Azar Ali

Hear hear

Intimidation of MPs of any political persuasion is totally unacceptable. Turning up mob-handed at Ellwood's family home shows the rabid nature of the protesters. They should have been arrested at least for threatening behaviour.

My town avoided race riots, the EDF. Were chased back to their by white and other communities when they arrived to cause trouble.
I worry that the war in Gaza will create new divisions. Mr Ali’s may have apologised but the views he expressed are prevelant amongst Muslims and many on the left

Labour lead over conservatives fallen

Apparently there is already a website called “The Muslim Vote” and it has been set up to tell Muslims “who to vote for”, in its own words.

It lists every constituency with at least a 10 per cent Muslim electorate, as well as how the current MP voted on the Gaza ceasefire and the name of the “community endorsed candidate”.

In Rochdale, that person is Mr Galloway.

Rochdale only comes 21st in terms of the proportion of Muslim voters; if Mr Galloway managed to win there, it would put at least 20 other Labour seats in jeopardy, and possibly more, depending on the size of Mr Galloway’s vote share.

Re Bradford and similar ex mill towns,I suppose they have suffered and await levelling up. All the support and hope seems to have gone. Sure Start for example.
The large Asian population is a result of people being invited here to work in the cotton Mills. Invited.

Does Keir Starmer’s home have police protection, pray so.

How can anyone doubt the fear of Jews in this country ?

Anniebach

The scenes outside the home of Tobias Elwood are so frightening, MP’s not free to speak

I find it shocking that police didn’t move on the threatening pro Palestinian group outside his house, when he and his sons were actually in the house.What has to happen before something even more serious takes place?!
Who would be an MP these days?

Police did not intervene

There is the nub of the problem Calli. Tobias Ellwood’s family must have been terrified. A call to 999 was definitely warranted. Why on earth did the Police not respond? Ignoring these protesters (shame on that Labour would-be MP who stood against TE in the latest election) gives them and their ilk the green light, surely?

Anniebach

How many MP’s will stand down to protect their families

We have an MP in our extended family (often doing the morning news round) we would all be relieved if they stood down.

How many MP’s will stand down to protect their families

Callistemon21 I saw the footage of the angry mob outside Tobias Ellwood’s house,his family must be living in fear. I know that free speech is essential in our democracy, but this is taking things too far.

It makes me ponder on why anyone would want to stand for MP in the next election.

Iam64

Oreo - I don’t live in Bradford but I can’t ignore your comments, based on a tv programme. I live over the pennies, in another former proud town that, like Bradford helped build the country from the industrial revolution till the 1980s when manufacturing, engineering, etcc disappeared. It left many towns with names beginning with B desolate\\

Callistemon is correct t - Jews and Arabs and Christian’s

It was an in depth documentary about Bradford as it is now, am sure it used to be a good place to live a long time ago.
Apologies if anyone here lives there or nearby, but yes as you say it really does look a desolate place and very depressing.
Lots of huge council estates and high levels of petty crime, and not so petty, and high levels of immigration from India and Pakistan which have changed the nature of the city.It’s not alone I know, many other towns and cities have changed too.
In the news again this week the awful shooting of two female police officers there, which happened a few years ago.

Callistemon thank you, I so remember the murder PC Palmer. Seems some can do as they want

That was in response to * Anniebach's* post.

The former Labour candidate in his constituency was one of the protestors, threatening Ellwood.

She held a placard saying “Tobias Ellwood you can’t hide you’re complicit in genocide.”

Police did not intervene.

Ellwood was the MP who tried to save PC Keith Palmer when he was stabbed in 2017 at the terrorist attack in Westminster.
PC Keith Palmer was posthumously awarded the George Medal.

This is becoming very disturbing indeed.

Whitewave, ‘people from Asia’ may well be relatives of the largely Pakistani Muslim communities who were invited to work in our mills. They had much needed skills. Life is tough for many in our former mill towns, including mine. In the late 70’s early 80’s when I was a newly qualified sw, it was rare for me to be involved with a family where no one worked. By the 90’s it was rare to have families who didn’t rely on benefits

With regard to Bradford - I researched my family on my grandfathers side, and discovered that they were weavers in Haworth and later with the Industrial Revolution moved to the mill town of Bradford.

I recently spent time tracing them from Haworth to Bradford. 😮😮😮 I must say I was pretty shocked at what I saw in the area in Bradford in which my ancestors lived. They were a middle class family at the beginning of the last century with servants etc, living a good life from what I could gather - but now the area is terribly poverty stricken, with people from Asia clearly finding life pretty hard. I was saddened to see it.

The scenes outside the home of Tobias Elwood are so frightening, MP’s not free to speak

This is exactly where my Jewish friends stand.

Frank Kenna
@frank_kenn85
I'm a British Jew, I'm sick of my family's religion being used to shield Israel from consequences for its genocidal actions. For generations our family wanted nothing to do with zionism or the state of Israel, yet Israel insists it speaks for us or represents us. No thanks.

Oreo - I don’t live in Bradford but I can’t ignore your comments, based on a tv programme. I live over the pennies, in another former proud town that, like Bradford helped build the country from the industrial revolution till the 1980s when manufacturing, engineering, etcc disappeared. It left many towns with names beginning with B desolate\\

Callistemon is correct t - Jews and Arabs and Christian’s

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Callistemon21

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caknib

Pity the safe space was stolen from other people though?

It wasn't. After WW2 the UN partitioned Palestine between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The State of Israel was then immediately attacked by three Arab states and acquired more territory by right of conquest in the brief war which Israel won despite the odds.

So who lived in Palestine before some of it was handed over to Israel?

The Canaanites?

And who inherited their DNA from Canaanites?

Both Jews and Arabs.

Callistemon21

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Grantanow

caknib

Pity the safe space was stolen from other people though?

It wasn't. After WW2 the UN partitioned Palestine between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The State of Israel was then immediately attacked by three Arab states and acquired more territory by right of conquest in the brief war which Israel won despite the odds.

So who lived in Palestine before some of it was handed over to Israel?

The Canaanites?

The Arab -Israeli war only began after Israel had massacred, raped and driven from their homes thousands of Palestinians, when Arab states decided intervention was necessary. The intervention failed and Israel expanded occupying more territory.
There is international law which prevents the acquisition of territory by war. The original borders assigned by the UN have never been abided by. In 1948 the UN passed a resolution saying that Palestinians should be allowed to return to the land they had been driven from. Israel of course never complied.
The people in Gaza are the descendents of those people.

Chakrabarti appointed chair of enquiry into antisemitism in
The Labour Party, Chakrabarti Inquiry report was published in June 2016 and concluded that Labour was "not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of racism," but that there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere".[36] June 2016, September 2016 House of Lords,
October 2016 appointed shadow Attorney General by Corybyn

Callistemon21

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Grantanow

caknib

Pity the safe space was stolen from other people though?

It wasn't. After WW2 the UN partitioned Palestine between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The State of Israel was then immediately attacked by three Arab states and acquired more territory by right of conquest in the brief war which Israel won despite the odds.

So who lived in Palestine before some of it was handed over to Israel?

The Canaanites?

And who inherited their DNA from Canaanites?