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Britain’s left-wing government has blocked a law seeking to outlaw first-cousin marriages.
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.
Holden explained:
The Government today blocked any further consideration of the prohibition of 1st Cousin Marriages Bill.
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 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.
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.
The Government today blocked any further consideration of the prohibition of 1st Cousin Marriages Bill
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
— Richard Holden MP (@RicHolden) January 17, 2025
While marriages between cousins are common among many religious and ethnic groups, they are particularly prevalent among Britain’s large Muslim community due to religious permissibility, cultural traditions, and a desire to preserve family unity.
Yet, as well as social stigma among wider society, breeding between cousins leads to a highly elevated risk of genetic disorders and physical weakness.
Last month, a far-left independent Muslim MP spoke out against the proposal, saying that he did not want to “empower the state to ban adults from marrying each other not least because I don’t think it would be effective or enforceable”.
“The reason the practice is so common is that ordinary people see family inter-marriage overall as something that is very positive, something that helps build family bonds and helps put families on a more secure financial foothold.”
MP Iqbal Hussain Mohamed defending cousin marriage. pic.twitter.com/kOwAP4SNhi
— SL (@Steve_Laws_) December 10, 2024
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