George Galloway is now the favourite to win Rochdale by-election, say bookies, after Labour denounces candidate

by je97

29 comments

  1. The writing for this season’s by-election episodes has been a bit unbelievable… oh wait.

  2. You have to salute his courage, his strength, his indefatigability 🤢

  3. His pro Russian/anti Ukraine rants are outrageously misinformed. An insufferable demagogue through and through.

  4. Rochdale gets exactly the MP it so richly deserves. Democracy works.

  5. Is Rochdale situated upon an old Indian burial ground, or some Pagan Wickerman deal because those feckers are cursed.

  6. I was going to allude to him being a weasel then I remembered he was a cat.

    Odious little man who will just say whatever a certain demographic wants to hear regardless of how unpleasant

  7. The Mandela effect has burned the image of him mewling for pets like a cat at Saddam Hussain into my brain.

  8. So the person who recorded the comments, sat on them until it was too late to change the candidate, and then released them before the election…they’ve done a really good job of keeping antisemitism out of Parliament haven’t they the dozy twat.

  9. Bloody hell, he is the luckiest cat in the political world.

  10. He will be like the cat that got the cream if he wins

  12. The bookies are usually on the money but I don’t see it. I think the labour candidate will get it…and never sit as a labour mp. Absolute joke. Who the hell vets these candidates? I mean it’s not as bad as corbyn days but that’s a lack of detail… and as the offence took place in front of multiple witnesses, apparently widely held views!

  13. A reminder of some of Galloway’s career highlights (no cats included):

    >In 1994 Galloway met Saddam Hussein – the Iraqi dictator presumably taking a break from having his opponents burned alive in acid baths. In the ensuing meeting, Galloway praised Saddam, “your excellency”, for his “courage”, “strength” and “indefatigability”.

    >The dissolution of the Soviet Union – which Galloway described as “the biggest catastrophe of my life”

    >“Just as Stalin industrialised the Soviet Union, so on a different scale Saddam plotted Iraq’s own Great Leap Forward,” wrote Galloway in his autobiography.

    >Galloway heaped praise on the Iranian despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Iranian-run Press TV. He lauded the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

    >He opposes abortion and caused a storm of controversy in 2012 after commenting that the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who at the time was wanted on charges of rape in Sweden, had merely engaged in “bad sexual etiquette”. “Not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion,” Galloway added.

    >In 2020 as reports were emerging that upwards of a million Uyghur Muslims were being persecuted in Xinjiang, Galloway went on Russian state television to claim that there were “no concentration camps in China”.

    >In a typically self-effacing tweet on February 14, he wrote: “Y’all said #Russia was about to invade #Ukraine. I told you it wasn’t. You were wrong. I was right. Again. Show some bloody humility. Especially if they’re not even paying you to act like an idiot.”

    >In 2022, Galloway said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was “not what I wanted”, but blamed the invasion on western countries “pumping Ukraine full of NATO weapons”, attracting criticism from other British political parties. 

  14. I’m a hard-core socialist and I think this man is a pig.

  15. Would you like… *Me to play the cat*…?

    That still makes my skin crawl to my very core.

  17. I have to ask, has anything good ever come out of Rochdale? 

  18. So all the media has done is ensure that someone far more antisemitic than the labour candidate has been elected

  19. I wish I’d put a few quid on him back when he was 30/1 or whatever it would have been initially.

  20. I’ll always recall when I was on a school trip for my politics A-Level, we went to see a number of politicians and commentators do presentations.l, students from all over the country were there, Andrew Neil and Boris Johnson were there (This was around 2006-2007 so Bojo wasn’t as obviously awful as he is now, he was actually very funny), plus about 3-4 others. Galloway was meant to be there for his party which I think was Respect? He instead chose to go have a meal with a an oligarch and didn’t come to our thing. His deputy, whose name escapes me, got utterly destroyed by a bunch of angry 17 YO students, I almost felt sorry for him.

    Since then even if I somehow agreed with Galloway’s politics, I’ve never liked him as a person.

  21. Anyone remember the time he got into a Twitter spat with a local brewery/pub and started issuing veiled threats in the style of a movie supervillain? When pointed out to him that it was not *his* constituency (at the time, Parliament had been dissolved for the upcoming election) he replied “well then, I shall return to this matter after the election. You have been most unwise.” Of course he lost the seat, and was therefore unable to return to the matter.

  22. The people of Rochdale should ask Dundee what they thought of Galloway when he was in charge there.

    The man has been on the grift for decades.

  23. Going through the candidates in this by-election is nuts. First there is Galloway. Then Labour and Greens have disowned their candidates. Tory is a tory. Leaves Lib Dem as the only vote for sane people but seems like they aren’t making much noise there.

  24. I’m going to stick my neck out here: UK politics needs its firebrand socialists and Galloway has takes fights that other politicians routinely run away from. His ability to fearlessly argue for social justice is unsurpassed.

    And, yes he can be a bit of a bellend with some funny ideas about things, but on a personal level, I can identify with that.

  25. Hope he gets torn apart in parliament if he does win

  26. A sign of things to come in the future. Galloway is almost entirely backed by one demographic who put one issue above all others.

  27. Please don’t cancel me for this but I’m assuming the majority of Rochdale, just like the people of the rest of the U.K., care more about their town being affordable, clean, safe and a decent place to live than they do someone saying something mean about Israel. 

    I’m not racist or anti semitic but honestly I just can’t give a shit about Israel when I can barely afford my Tesco shop and think the media and politicians need to sort out their priorities and stop this “culture politics” nonsense.   

    Just put a decent human being forward who cares about the constituency more than their own pocket that’s all anyone wants.

  28. I have a low opinion of MPs at it is. It’s about to get much lower if this pillock wins

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