• Sunak’s Historic Low Approval Among Ethnically Diverse Communities
• “The Gaza Effect” and Its Impact on Starmer’s Ratings
Recent polling data shared with Sky News reveals that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer are facing unprecedented unpopularity among ethnically diverse communities in the UK. Despite Sunak’s historic milestone as the first UK Prime Minister of Hindu and ethnically diverse background, his approval rating among these communities stands at -53, one of the worst in nearly 30 years. Interestingly, Sunak is more popular among white voters, with a rating of -41.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer fares slightly better but still trails significantly compared to his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Starmer’s approval rating among ethnically diverse communities is -32, markedly lower than Blair’s -11 during the Iraq War and Brown’s -13. Why is this the case when Starmer has not invaded a nation like Blair? The truth is, there are a multitude of reasons, but primarily to do with the ongoing Gaza genocide, that the Labour Party still hasn’t taken meaningful action to overturn it. There is also the fact that Kier Starmer has not actually shown much substance or positioning in the world of politics and seems to be less of a radical leader than his predecessors, thus deterring ethnic minorities from thinking he will digress from racially targeted government policies such as the Rwanda bill that seeks to send illegal migrants to a foreign country, they’re not familiar with.
It’s no doubt the current Conservative government has been instrumental in destroying their image with ethnic minorities by directly continuing with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the lack of distribution of money to support those more in need, the Rwanda bill, and just extremely racist MPs within their political party. Take Suella Braverman, for example. In an interview on Sky TV’s Sophy Ridge, the former home secretary said grooming gangs had a “predominance” of “British Pakistani males, who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values.” She was not fired or lost her job. Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, had said, “It is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes” when describing women who wear the niqab. It’s not surprising to see the Conservative government unpopular with minorities when they feed off them for support from their nationalistic white British base.
Labour parties manipulative two face
One significant factor influencing these ratings is what Ipsos terms “The Gaza Effect.”
This refers to the substantial drop in support for both leaders among ethnically diverse communities following the events in Gaza post-October 7. While white voter satisfaction remained largely unaffected, ethnically diverse communities showed a marked decline in support, with Sunak’s rating dropping by 13 points and Starmer’s by a substantial 29 points. Why would Starmer’s ratings drop so much when he has voiced out for a permanent, immediate ceasefire in February? Well, the answer to that question may lie in the fact that three days later, he amended a SNP motion for a permanent ceasefire to prevent it from going through by adding caveats in the amendment to make the reality of a ceasefire impossible. By doing this deceitful trick, Starmer had by far made it seem as if he was now in the position of calling for a ceasefire but was working against one. A trick of manipulation of ethnically diverse communities and base supporters of the Labour Party has not gone unnoticed. On top of the fact that Labour shadow foreign secretary David Lammy went to the United States early this month and condemned the student protests in universities, he even claimed that Mandela would oppose the student protests. Yet just over a week ago, Nelson Mandela’s grandson had called David Lammy “an apologist for genocide” in response. The Labour Party even now has not called for a permanent ceasefire motion in parliament and has barely even raised the genocide in Gaza in Prime Ministers questions throughout thelast few weeks when the genocide is reaching the bloodiest phase. The Labour Party has become a pro-genocidal party of manipulation. ISIS and similar terrorist organisations tend to make their name as terrorists and extremists through pro-genocidal actions or statements. Many members of these terrorist organisations are considered extremists and terrorists even when they’re not directly involved in carrying out attacks. US policy on ISIS has always been to destroy, regardless of whether the members were actively fighting or not, in power or not, or in the midst of planning. With extremists like Starmer and Lammy in the echelons of leadership within the Labour Party, whose genocidal tendencies make them just that, it begs one to think how obscure the perception of the general brit has become to not identify the extremists at the leadership of the democratic system that is valued so much. The Conservative Party is a party directly supporting and facilitating the action of genocide through the sale of weapons and military aid, while the Labour Party is directly preventing any attempt to stop Britain’s complicity in genocide by blocking any attempt from opposition MPs to get a motion through parliament through the art of manipulation.
