2005 UK General Elections

Re: # 31

BNP ..got 14000 votes in Birmingham alone..thats saying alot. Your right Saj, this divide among the British Asian community is not going to let them excel. There is no concept of South Asian identity which is very sad, as they hardly make up even 4% of the population as a whole.

Re: # 27

Theo Van Gogh

Why are you so hell-bent on singling out one religion, ethnicity, cultural background, namely the Muslim Pakistani community and puking all your racist hatred upon it ? What has furnished in you all this ill-feeling toward Muslims ? Are you in this forum to make a positive contribution or merely polemicize anger and prejudice ? My suspicions lean towards the verity that you are merely a rabble-rouser and like to stir trouble, as others in this forum have suggested.

It is due to biased one-sided prejudices like yours that Asians in Britain are in schism. If you so ardently advocate a multicultural template, as you do in one of your previous interacts, then why demonize it by being a trouble-maker ?

Re: # 8

Did any of you bother to read the manisfesto`s before voting??

Liberal Democrat had a very good chance of securing more votes, but i feel they didnt campaign strong enough. If they had any chance of getting more seats in the parliament then it was now, but Charles was too busy attending to his baby...

Respect party didn`t just do well in Birmingham but what about George Galloway...him knocking out Oona King proved....dirty politics is the only way to go.
Conservatives lost out to Lib Dem in Solihull Constituency for the first time since 1945 that`s when Solihull actually became a constituency..now thats Sayin something.Glad to see my vote Did Count!!...it made HISTORY!!

By the way great article....Lib Dem got 62 seats though..not 56.

MI-6 has manipulated the elections and only those candidates have won that are either evangilists or have evangilist leanings.

Re: # 28

Cayenne

Another feather in the cap to Mittal Steel, at the helm of it Britain`s most affluent magnet. With an ``official`` net worth of $2.2 bil surely if this country were in the pits, as you so sorely suggest, then why would Lakshmi and Usha Mittal still be here ? You are a living paradox. Yet again contradicting yourself.

Surely the fact that ``some`` South Asians are towering like minarets in Britain is a salutory emblem of their hard work and enterprise. I think for once we both concur: deservedly so.

My firm helped organise Amit Bhatia and Vanisha Mittal`s wedding in Versailles. Renu and Arun Bhatia were up-to-the minute and exemplary. The wedding extravaganza took six-day long, which saw over 1000 guests, ceremoniously concluding at the Grand Intercontinental in Paris.

Re: # 35

Syke,

Merci beaucoup for the statistical correction on the Lib Dem vote numbers. By the way what is your take on Galloway`s anti-war stance ? Dirty politics, but sometimes means do justify the ends ?

As for Charles Kennedy Junior well the apple never falls far from the tree...who knows maybe in a generation`s time he churns out more effectively an evolution that his dad kindled ?

#22 by ozerkhalid on May 8, 2005 10:04pm PT

No..It`s a tinge of interests of Islamic ummah over the most obvious thing i.e. your own welfare...

Do you disagree with the basic point: That Pakis lag behind hindus and sikhs(and chinese) in most fields and yet their number one issue is the war in iraq or the jihad in kashmir....

Don`t you see a cause/effect? Maybe pakis lag behind because they focus too much on the pan-Islamic causes?

Re: # 16

Arjun

Truth be told the most famous Pakistani in Britain by far is Sir Anwar Pervaiz, a savyy businessman who went from rags to riches and stands as an exemplary benchmark for all South Asian aspirants on these shores.

#29 by Saj1981 on May 9, 2005 6:02am PT


then came the breakdown into various national groupings....and the last 5-6 years especially has seen the rise of breaking down on religious lines...British hindus...sikhs...muslims..etc etc.


why is that surprising....most brit-hindus and sikhs don`t list the war in Iraq or support for jihad in Kashmir as their number one issue....

Re: # 29

Re: # 32

Zakkk and Sajj

Right-wing extremism and xenophobia as both of you poignantly observe, have contemptuously ripened their seeds in Europe. Whilst in the UK inroads have been built for the deplorable BNP anorexics, not too long ago Jean-Marie Le Pen`s Front National nearly took France to an electoral slaughter-house.

Unfortunately this omni-present racial cancer has spread through the European veins far a field. From Italy`s post-fascist National Alliance`s Gianfranco Fini and the Northern League`s Umberto Bossi, to Austria`s far right Freedom Party megalomaniac Joerg Haider.

It is only hoped that forgiving gravitational forces will pull down this torrid tidal wave of anger.

And have it sunk deeper than the Titanic.

Re: # 30

Fuzair

It is noteworthy to observe how you take into account the ``latent`` calculations or ``Machiavellian machinations`` going on behind the scenes, based on pricing parity which reflect more acutely the figures. Cayenne kindly do take note.

Sound analysis by Fuzair.

Re: # 36

Urstruly

Compelling as it may sound, this perhaps is one conspiracy theory taken too far in the case of Britain. The conservative religious-right of Republican penchant hold much more sway across the Atlantic !

#37 by ozerkhalid on May 9, 2005 7:49am PT
Re: # 28

Cayenne
You are a living paradox. Yet again contradicting yourself.

ozerkhalid,

You`re giving me goosebumps talking to me like that!!!!.And, i`ve been in a slump ever since they closed the dance bars in Mumbai.You think i should see my shrink??.

Regards,

cayenne

Re: # 41

Arjun

Of course you would not dream of giving an iota of importance to the thousands of innocent Iraqi mothers and children getting pillaged and slaughtered by foreign troops?
Surely more than a “tinge” of neo-fascism on your part amigo?

Re: # 45

Cayenne,

Point taken with a pinch of salt. Since you do mention the industry i work in, that of night-life/entertainment, any suggestions on the hippest dance clubs in Mumbai ?

ozerkhalid,
It is ok to express concern for the situation in Iraq. But to vote for a party just because of their stand on iraq instead of the things that affect your daily life, is carrying it a bit too far. If I was a Brit, then I would have voted against Tony Blair only if there the British casualities were large, which has not happened.