Does the Labour Party have something against British Indians?

On paper — no. But their actions say otherwise

A Labour leaflet emerged this week criticising Boris Johnson shaking hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What is Boris expected to do, instead? Image: The Sun

The West Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen goes to by-elections today. The campaigning has been characterised by the peddling of tribal and ethnic identities alien to these shores and it must be roundly condemned. The British Labour Party have shown, unfortunately, in the last decade, that it is quite happy to play to these partisan differences.

In Batley and Spen, provocateur-in-chief George Galloway has thrown his hat in the ring. His favourite hot button topic is foreign policy. Especially the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Predictably, his pitch is to traditional Labour voting Muslims in this region. Pamphlets attacking the Tory government’s diplomatic relationship with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi were distributed. Hatred or love for Modi or Imran Khan’s internal policies should have no place in a British by-election.

Potholes and Palestine will, apparently, determine the winner of this by-election.

In 2019, mobs congregated around the Indian High Commission in London protesting the Indian government’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s special status. London’s Labour…