Our Sayeeda!

Another excellent article from regular contributor JP who discusses Sayeeda Warsi's meteoric rise through the Tory party ranks, despite her only being a member of the Party for 3 years. A rise completely down to the fact that she's female and muslim. Swings and roundabouts I suppose. No wonder the local Tory councillors are sulking!

Our Sayeeda

Go on, admit it - it makes you feel proud, doesn’t it? Dead proud. Following in the footsteps of Betty Boothroyd, another Dewsbury lass has made it big in politics: Arise Baroness Warsi of Warren Street (Savile Town).

There must be summat in t’Dewsbury water – eh Sayeeda?

Crowned life peer by Dave hug-a-hoody Cameron for her services to (to what exactly)…, Baroness Warsi (sic) is now a member of the shadow cabinet with special responsibility for community cohesion. If anyone can mend our broken society Baroness Warsi can.

However it was a shame that Sayeeda opted for the tradesman’s entrance rather than putting herself to the test via a general election. But no doubt she’s still smarting from the hiding she got last time care of Shahid (the martyr) Malik, Dewsbury’s discredited Labour MP. Then again if you can march straight into office without bothering to go through the electoral process just because you know people in high places… networking comes naturally to Sayeeda. Well naturally!

Baroness Warsi explained her reluctance to take on Malik at the next election thus, “There are people out there (i.e. Dewsbury Tory voters) who could not handle two ethnic minority candidates.” Our Sayeeda is “fiercely proud of her home town” (i.e. Dewsbury) and she felt that two ethnic minority candidates “…would lead to an increase in the Dewsbury vote, and I don’t want that for Dewsbury.” Selfless to the end, that’s Sayeeda.
But I get the feeling the baroness isn’t being straight with us. Although she implies that she made the decision not to stand, the reality is that local Tories told her that they’d stand a greater chance of winning the Dewsbury constituency if their candidate was white! Their argument was that “…Dewsbury and Mirfield voters did not want two ethnic minority candidates pitched against each other so soon after the bitter campaign of 2005.”

Presumably Sayeeda felt adequately compensated by Dave’s offer of a life peerage. So much for principle!

Interesting isn’t it that Sayeeda should go along with what is after all a ‘racist analysis’ for it suggests that white voters vote according to the race of the candidate. Yet our Sayeeda makes great play of her forthrightness. True to her Yorkshire roots (sic) she likes to call a spade a spade or a shovel even, and she ‘…says what she thinks even if it conflicts with policy.’ Sayeeda pulls no punches, “It is about time people were open and honest about what is going on,” she says. One wonders why then she’s not ‘open and honest about what’s going on’ – oh yes I forgot, that life peerage…

The Baroness is “…bursting with ideas on how to bring together communities,” but curiously she doesn’t tell us what those ideas are. My guess is she’s planning coffee and (halal) cakes mornings at the Markazi mosque in Savile Town.

But exactly what sort of a Conservative is Sayeeda? What exactly is it that she wants to conserve?

”Sayeeda has always been politically involved from her early college days when she was elected as the Vice President of the Student Union. She was
also instrumental in the launch of Operation Black Vote in West Yorkshire in 1996.
She has always had a keen interest in racial justice issues. For many years she
was an executive member of the Kirklees Racial Equality Council. She is also a
member of the extreme left wing Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust's Racial Justice Committee and regularly represents them at national conferences.
Sayeeda was born in Dewsbury in 1971 and was educated at Birkdale High School
and Dewsbury College, and then the University of Leeds where she read Law (LLB).
She attended the York College of Law to complete her Legal Practice Course and
trained both with the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office Immigration Department. Prior to her elevation to the Lords she was an immigration lawyer helping her fellow immigrants to secure their 'rightful' presence in our country.”

And according to an article she penned for the Asian newspaper Awaaz, Sayeeda argued that the tightening of anti-terrorist legislation has turned Britain into a ‘police state’. She went on to say that the anti-terror proposals were, “…enough to tip any normal young man into the reals of a radicalised fanatic.” It’s not their fault that they want to murder ordinary British people in their pursuit of a world-wide Islamic state, it’s our fault for opposing them.

Some Tory eh?

Read about 'our' Sayeeda here