Josh Halliday and Aneesa Ahmed – The Guardian March 1, 2024
The veteran political agitator George Galloway declared “a shifting of the tectonic plates” away from Labour after claiming a stunning victory in the Rochdale byelection.
Galloway, one of the most divisive politicians in Britain, won almost 40% of the vote in a contest beset by chaos and controversy and dominated by the conflict in Gaza.
He took aim at Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak in a victory speech that was interrupted by hecklers after a dramatic count at Rochdale leisure centre.
“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” he said. “You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Gaza, in the Gaza Strip.”
Galloway won 12,335 votes – 39.7% of the total – in a much more sweeping victory than anyone had predicted, giving him a 5,697-vote majority.
A surprise second place went to David Tully, a local businessman who stood as an independent, saying he would speak up for the town rather than use it as a vehicle for political ambition.
Labour, which abandoned its candidate, Azhar Ali, over inflammatory comments he made about Israel, finished in fourth place with just 7.7%, having held a near-10,000 vote majority in the constituency.
Ahead of Ali in third was the Conservative candidate, Paul Ellison, who was barely visible on the campaign trail, and is understood to have spent some of the period on holiday.
Galloway, an ex-Labour MP, has now unseated his former party in three elections and will return to parliament representing a fourth constituency in 37 years.
Addressing Starmer from the podium, Galloway said: “This is going to spark a movement, a landslide, a shifting of the tectonic plates, a score of parliamentary constituencies, beginning here in the north-west, in the West Midlands, in London, from Ilford to Bethnal Green & Bow.
“Labour is on notice that they have lost the confidence of millions of their voters who loyally and traditionally voted for them generation after generation.”
Ali did not attend the count and the Guardian understands that other Labour campaigners were told to stay away.
Despite a campaign dominated by events in the Middle East, Galloway said he hoped to put together a “grand alliance” with Rochdale councillors to work on local issues.
Dozens of Galloway supporters had gathered outside the leisure centre shortly after the polls closed, when it quickly became apparent that he was set for a decisive victory.
Inside the count, however, the mood was less hospitable. A family member of a rival candidate muttered “terrorist sympathiser” while another shouting “woe to Rochdale” after he was declared the winner.
Another heckler, who gave her name as Jane Twill, was removed by security after interrupting the victory speech by accusing Galloway of failing to address the climate emergency.
His victory comes after one of the most controversial and chaotic byelections in recent memory.
So confident was Galloway’s team that they briefed reporters within an hour of the polls closing that he had won “comfortably” and announced plans for a “mass rally” immediately after the declaration at his election headquarters, a former Suzuki showroom.
Labour, defending a near-10,000-vote majority and riding high in the polls, had expected a straightforward contest to replace the sitting MP, Tony Lloyd, who died on 17 January from leukaemia. But its campaign was thrown into disarray when it emerged its candidate had repeated anti-Israel conspiracy theories about the 7 October attack by Hamas.
Labour was eventually forced to disown Ali and abandoned its campaign barely a week into the contest. Although Ali’s name was on the ballot paper – it was too late to select another candidate – Labour stopped all electioneering in the town nearly three weeks ago.
Galloway turned his back on Christianity, which is not very surprising when “traitor” is what his name actually means
Limited hangout. Possibly more from a self-absorbed narcissistic point of view than consciously. He appeared, or appears, on Russia Today. That hat of his is a real affectation isn’t it?
Most in the alternative consensus will believe in his cause. But experience shows the only thing safety valve politics does, is enrich the actors and cause the mainstream parties to give lip service to what Galloway is promoting; to wit, “getting Israelis and Palestinians around the table”…
Mainstream politics adapts to what it calls “the extremes” by absorbing the feelings of people, promising they will do something, then skillfully reneging on promises.
If Muslim or secular white working class people vote for Keir Starmer’s Labour then they are voting for the most bigoted Deep State Labour PM worse even Turdy Blare. Starmer’s privileged background, grooming by the security services, Zionist wife and children, safe pair of dirty hands make him the shoe in victor of a non election campaign, the utter Janus face of British politics: change only for the worse and for the benefit of the very few.
