Heavy use of the social media has created a surge for Birmingham Ladywood candidate Akhmed Yakoob, it seems.
He has been posting heavily on TikTok, to his 195,000 followers, and it seems to be paying off.
Here’s a graph showing an estimate (let’s be fair) of how candidates are standing:
Mr Yakoob is a former West Midlands mayoral candidate who is now standing as an Independent on a pro-Gaza ticket.
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The Mail (of all choices) tells us he
is running as a TikTok-fuelled independent in a fiercely-fought general election battle – following up from pro-Gaza campaigning in the West Midlands mayoral race.
Mr Mahmood has been prolifically posting videos for his 195,000-strong following on social media site TikTok.
And he has made central to his campaign opposition to Israel‘s military crackdown following the terrorist attacks and hostage-taking by Hamas on October 7 last year.
Mr Yakoob has ‘For Gaza‘ printed on his election leaflets and accuses Labour of not doing enough to condemn Israel’s actions and support calls for a ceasefire.
This is important because the incumbent in Birmingham Ladywood is Labour’s shadow justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
In all, there are six candidates standing in the constituency. The others are:
Shazna Muzammil (Conservative Party)
Zoe Challenor (Green Party)
Lee Dargue (Liberal Democrats)
Iren Yoong-Henery (Reform UK)
I’ve said this elsewhere and will repeat it here: if you are a voter in Birmingham Ladywood, This Site urges you to examine carefully each candidate’s election material, coupled with their parties’ manifestos (if they’re in a party and it has one), then work out which individual candidate’s plans coincide most closely with what you, personally, need.
Then vote for that candidate on July 4 (or by postal vote, if you have one, before that date).
Do not pay attention to the party mouthpieces urging you to vote tactically to “keep ——* out”. Tactical voting simply doesn’t work; we have four consecutive Tory election wins in our recent past to demonstrate that.
And it means you would be voting against your own best interests. Don’t do that.
Vote for what you need. How can you expect politicians to make things better if you don’t tell them how?
*Whichever party they think is the greatest threat to their own.
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Social media has created a surge for Birmingham Ladywood candidate Akhmed Yakoob
Heavy use of the social media has created a surge for Birmingham Ladywood candidate Akhmed Yakoob, it seems.
He has been posting heavily on TikTok, to his 195,000 followers, and it seems to be paying off.
Here’s a graph showing an estimate (let’s be fair) of how candidates are standing:
Mr Yakoob is a former West Midlands mayoral candidate who is now standing as an Independent on a pro-Gaza ticket.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
The Mail (of all choices) tells us he
This is important because the incumbent in Birmingham Ladywood is Labour’s shadow justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
In all, there are six candidates standing in the constituency. The others are:
Shazna Muzammil (Conservative Party)
Zoe Challenor (Green Party)
Lee Dargue (Liberal Democrats)
Iren Yoong-Henery (Reform UK)
I’ve said this elsewhere and will repeat it here: if you are a voter in Birmingham Ladywood, This Site urges you to examine carefully each candidate’s election material, coupled with their parties’ manifestos (if they’re in a party and it has one), then work out which individual candidate’s plans coincide most closely with what you, personally, need.
Then vote for that candidate on July 4 (or by postal vote, if you have one, before that date).
Do not pay attention to the party mouthpieces urging you to vote tactically to “keep ——* out”. Tactical voting simply doesn’t work; we have four consecutive Tory election wins in our recent past to demonstrate that.
And it means you would be voting against your own best interests. Don’t do that.
Vote for what you need. How can you expect politicians to make things better if you don’t tell them how?
*Whichever party they think is the greatest threat to their own.
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