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UK Local Elections: Muslim Vote to Destroy Labour Strongholds
- A Radical Dispatch
1) How British Muslims Will Vote
Nationwide local council elections take place in the Britain tomorrow. Keir Starmer’s Labour party are set for a uniquely damaging local defeat, enabling for the first time the rise of an alternative left wing vote in the Greens from Labour strongholds, and an alternative right wing vote in Reform from Labour’s northern Red Wall.
It is true that the Conservatives too are likely to suffer major local losses to Farage’s Reform Party, but they are currently in opposition. It will sting most for Labour and may even trigger a new leadership contest against Starmer once the dust settles.
As Radical Media stated as soon as Starmer won his General Election in 2024, in sheer vote terms Labour’s win was one of the most narrowest in British history. Many individual seats were won by extremely thin margins in each constituency. So though this looked like a landslide in terms of Parliamentary-seats won, each seat was propped up by a razor thin margin. The swing against Labour in each of those seats was driven by disaffected British Muslims who had finally abandoned their traditional Labour base.
These marginal British Muslim voters have not stopped abandoning Labour since 2024. They are primarily dissatisfied over Starmer’s perceived tolerance for Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And though it will not yet impact Labour’s parliamentary majority, marginal British Muslim voters will make a huge impact on Labour’s prospects in these coming local elections.
The Times reports 4th May 2026:
“The war in Gaza ranks above the economy in determining how Muslim voters will cast their ballots at this week’s local elections, according to polling. A quarter of Muslim voters in key battleground areas said the conflict would determine their vote — a greater proportion than those who said the economy, housing, healthcare or crime would be the deciding factor — compared to only 5 per cent of the public overall. The survey, conducted by JL Partners for the think tank Policy Exchange, suggests the war in Gaza is driving a sharp shift away from mainstream parties and towards smaller parties and independent candidates….
…Across all voters, the cost of living remains the dominant issue, with Muslim respondents ranking economic concerns, education and welfare similarly to the wider electorate. However, the conflict in Gaza ranked above the economy, housing, healthcare and crime among Muslim voters when asked which issues would determine their vote…
…The poll also found strong support among Muslims for policies linked to the conflict. Nearly half wanted to ban Israeli-built technology from the NHS, while 59 per cent supported increasing income tax by 1p in the pound to fund reconstruction in Gaza.”
To caveat here, the same survey cited by the Times above did qualify this anti-Israel sentiment by indicating that the majority of British Muslims do not support severing all ties with Israel. But still, and as is clear, the sentiment to cut ties completely is still rather strong.
For the above reasons, marginal British Muslim voters will likely ditch Labour en masse in favour of the Greens or independents.
The Times reports 4th May 2026:
“Three in five Muslim voters said they would consider backing pro-Gaza independent candidates to prevent Labour winning locally, while nearly half would consider supporting the Green Party to do so.”
And the Gaza conflict has been the primary driver.
The Times reports 4th May 2026:
“Labour’s support among Muslim voters has fallen sharply since the last general election, dropping from 41 per cent in 2024 to 33 per cent now, while the Greens have risen from 18 per cent to 27 per cent. Support for independent pro-Gaza candidates stands at 14 per cent. The polling suggests that Labour is now as unpopular among some Muslim voters as the Conservatives and Reform UK, with similar numbers willing to vote tactically to block each party.”
With the Labour party looking like it is completely lost any future prospects of recovery due to haemorrhaging so many young voters.
The Times reports 4th May 2026:
“Based on a survey of 1,006 British Muslims in areas including Greater London, the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, the poll suggests that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driving this shift, particularly among younger voters. Among Muslim respondents aged 18 to 24, pro-Gaza independents were the most popular choice, with support rising to nearly three in ten, and younger voters were significantly less likely to back Labour than older people.”
The full survey by JL Partners can be found here.
J.L. Partners reports 5th May 2026:
2) British Muslim Voters Will Destroy Labour Strongholds
One of the more interesting aspects of this recent poll is the finding that it will be disaffected British Muslim voters who make the critical difference in ensuring a major Labour defeat.
The Times reports 4th May 2026:
“Dr Rakib Ehsan, the report’s author, said the data suggested that Labour faced ‘further punishment’ from Muslim voters at the local elections, with gains likely for independent candidates and the Greens in areas with large Muslim populations.”
The Daily Mail followed this headline too.
The Daily Mail reports 4th May 2026:
This aspect is good news for those who oppose Starmer’s Labour. It should be welcomed.
As regular readers will recall, Radical Media already forecasted this very aspect two years ago, immediately after Keir Starmer’s 2024 General Election win.
