, disproportionately from ethnic minorities incidentally as they were, is standing against Ashworth for the Green Party and being Muslim herself, Sharmen Rahman had something to say to his awful interview tweeting out:
‘Wow there’s a lot a venom here for people from Bangladesh, India and the Indian subcontinent. (Many of whom hold up our public services btw). I wonder how his many constituents that have originated from this region will feel about this rhetoric.’
I wonder the same thing and I hope they’ll be looking to give their votes to Sharmen Rahman instead as a result.
Jonathan Ashworth made a mockery of himself amongst voters only a few days prior, he really ought to be losing vast swathes of the ethnic minority vote in his seat, where 1 in 3 people identify as Muslim incidentally, not only for what he’s said in this video, but running away from them and referring to them as bullies trying to intimidate him earlier this week as this video recommendation will tell you all about and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.