Sadiq Khan has given a senior job to a former key activist in a violent pro-migrant group which physically attacks immigration officers and police. Rupinder Parhar was appointed last April as the GLA’s “Head of Equalities” on a salary of £72,500. A surprising choice for the role considering her history…
In 2016, The Times revealed Parhar had a key role (which she did not deny) in Anti-Raids Network (ARN) – a group that encourages violent “resistance” and to “fight” against immigration and police officers enforcing removals of illegal immigrants. The group blasts what it calls the “war of the borders” between “Home Office ‘immigration enforcement teams’,” and “our neighbourhoods“. Some of their leaflets proudly describe how members had “attacked” police arresting an illegal immigrant in south London and how immigration vans had their “tyres slashed” and “windscreen smashed”. Let’s see what Londoners make of that…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”