Following his Rochdale by-election win with 40% of the vote, George Galloway claimed it marked the “shifting of the tectonic plates”. Independent candidate David Tully was runner-up on 21%, while the Conservative candidate and the (disowned) Labour candidate took less than 20% between them. Luke Tryl in the Telegraph isn’t so sure, saying polling indicates it was more a protest against “Broken Britain” than a herald of the “Gaza election”.
No doubt, Galloway will be a major thorn in Starmer’s side in Parliament and embolden those who see the Labour Party’s stance on Gaza as an Achilles’ heel. The Conservative Party, which might have hoped to capitalise on Labour’s implosion, will have been disappointed to finish third. Meanwhile, Reform U.K. will have its own questions to ask. At a by-election in the neighbouring seat in 2014, Ukip took nearly 40% of the vote, whereas Simon Danczuk, Reform’s candidate, took just 6% yesterday.
But despite all that, the idea that the next General Election will be “The Gaza Election” is far-fetched. In focus groups in Rochdale, we found Muslim and non-Muslim voters alike were dismayed that their by-election was being treated as a referendum on the Middle East. They wanted to hear what the candidates were going to do to reduce crime in the town centre, to help them get off never-ending waiting lists and to make the cost of living less painful.
That is not to say they weren’t concerned or angry about the situation in Palestine, but rather that they felt strongly that politicians should be focusing first on issues closer to home. As one participant told us: “There’s no point in tackling world peace when the area you live in is a s—hole.” For many, a vote for Galloway and David Tully reflected their frustrations with “Broken Britain” and an expression of the “anti-politics” mood we hear week in, week out from the public.
But the truth is, the moment Labour suspended its candidate for his antisemitic remarks, and removed its campaigning support, it became impossible to draw wider conclusions from this election.
Labour took over 50% in Rochdale in 2019 and could have been expected to take even more given the shift in the polls since then, but the absence of an endorsed Labour candidate left much of that vote up for grabs by outsiders. …
In our latest poll, 67% of respondents said that the cost of living was one of the most important issues facing the country. In comparison, just 8% said the same about conflict in the Middle East.
Worth reading in full.
Let’s hope Tryl’s right. It will be interesting to see whether Starmer’s position on the war shifts after this.
Nigel Farage is less sanguine. Also writing in the Telegraph, he says he has repeatedly warned that U.K. politics was “heading in a sectarian direction”. His fears that “this new form of sectarianism will lead to the hard-Left Islamist party getting a foothold in Westminster” have been proved right, he adds.
In the upcoming British General Election, there will be a well-funded campaign that will focus on up to 30 urban constituencies that have large Muslim populations. By 2029, this could really hurt the Labour party, which will serve them right in many ways for an irresponsible immigration policy.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has said Galloway’s victory is a “dark day for the Jewish community”.
George Galloway is a demagogue and conspiracy theorist, who has brought the politics of division and hate to every place he has ever stood for Parliament.
His election is a dark day for the Jewish community in this country, and for British politics in general. We believe he should be shunned as a pariah by all Parliamentarians.
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Well done Glorious George who has been on the right side of history for decades.
Loved the man for years – and watch him here excoriating/tearing the Us Senate a New One over Iraq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk
And Genocide in Palestine
And NATO/USA fomenting the Ukraine Russia debacle.
What’s not to like, apart from the stupid hat.
At the very least he will continue to upset the elite and would be powers that be.
Did you also like him not condemning the Grooming Gangs?
Yeah I think we all know who the rape-apologists are by now on here. They outed themselves months ago. I mean, we all know Israeli girls/women are all born liars so why would underage girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in England be treat any different? They were all overlooked and dismissed by authorities, and the rest is history. If Galloway never called this national disgrace out publicly ( which I’m doubting he ever did, given how popular with them lot he is ) then he’s literally just as bad as the perpetrators and entirely complicit.
Yes Galloway —–The Grooming Gang Candidate
What was his position on “covid”?
“I am entirely opposed to Covid passports & mandatory jabs” says George Galloway.