However, if there were more Galloways, more determination to disrupt and cause consternation then Britain might find itself with a totally hung parliament, even the end of the vile Yew Kay itself. Bring it on!
MISSING KIDS
https://www.renegadetribune.com/jews-and-the-practice-of-cannibalism-in-the-tanakh/
The commenta I’m going to be watching this interesting he will liven up the place redecorate 😆 🤣
A hungry lion has entered the hens den. Plenty of noise they will make, ruffle some feathers 😆
A wonderful day! At least there will be one person worth listening to in Parliament.
No time for Galloway. His behaviour back in 2020 was and is unforgivable, he was as bad, in fact he was worse than scum like Morgan and Vine for pushing the plandemic and shilling for the jabs. He would not allow any other opinion that strayed from the hoax, he pushed the lie thousands of nhs workers had died from the non existant virus.
I would not piss on Galloway if he was on fire.
They’re already trying to blame George Galloway for any rising anti-Semitism caused by Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians and he hasn’t even been in office a day yet. It’s very telling how calling for a stop to Jewish genocide of Arab people is called a threat to the Jews.
The Labour Party said George only won because they didn’t stand a candidate, but once it was clear George was standing I think they knew the strength or loss of their vote would have been measured against George’s vote. Their door-knockers would have the feedback. Using so-called anti-Semitic comments from their Asian candidate was their opportunity to withdraw.
Who’d throw away an electoral seat just to please the Jews? Nobody would. I think Starmer will do poorly in the General Election. The Rochdale result suggests people will turn to Independent candidates where they can, and hopefully many will refuse to vote if they don’t have that choice.
What does this token signify?
Well, in the minds of many thicko sheeple, it gives them hope, and it reinforces the idea voting could bring real change.
I see this a huge step backwards for sheeple kind.
George is a bit like Michael Moore. He will go so far, and stop.
It will be highly unlikely that Galloway stands in the House of Commons, and calls them a bunch of Nazis. No, George is hook line and sinker, a democracy boy.
There’s this idea that George is the best thing to happen for the Nazi regime in a very long time. Watch Nazi Labour’s poll lead evaporate as the fake news media hangs on George’s every word.
It’s hard being a Scotsman in Rochdale…
but not for our Georgie who delivered a firm “FCK U Starmer! FCK U Labour! FCK U Richie Sh!tsak!” to the whole ZOGUK (((Establisment)))
No wonder (((The Guardian))) has its knickers in a twist!
LMFAO!!!😅😂🤣
“Starmer & Sunak are two cheeks of the same backside.. and it needs a good spanking”
CLASSIC George Galloway! LMFAO!!!🤣🤣🤣
There is a predictable unpredictability here –
The one apparently genuinely off-the-Globalist Script British Election Victory within living memory, and its a Communist who has attained the Islamic bloc vote in Grooming Gangland, not any kind of a Patriot.
There is no doubting Galloway’s integrity, the tenor of his speech and the W.B.L silly shouting ‘climate-change denier’ underlines that.
But honestly, after years of nonplussed reactions when stating that the Future lies with a resurgently Christian Russia – ‘Next Year in St. Petersburg’ ‘ – I should imagine the Rouble will now drop for some –
Isn’t it ironic that the assured takeover of British poly-ticks by Islam and its affiliates..
should be led by a flying Scotsman..(at least he’s ‘jewe’ wise)..
Although taking a peek up North it’s hardly surprising..with an ant-white Pakistani moslem nationalist party running the masonic shithole…
.and an intent to turn all of Willy Wallace’s verdant land into a free range migrant camp and free for all favela for floating criminals… managed by insane liberal midget white women..with ginger hair..
it wont be long until the clans are wearing tartan turbans..they already wear dresses so they are halfway there..
Just another anti-white pro-wog Commie.
Whatever else, this is completely off script and the overwrought talk of tectonic shifts is for once justified.
