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Post by simple on Mar 1, 2024 7:25:12 GMT
I’d love to know what the demographics are who make up Galloway’s vote here. I assume he’ll have targeted Muslim voters and tankies like he has in past but I’m curious at how his firebrand approach and black and white language on issues will have appealed to younger voters. If you get all your politics from Instagram I can picture his rhetoric really capturing your imagination and frustrations.
If they’re too young to properly remember his grift then the kind of people who endlessly bang on about “the right side of history” would be a perfect group for his campaign to focus on.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 1, 2024 7:43:02 GMT
On the positive side, the tories got destroyed and Reform look like they barely got their deposit back despite fielding quite a strong candidate
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Post by geefe on Mar 1, 2024 7:44:31 GMT
He's tried all round Manchester in the past. It is a fucking sad day but I was told yesterday that a club I work with in the London area is majority Asian/ Black and the staff are happy for the kids to have discussions about (and I am just going to quote the concern raised)
"Learners shared the view that gender identity and not accepting God/ Allah into your life leads to sin, such as alcoholism and homelessness. Staff said they allow learners to police themselves on discussion. Staff show similar viewpoints and do not challenge them appropriately."
Absolutely vile. A manager is being sent in but I was mortified. Galloway knows what he's doing and there are indeed pockets of areas where these opinions are prevalent. He's preyed upon it and the Gaza issue has seemingly given a seal of approval for a lot of religious-based cuntery to come to the fore.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 1, 2024 8:13:51 GMT
I’d love to know what the demographics are who make up Galloway’s vote here. I assume he’ll have targeted Muslim voters and tankies like he has in past but I’m curious at how his firebrand approach and black and white language on issues will have appealed to younger voters. If you get all your politics from Instagram I can picture his rhetoric really capturing your imagination and frustrations. If they’re too young to properly remember his grift then the kind of people who endlessly bang on about “the right side of history” would be a perfect group for his campaign to focus on.
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Post by geefe on Mar 1, 2024 8:20:13 GMT
Fuck me he even uses Make Rochdale Great Again.
Just douse the cunt in Tango.
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Post by Rich on Mar 1, 2024 8:20:32 GMT
He really is a disgusting individual.
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Post by apollo on Mar 1, 2024 8:21:58 GMT
I’d love to know what the demographics are who make up Galloway’s vote here. I assume he’ll have targeted Muslim voters and tankies like he has in past but I’m curious at how his firebrand approach and black and white language on issues will have appealed to younger voters. If you get all your politics from Instagram I can picture his rhetoric really capturing your imagination and frustrations. If they’re too young to properly remember his grift then the kind of people who endlessly bang on about “the right side of history” would be a perfect group for his campaign to focus on. I think you got his key demographic spot on, the guy is raging antisemitic cunt and in the past he has always appealed to the more extremists in the muslim community than the average person who just wants a normal life. He gives zero fucks about the people of Rochdale, its his latest grift. Fuck galloway and all the cunts that voted for him
edit: just reading the letters that cuntgalloway sent out, brexit supporter and like fuck he would crack down on grooming gangs . Also he actually supported the genocide of kurdish muslims in iraq by supporting his dicator friends, people have short memories
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2024 8:37:31 GMT
I’m from there, sadly. I don’t live in Rochdale proper nowadays and it isn’t my constituency anymore. I’ve avoided typing about this but probably feel compelled to, now.
Basically my worst fears confirmed, I can only hope that a proper election sets things right.
Yes Rochdale had Paul Rowen for the Libs for years and years, he was just a bit of an anonymous non-entity TBH. I think with Cyril Smith and the shadow of all the other child abuse stuff that the Lib Dem’s will likely never be a force in Rochdale again.
I was rather surprised to see Simon Danczuk showing his face again. Wiki him and you’ll see he was not covered in glory. He would probably have had a safe Labour seat for years if not for the stuff that came out, and then he goes to Reform UK. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see Reform do a bit better in Rochdale with a different candidate TBH.