Fair enough, but I seem to remember him supporting lockdowns at the time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-O9gGbazJ0
An interview with John Campbell. I have not watched this.
I think this was before Campbell “saw the light”.
Yes, I think so tof.
Thanks for this. Didn’t realise John Campbell had been initially taken in by the Covid scam.
Won with 15% of the vote – and 82% of the votes cast were postal votes.
Whether Mr. Galloway is a good bloke or not I don’t know – but the way this election was won, and how certain sections of the electorate are motivated to vote, does not bode well for the future.
82% mail in – wow, just wow if that is true. Half will be fraudulent. Mail ins should be illegal. Period. You want to vote? Go in person show an ID against a valid address.
Galloway is pro Jihad – not my man, though right on the corrupt, dystopian world that is Pharma-ment. No doubt he took the Muzzie vote (30% of the total).
Independent candidate did very well – which is a good sign.
A fantastic and well-deserved victory. Alongside Andrew Bridgen, another reason to still pay attention to the HoC.
Low turnout, second place to an independent, and George took more votes than the rest of the parties combined, with the bonus of showing Tice up to be the preening fool that he is,
The electorate is sick to death of the Uniparty, and Reform is no different.
If the postal vote at over 20,000 is confirmed – and why aren’t the figures being confirmed – then clearly the mosques have been working overtime.
This points to serious fraud and intimidation.
Obviously all the resident Jew-hating, terrorist-supporting rape-apologist traitors will be digging this result. Good job everybody’s anonymous, eh? If anybody is that dense that they don’t know what this massive, treacherous antisemite is all about after all of these years then this pic basically sums him up. Mr Brown-nose himself. He’s sort of like an ‘Uncle Tom’ in reverse;
https://twitter.com/KosherCockney/status/1762588105507303503
Well, so what? Israel has been supposed to be wiped off the map since before it came to be. This hasn’t worked so far and there’s little reason to assume that it will work in the forseeable future. But that’s a problem for Israel and the people living there and not for Rochdale. Further, people whose principal source of power is armed violence will have to accept that they can conquer others in this way but not turn them into friends.
How the muslims mobilise their voters:
The imams send out their enforcers to door knock the voters. The head of the household is told to apply for postal votes for all eligible occupants. When the postal forms are received the enforcers return to collect them. The documents are taken to the local mosque where teams of volunteers mark up the voting slips.
And before anybody questions this l will point out that I have acted as an agent in the last three elections. Furthermore, our small, local party has a few “insiders” within the Muslim community.
This is absolutely rife.
So the whole game is rigged then, which begs the question of how isn’t this completely obvious and yet it’s allowed to go on? He won by a country mile so any lame brain could tell and now you’ve explained how it works then that kind of sums up how it was always a foregone conclusion.
Mogs, it was the Labour Party which pushed and pushed for the easing of the postal vote rules. John Prescott was an extremely vociferous supporter of this “expansion of democracy. ”
Re my inside knowledge on how the muslim vote works – our candidates have witnessed the collections first hand and muslim insiders have corroborated. More than one taxi driver has confirmed to me unpromted this is what happens.
At the locals last year when we inspected the postal votes one of the biggest muslim wards had used blue biro to mark the voting slips and obviously the markers had been given the same brand of pen. When I complained to the Adjudicators I was told that nothing could be proved. End of.
Oldham has a huge muslim population and the local Labour Party will bend over backwards for their vote. Nationally, postal votes come in at 17%. In Oldham we were at 23% last year which is our norm. In many wards Labour survive solely on the muslim / immigrant vote.
As said earlier, our electoral system is thoroughly corrupted.
Yes the caliphate is coming along nicely, all going according to plan then.
Conquering is what they’ve always done and it doesn’t necessarily have to be done with weapons and bloodshed. Given that their ‘religion/ideology’ hasn’t changed for 1400 years then it’s a bit naive to think they’ll change their objectives just because they’ve now set up shop in the West. Especially as they’ve got plenty of enablers/useful idiots on hand to help them along. It’s just a numbers game, that’s all it boils down to, and theirs keep on rising.
