Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy

The ideology of radical Islam is dominated ever more of the civil landscape that was Britain’s Judeo-Christian culture and tradition. 

The next Government needs to prioritise in legislation the protection of Britian against radical Islam, especially the sinister and growing grip of anti-Semitism which has been made worse by widespread misinformation about the conflict between Israel and Hamas, promoted particularly by the militant left.  

As a consequence, British Jews record feeling less safe now than at any time in living memory. Britain’s current left-wing parties are doing little to combat this — at worst, they effectively encourage Jew-hate. This is especially true within the more extreme branches of left-wing politics, largely an Islamist-appeasing militant coalition of Green Party and Muslim Independents. 

Compounding this is a Labour Party that is increasingly disinterested in tackling some of the most urgent associated problems. The Muslim grooming gangs scandal, across mainly traditionally Labour wards, is the worst example, as the Government is slowly dragged by the Conservatives and Reform UK to finally accept an inquiry. 

In addition to rising anti-Semitic violence, two other areas must be urgently addressed if the next Government is to combat rising radical Islam: family-based voting — a threat to British democracy and freedom of speech — and the Government’s tacit support for polygamy in the form of increased welfare payments. This latter problem is liable to essentially endorse people trafficking through forced marriages. 

The recent Gorton and Denton by-election was an inflection point. Independent election observers Democracy Volunteers raised concerns in Gorton and Denton, reporting instances of family voting across multiple polling stations. In 2022, the group reported up to 5% of voters engaging in family voting, 85% of whom were women from Asian families.

Reform UK reported their observations in Gorton and Denton to Greater Manchester Police; in 2022 the previous Conservative government made some attempt to combat the practice, including pushing the Electoral Commission to prioritise the issue of family voting. 

Labour has now vowed to scrap these measures. Sir James Cleverly, the shadow communities secretary, has said: “Off the back of a by-election marked by allegations of breaches of electoral law, this Labour Government is now going soft on electoral fraud as part of a wider lurch to the sectarian Left”. 

The next government must ensure that toughened Electoral Commission guidance is enforced, support independent observers like Democracy Volunteers to increase fair election monitoring, spread awareness and education in wards with high Muslim demographic, improve polling station and voter booth infrastructure to afford voters greater levels of privacy and introduce much tougher sentencing for offenders, with special tribunals and very public naming and shaming. 

Fundamentally the Electoral Commission must get serious targeting Islamic dominated wards and districts for heavy observation, rather than the government relying on misguided blanket national policies such as national ID. 

Separately, it was recently revealed that the Department for Work and Pensions has since April 2026 increased the benefits paid out to households in polygamous marriages. Whilst illegal under British law, polygamous marriages are common amongst any African and Asian cultures, and under sharia law. 

Monogamy is one of the Judeo-Christian world’s great advantages, and created a family structure that has been a massive developmental advantage for western societies. This is now being eroded, not simply from imported Islamic tradition, but by the British Government itself. 

Under a Central Tribunal system to handle the deportations of illegal migrants, failed asylum seekers, and foreign criminals from Britain, there must also be a special tribunal established for individuals engaged in polygamous marriages. 

Whilst there are estimates of up to 20,000 polygamous marriages, this goes to a much deeper concern; a 2024 poll discovered that up to 32% of all British Muslims were in favour of sharia law. This level of support by British Muslims for sharia law – let alone by its foreign agents on UK soil – is one of the root causes for much of the sectarian strife we are witnessing unfold on our streets. 

The next government must go further than any before it and ban sharia courts which operate across British towns and cities, with stringent penalties, whilst also naming and shaming Islamist charities which support these courts and their ideologies. 

Last week’s King’s Speech may have one or two green shoots for legislative progress. The Tackling State Threats Bill gives the Home Secretary the power to ban organisations that are part of other countries’ state apparatus, in the same way that terrorist groups can be proscribed. 

Roughly a dozen mosques in the UK are estimated to be directly controlled or managed by networks associated with the Muslim Brotherhood

The next Government must use this power to once and for all proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood. Labour is unlikely to do this, despite the Brotherhood being the ideological root of Hamas. Operating behind the scenes through allied charities, student networks, and mosques, the Brotherhood wields heavy influence on British streets. Roughly a dozen mosques in the UK are estimated to be directly controlled or managed by networks associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. 

The King’s Speech also amended the National Security Bill, which criminalises sharing material that “glorifies, trivialises, or normalises” serious violence. This should be used to clamp down on hateful material emanating from mosques and charities which fuel Jew-hate and violence. 

Much of this — especially deportations — is only possible once Britain leaves the ECHR. Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have already committed to this long-overdue action. Without this sense of urgency, and preparation, expect the march of Islamisation to roll on.