ZARAH NO COMMENT

Zarah Sultana is whipping up a mob against Reform UK

Zarah Sultana is not normally shy.  Her almost screeching tones can be heard regularly on the floor of the Commons, usually involving rhetoric around Palestine and immigrants.  However, it seems that Coventry's finest can dish it out, but she cannot take return fire.

Zarah is presently involved in organising a demonstration in Birmingham at the end of this month.  Her protest appears to be aimed at silencing Labour's political opponents in Reform UK.  In various social media posts and an official event page hosted by a far left group, Zarah declares that Reform's 'division' must be rejected.  'Join the fightback', she wrote in multiple posts on both Facebook and X, while she compared Reform to the BNP and National Front in a post on Instagram.  The venue for this event is less than two miles away from what is billed as Reform's largest conference yet.  Zarah's get together - which will include speeches from her fellow currently suspended Labour comrades Apsana Begum and John McDonnell - takes place in the evening, presumably after the Reform event has been picketed by the mob.

While Zarah is not a Birmingham MP, it is her home town, and she appears dead set on organising as big a crowd as possible to intimidate and disrupt Reform's conference.  Her Coventry constituency includes the university and a large Muslim population, so she will undoubtedly be bringing a significant number of her constituents along for the short journey between the two Midland cities.  Then of course there is Birmingham's own student population, in addition to its much larger Muslim population, from which Ms Sultana hails.  She is clearly hoping to emulate the mob that turned up at a Reform conference in Cornwall last month, in which attendees had to run the gauntlet of masked thugs who were screaming insults and fighting with police.  Many Reform members turned back, fearing for their safety, essentially giving in to the primary aim of the mob.

Sultana's post on Instagram

Shortly after announcing her vanity project last month, Zarah saw fit to extinguish even more voices.  She joined a long list of Labour politicians and activists to have disabled comments on their social media.  There is only one reason they take such draconian action, and that is pushback received.  If she had expected Reform activists and voters to sit back and merely accept her fascistic approach towards them, she was clearly mistaken.  Prominent X users waded in on her anti-democratic posts, including then Reform MP Rupert Lowe.

Instead of ignoring or perhaps engaging with her detractors, many of whom drew on traditional working class concerns such as rape gangs, mass immigration and Islamism, Zarah decided to pull the plug altogether on X user comments.  Her block remains in place at the time of the writing, although her Facebook and Instagram pages remain open to comments (for now).

Poor Zarah, she can hand out insults to millions of voters, but she cannot take it when they answer back!