Numbers game and useful idiots indeed.
Beyond Terror ——-Anne Marie Waters. —- A great read. The woman was in the Labour Party, then UKIP She sees what is going on and I think you and Ms Walters would get along famously.
Methinks she will be standing in Hartlepool in the GE for UKIP.
But why are the Tories hellbent on furiously building the Caliphate when all evidence demonstrates that for them it is electoral suicide, at least in urban England?
The way things are going with immigrants bringing their tyranny with them to Britain we will end up with e country in the same state as the middle east and nothing but sectarian clutter, violence, protests, waling and sobbing and eternal strife. ——-Multi culture =ZERO CULTURE
Sadly, I must concur.
Yes, indeed. But let’s be honest, this isn’t some unexpected event come to face us. The neon flashing lights of population replacement has been up there in full view. Successive establishment parties have for 50 years or more gone into elections promising to reduce/halt/stop/control unlimited immigration without fulfilling their promises and yet intelligent people who consider the immigration issue as their number one concern still vote time and time again for these fraudsters. Can’t they see that all establishment parties have no intention of honouring those promises? And many will vote again for the establishment party lies on this issue in 2024. What utter destructive fools they are.
As somebody put it “If people won’t vote Labour then we will import people who will”
Hmm … and what’s wrong with that? People are not required to have political opinions of their own.
Well done for providing that crucial information, experienced at first hand.
The elephant in the room is that the whole of the Commonwealth has the right to vote in British elections. All they need is a UK postal address, easily obtained from relatives or lying activists in the UK. People were sent out to countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia & Nigeria before the 2010 election to gather names for UK postal ballots, which allowed Bristol Labour MP Kerry McCarthy to declare her election victory by postal ballots a full two weeks before the election. Instead of being arrested for electoral fraud, she only received a “caution”, and she is still holding that seat.
Corruption is rife in British elections.
Wonder why there isn’t a “Catholic vote” a “Hindu vote” a “Jewish vote” etc etc , only a “Muslim vote”……Because as Braverman pointed out they are “in Britain but not off Britain”. ——We have been having this Muslims voting for Muslims for quite a while and as more and more arrive here there will be very big sectarian problems as if that wasn’t big enough already. —-Oh and before anyone tells me Galloway is not a Muslim, he is simply a Muslim proxy.
He has a large chunk of that “It’s all about me” mentality with his Frank Sinatra hat and “I did it My Way”.
Here’s <2min of Richard Tice describing what his people have had to contend with during this election. Also, does anybody know what George Galloway’s stance was on all of the Pakistani rapists over there, given how he’s always seemed awfully chummy with and supportive of the Muslim community? I don’t know if he ever made a statement about this but, as with everything Islamist/terrorist/rapist-related, if you don’t come out and condemn it then you condone it. Silence is compliance.
https://twitter.com/contextvids/status/1763491035387208126
Who votes for candidates based on their “religion” or proxies for a religion? ——–I will hand you over to Mogwai who will explain the sectarian clutter better than me.
Yeah she’s pretty good at that.
No, but seriously, any person with more than a couple functioning neurons will know what constitutes a traitor and who those traitors are. It’s bleeding obvious. It’s also bleeding obvious that there’s many people here in the West ( if not in the immediate vicinity of this site ) that should be set on a one-way journey to ‘Palestine’, or the like, if they love the people and values so much! Go hang out with the Jihadis and extremists like uncle George.
They demonstrate that they don’t belong here and that they’re toxic every single day.
I certainly have read a whole whean of books. ——I think “whean” is a Scottish word for a lot. —-But not so many on this issue. But another one I can recommend is “Beyond Terror” by Anne Marie Waters. You and her would get along famously. And interestingly she used to be in the Labour Party but left them because, like you she sees exactly what is going here and knows that Labour are complicit in this blitzkrieg of western democracy.
It’s not a protest it’s a block Muslim vote which is a first step to turning Britain in to a Muslim state. See where this country is in 100 years. Think Lebanon eventually.
