The sectarian nightmare predicted by Enoch Powell is here – but Tommy Robinson is not the answer
In a disturbing snapshot of today’s Britain, the Henry Jackson Society published figures after this month’s local elections suggesting that more than 570 of new councillors were what it classed as “sectarian-style” candidates. The criteria used to define this were the emphases those candidates had, in their campaigns, put on issues of “Muslim communal grievance” and “transnational Muslim causes”. The Green Party, illustrating how it has stopped focusing on the environment or ecology, accounted for 350 of those councillors. What this has to do with local government is unclear; what it has to do with a complete failure of certain large Muslim communities to integrate into the British way of life is distressingly obvious. That, in turn, has provided a new opening for the far-Right agitator Tommy Robinson, whose Unite the Kingdom march in Westminster today is likely to be joined by many voters fed up with the government policies that have led to – or, at the least, failed to discourage – widespread segregation. Two miles away, activists taking part in the annual pro-Palestine …
