Shabana Mahmood and the Eff’ing P word

Shabana Mahmood is on a campaign of the News studios and comment pages highlighting her dedication and commitment to ending migration in all its forms in the UK. As of 17th November, Labor is languishing in YouGov polls at 14%. The Labor Party is desperately worried about its poor polling results and is trying to occupy the space being filled by the far right concerning anti-migration policies. Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary, is an example of a first-generation British Asian who has stormed the Citadel and wants to barricade the door behind her. What’s happening to our devout Muslim, God fearing hijab wearing Home Secretary? 

Her speech in the House of Commons last week turned the air blue with insults that she had been called and brought immediate protest from all parties. She said her mother asked her not to swear, but she was very proud of Shabana’s stance on breaking the business model of “bad people who have more money than they should have”. What does this even mean?

There is a corrupt, venal and evil thread that runs through this labor Party. Sir Kier Starmer’s designer eye wears and suits to his French Jewish wife’s designer frocks funded by Lord Ali and undeclared donations from convenient billionaire supporters. Many of whom are rewarded with hefty positions in civil societies of government quango’s. Ministers high life of lowly civil servants salaries and we have to ask how. Somehow, when died in the wool socialists from the party meant to represent the workers unions and the vulnerable and underprivileged partake in rampant corruption the way this Labor Party has been and the way that they’re benefiting and creating laws deliberately designed to other and obliterate whole sections of society, somehow it sticks in the crawl, worse than when the Conservative Party do it.

We come to expect it of them after the shenanigans of Lord Cameron (Chinese wealth fund front man) to the court of King Boris, to which covid restrictions did not apply. Shabana was a terrible Justice Secretary. She never really got two grips with her post and her early release scheme imposed without proper planning, let alone enough probation staff to supervise these newly released prisoners. Prison governors were hopeful she’d give them more autonomy and let them run wild in their personal kingdom, but she failed to grasp the nettle, and instead she imposed her fear of exposure and tendency towards autocracy when she briefed against the sentencing Counsel in their guidance to judges about sentencing reports for particularly vulnerable groups of people facing sentencing. She is good at posture politics, making unfounded comments such as the Constitution of the Sentencing Counsel when she denigrated their sentencing guideline. The sentencing Counsel actually consists of very senior sitting and former high court judges and senior probation officers. They all know more about sentencing and the court than Shabana Mahmood ever will, given her failure to become a barrister, although she claims this is what she always wanted to be. In the speeches requisite mainstream media interviews Shabana Mahmood has been giving recently, something about her psychology and presentation is deeply disturbing. Something has shifted. Her voice has become raspy and difficult to listen to for any length of time. She keeps looking up and to the left, which is a tell for any poker player who’s trying to conceal their cards. She shrieks rather than speaks without any tonality or nuance. Her eyes are hooded and ringed, and no amount of well applied eyeshadow can detract from the haunted, and hunted expression she’s wearing. It’s a sort of reverse Lady Macbeth effect. Shabana is a first-generation migrant born to Pakistani parents. She spoke to Nick Robinson on his podcast last week about how the women in her family, every Muslim woman wearing a hijab and her relatives, are being attacked and the subjects of racist abuse. She says that every Muslim she knows is now worried about racism and persecution. She says it’s her duty as an integrated, born and bred immigrant daughter of England to stop this influx of migrants. But there’s something deeply hypocritical about her stance, when her own parents entered the UK in this way. Less than 4% of migrants enter the UK illegally. She keeps saying she’s going to allow more legal routes, but at present, there are none, except from Hong Kong, the Ukraine and Afghanistan. Shabana Mahmood signed a letter not so long ago, in support of 15 Jamaican criminals against their deportation. The demonization of asylum seekers and weaponizing much needed asylum reform. Using inflammatory rhetoric is not going to fix a deeply flawed and broken asylum system. Shabana Mahmood is a shameful Home Secretary. Whilst the need for reform is essential, the way she’s going about it is frankly disgusting, and will be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, because she knows that England can’t leave the ECHR.

Her ideas fly in the face of so-called British generosity of spirit. Maybe she needs to take a look at herself before she makes any more misguided speeches.

This is an opinion piece by a member of The View.