The fact the press coverage focused on those two duking it out, and the eventual result, is yet another embarrassment and stain upon the town. I feel humiliated.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 1, 2024 8:55:55 GMT
Felt inevitable, although I did initially think by the time people actually got to the voting booth they would see the Labour logo and just stick an X next to it. It also feels like a small blip though and I'm sure a general election with another candidate will return a very different result.
In the meantime, Galloway will be a pain in the arse. Expect he will start appearing all over the media, popping up on all the political talk shows. Plus, Tories have already laid the groundwork this week to start going on about it being proof of "mob rule" and "extremists" gaining power.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 1, 2024 8:55:56 GMT
Bloody hell that leaflet is shocking. I can't believe that's been sent.
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Post by apollo on Mar 1, 2024 9:21:14 GMT
In the meantime, Galloway will be a pain in the arse. Expect he will start appearing all over the media, popping up on all the political talk shows. Plus, Tories have already laid the groundwork this week to start going on about it being proof of "mob rule" and "extremists" gaining power. You just know cuntoway is going to stoke racial divide even more in the UK...
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 1, 2024 9:41:26 GMT
Given how scared of having a general election that Sunak is it should give plenty of time for the people of Rochdale to have buyer's remorse in voting for that utter cunt.
He's a two faced lying prick who will say any old shite to get fuckwits to vote for him and it worked yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2024 9:41:29 GMT
In the meantime, Galloway will be a pain in the arse. Expect he will start appearing all over the media, popping up on all the political talk shows. Plus, Tories have already laid the groundwork this week to start going on about it being proof of "mob rule" and "extremists" gaining power. You just know cuntoway is going to stoke racial divide even more in the UK... And Rochdale really doesn’t need that. I don’t think there is any sort of sizeable Jewish community, but if I were of that faith/culture in Rochdale I would not feel very safe right now.
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Post by senso on Mar 1, 2024 9:42:13 GMT
Can't believe Galloway has been more successful at being elected as an MP than Farage. What a crazy place British politics is in right now. Makes calling a GE right now even more pertinent.
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Post by otto on Mar 1, 2024 9:46:09 GMT
FAFO innit. Isolate, vilify, marginalise, attack a community, they will become radicalised and vulnerable to exploitation by populists. This is on the Tories but not just them. Islamophobia is not taken seriously in this country and there is a shocking double standard at play. And it's not just in the UK, it's right across the western world. This will continue to bite us in the arse going forward.
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Post by kal on Mar 1, 2024 9:55:16 GMT
FAFO innit. Isolate, vilify, marginalise, attack a community, they will become radicalised and vulnerable to exploitation by populists. This is on the Tories but not just them. Islamophobia is not taken seriously in this country and there is a shocking double standard at play. And it's not just in the UK, it's right across the western world. This will continue to bite us in the arse going forward. What’s the double standard?
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Post by otto on Mar 1, 2024 10:29:48 GMT
I'm not referring specifically to antisemitism if that's what you're thinking. Islamophobia is not given the same serious treatment that other forms of racism and religious intolerance are, imo.
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Post by geefe on Mar 1, 2024 10:30:53 GMT
Oooh fuck that I'm out of this one, lads
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Post by kal on Mar 1, 2024 11:10:51 GMT
I'm not referring specifically to antisemitism if that's what you're thinking. Islamophobia is not given the same serious treatment that other forms of racism and religious intolerance are, imo. I’d say that’s very much a perspective thing, and generally I think suggesting there’s a hierarchy of tolerance is reductive at best. Longer answer, as ever this stuff is incredibly nuanced. Different groups have different prejudices that manifest in all sorts of different ways. You can’t quantify which are taken more seriously than others, and really, what’s the point in trying to? We can talk about how Islamophobia isn’t taken seriously enough (which it isn’t) without being comparative (and the potential bad faith implications that come with doing that).