The BBC are obviously thoroughly uncomfortable with this, so are not making it the headline – ‘don’t look there, look over here’ – instead, leading with –
‘Navalny buried in Moscow as crowd chants anti-Putin slogans’ –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68427413
‘There is a heavy police presence in the area – but we have not heard of any arrests so far’
Reading this, you can FEEL the petulant disappointment that there are no hapless mourners being thwacked in the skull by heavy handed police with batons –
There is a major BBC irritant called Laura Gozzi who can he guaranteed to Badmouth, Steve Rosenberg-style, the Russian Authorities who tolerate her parasitical overpaid presence in their country –
‘There was a heavy police presence, but hours after the proceedings started there were no reports of any arrests.
Perhaps the feeling there was strength in numbers as people chanted “no to war”, “Russia without Putin” and “Russia will be free”.
Many have routinely been arrested simply for carrying signs bearing these slogans.
Today, emboldened by the occasion, a crowd of thousands chanted them.’
(Translation :- ‘Why won’t the S.O.Bs make some arrests and give me some decent Copy, fer crivvens sake? ‘ )
On all fronts the Anal Empire is losing the plot, if nothing else Galloway will stir the proverbial in the Houses of Shame. Groom and rape British working class girls no problem but expose the chosenites favourite pastime of murdering women and children and your an anti Semite . Anal stooges like Farage have been wheeled out to bang the controlled anti Muslim drum along with that absolute cretin Truss (since when did these freaks give a toss about the working class) . The multi cultural house of cards is collapsing ,oh dear like Ukraine the Crowleyist faggots didn’t see it coming. It is drama but when empires crash that’s all it is , clowns always turn it to farce.
So Alleged Jane Twill ? Was removed from the hall after accusing Mr Galloway of ignoring the climate change issue
George Galloway should have asked of her ,, what climate change Emergency?.
Oh great, another Commie nutjob has won some rigged ‘election’. Now he can go to work representing wogs instead of whites.
Notice ZWOG allows these Commies to win ‘elections’ in these ‘western nations’, but never permits a white nationalist/fascist to win.
George will have his hands full combatting the Jew-Loving, Rothschild Agents in the British Govt, owned by the Rothschilds for over 300 years. Britain, the US & the rest of the west are Jew-Ruled. The Rothschild flagship has gone from Britain to the USA. There’s a good chance that Jewry will get us NUKED.
Go George!
Watch all the Commies come out on this thread supporting this anti-white weirdo.
@Chesterton
That erudition and wit quality is what keeps me dropping by this place.Magnificent parody there.
zio-shills are annoyed by the expected result. sea of change is coming whether Zio Tugs likes it or not. Zionism /nazism are cracking loud. who’s blaming Soro’s fund and its allied warmongers for pumping refugees into Europe? George Galloway will. calling him a commie is absurd. ‘grooming and gang rape’ is how the Jewish mafia cries out loud while he raped a little white girl.
remember ‘human-animal’.
injecting poison, climate change BS, gender-bending on unprotected children, destroying farming … the list is long. how does a sane person still stand for zionists’ sickness?
is that the sort of hat commies wear?
As a White South African Holocaust revisionist I say “Well Done George” I may not agree on all you stand for I certainly support you 100% in your stand for GAZA!!
And @Lewis Jones George has pronounced on many occasions he is a Christian.
‘Galloway’ likely has a Yid hanging on his family tree somewhere. There’s a jewy look about this Commie.
the article above was on MSN so its biased please check who is putting this stuff up as several MSN jew based pieces have recently appeared here
Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you.
PS I just couldn’t help adding that
BUT not that I actually think this guy is anything other than the toady and Commie creep that he undeniably is.
George Galloway is NO HERO.
These Nazi’s don’t know diddly squat, I’m waiting for the coming alien invasion.
Just amazing. Mourning for LJR must be over, because the Joos, Zionists, and Nazis are out in force to bash old George. Maybe they are just all bits. lol
Galloway believes in the vote, he believes in party politics as classically understood, so he’s just another Nazi actor playing his part to invigorate the the thicko sheeple voters.
Anyone who encourages voting, is Satan’s best mate.
Add some sidelocks to this ‘scotsman’ & you have a hasidic jew looking at you.
Interesting comments here – don’t know what to think now.
