Mr Hawkes. I find it interesting in a way because diluting the Labour vote and possibly letting in a Conservative or Reform candidate would be unlikely to assist their cause, whatever one thinks of that cause. My guess is the voters are mainly second or third generation Muslim immigrants - so British and hence living in the UK, perhaps never visited the countries of their parentor grandparents? - just looking at the dead, wounded and impoverished women, children and elderly men in Gaza irrespective of the broader rights and wrong. Anyway, I doubt whether recent immigrants would have the right to vote in a UK general election. (It's different to the Windrush period when immigrants from the old Empire came here with existing British nationality. Also, I know EU citizens with Settled Status who have lived here and paid taxes for years but who can't vote in UK General Elections.) I think, as has been noted before, the problem is the Israeli government has lost the PR exercise; my perception is that's largely because Netanyahu and some of his cohorts come across as ruthless, unsympathetic, untrustworthy characters, and many Israelis seem to dislike them?
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