Britain’s left-wing government has blocked a law seeking to outlaw first-cousin marriages, a move critics have slammed as appeasement for Muslim voters.
TPV: As pressure grows on Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his government’s refusal to fully investigate the grooming gangs scandal in which mainly Pakistani men were allowed to groom young white girls, the Labour Party is seeking to shore up ties with their Islamic voting base.
Conservative MP Richard Holden, who proposed the legislation, wrote on the X platform that Labour has blocked any further advancement of his 1st Cousin Marriages Bill, which would outlaw marriages between first cousins that are common within Muslim communities.
🚫 The Government today blocked any further consideration of the prohibition of 1st Cousin Marriages Bill 🚫
— Richard Holden MP (@RicHolden) January 17, 2025
🚫 They could have let it progress to committee stage when all the details could be thrashed out but they blocked it 🚫
🚫 Labour will block it progressing on the 25th… pic.twitter.com/sex1zZRCJ2
According to Holden, “[The government] could have let it progress to committee stage when all the details could be thrashed out but they blocked it.”
“Labour will block it progressing on the 25th too and whenever I try and bring it back. It’s sad because it was a Labour MP, Ann Cryer, who raised this issue 20 years ago and was shouted down then.”
Holden explained that he is prepared to accept the abuse by the woke mob for pursuing the legislation because he grew up in the region and he is determined to end the child abuse which has become endemic due to lack of action by authorities more concerned with political correctness than child safety.
“People will get off on calling me names but I grew up in the Pennine mill towns and I don’t want to see the children of the kids I grew up amongst going through this for another generation.”
“Thank you to the brave people who’ve reached out to me who are part of the communities where this is prevalent and who hate to see certain elements of the establishment continue to enable terrible practices for – at best – fear of causing offence or thinking it’s better to sweep issues under the carpet – or worse, because when the chips are down they simply don’t care, see it as a way of harvesting votes from gatekeepers, or have some screwed up views regarding cultural relativism.”