If a general election were held now, Labour's Jeevun Sandher would be toast. His fellow MP wife - Louise Sandher-Jones - would also be a goner. Even if the Greens and Lib Dems stood aside in their East Midlands seats, this couple would be departing the Westminster gravy train forthwith, such is the seismic electoral shift against the establishment.
Hence Mr and Mrs Sandher are desperate to hold onto their seats and their lucrative joint political career. As most Labour MPs are these days, they are the kind of privileged bourgeois university-educated types who have never had a proper job in their lives. Like Karl Mark himself, they are the kind of people dictating policies for a demographic that is alien to them, and who they secretly regard with total disgust.
For Mr Sandher's part, he tends to pump out regime sketches on social media, supporting the Starmer regime and party policy. He uses the title 'Dr', but he is not a medical doctor, otherwise he would have probably sorted out his sinus problem as he speaks like he has a permanently blocked nose. No, his doctorate is in 'political economics'. This is a source of amusement for many social media users who bear witness to his little video clips, which quite often revolve around the dire imposition of net zero.
Sandher is aware of how the tide is turning and the knock on effect of every significant defeat at the ballot box for Labour. As did countless PLP comrades of the 'centrist' persuasion, Sandher got himself across to Gorton and Denton for the recent by-election. As has become customary, he made a little video along the way. Walking across what appears to be open moorland, the bearded Sikh smears Reform's by-election candidate Matt Goodwin as 'not very British'. Yes, seriously.
Watch below (two minute watch).
With regards to Sandher's opening salvo, Matt Goodwin denies that he has ever defined British people in such a way. Certainly to do so may incur the wrath of his party leader, who has been increasingly critical of ethnic nationalism recently (in truth, he always has been).
Sandher goes on to invoke Winston Churchill for the second
time in recent weeks and repeatedly uses the word 'our' to describe a collective Britishness. He appears to suggest that Churchill would not pass the 'Goodwin test' that he made up, presumably because one of Churchill's grandparents was American. However, Churchill's grandfather was of Western European descent - a French Huguenot - who are closely related to English people in terms of ethnicity, religion and culture. Contrast that with Sandher himself, who claims to be just as British as the rest of us. If that's the case, why was he specifically singled out to chair the All-Parliamentary Committee on Indian Affairs? Why does he appear in an
article of
The Economic Times listing a record number of 'Indian-origin MPs'?
Yes, Britain has always been made up of different communities, but if these had repeatedly 'come together' as he suggests, we would have become a melting pot a long time ago and regional differences would have disappeared. Why then, after thousands of years, is Welsh and Gaelic still spoken in isolated communities? Why has Cornish only recently been driven to the brink of extinction? Why are regional dialects only now beginning to die out (due to mass immigration)?
Migrant communities that have sprung up in the last century are no different in their desire to maintain their own secluded existence, in fact even more so. If one goes to any big town or city, one can clearly see that these communities have certainly not 'come together'. Our cities are heavily divided on ethnic lines and the recent Gorton and Denton by-election is a prime example.
Yes, people came from across the British Empire to fight in World War II, but they did not 'come together' in multi-culti regiments as Sandher would have you believe. As for that 'fascist' sleight towards Reform UK, the old 'Nazi' jibe against anyone who is right of Labour is getting a bit tiresome now.
