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The country that stood up to Nazism takes capitulation to Islam to new heights.
“Big Ben has fallen,” tweeted Giulio Meotti, the Italian critic of Islam. Mr. Brexit, Nigel Farage, wrote: “This is the beginning of religious, sectarian politics in our country. It will get very ugly….By the 2029 general election we will have a radical Islamic party represented in Westminster.” And actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox commented: “Expect what happened today…to become a much more regular occurrence as Britain is bullied into submission.”
Exactly what did happen? On February 21, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, made a ruling in violation of a recondite House rule that most British subjects had to have explained to them. The next day, the Daily Mail did just that. February 21 was, as it happens, an “Opposition Day” in the Commons, meaning that it was devoted to the discussion of issues raised by an opposition party, in this case the Scottish National Party – which, in an apparent attempt to highlight Labour Party divisions over the war in Gaza, offered a strongly pro-Palestinian motion calling for an “immediate ceasefire” and the release of hostages while also accusing Israel of targeting innocent Palestinians.
In response, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer proposed an amendment that was less critical of Israel, while the Tory government presented its own amendment, which, in line with its current policy, defended Israel’s right to self–defense and called simply for a “humanitarian pause” in the fighting in Gaza. According to House rules regarding Opposition Day activities, only the latter amendment should have been entertained; but after some Labour MPs who didn’t like the SNP’s intensely anti-Israeli motion shared with Hoyle their fears that a vote against it would expose them to violence by Muslims – most of whom, until October 7, were a highly reliable voting bloc for Labour – Hoyle ordered that the House vote, first, on the Labour amendment; then, on the SNP motion; and, finally, on the Tory amendment.
This utterly irregular ruling caused outrage; the government withdrew its amendment, SNP and Tory MPs walked out, and the remaining MPs, in another rather irregular move, passed the Labour amendment by a voice vote. Hoyle later explained his radical departure from the rules by saying that he’d wanted to give MPs the “widest range” of choices and that he was worried about their “security.” This explanation pacified no one: he was accused of causing a constitutional crisis and (despite his officially neutral position) of doing Labour’s bidding, a charge that had led to the downfall of his predecessor, John Berkow. Many MPs demanded Hoyle’s resignation. In many quarters, the main takeaway from this drama was that Hoyle, by acting out of fear of MPs’ security, had taken British appeasement of Islam – which was already at a pretty pathetic level – to a dark new high.
Tory MP Suella Braverman, a tough customer (by British standards) who is the daughter of ethnic Indian immigrants from Mauritius and Kenya and who until last November was the cabinet secretary in charge of immigration, focused the blame not on Hoyle but on Starmer, tweeting that he’d handed Britain “one of the most shameful days of our democracy.” In a Telegraph article headlined “Islamists are bullying Britain into submission,” Braverman claimed that timid politicians who mouth empty slogans about multiculturalism are leading the country down the road to a society run by “the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites” and governed in accordance with sharia law.
The podcaster Konstantin Kisin, who has been an outspoken critic of wokeness but who rejects the conservative label, agreed. In his own February 23 article for the Free Press website, he maintained that even the recent weekend street protests by violent anti-Semites enthusiasts “pale in comparison” to Hoyle’s pusillanimous capitulation to Muslim threats. Eight centuries after its founding, Kisin lamented, the Mother of Parliaments had, out of fear, abandoned its principles. “[I]t is now clear,” he wrote, “that Britain has a problem with Islamist extremism that requires immediate and drastic action….People who threaten violence should be arrested and locked up for a very long time….Foreign nationals who engage in, call for, fund, or glorify violence, religious hatred, or other violent extremism should be deported immediately.”
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