Respect

30 Mar 2012

Don't know about any one else, but thanks to George Galloway becoming an MP again - might liven up the Westminster 'village' some what
lol

Whilst turnout in the Bradford West by-election was just over 50%, compared with 64.9% in the 2010 general election, taking over 50% of the vote and having a majority of over 10,000 compared with Labour's 5,763 2010 majority is some going.
:arrow: George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 ( %, + %)
:arrow: Imran Hussain (Labour) 8,201 ( %, - %)
:arrow: Jackie Whiteley (Conservative) 2,746 ( %, - %)
:arrow: Jeanette Sunderland (Liberal Democrat) 1,505 ( %, - %)
:arrow: Sonja McNally (UKIP) 1,085 ( %, + %)
:arrow: Dawud Islam (Green) 481 ( %, - %)
:arrow: Neil Craig (D Nats) 344 ( %)
:arrow: Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 111 ( %)
Granted it's the second time Mr Galloway has upset the political odds - he pulled off one of the most memorable results of the 2005 General Election when he overturned a large Labour majority in London's Bethnal Green and Bow.

30 Mar 2012

You've got to hand it to this guy. He is an incredible operator.
I still remember with some humour when he was 'summonsed' to appear before a Senate Committee in the States in the aftermath of the Iraq debacle.
They were warned not to engage him but being fearless yanks they did - and lived to regret it! He wiped the floor with them and outclassed them at every turn.
What I thought really cool was a reporter half suggesting to him this morning (whilst he was wearing dark glasses in a 'morning after the night before' type scenario) that he must have had a 'good' night to which he replied in his usual calm, quiet and collected way that he is teetotal, as was his father and his father before him and "God willing" his children will be after him.
Mr Speaker is going to find it very difficult not to 'catch his eye'.
Can't wait.

30 Mar 2012

Quote by GnV
You've got to hand it to this guy. He is an incredible operator.
I still remember with some humour when he was 'summonsed' to appear before a Senate Committee in the States in the aftermath of the Iraq debacle.
They were warned not to engage him but being fearless yanks they did - and lived to regret it! He wiped the floor with them and outclassed them at every turn.

What I thought really cool was a reporter half suggesting to him this morning (whilst he was wearing dark glasses in a 'morning after the night before' type scenario) that he must have had a 'good' night to which he replied in his usual calm, quiet and collected way that he is teetotal, as was his father and his father before him and "God willing" his children will be after him.
Mr Speaker is going to find it very difficult not to 'catch his eye'.
Can't wait.

:thumbup:
He is an interesting fellow wink

30 Mar 2012

skilled lawyer and of course great speaker.
many dont like him but he may go down as one of the great speakers of our time.
when he speaks people listen. he has crossed borders and shook hands with people from all walks of life.
he knew that in bradford this was the way to win.

30 Mar 2012

Quote by HnS
Don't know about any one else, but thanks to George Galloway becoming an MP again - might liven up the Westminster 'village' some what

well i am sure it will not be to long before this is threatened on him again.

also this rather vile man has been banned from canada on security grounds in the past. his links to iraq
we will now have to start calling him Al Gal-i-way as i am sure his conversion to islam is only around the corner. yes a very clever politician as he carefully hand picks the seats he decides to stand in. bethnal green and bradford west, now what have they both got in common innocent

" Although the victorious Dundee-born son of the desert's boast that his win is the ' Most sensational by-election bar none' since the war is both way over the top and historically inaccurate, Gorgeous George has undoubtedly ridden a wave of anti-Westminster loathing among voters, and it was very foolish and complacent of Labour in particular to give Gorgeous the chance to waddle onto his surfboard by allowing their sitting MP to retire on health grounds, expecting that the good burghers of Bradford would obediently troop into the polling booths to vote for whichever donkey wore a red rosette ". :thumbup:
at least i will have someone else to listen to now on talk sport radio. :lol:

31 Mar 2012

Quote by starlightcouple
also this rather vile man has been banned from canada on security grounds in the past. his links to iraq
we will now have to start calling him Al Gal-i-way as i am sure his conversion to islam is only around the corner. yes a very clever politician as he carefully hand picks the seats he decides to stand in. bethnal green and bradford west, now what have they both got in common

It is indeed shameful that there are not more representatives of the people who have the courage of their convictions to stand up and be counted. I do not necessarily sit well with left wing politics but I can count on a number of very capable orators - GG being one of them - Tony Benn another - who speak perfect sense, powerfully and with great passion.

