https://thecritic.co.uk/biraderi-networks-are-transforming-local-politics/
But it is not the length of the road journeys alone that has inspired this letter. One of the signatories, Tahir Ali, MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, spoke about the airport in a video. He stressed its importance, not as a logistical improvement, but as a way to preserve the connection between the Kashmiri diaspora in Britain and what he called the “motherland”.
It is easy to look at this letter by MPs and conclude that it is a secondary effect of immigration. Of course it is — but that belies the complexity of the relationship between diaspora and “motherland”, the regularity of contact and the increasing importance issues in South Asia will have on British politics as the size of the diaspora increases.
As noted multiculturalism understander Chris Bayliss has written in these most august pages, the establishment seems remarkably incurious about what multiculturalism might mean — including for how it might affect our democracy. British democracy is unused to the influence of clannishness like this, and it is dangerously ill-equipped to deal with it. Will it be an improvement? Given the tremendous standard of governing it has produced in Bangladesh and Pakistan, it seems unlikely.
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