Interview:
Shokat Dar:
Former Mayor of Hounslow, senior political figure and businessman Nisar Malik said in an exclusive interview with “The London Post” that my former political party, Labour, is no longer what it used to be. It used to be a party of the common and middle class. Especially immigrants used to vote for this party because due to soft immigration, Labour was also considered a party of immigrants, which was true to some extent. He expressed regret and said that today the situation is that the Home Secretary of the Labour Party, Shabana Mahmood, is standing in Parliament and saying that those people who come to Britain from the Third World or Pakistan, those who sell their mothers and sisters’ jewellery, will not be treated as before, but now the British system will “play” with them. There will be no mercy for these people. Nisar Malik added that, guess what kind of talk is being made by a Pakistani-origin Home Secretary who is insulting Pakistanis and has also forgotten how her parents came to this country?
He said that is why I have now left the Labour Party. Anyway, like other countries in the world, large-scale political changes are taking place in Britain and world politics is changing. The people in the UK are now getting fed up with the two-party system.
Nisar Malik, while discussing the war situation in Gaza and Ukraine, said that the policies adopted by the ruling Labour Party on immigration, taxes, benefit cuts and Gaza have also been rejected by the British people, and these are also major reasons for the people’s distance from Labour. He said that the role of the British media in the Gaza issue has also remained one-sided because the media did not talk about Gaza in the way it is happening in Ukraine. Nisar Malik said that I have written a lot about it on my social media that the people of Gaza are being severely oppressed. He said that one example of distance from Labour is that many councillors in Hounslow have left Labour and joined the Tory Party.