And those voting in the “block Muslim vote” are not even required to be British citizens, or even to reside here. The outrageous Commonwealth Voting Rights in British elections must be abolished, as the founder of Migration Watch, Sir Andrew Green, has been saying for decades. But no one is listening…
Thanks for that insight……An absolute shocker.
I’ve repeatedly mentioned that. To vote in a British election, one has to be a citizen of a Commonwealth country and be legally present¹ in Britain at the time of the vote.
BTW, this was also true for the EU referendum. Basically everybody one this planet was principally allowed to vote in that, subject to being able to obtain temporary leave to remain somehow and actually travel to Britain. Only legally resident EU citizens were excluded.
¹ Ie, temporary leave to remain in some form, eg, temporary work or student visa, is sufficient for this.
Smile. It got you your Brexit. That the people who voted for “It’s our Britain!” are now reaping the rewards to the tune of 1.4 million “family members” per year was something you could have known beforehand had you bothered to listen.
We have been denied and wilfully the Brexit we voted for.
I’m not convinced you can draw conclusions from asking people what is important to them – how do we know they are telling the truth, and how does anyone really know why they vote how they do. It’s all pretty vague. My guess is that without a substantial “Muslim vote”, Galloway would not have won any by-election. I am sure he benefited from an increased dissatisfaction with mainstream parties, and from a low turnout which I think is common in by-elections, but I don’t see we can draw too many conclusions from that – my guess is that in the next General Election we will still see the major parties getting most of the votes, with Reform taking some but not enough from the Tories.
I hope your guess is correct. It could be a flash in the pan for Galloway. In a few days, the MSM will be obsessed with the budget next week, after all. And if Rishi wanted to go for broke, we could have a GE on the same polling day as many local elections in May. It would shorten the Parliamentary term for a few undesirables.
Sadly there is no credible force at national level that I feel remotely enthusiastic about voting for. Reform seem to want to give the NHS more money.
My view is that the Labour Party could be put under real pressure in forthcoming elections. Pro Muslim candidates but not Labour could devastate their base and at this stage they don’t necessarily have to be white clearly.
If Kneel is not concerned he should be.
The Tories face annihilation and Labour are certainly not a shoe in.
You may be right about Labour if someone like Galloway can get enough funding to put in place a party machine
tof, sooner rather than later the muslims will launch their own party. They have already tried but were knocked back by the thoroughly corrupt and incompetent Elcom. They’ll be back as Arnie would say.
Yes, that would make sense.
In the short term they might pick up enough seats to be useful to Labour in a coalition. In the long term they will be in a majority.
So if Labour and Tories get wiped out it maybe Reform versus the Grooming Gangs
The Board of Deputies of British Jews seems to have a serious problem with democracy both at the conceptual and at the intellectual level. Conceptual, because they apparently believe that only candidates palatable to them ought to be allowed to stand in elections and intellectual, because they’re apparently also too stupid to understand that they brought this unto themselves. Had Labour not withdrawn, it would likely have won and another Labour MP principally subject to party discipline would certainly have been the lesser evil from their perspective.
39% turnout! Wow, stunning victory!
Postal voting should be stopped , if you can’t be bothered attending a polling station then you shouldn’t be voting. Looking at what happened in America during the last election whereupon dead people were voting it proves how elections can be rigged.
See my posts on here.
https://m.facebook.com/reel/1055806495527899/
Nigel Farage. Home Office figures just released confirm that last year we issued 1.4 million immigrant visas.
1.4 million visas.
Fourteen years of lies, lies, lies from the Conservatives.
If this is not population replacement and a deeply concerted attempt to destroy Britain, its people and all it stands for I don’t know what is.
And we can say with total conviction that matters ie immigration will get worse under Liebour.
Christ Almighty we are up against it.
Whoops, and what is the illegal count on top of this?
It’s of course population replacement. According to current demographic trends (insofar I’m aware of them) all ‘white’ European peoples are set to die out due to preferring to have sex lives over family lives. The NHS offers free contraception to any woman who doesn’t want to take the risk of becoming sick with a baby just because she has sex. Muslim culture isn’t such that children are seen as a health problem to prevent. Ergo: Eventually, only muslims will remain here (at least, they’re going to become the by far overwhelming majority).
