Once Vote-bank politics was domain of India, especially Congress party, it has now been creeping into British politics for a couple of decades.
We all know that this devalues so called fair and free elections, yet Labour Party has fallen hook, line and sinker for such cheap politics that divides ethnic minorities like no other issue, fishing in troubled water, paddle in an issue they know nothing about with stunning naivety!
It seems Labour Party is unbelievably out of sync with India, liaison severed with 1:5 million strong British Indian diaspora, who filled iconic 70K capacity Wembley Stadium to the brim, on a bitterly cold winter’s day, PM Modi standing side by side with then British PM David Cameron; that dented British Indians traditional loyalty to Labour Party.
Last week’s one sided resolution on Kashmir at Labour Party conference, abandoning traditional neutrality has shaken British Indians’ faith in Labour, their sympathy will now move either to Conservatives or to LibDem, under their newly elected dynamic, popular leader Joe Swenson.
If Labour Party comes to power after Brexit, when election is already hovering on the horizon, it will need goodwill of every major non EU trading nation, that include USA, Japan, China, South Korea and India to make Brexit an unmitigated success.
But instead Labour is losing friends fast; relations with India fractured, with USA under President Donald Trump unimaginable, Indian HC cancelling Diwali party for “Labour Friends of India” who failed to raise a finger.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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