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| Adnan Hussain MP, hand outstretched |
According to the 2021 census, the white British occupants of the Lancastrian town of Blackburn presented a dwindling majority of just 57 per cent. The expanding Pakistani-descended population stood at around 35 per cent and it was this latter smaller, but much more powerful demographic that ensured that in 2024 the town elected an MP from outside the Labour party for the first time in 69 years.
That MP was a solicitor from Burnley called Adnan Hussain.
Hussain defeated the Labour incumbent Kate Hollern by the narrow margin of just 132 votes. He got himself elected, not on the promise of making Britain great again or helping local people with day to day issues, but purely on the back of Muslim anger about events taking place thousands of miles away in Gaza. He was not alone in that general election, for three Muslim brothers elsewhere around the country got themselves elected on the back of a similar ticket. Together, alongside Jeremy Corbyn, they went on to form the Independent Alliance in the House of Commons. Their logo is inspired by the flag of Palestine and is made up of the four colours of that flag.
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| The logo of The Independent Alliance |
These five MPs are more concerned with Gaza than they are about the constituencies that elected them, a consequence of modern multi-cultural Britain and the fractured society that has been imported and imposed on our nation. Corbyn asides, the four Muslim MPs have their own fifth columnist agenda.
This was evident last week when Hussain posted in defence of ritual halal slaughter on his X account - in between all the posts about Palestine. The motivation for his post appeared to be a forthcoming Commons debate on banning ritual slaughter, in which livestock are widely killed without pre-stunning. The petition that triggered this debate was nudged past the required 100,000 signatures largely thanks to BTLP, after we shared it to our Facebook page. At that time the petition was struggling to reach the threshold and was due to expire on May 21. Thankfully, the petition enjoyed a late surge and will now be debated in the Commons on June 9.
The problem with Hussain's assertion is that the petition text does not even mention halal and instead refers generically to 'non-stun slaughter'. The only reference to halal on the petition
page is found in the government response, which opens with the following statement:
"The government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter and would prefer all animals to be stunned before slaughter, but it respects the rights of Jews and Muslims to eat meat prepared in accordance with their religious beliefs."
The statement goes on to defend halal slaughter with the claim that 'a significant proportion of halal meat comes from animals that are stunned before slaughter'. Despite the opening reference to 'Jews', it does not mention kosher slaughter, but that is no fault of the person who wrote the petition.
As for Hussain's claim that 'racism' could be motivating detractors of halal slaughter, followers of Islam do not constitute a specific ethnic group, therefore his claim is baseless. By driving a wedge between the two, it's no stretch to suggest that the only bigotry on show here is from Hussain himself. His intention is to paint Muslims as a collective victim, while Jews are allowed to proceed with their own stun-free barbarism free of criticism. However, those of us who wish to see an end to halal slaughter also demand the same for kosher slaughter.
Hussain's
post has since been subject to an X community context note, which decrees that the petition calls for a ban on
all religious non-stun slaughter, which clearly would apply to both halal and kosher slaughter. Jog on, chancer.