Muslims also have given themselves a massive advantage over everyone else in the demography department: Every Muslim man is legally allowed in Islam to have four wives, as long as he can support them (not a problem in the West, where they are all supported by the taxpayers), and unlimited sex slaves called “war captives”. They adapt this to include all western women and children, declaring that Islam is “at war” with the West, and it is their “right” to rape “war captives”.
Canadian researchers found years ago that for every Muslim man allowed to enter Canada, at least 25 more Muslims followed him: wives, children, all their elderly parents and liars paying them to pretend they were “relatives”.
Many western women foolish enough to marry a Muslim have later discovered they are only one of his four wives, the rest being hidden in other towns or back home in Muslim land.
In our current, liberalized climate, there’s nothing but convention which stops every man from having four wives. Or every woman from having four husbands, for that matter. And many problably do, they’re just not mutually aware of each other.
:->
Irgendwo gibt es bestimmt monogame Pärchen
Zum Beispiel im Märchen
Not merely convention. Polygamy is illegal in the UK as a form of bigamy:
“A person guilty of bigamy is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum, or to both.”
Of course, just like the much-vaunted UK animal welfare laws, flagrantly violated every day by cruel halal/kosher butchery, corrupt immigration lawyers have found many ways to help Muslims violate UK laws on bigamy and polygamy, and even child marriage.
Just like Sikhs were allowed to brandish their swords in front of their temples during riots in London, any Brit would be arrested for brandishing so much as a baby carrot. Like the Englishman arrested for having a fruit-paring knife in his glovebox to peel his apple for lunch. Meanwhile even Sikh boys are allowed to wear their disembowelling knives to school, showing off to their envious British classmates. And how did gain this “right” to violate western laws? By endless litigation, as they have done quietly in every western country.
There’s nothing which stops a single man from living together with four (or, for that matter, 24 or 240) different women and have children with all of them.
BTW, I got arrested (and quite violently so) last year for carrying a folding knife¹ in my pocket I mainly used to use to ‘attack’ all kinds of obnoxious plastic packaging.
¹ Technically, a terribly prohibited locking knife as pressing a button was required to close it again. I didn’t know this at that time, though, an it’s as unsuitable for sudden attacks as any other folding pocket knife.
“For polygamous marriages considered valid in the UK, an award of certain means-tested benefits and tax credits can be for more than one spouse. Any additional amount payable for the second spouse is however likely to be less than the amount they could get were they to make a separate claim as a single person.1 Feb 2023”
UK Social Security Benefits.
It is routinely abused. À man who has legal rights in the UK will invite up to four women as “other wives.” For a fee of course and so the raping of the Benefits system grows.
I don’t have any strong opinions about GG, but I do remember him on Big Brother pretending to be a cat.
Shameless publicity w*ore or just game for a laugh?
He’s a nasty piece of work. Likes to threaten those he sees as a ‘problem’ with recourse to m’ learned friends.
A Next Tuesday in other words.
Catholic George Galloway’s second wife was a Palestinian Muslim.
“His last three wives were all Muslims, each of whom he married in an Islamic ceremony. According to Jemima Khan, writing for the New Statesman in April 2012, Galloway converted to Islam around 2000; his “shahadah” was performed in Kilburn, London, in the presence of members of the Muslim Association of Great Britain. Khan said that while Galloway has informed “those close to him”, he chose not to disclose his conversion to the public.”
Not “a protest against Broken Britain”, but helping to Break Britain with the Global Caliphate Sledgehammer.
Will DS run a book on how long before Galloway is suspended from the HoC.
it would be useful to have a demographic analysis of Rochdale. One suspects there was only one sector that turned out to vote in a high proportion.
If Britain is broken, then others countries must be shredded.
George Galloway is not the person to fix ‘broken’ Britain. He has contributed to our destruction and wishes to break it further. Some people foolishly think he is their friend just because he uses words designed to illicit support.