The Biraderi Takeover of Britain’s Town Halls

When British Councils Answer to Pakistan Instead of the Public

Yesterday I showed you a photograph of a room full of Pakistani men from the mockingly named 'the Oldham Group'. Today, I want to share with you this photograph of Oldham Council leader Arooj Shah meeting with Pakistani Labour politicians and a political delegation flown in from Pakistan. Both images should disturb anyone who cares about democracy in Britain.

Again, look at who's missing. White residents are nowhere to be seen. Other communities who live in Oldham have also been shut out completely. This photograph is more concerning than depicting how ordinary people this council leader supposedly represents absent. I believe it exposes a foreign-aligned network operating inside a British town.

What you're looking at is the infamous biraderi system in action. Pakistani clan-based politics transplanted wholesale into British local government. Extended family hierarchies where political decisions flow through senior individuals from connected clans. These kinship-based loyalty structures systematically exclude outsiders, women, and even Pakistani families from rival networks. British democratic norms are being overridden by Pakistani tribal politics operating under the cover of council meetings.

The consequences are devastating. White residents get barred from these coordination sessions. Other minorities are shut out of clan decision-making. When your local council answers to Pakistani kinship elders rather than British voters, democracy becomes an illusion.

Oldham isn't alone. Across the UK, Pakistani vote-brokering networks have abandoned Labour to build political machines based on clan loyalty structures. These kinship networks are inherently sectarian, creating patronage systems controlled by men whose primary allegiance runs to religious ideology, family hierarchies and Islamist networks spanning Pakistan and Britain. Foreign influence in British elections undermines the foundational principle that representatives should answer to their constituents.

With the rise of the sectarians and Islamists, Labour politicians who built careers on Pakistani postal vote blocs know their time is up. Instead of serving British communities, they're reinforcing these power structures. Which is why council leaders such as Arooj Shah host political delegations from Pakistan. They need to strengthen kinship-based electoral control to keep hold of power.

These meetings aren't political dialogue. They're coordination sessions that result in postal vote harvesting that span borders.

Next May's elections won't be decided just by Oldham voters. Pakistani clan networks will orchestrate them, coordinating schemes between related families in Britain and Pakistan. The biraderi system is activated. The manipulation is underway. And they are not even attempting to hide what they are doing.

Call this what it is - Pakistani clan-based politics operating through British local government while systematically excluding all others.

Unless people fight back, every town with concentrated Pakistani populations will follow the same path. Your vote becomes worthless. Your voice gets silenced. Your town answers to Pakistani clans instead of you.

People ask me how towns like Oldham end up captured by Pakistani sectarians and Islamists. How organised cartels working with corrupt councillors and compromised police officers manage to turn working class communities into personal territories. This is how. A small group builds control, eliminates scrutiny, bars outsiders, and runs the place as if it is a village in Pakistan.

I've spent seven years documenting exactly how it works. Not through rumour but evidence, witness testimony and the lived experience of families abandoned by institutions meant to protect them.

Oldham isn't unique. Across Britain the same pattern repeats. Pakistani and Bangladeshi political blocs. Sectarian enforcers. Islamist influence networks. A layer of so-called community leaders controlling access to funding, favours and political careers. Democracy becomes performance rather than reality.

These networks rely on one assumption: that ordinary people will never understand how the system really operates. That no one will question who's missing from the room. That the public will accept managed theatre while power gets captured by a narrow, self-interested circle.

They assumed no one was watching. They assumed no one would speak. They were wrong.

My work exposes their lies. I follow the money, uncover the cover-ups, show how political patronage, organised crime and religious sectarianism merge into a single machine capable of capturing entire towns.

I also give people tools to take their communities back through lawful, strategic, persistent action. Once people understand the playbook they can't be controlled. Once they see whose voices have been erased they refuse to be silent again.

I now travel across the United Kingdom helping communities learn exactly how to do that. You can support this work and defend your own town or watch it slide in the same direction as Oldham.

Everything I produce is free. I meet, teach and train at no cost because if this is allowed to continue, then there will be nothing left for any of us.

I've been arrested, smeared as racist, dragged through courts and targeted by public bodies that preferred comfortable lies over accountability. Every attempt to maliciously prosecute me has collapsed in court. Every attempt to silence me has failed.

This isn't about politics anymore. It's about preservation of a ruling clique defending its own survival, even if it means abandoning the very people they swore to protect.

The nation does not need silence. It needs truth. This is not only a child abuse scandal. It is a crisis of truth, trust and governance in modern Britain.

I am Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. I cannot do this on my own. I need you to stand with me. We’re running out of time. Without the numbers, they will win. It’s as simple as that.

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