Galloway

Chris_Boro said:
What are you happy about here Roofie, that Galloway won or that the "Labour" vote disappeared?
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He's happy that a left wing extremist who latched onto moslem anti-Israel sentiment beat a (Labour) candidate who'd had all support removed from the Party (essentially disowned). He won't endorse the 'winner' personally though because that would expose his own position.

Now I will wait on a lengthy, confusing 'lesson' copied and pasted from the internet because he's got absolutely nothing better to do with his time today.
 
r00fie1 said:
Read up why Labour abandoned its candidate.
It's all to do with Israel.
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It’s just typical roofie
Puts a daft stat up - gets pulled up about the stupidity of it, avoids the challenge, digs heels in and repeat.

He’s as dogmatic as as any politician - the kind of political schoite he rails against
 
The Muslims wont vote for Labour now, they need to strengthen Georgie's Workers Party of Britain, and repeat it where they have strongholds and get a few seats in Parliament. Much like the Ulster vote.
I think its a fact that the game has changed in some towns in UK.
If you look at parts of a lot of the UK cities this may happen more now, after all Parliament is supposed to reflect its population.

Although I don't think for a minute Galloway will represent them as well as one of their own would, George will get bored after the initial agitation, he will rarely visit the house and just pick up his cash and flutter on about anything Arab or Muslim for a few quid, like he did in Bradford, with the odd bowl of milk here and there.

Not long until the GE, 7 month count down.
 
What is worrying for me is that Westminster is being torn apart, on all sides, by conflicts to which the UK have no real influence. Russia and Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, and Yemen and the Red Sea.

Only the US has the key to unlock the Palestine situation, the UK calling for a ceasefire is laughable as it carries no weight with Netanyahu whatsoever, and the Yemen Houthis attacks on shipping will hopefully diminish once Israel has stopped killing innocent women and children and allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza and The West Bank.

#UTB
 
Galloway or Gorgeous George as he used the be known is a very interesting character. He does know an awful lot about the middle east and was right about a lot of things pre Iraq war. A US senate committee tried to nail him but he made mincemeat of those hearings showing up the committees bias and lack of knowledge.
I don't agree with is politics, but pleased that he's back.
 
Gordy1000 said:
Galloway or Gorgeous George as he used the be known is a very interesting character. He does know an awful lot about the middle east and was right about a lot of things pre Iraq war. A US senate committee tried to nail him but he made mincemeat of those hearings showing up the committees bias and lack of knowledge.
I don't agree with is politics, but pleased that he's back.
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I've always thought if ever some politicians worked for the intelligent services its Mr Galloway, he is 1 of 3 imho, the others being Benn and Corbyn, always make for fascinating reading.
 
I may be wrong, but wasn't Galloway suspended from the Labour Party when he was an MP, for having a Middle East paymaster for whom he was doing much lobbying in Westminster.

#UTB
 
Mr Williamson also refused to condemn the 7 October Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

He said: "You can't expect to live in a situation where people have been oppressed for 75 years and not expect a reaction.

The above quote sums up Galloway, his "party" and anyone supporting him.... disgusting
 
BlackHallRocker said:
I remember him from Big Brother he's been on the radio about half hour ago on the way home tonight. He's saying he's the new MP for Rochdale after tonight and he is going to shake the foundations of Parliament . He's said he is going to put both leaders to shame and they will be trembling when he walks through the doors. I didn't realise he was still going in politics I thought the cat milk licking thing finished him off. I know through reading the board in the past a lot of you do politics so is he going to make any difference to anything at all. I heard he was going to take Rochdale FC back to the big time also, That's if he does win the vote today. How's he going to take them back to the big time is he loaded? Maybe he will become the new chairman 😃 ❓
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Starmer will put a saucer of milk out for him, that'll keep him quiet
 
It's a unique constituency situation so it's very difficult to read any meaning from it. I think the one thing that Starmer should take away from it is that it does show that his only strategy of not being the Tories isn't enough to win an election on its own. Everyone knows that the majority of the country don't want the Tories to win so they will vote for another party. Starmer has so far refused to give anyone a reason to vote for Labour so there is a risk that there are situations like this Galloway one where individual constituencies can be swayed away from Labour to vote for someone that is offering something. If the Tories can hold enough of their votes and the "not Tory" votes are split then the Tories win.
 
Nano said:
It's a unique constituency situation so it's very difficult to read any meaning from it. I think the one thing that Starmer should take away from it is that it does show that his only strategy of not being the Tories isn't enough to win an election on its own. Everyone knows that the majority of the country don't want the Tories to win so they will vote for another party. Starmer has so far refused to give anyone a reason to vote for Labour so there is a risk that there are situations like this Galloway one where individual constituencies can be swayed away from Labour to vote for someone that is offering something. If the Tories can hold enough of their votes and the "not Tory" votes are split then the Tories win.
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Is it really being swayed away from Labour when they didn't run a candidate and their party name was only on the ballot because of a technicality?

If you want to vote Labour, and Labour are publicly condemning and disavowing a candidate, and you know that he wouldn't be a Labour MP if he did win, you're not going to vote for the candidate on that basis.

It's not like it was a last minute change, they stopped supporting Ali over 2 weeks ago.
Anyone voting in a by-election is going to be at least slightly politically engaged and will have known that he wasn't really a Labour candidate anymore.
 
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