Radical Media reports 11th July 2024:
And we published a clip back then depicting Starmer being asked about Muslim voters finally becoming divorced from Labour.
Click to play:
Journalist: “Prime Minister, you secured a significant landslide in the general election but in areas where there’s a high Muslim population, Labour either lost seats or had their vote share slashed. Do you accept that there’s a problem with the relationship between the Labour party and British Muslims at the moment?”
PM Starmer: “Well the first thing I’d say is this, that very many people voted Labour in that general election who’ve never voted Labour before. So we now hold seats in parts of the country that have never had a Labour MP. So this is an incredibly strong mandate. Of course, wherever we weren’t able to secure votes, I’m concerned about that. But this is a clear mandate for change, for renewal, for a different way of doing politics and a return of politics to service. The days of self-entitlement and self-interest are over. And I’m really pleased to put a strong team on the pitch to start our work and to be completing here in Wales my visits to Scotland, to Northern Ireland and Wales, which is about resetting their relationship.”
Journalist: “But what about the issue with British Muslims? Trust has clearly broken down there. The election results show that. What are you going to do to try and rebuild it?”
Starmer: “Well, we’ve got a strong mandate, of course, where we didn’t secure the votes. We’ll address that. But I don’t think there’s any disputing the strength of the mandate that we have and that it’s a mandate for change, for renewal and for politics as public service.”
Contrary to Starmer’s filibustering, such a historic breakdown in trust among a core Labour voter-base will not be easy to fix at all. The roots of this disaffection go deeper than Gaza.
This is a great unanchoring of British Muslims from Labour, just as Brexit served as a great unanchoring of white working class voters from Labour.
The below thread, again from our Radical Dispatch two years ago, made the point well.
Radical Media reports 11th July 2024:
3) Starmer Will Lose Red Wall Again
It is not just unanchored marginal British Muslim voters in Labour safe seats afflicting a loss in favour of the Greens or Independents that Labour has to worry about. Starmer is also about to lose most of his Red Wall seats to Reform.
By winning back 37 of 38 identified Red Wall seats in the Midlands and North of England from voters who had previously switched to the Conservatives, Starmer’s Labour successfully rebuilt the Red Wall during the 2024 general election, reversing the losses suffered in 2019.
Now he will lose them again. This time these economically left but socially conservative Red Wall voters will go to Nigel Farage’s Reform. The reasons for this primarily revolve around identity, integration and immigration.
Farage knows very well how to ensure this happens.
Click to play:
Reform Leader Nigel Farage: “I’m in Essex today, and…you might remember these scenes being on national news last year. Anyone that comes illegally into Britain on a boat or in the back of a lorry will be detained and deported. But that’s going to mean having to detain quite a lot of people who were here already. They should not be free to walk the streets. Policy is very simple. You vote for a Reform MP, you will not have a detention facility in your constituency. But if you vote Green, or those that support open borders in the world, that’s where the detention centres are going to be. Equally, I could say the same, of Labour and the Conservatives, because they’ve done nothing to stop it. And what you’ll get with this policy, you’ll get what you vote for.”
Those who complain about this policy have taken the bait. If open migration to Britain is acceptable, why would holding migration centres in your constituency be a bad thing?
This switch away from Labour in the Red Wall will not only concern immigration, but also be linked to immigration’s perceived social ills, such as violent and sexual crime. With this in mind, Starmer’s incompetence in dealing with historic and current child sex abuse scandals will cause him severe damage in these elections.
Again, we forecasted this two years ago in Radical Media while national columnists were still writing sycophantically disgusting planted pieces about Starmer’s alleged aphrodisiac qualities.
Radical Media reports 11th July 2024:
Fast forward to this year, and Lord Mandelson’s relationship to Epstein is now public knowledge. As is Starmer’s complicity in appointing Mandelson as the British ambassador to the UK.
Radical Media reports 5th February 2026:
Time is vindicating. This is a topic that will haunt Starmer to his grave, as we made clear in a recent podcast with Ellie McKay.
Click to play:
Maajid Nawaz for the Ellie On a Mission Podcast:
"They had evidence of the suspect's DNA on the victim's underwear, and yet still Keir Starmer shut down the case. The same Keir Starmer, who was head of Crown Prosecution Service, shut down the investigation into Jimmy Savile. As DPP, Director of Public Prosecutions, they chose not to prosecute Jimmy Savile. And that same team chose not to prosecute the grooming gang scandal."
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4) British Muslims: Islam & Islamism
Though the unanchoring from Labour by marginal British Muslim voters should be welcomed, as it makes an eventual Labour General Election loss much more likely, it does also come with a concerning element about what many of these British Muslims believe. The answer is more worrying, as explained below…