What IS perturbing is this thought – a Communist pro-Islamist friend of Fidel Castro is not going to be Debanked by the Corporate British Bankers – people here are having a go at Farage, but it is a patriot like him, not Galloway, who is the target of what really is now IngSoc –
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/07/the-terrifying-rise-of-debanking/
And is most likely to be targeted by MI5 because they were ‘born that way’ and not this way –
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/diversity
germany would need a man like this ! but
too many leftist green jewass licking voters .
@Himmler
Anyone donning a crombie i think start’s channelling that-chicken-swinger- vibe.Does him no favours in the sartorial stakes for certain.
Carl Jones on March 1, 2024 at 12:26 pm
What does this token signify?
It will be highly unlikely that Galloway stands in the House of Commons, and calls them a bunch of Nazis.’
Of COURSE it is highly unlikely, because they AREN’T Nazis – Communists, Socialists, Feminists, Man-haters , every variety of Woke Representation etc etc but not not not Nazis ffs
Only YOU do this, Carl Jones.
Please, please, please, run for Parliament, win the bloody seat and then stand up for your Maiden Speech calling every single Woke Clone in that Chamber a Nazi –
Lloyd George, Rowan Williams, Neil Kinnock –
From now on, wherever Carl Jones designates everybody he thinks is a major pain in the posterior a “nazi’ , I will designate everybody I can think of who has made life on this planet, potentially a Paradise on Earth, an utter Hell – a Welsh Windbag –
Because, F*** me, that is almost the conclusion Carl ‘everybody is a nazi except the Russians ‘ Jones has driven me to –
And I famously am ‘existentially’ in favour of Russia –
yeah i don’t really care about this galloway commie and these palestine wogs it loves. nothing about millions of wogs invading Britain, but we’re supposed to care about these wogs in israel
Cambridge Don on March 1, 2024 at 8:26 pm
@Himmler
Anyone donning a crombie i think start’s channelling that-chicken-swinger- vibe.Does him no favours in the sartorial stakes for certain.’
And the rest is at odds with the crombie, it all looks like an A I generated image of Tony Hancock from the 1950s, with added clashing colours on the tie.
And where are the Islamics in the photograph – look at the guys in the background – recalibrate the picture in black and white, and it would be a dead-ringer for the local paper coverage of the Conservative by-election victory in Welling circa 1952 –
The BradberyPound – this will change everything.
Excellent interview on UKColumn
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/justin-walker-the-bradbury-pound-and-fraudulent-banking
This will topple the whole shadow jewish empire built on usury..
Scheckelgrabber berg–I was thinking of the time when he admitted he was Moslem and had converted all of ten years before. Moslems often approach Christians with the assurance that “we are Christian too”, but that is impossible
George Galloway claims that he wears his hat, even while indoors, to hide the scarring on his forehead, inflicted during the brutal 2014 assault on him by a jewish zealot in Notting Hill.
I think that he’s being a little disingenuous about this. It was certainly a serious assault. His attacker was jailed for 16 months. Yet, if you look at the photos, released to the public, immediately after the event, it is quite clear that Galloway’s injuries are the result of the blunt force trauma of clenched fists.
Without wishing to diminish the seriousness of the crime, nor the suffering that Galloway endured, there were no lesions on his forehead. There was a large and unsightly welt above his right brow; a bruising indicative of having sustained one or more bare-knuckle punches to the head.
Donning a hat and dark glasses to disguise a bad beating is perfectly understandable. Bruises heal, however and I agree with Simon that there is an air of affectation and image-consciousness involved in this boutique.
If there is no scarring, as I believe, then it’s likely that his concern is with the exposure of his vastly receeded hairline.
It seems, anyway, that Galloway is likely to be prohibited, by rules of etiquette, from sporting his favoured headware on the floor of the House of Commons. So we’ll soon find out whether or not he has been bluffing all along. That’s something to look forward to.
I own a fedora but it’s superior to Galloway’s. Mine’s waxed and wide brimmed and better than an umbrella during rainfall. I don’t wear it indoors though.
I say don’t vote Commie or Natzee.
Vote Mr Reid-Browne for President
All who say Aye, Say Aye 🙂