Quote by tyracer
when he speaks people listen.

:thumbup:

31 Mar 2012

It is nice to see that sometimes people are able to see past the propaganda and misrepresentation of the renews my faith in my fellow man .... what next?? an honest assessment of John Prescott ... I wont hold my breath

31 Mar 2012

Quote by GnV
It is indeed shameful that there are not more representatives of the people who have the courage of their convictions to stand up and be counted. I do not necessarily sit well with left wing politics but I can count on a number of very capable orators - GG being one of them - Tony Benn another - who speak perfect sense, powerfully and with great passion.

i am glad you take him so seriously gnv. rolleyes

31 Mar 2012

i am sure we can all sleep in our beds a bit safer in the knowledge that george galloway is now an mp. rolleyes

dont think to much of some of his mates though. flipa

31 Mar 2012

A man with principles. One of the few MPs pubicly opposed to the war on Iraq, as I was at the time (unlike an awful lot of people who bang on about blair the warmonger of late) he was pilloried by his parliamentary colleagues and the press.
I wish we had more MPs like him and fewer mealy mouthed scum bags who are happy to keep their heads below the parapet when we need them to speak out.
Good on ya George.

31 Mar 2012

Quote by Ben_Minx
A man with principles. One of the few MPs pubicly opposed to the war on Iraq,

we he not friends with saddam at the time? money paid to him from saddam for some thing or another? i may be wrong there though as just something i remember from the distant past.

Quote by Ben_Minx
who are happy to keep their heads below the parapet when we need them to speak out.

not this person though. was more than ready to speak out and act on what she beleeved in :thumbup:

rotflmao

31 Mar 2012

I'll admit, Galloway is not someone I would support, or vote for, but I'd rather see him in politics and Westminster, than not.

31 Mar 2012

I would find it hard to vote for anybody who made such a tit of themsleves on Big Brother but then again it shows some humanity I spose.

31 Mar 2012

Quote by starlightcouple
i am sure we can all sleep in our beds a bit safer in the knowledge that george galloway is now an mp.

I'm sure we could all sleep safely in our beds if we had more people like GG, Tony Benn and a few others who stood their ground and defied the party machine by voting against Bliar on the illegal invasion of Iraq for the purposes of regime change.
The enormous cost of the Iraq invasion and the tinkering with Afghanistan, Pakistan et-al in both monetary terms and in the loss of life is shameful.
Like Ben, I too was publicly opposed to the invasion of Iraq at the time but fully supported our troops being deployed to defend the Falklands.
I cannot lay claim to being a pacifist.
In the case of Afghanistan, I - like many others I suspect - have never really understood our involvement in this conflict despite the glut of weak excuses emanating from Westminster and other places over the years. I still subscribe to the view that it would have been better to pay-off the drug barons and take the poppy crop ourselves for far less cost in both human and cash terms.
The one floor with that argument of course was the risk to the huge amount of profits made by the drug companies peddling their clinical version - morphine and its derivatives - which costs the NHS (funded of course by taxation) very dear.
MP's like GG tell it like it is and idiots like Gorbals Mick (when Speaker) suppress 'free' speech in Parliament.

31 Mar 2012

Quote by GnV
i am sure we can all sleep in our beds a bit safer in the knowledge that george galloway is now an mp.

I'm sure we could all sleep safely in our beds if we had more people like GG, Tony Benn and a few others who stood their ground and defied the party machine by voting against Bliar on the illegal invasion of Iraq for the purposes of regime change.
The enormous cost of the Iraq invasion and the tinkering with Afghanistan, Pakistan et-al in both monetary terms and in the loss of life is shameful.
Like Ben, I too was publicly opposed to the invasion of Iraq at the time but fully supported our troops being deployed to defend the Falklands.
I cannot lay claim to being a pacifist.
In the case of Afghanistan, I - like many others I suspect - have never really understood our involvement in this conflict despite the glut of weak excuses emanating from Westminster and other places over the years. I still subscribe to the view that it would have been better to pay-off the drug barons and take the poppy crop ourselves for far less cost in both human and cash terms.
The one floor with that argument of course was the risk to the huge amount of profits made by the drug companies peddling their clinical version - morphine and its derivatives - which costs the NHS (funded of course by taxation) very dear.
MP's like GG tell it like it is and idiots like Gorbals Mick (when Speaker) suppress 'free' speech in Parliament.
Tony Benn, yet another fantastic speaker of our time :thumbup: