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   hope
   Member

   His voting record is very bad. Considered to be the most obedient on Party line.
   This week we saw a vistit by Tony Blair in his constituency, this is in bad taste, considering there is a large muslim population.
   Harrow and Brent Labour this week have a full page advert with support Narendra Modi responsible of Muslim massacre in Gujarat, This is to get the large Hindu/Gurati population support.

   We have other options to vote the conservative or Lib-Dem candidate in Harrow West.

   both the BMI and Salaam are backing Gareth Thomas. We need to know the reasoning for this ,as most msulims aware of Harrow politics want him kicked out.

   ps. there are some post about Gareth in the Harrow East forum, which should be here

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Knight
   Member

   Hope _ inform BMI why they should not suppoort Gareth . by the way did you know old Blair is charging the Labour Party for his appearnce at the election

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Concerned
   Member

   Who else is a better candidate? Rachel Joyce who doesn't feel she can help the Muslim community?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   hope
   Member

   Concerned - "Rachel Joyce who doesn't feel she can help the Muslim community?"
   why do you say that. I and several people have met her and she has pledged her support. She seems genuine etc. we can never be sure how she will behave if elected, but I know for sure Gareth will not, as he will never ever, challange his party line.
   I say this after lobbying him for several years. If muslims want their views to be heard and taken seriously, we need to kick out MP's who do not support us, or even reduce their majority and they realise this was done by the muslim vote.
   The new MP will then take our views seriously as they would understand that we can vote them out. In Harrow West the muslim vote is big enough to swing the vote from Labour.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   concernedvoter
   Member

   well actually if you must know, rachel joyce has been backing Tamil Tiger sympathisers and has had no answers when queries about engaging with the MCB for example. couple of people who also met her have felt that she has no idea about what the Conservative central office is saying vis-a-vis engagement with the muslim community

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   hope
   Member

   I am aware She has made a statement that the Srilankan govt perperated genocide on the Tamils and may be backing LTTE sympathisers. Her stance is completely unacceptable.
   She has been lobbied by the Tamils for several months and has only heard their side of the story. We have met her about this issue and she will listen, but it will take time considering she has only heard one side for months. She is off course new and green. On many isssues her views do tick a lot of the boxes. Her answers about MCB were satisfactory. She has assured us that she will not tow the party line, obviously we don't know if this would change with the party pressures. we need to back "good" candidates first, as they can have an influence in their party. The other option of having Gareth for another term would mean muslims views not being heard in parliament. Just see his voting record and questions in parliament over the last 10 years.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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