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Post by Zyrr on Mar 1, 2024 11:40:11 GMT
Galloway is promising to field 50 candidates in Labour seats for the GE. Looks like the absolute cunt is looking to divide the vote and fuck Labour's chances.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 1, 2024 11:55:09 GMT
In any other seat with any other candidate they would get barely enough votes to register as a statistical anomaly. They aren’t disrupting anything.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 1, 2024 11:57:02 GMT
No chance they have the funds either, campaigning is costly and time consuming.
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Post by geefe on Mar 1, 2024 11:57:12 GMT
American friend asked if Galloway is worse than Farage. Really not sure how to answer that one. I'd say Galloway is more insidious where Farage seems openly about the grift.
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Post by zephro on Mar 1, 2024 12:15:12 GMT
In any other seat with any other candidate they would get barely enough votes to register as a statistical anomaly. They aren’t disrupting anything. they are not. His most recent outings before the by-elections. Was 1.4% in the 2019 GE, 1.2% in the London Mayor election and 1.5% in the last Scottish Parliament election. He's a rounding error outside of controversial by-elections. Also I'd say one thing for Farage. The prick never stood up in the Iraqi Parliament and praised Sadam.
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Post by Syrette on Mar 1, 2024 12:17:09 GMT
Fuck me he even uses Make Rochdale Great Again. Just douse the cunt in Tango. You mock, but do I see you bringing Primark back for the common man and woman-woman of Rochdale?
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Post by apollo on Mar 1, 2024 12:27:41 GMT
In any other seat with any other candidate they would get barely enough votes to register as a statistical anomaly. They aren’t disrupting anything. they are not. His most recent outings before the by-elections. Was 1.4% in the 2019 GE, 1.2% in the London Mayor election and 1.5% in the last Scottish Parliament election. He's a rounding error outside of controversial by-elections. Also I'd say one thing for Farage. The prick never stood up in the Iraqi Parliament and praised Sadam. Maybe the cheque bounced when Farage went to cash it?
Its sad the muslim voters don't see they are getting used. Cuntoway will not follow through on any of his promises for the improvement of rochdale
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Post by Zyrr on Mar 1, 2024 12:48:41 GMT
The fact that Galloway has been spied schmoozing with Steve Bannon leads me to believe that he and Farage are all on the same payroll and ultimately serving the same purpose anyway.
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Post by apollo on Mar 1, 2024 12:55:54 GMT
also gollumway is quite friendly with GB news (most people would avoid them) Also it seems to have split the tankie supporters due to transphobic comments in his letter (not sure it will cause a big rift sadly)
Just reading about the runner up David Tully - seems like he would actually try to improve the lives of people of rochdale
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Post by simple on Mar 1, 2024 14:15:40 GMT
Its sort of a surprise that Galloway hasn’t been given a “left-wing” show by GB News where he can spout off the way Russia Today used to pick nuts from ‘both sides’.
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Post by simple on Mar 1, 2024 14:22:29 GMT
Can't believe Galloway has been more successful at being elected as an MP than Farage. What a crazy place British politics is in right now. Makes calling a GE right now even more pertinent. I’ve argued before and I think I still believe it - Nigel Farage has been the most important voice and the most successful in terms of influencing the direction of British politics since Tony Blair left office. Regardless of his baffling inability to get elected the narrative and ideology for which he is the mouthpiece has driven the Tories farther right over the course of 15 years and every decision Labour has taken has been as a reaction to the Tories rather than being able to wrest control of the national narrative themselves. Almost everything that he’s campaigned for over the years has become government policy and the EU referendum itself possibly wouldn’t have even happened without his voice causing Cameron internal problems within his party. Galloway is undoubtably a hell of an orator but he’s chased out of town at the earliest opportunity and his influence hasn’t been close to the mainstream since the start of the Iraq War.
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