Looking Towards the Local Elections in West Yorkshire
For the purposes of this article, the main focus is on just four local authority districts in West Yorkshire: Calderdale, Bradford, Wakefield and Kirklees. We will also be taking a quick look at leftist media coverage of sectarian politics on Tyneside.
The evidence is there, but the mainstream news media seeks to ignore it unless they can spin it to fit a multiculturalist agenda. BM Northern region research has looked mainly at wards in Bradford, Batley, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Wakefield and parts of Halifax.
An example of sectarian voting in Batley is well illustrated by the election posters for the Independent candidates. The message is clearly aimed at the Pakistani colonised wards and the claim that “Labour has failed Batley”, a surprising claim given that across wards in Batley, Dewsbury and Ravensthorpe, the Labour Party has for years been represented by Asian councillors. Now this pattern is being broken, and there are also candidates standing under the title of ‘Community Alliance Kirklees’ in Dewsbury.
In Calderdale, this appears to be restricted to wards in Halifax, but it is noted that there are also a couple of candidates for the Workers Party of Britain (usually linked to George Galloway) standing in Calderdale.
Likewise, in certain districts of Wakefield, there are those candidates with Asian names standing as just ‘Independent’ candidates, but others standing as ‘Local Unity Independent Candidates’.
In Bradford the situation is such that BM Northern were informed by a person who was present when the potential candidates were registering for the local elections, that would-be Asian/Pakistani ‘Independent’ candidates were openly declaring their disdain for the Labour Party, their hatred of Sir Keir Starmer, and they boasted that they would ‘clean up’ the election in all the Asian dominated wards once held by Labour.
Although this article is primarily focussed on just those specific council districts in West Yorkshire, a quick look over other areas in South Yorkshire, principally certain wards in Sheffield and Rotherham, show signs of sectarian voting, but also look back up to Leeds where the deputy leader of the Green Party, Mothin Ali is already established as a councillor for Harehills and Gipton ward of the city. Readers of this website might well remember our coverage of his notorious outdoor acceptance speech in 2024, where he called his election a “Victory for the people of Gaza” and rounded off the event with a loud call of “Alahu Akbar!”
All the signs are there of the Labour Party losing its support amongst Asian communities, where the shift now is towards voting for the Green Party or so-called ‘Independent’ or ‘Gaza’ candidates.
As this website has argued before, British politics is starting to fracture, and in the ‘diverse’ post-industrial conurbations, the Asian voters are consolidating their grip on local politics and White British residents of those dominated areas can expect to be marginalised or ignored. By no means are all the independent candidates in the West Yorkshire region standing on behalf of sectarian or Islamic interests, some are just White British individuals keen to stand for election, but not aligned to any specific mainstream political party.
The British Movement Northern region editorial team is well aware that other council elections across the North of England are going to be impacted by the increasing number of Islamist independent candidates and Asian Muslims standing for the Green Party. We can expect to see plenty of evidence of sectarian politics in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, although less so on Merseyside and most parts of Cheshire.
However, the national mainstream media appears to be taking a different position; most newspapers are ignoring the obvious ethnic shift away from the Labour Party and the growing element of sectarian politics.
As stated earlier in this article, the focus is on the local elections in West Yorkshire, particularly on those councils and wards which have been heavily colonised by Asian, mostly Pakistani, specifically Kashmiri families and clans, or Bangladeshis. So it came as something of a surprise to see the unexpected article spread in the ‘Guardian’ newspaper on Saturday, April 11th 2026, which set its focus on the Muslim candidates for the Green Party standing in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The city is usually not the first location to spring to mind when discussing Muslim voters in Northern England, but this article certainly lifted the lid on the subject, although the ‘Guardian’, as a ‘progressive’ liberal/left-wing newspaper, was full of approval of what is happening there.
The Guardian article was written by an obviously Asian, female journalist, Aamna Mohdin, described as a “Community affairs correspondent”, so the political perspective was going to be obvious. It is worth taking a quick look at some extracts from that Guardian article to see if what is happening on Tyneside reflects what is happening in West Yorkshire.
“Not just about Gaza: the Muslim voters turning from Labour to the Greens.”
Aamna Mohdin, Community affairs correspondent
“Campaigning in Newcastle before next month’s local elections shows the rise of the far right, the climate and cost of living are concerning voters as much as the Middle East.
“Mohammed Suleman, a self-described “straight-talking Geordie”, doesn’t love politics. The taxi driver and businessman prefers to focus on community initiatives. But when the time came, he voted Labour as the lesser of two evils. Then came the war in Gaza. Suleman was speaking before heading out canvassing in Arthur’s Hill, to the west of Newcastle.”
The city is often described as segregated: a white working-class east and a more diverse west. Seriously! Mohammed Suleman is a “straight-talking Geordie”! How can somebody who is a first-generation immigrant from Bangladesh, who considers himself to be a ‘British Muslim’ be described as a ‘Geordie’? So by the same twisted logic, a Bangladeshi in the East End of London is a ‘Cockney’?
The rest of the article continued in the same leftist vein and was fulsome in its praise of the ‘diversity’ and multiculturalism in the west wards of Newcastle.
Misinformation or disinformation?
The Guardian is frequently critical of so-called ‘Far-Right’ political statements and social media content, but in this article on the political shift on Tyneside, it seems that far-Left political misinformation was OK. The article claimed that many Asian Muslim voters were unsettled by the recent patriotic flag campaigns.
In addition, the article made this reference to the events in 2024, which followed the horrors of Southport: “The 2024 summer racist riots, where mosques were attacked, asylum hotels burned down, hijab-wearing women assaulted, and men dragged out of their car by baying mobs…”
Strange, that this alleged level of mob violence was not reflected in the courts, and it is a matter of record that in the 2024 riots after the Southport atrocity, no asylum hotels were actually burned down.
So sectarian politics is taking hold in the North of England, and we can be sure that similar patterns will be repeated in parts of the Midlands and certainly in the most diverse districts of Greater London.
British politics at local level is fracturing, and it will be interesting to see what impact it has on national politics. Whatever else happens, it is a realisation of what BM and other British racial Nationalist organisations have been predicting would happen as a result of mass immigration. And these are only the beginnings of the breakdowns in communities yet to come. Britain Awake!
Credits:
Main Image: BM Yorkshire. An election poster in Batley, West Yorkshire.
The British Movement welcomes articles for possible inclusion on this site from members and supporters across the North of England. Please remember that we have to operate within the laws of this country; we will not include any content that is against the current laws of the United Kingdom. News reports should be topical and relevant to the regions covered by this website.
