International Issues are Not Separate from Local Issues in Elections

Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute argues that political failure and poverty at home, cannot be separated from wars overseas. The UK needs to become independent of the influence of foreign states like the US and Israel.

International Issues Matter, and Impact All British People

After George Galloway’s election win in Rochdale, the media in the UK have been on a rant about a focus on international issues at the expense of local issues, as if the two are not related.

Our government has been focused on international issues and wars for a very long time.  UK participation in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, all led to terrorist attacks in the UK.  All of these led to a mass global refugee crisis with pressures on Europe, which politicians constantly go on about, and have made an election issue yet again. Britain and Europe’s interference in Muslim countries lead to Muslim refugees needing somewhere to escape, with some coming to Europe.  However, most Muslim refugees end up in Muslim countries.

Our country’s politics and economics have been held hostage to the foreign issue of Brexit since 2016 at least (ongoing).  That has sent prices of food and goods rising which affects the poorest most.

We have been arming and supporting Ukraine in a war against Russia, with money and weapons, taking in refugees.  Continued British support may well drag us into a war with Russia and some argue even a world war.  Just a few weeks ago our ruling elite were talking about introducing conscription for the army, which would mainly affect the children of ordinary working people, not the children of the political class.  The loss of oil and gas from Russia sent prices soaring and has affected all of Europe with a serious cost-of-living crisis, sending many into poverty.

Since 2015, the British Labour Party has been in crisis because Jeremy Corbyn had some sympathy with the Palestinian cause, and the supporters of Israel in the party and country could not tolerate that.  Aljazeera’s “The Labour Files” exposed these links and the crisis. Israel is of course a foreign state interfering in British politics.

The UK has joined with the US in the new Cold War against China, with global consequences.

Now we have the Gaza issue, where our country along with the United States is providing blanket support to the state of Israel, with funding, arms, and political support, in a genocidal war against the Palestinian people.  With our warships in the Red Sea, the whole situation could drag the UK into a regional Middle East war. The UK’s blind support for Israel will eventually cost it in trade among the 1.8 billion people of the Muslim world.  Britain’s reputation and standing in the Global South has plummeted, as most support the Palestinian people and cause. Few believe in the international order anymore.

If the Palestinian people are expelled from their native homeland by Jews originating from Europe, and become stateless, then every Palestinian has a moral right to citizenship of those countries who have been responsible for their dispossession. The two main countries are the UK and the United States.

All these foreign wars and interventions occur because our privately educated Oxbridge ruling elite still have the mentality of the age of empire and imperialism.  They can imagine this by hanging onto the tail of the United States, for whom Israel is a key colonial outpost in the Muslim world.

Britain has also become a colony of the United States from which we need liberation and independence.  Our attachment to the US, and by extension to Israel, is impoverishing our country and people.  If we carry on like this, we will end up as impoverished and slavish as Pakistan which has spent 45 years fighting wars for the United States and suffered more terrorism than any other country.  There is an intimate link between US-supported wars and terrorism.

At home, our institutions such as the NHS are being run into a crisis, so privatisation and selling them off to the United States is seen as the only solution to save them. Our country is descending into a poverty epidemic because of the diversion of funding for foreign wars.  There is a direct link between political crises and economic failure at home, with what we do overseas. Ending these foreign adventures on behalf of the United States will release resources to spend at home.

Every independent candidate that stands in the next election must be able to articulate the case for political freedom and independence from the United States and Israel.  The two-party duopoly and mainstream media consensus will not educate British voters about this interlinked relationship and the real cause of our decline.  Those who stand in elections and do not explain this to the electorate, and instead seek to make migrants, Muslims, Islamists mobs, protestors, and culture wars key issues are simply diverting from the real issues and their culpability.