Reform candidate intimated – the left blame Reform!
This post is actually about a comment posted on my Facebook page rather than the intimidation, which is an issue itself.
The post was of a video that appears to show a Muslim Reform candidate being intimidated for handing out leaflets outside a mosque while campaigning in Redbridge.
If it was some old, white, “far-right” guy it would be more understandable, but the candidate (Raj Forhad) is a Bangladeshi migrant who, from his dress, appears to be a Muslim himself.
The video is only short but, as far as I can tell, shows a Muslim Reform candidate handing out campaign leaflets outside a mosque, hoping for support from other Muslims and being harassed for it. Some are clearly snatching handfuls of leaflets and throwing them on the floor, posturing and being intimidating. Others, it must be noted, move to help him.
This, in my opinion, is the problem with Muslims. The intolerance – of some, of the more radicalised, of the Islamists.
In the past I’ve worked with and befriended migrants and second gen migrants and even indigenous people from a range of countries, cultures and beliefs. Never had a problem with any of them.
Had Blackfoot indians as drinking buddies. Learnt Spanish and a little Portuguese when working with South Americans, learnt a few words from Tibetan migrants, even spent three months trying to learn Arabic from a Yemeni Muslim and his family.
Religion is generally not the problem. People are not the problem. Inflexable, intolent ideologies are. Especially if they get politicised!
Let’s agree to disagree. Actually, no…
As shown in the feature image and shared below, here’s what the guy had to say:.
Sheer provocation, what do you expect. Redmform are ignorant and vile like their greedy grifter lying hypocritical leader.
The person presents as a retired bloke with 31 folowers and the Ukraine flag on his image. At least it wasn’t just 1 follower, those are usually either trolls or bots!
To be honest, his minimalist comment, fulls of typos and bad grammar, is so bad, so unclear that I can’t truly be sure of what he’s saying, but it appear to be slagging off Reform, so obviously I replied.
My reply:
[name] I think you are visiting the wrong page to be calling Reform ‘vile and ignorant’. If you want that, try Labour. Their foreign secretary appears to believe WWII was fought to save the European Union and at least half the front bench believe women can have willies (something the supreme court disagrees with).
Our precious elected Labour government (voted for by only about 20% of the electorate), which I assume you support, so far includes:
A Labour corruption minister that resigned over corruption and has had an arrest warrant issued against her in Bangladesh.
A Labour business secretary that repeatedly lied – over a number of years – about about being a qualified solicitor (which is a crime), blaming it on his staff for the ‘mistake’
A chancellor that lied about her career history and experience and suitability for the job. Who also blamed the ‘mistake’ on her staff.
Another MP recently arrested for suspicion of child sex offences and rape
Starmer, Mr flip-flop himself…
The many (fully costed) lies Labour told to get elected…
Lammy spending over a million quid of tax-payers money on private jets in just 3 months
#Freebiegate
Policies so unpopular, so divisive that farmers hate them, pensioner hate then, the disabled hate then, businesses hate them, betrayed (ex) Labour supporters hate them…
That is, in polls, already considered the worst government ever with – beyond question – the worst, least popular PM ever.
A government so scared of voters that it cancelled elections for 5 million of them to save seats.
So unpopular that – in one red wall seat – they went from being unbeatable for 86 years to getting destroyed by Reform, who won with 45% of the votes.
That had similar losses in other areas to Lib Dems and even the Green party!
That is terrified of the May local election results because of how many council seats they are going to lose – especially to Reform.
Doubly so for the Runcorn MP re-election, needed because the Labour MP there was arrested and jailed for GBH – on a constituent who questioned him.
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But sure, call Farage a “vile, greedy grifter lying hypocritical leader.”
