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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This evil must be stopped.
The Government will not stop this. Parents have to fight back. Home school individually or in groups. Or, perhaps form groups and demonstrate outside the school and name and shame the heads of those schools for the perversion of their children. Make the head teachers lives hell upon which they will approach their unions for help. The unions will then either do nothing with the result of head teachers resigning, sick leave etc causing headaches for the educational authorities to remedy the situation or the unions may put pressure on the goverment to reconsider ‘identity’ lessons. Take a leaf out of the Left activism book and turn it against the progressives.
And whilst doing this join centre right challenger parties whose manifesto state they will halt this state perversion of children.
I agree wholeheartedly; as with the schools allowing children under the age of majority to take part in protests where illegal acts are committed, even if High Plod Rowley disagrees, this is a Child Safety issue. Adults who sanction this, who have had to undergo a high level Disclosure and Barring Service vetting in order to go to work should be reported by their Heads ( unless they agree ). The Chair of Governors of these schools are equally responsible for these minors being exploited in this horrendous manner.
But that is in a world in which we do not inhabit; home schooling is the obvious answer but only if a parent can undertake this responsibility …. and for those families who cannot, what a Catch 22 this is.
Where is the safeguarding for these children? Are these private providers checked? Are they allowed access to the children alone? Are they given access to the children’s private data and contact details.
Saviles, Epsteins, Blairs etc. of the world rejoice! Worth watching the whole No Outsiders promo video of which the Teddy is an extract.
https://youtu.be/CIH7I_SEU0E
Shush we can’t say paedophiles have infiltrated primary schools because that would offend the paedophiles.
Ah yes, bless their little cotton socks. They’re so persecuted. They must be free to explore their perversions.
(To be clear, this is sarcasm, just in case it wasn’t obvious)
“Minor attracted persons”, please!
No Outsiders boss Andrew Moffat wrote: “This teaching must begin in primary schools. We are all intersectional; one identity does not suffice to make up who we are.”
IMHO, the appropriate place for this person is a mental asylum the moments he starts to make a nuisance of himself and certainly not an elementary school where he can freely preach to really young children lacking the mental capacity and experience necessary for assessing the value of his statements. Children which aren’t yet sexually mature obviously don’t have an idea what being a man or a woman actually means. And this deranged would-be pied piper shouldn’t have an opportunity to exploit this.
Words fail me, can’t kids just be kids?
They’ll work out the rest in due corse!
I did.
Target the school governors of the schools that allow this.
If you don’t want your children indoctrinated with this nonsense, home-school them.
Horrendous teacher!!! I see this as child abuse. I would home school if this happened.
Run away to a place they won’t find! is never the solution. Should these people find themselves dispossessed of a sizeable number of vulnerable pupils to exploit, they’ll find a way to make this illegal to Save the children!