| Topic: George Galloway to stand in Rochdale by-election |
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| 1. Author: OzPar Date: Wed 31st Jan 2024. 22:02 It will be good to see him back in mainstream politics, directly challenging those in power over the UK`s behaviour towards Israel. Galloway has Starmer in sight, and I suspect he will likely win this at a canter. Given the apathy and cynicism towards Labour, I wonder if Galloway and Corbyn could create a new left-wing party to present a decent challenge at the next general election. Reply |
| 2. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 31st Jan 2024. 22:23 OzPar, Wed 31 Jan 22:02 The media will criticise him and effectively poo-poo any chance of him being elected. Look what they did to Corbyn. Hilariously, the supposed antisemitism he was supposed to be preaching is exactly what we`re seeing in streets around the UK. You couldn`t make it up. Reply |
| 3. Author: OzPar Date: Wed 31st Jan 2024. 22:45 The mainstream media is increasingly irrelevant today. More and more people are seeing its inherent bias and are shifting to podcasts presented by people who often have specialist expertise in different areas. George Galloway has a successful podcast that draws large numbers. I doubt he will worry greatly about the Daily Mail, The Daily Express or the BBC. After all, he`s already taken on the mighty US Senate and gave them a good kicking. :) Reply |
| 4. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 06:31 jake89, Wed 31 Jan 22:23 Apathy to Labour...don't think so. They'll get 35 seats in Scotland this coming GE. And don't forget what nuSNP and the media did in destroying an innocent man's career up here. Post Edited (Thu 01 Feb 06:37) Reply |
| 5. Author: Parboiled Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 10:18 Oz, he is more likely to lose his deposit… Reply |
| 6. Author: OzPar Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 11:01 Do you want to bet on that, Parboiled??? He thinks to himself: "Wow, easy money for Oz..." :) Reply |
| 7. Author: hurricane_jimmy Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 13:42 Galloway is an absolute fud. And that`s from someone who actually agrees quite strongly with his stance on Israel and Palestine. Reply |
| 8. Author: wee eck Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 13:53 I enjoyed his speech to the US Senate but he`s an opportunistic carpetbagger par excellence. Reply |
| 9. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 1st Feb 2024. 14:28 Labour agenda no difference to the Tories, Gove`s independence survey must be sending shudders through Government, no wonder he hid it! Reply |
| 10. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Fri 2nd Feb 2024. 08:45 Tenruh, Thu 1 Feb 06:31 “Innocent” - thats one way to describe a self confessed creepy b*stard anyway! Reply |
| 11. Author: Wotsit Date: Fri 2nd Feb 2024. 09:29 I met Salmond about thirty years ago and he remains the slimiest individual that I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. I must be especially sensitive to insincerity though, because most folk seemed to lap it up until fairly recently. Haven`t met Galloway, but if I ever do I get the feeling that he`d be in the running to beat Salmond in that regard. "Who you are and what you feel comes not just from inside you, but from where you are in the power structure" Reply |
| 12. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Fri 2nd Feb 2024. 11:00 His handling of the US Senate was certainly impressive. Pity he didn`t speak truth to power when he was sooking up to Saddam Hussein a decade earlier. With both instances though the words he spoke were done so to press his own self interests. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 13. Author: McCaig`s Tower Date: Fri 2nd Feb 2024. 17:10 Gorgeous George has a chequered electoral history. Highlights would include defeating Oona King in Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2012 election (when he had a televised spat with Jeremy Paxman) and the sensational, if controversial, Bradford West by-election. Lowlights would be polling 489 votes in West Bromwich East in 2019 and failing to make much impact as All for Unity in the 2021 Holyrood Election (although they did outpoll Alba). He seems to love the attention of a by-election, but not the grind of being an actual MP. I think the Muslim population (where he tends to do well) of Rochdale is about half of what it is in Bradford West (more like in Gorton where he came 3rd in 2017, although that was a General Election). I think Labour are putting up a local councillor who no doubt will be described as “popular” and Tony Lloyd seemed well liked which usually is good news for his prospective successor. I suspect Galloway will do well, but I think his day has been and Labour will hold relatively comfortably. The campaign could get a bit spicy though (especially since I see former MP Simon Danczuk is running for the Reform Party) Reply |
| 14. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Wed 7th Feb 2024. 17:48 Tenruh, Thu 1 Feb 06:31 Forecast ain`t going too well Tenruh! Reply |
| 15. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 09:59 LochgellyAlbert, Wed 7 Feb 17:48 Nothing has changed nuSNP will take a battering. Reply |
| 16. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 10:06 Not if that poll proves to be accurate. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 17. Author: wee eck Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 10:42 Who knows what will be in Labour`s manifesto by the time of the election? Probably not even Keir Starmer does. Reply |
| 18. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 10:48 A week ago it was headlined that Labour and SNP were equal in the number of seats they would win. So now SNP leading Labour, the Nicola effect or the public seeing through the onslaught of lies from MSM? Reply |
| 19. Author: Parboiled Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 11:56 What lies, are they bigger lies than the disgraced Matheson was spinning to save his skin? Reply |
| 20. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 8th Feb 2024. 16:37 British Bullshit Corporation followed closely by STV!🤣🤣🤣 Reply |