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Batley and Spen by election
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The aftertimes arms must have reopened.
Donny and pea brained punter sipping tepid tap water out of ladies glasses |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57695098
Nazia Iqbal said it was the right result and that "Kim will unite people". She said the election campaign had left her very anxious and claimed George Galloway was "divisive". "My personal experience was that I had somebody knocking on my door and said to me 'Will you vote for George?' and I said no. "And, instead of telling me the merits of voting for George, he said 'Well you're failing as a Muslim' and 'How are you going to face God on the day of judgement because you're failing the Palestinian people'. "That was offensive to me and it was inappropriate. Tell me why based on his merits and what he is going to do for us why I should vote for him, not the fact that if I don't vote for him I'm a bad Muslim. "I felt that was manipulative and inappropriate and a lot of people have been swayed by that. Ms Iqbal said that Palestine was a "massive issue", but thought that "we need to deal with our local issues", including higher that average child poverty in the town. Worrying times |
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Galloway is just tapping into the hatred that already exists in that area (and others), coming from the islamist extremists. He's a political opportunist. What do people expect to happen when a way of life is imported into this country that is in direct conflict to the prevailing values of the country as a whole. The paedo gangs, predominately asian Muslim men perps and white underage girl victims have been going on for decades in out towns, and still are, largely ignored by the institutions. That is nothing to do with Galloway.
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Graham Stringer (Labour MP) was doing the media rounds yesterday, and fair play to him. Instead of dodging the issues facing us, like most politicians do, he acknowledged them. And said we should be actively supporting our shared values as a country, whatever the traditional political allegiances.
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Who knew? Where's the cat going next?
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Good old George, a repugnant POS. Wonder where he has all that cash stashed that Maddas gave to him?
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Quite.
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The left used to wax lyrical and pine over George...until he backed Brexit
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Galloway was thrown out of Labour years before anyone thought of Brexit. Tony Benn would have backed Brexit but his legacy is still highly respected by the left
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another nutty conspiracy theorist
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1411272102297100291 |
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Artificial troll finds it impossible to comprehend that the govt don't have his best interest at heart
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Timber is your username a reference to the last word you heard being shouted when you were walking in the woods and felt a bang on your head?
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How did Labour cling on to Batley and Spen?
While shedding support in Batley proper + Heckmondwike, mostly to Galloway, it netted new support in the Conservative and Lib Dem leaning areas of the Spenborough valley. BE's @bnhwalker has the lowdown: https://t.co/gSvSaswGFi |
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/04/the-observer-view-on-the-batley-and-spen-byelection-campaign-and-result
. The Observer summary of the by election. |
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No doubt there will be some serious research
that will not get published, carried out by all parties. |
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The most worrying thing by far, to me, is the bbc report where a resident was being castigated for not voting in a particular way, as her religion demanded. This is very dangerous territory.
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It's crazy that folk use negative
tactics, but they work. BBC fed stories from tory central office, treat with care. |
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It's this one that concerns me Donny. It seems completely genuine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57695098 Nazia Iqbal said it was the right result and that "Kim will unite people". She said the election campaign had left her very anxious and claimed George Galloway was "divisive". "My personal experience was that I had somebody knocking on my door and said to me 'Will you vote for George?' and I said no. "And, instead of telling me the merits of voting for George, he said 'Well you're failing as a Muslim' and 'How are you going to face God on the day of judgement because you're failing the Palestinian people'. "That was offensive to me and it was inappropriate. Tell me why based on his merits and what he is going to do for us why I should vote for him, not the fact that if I don't vote for him I'm a bad Muslim. "I felt that was manipulative and inappropriate and a lot of people have been swayed by that. Ms Iqbal said that Palestine was a "massive issue", but thought that "we need to deal with our local issues", including higher that average child poverty in the town. |
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Yeah, I saw it, but it's also
playing into tory narrative so they want it broadcast. You just have to read on here to know what the position is |
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You can see how that tactic could corrupt our whole electoral system, if adopted by the wrong persons?
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It already has.
Likely we'll get local kids in their dingies paddling on Huddersfield canal With some bully from home office telling them to get home for their teas. You know the stuff Plant some journos on a warship and sail it through disputed water the week before by election Start a fish war in Channel islands the day before a by election. These things are shockers but they lap it up. Losing netenyahoo a big blow to tories, as was trump. |
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so the 2 above think its wrong for folk knocking on doors bullying them and blackmailing them into voting the way they want.yet think its fine for our govt to do the same to us regarding vaccines and health choice
hypocrisy at its very best  |
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Labour Kim Leadbeater 13,296
Conservative Ryan Stephenson 12,973 Workers Party George Galloway 8,264 Liberal Democrats Tom Gordon 1,254 Yorkshire Corey Robinson 816 English Democrat Thérèse Hirst 207 UKIP Jack Thomson 151 Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope 107 Alliance for Green Socialism Mike Davies 104 CPA Paul Bickerdike 102 Freedom Alliance Jonathon Tilt 100 For Britain Anne Marie Waters 97 Rejoin EU Andrew Smith 75 SDP Ollie Purser 66 Independent Jayda Fransen 50 Heritage Susan Laird 33 |
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politicspunter • June 27, 2021 7:15 PM BST
From the Daily Mail... A senior Tory source involved in the campaign said: 'We are worried about Galloway. The question mark is all about turnout. 'We have got to get our vote out, and we should win it. I think Galloway will hoover up the Muslim vote - almost all of it. 'He should get around 12,000 votes - although it depends on turnout. If we get 14,000 we should be alright. Labour look like getting 6,000. 'Galloway is the threat. Labour is f*****.' They added: 'No doubt about it, I think Galloway has destroyed the Labour Party in this seat. I was trying to work out some figures according to this on the spot report from the constituency. Galloway would get roughly 33%. Smarkets have a market up where they are offering 5.3 on Galloway getting 15% or more. If that report is correct (I am not saying it is) that Smarkets price looks crazy. That Tory source was right enough about Galloway. |
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Bizarre, and where did the 7k
extra labour come from, as he wasn't far out on 14k tory votes. I really thought he was being mischievous with his comments. (maybe he still was?) But oddly got 2 out of 3 right yet was miles out on Labour, |
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My thoughts exactly, but he was on the ball with a good chunk of it.
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Betting suggested the poll watchers
knew it wasn't a 1/5 job. I suspect I would have done badly as a punter on this. The ferrari arrived just in time for tory layers. |
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I found that the betting was extremely volatile which gave a decent opportunity, as always, of coming out with a decent profit. I am still astonished about how close Galloway came to winning this. It would have been a nightmare result for me, betting wise.
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I had written him off.
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I had him getting absolute max 20% and didn't give him much hope of achieving it.
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whats the diff between george galloway an a gypsy ?
a gypsy has been to less constituencies |
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A girl goes to the doctors with greenish skin on the inside of her thighs. Doctor gives her some ointment and tells her to come back the next week. She returns and the condition is worse. Doctor asks if her boyfriend is a gypsy which she affirms. Tell him his earrings aren't gold.
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Stewards Enquiry looming on the narrow victory?
Not before time either from what we've learned this week. . https://order-order.com/2021/11/12/new-galloway-files-legal-challenge-of-batley-by-election-over-labours-failure-to-declare-use-of-mps-offices-to-phone-bank/ . https://order-order.com/2021/11/11/more-labour-mps-caught-red-handed-phone-banking-from-parliament/ |
