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Post by Minormorris64 on Feb 13, 2024 10:40:04 GMT 1
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Post by martinshrew on Feb 13, 2024 11:24:08 GMT 1
They just can't shake it off, can they?
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Post by Dancin on Feb 13, 2024 15:43:25 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2024 21:00:53 GMT 1
Starmer is a bit of a knob. Blair on the other hand is a war criminal, but every one of the MPs that voted for the invasion of Iraq is culpable. |
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Feb 14, 2024 9:22:09 GMT 1
Guess who's back, back again...  ‘Gaza George’ Galloway becomes Rochdale by-election frontrunnerHaving read this you really do feel for the people of Rochdale, they deserve better. What a mess. Just to add that Kate Osamor lost the whip some time back for her comments regarding Gaza and Graham Jones, a former MP and candidate for Hyndburn has also been suspended. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2024 18:15:02 GMT 1
Rochdale was part of my patch for a number of years when I worked in the NHS so I do have some affinity for the town and the people. It is certainly a right mess and it will be interesting to see how the voters react or even vote with their feet and stay away on ballot day. Fortunately, it is only a by election (although I'm not being demeaning when I say that) and the voters will have a second opportunity this year when the general election is called. |
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Feb 15, 2024 9:33:37 GMT 1
Rochdale was part of my patch for a number of years when I worked in the NHS so I do have some affinity for the town and the people. It is certainly a right mess and it will be interesting to see how the voters react or even vote with their feet and stay away on ballot day. Fortunately, it is only a by election (although I'm not being demeaning when I say that) and the voters will have a second opportunity this year when the general election is called. Let's hope the standard of candidates improves by then...👍 |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Feb 16, 2024 14:13:17 GMT 1
Let us hope they get a decent candidate
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Post by jamo on Feb 16, 2024 22:13:21 GMT 1
Makes me wonder how the bloke got selected in the first place. Completely unacceptable on all fronts
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Post by staffordshrew on Feb 17, 2024 11:11:03 GMT 1
The people of Rochdale deserve something better, than Rochdale.
In addition to a disenfranchised candidate, they have Galloway and Simon Danczuk, the former Labour MP who was suspended from the party for sending explicit messages to a 17-year-old girl, standing in the Rochdale byelection for the Reform party.
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Mar 1, 2024 9:26:41 GMT 1
Meow!! Galloway romps home then. What to make of all this... Well looking to his victory speech and the interviews I have seen the focus was very much on Gaza, Labour and Starmer. Granted he might give Sunak a headache or two regarding calls for a ceasefire but he seems determined to make things uncomfortable for Starmer. But whether he can do so, I'm not so sure. Whilst Galloway mentioned his party is to stand in other constituencies come the general election I think the party starts and ends with Galloway and he can't be in two places at once. I think Starmer can ride this one out. You suspect Galloway isn't only going to be around in the Commons for too long. He did mention Rochdale once or twice, mind. Good to hear him make reference to Labour turning a blind eye to the grooming gangs, that can't be repeated enough at the moment considering they are now doing the exact same thing when it comes to the threat posed by Islamists (and those who support them). We know Labour and the left can be paralyzed with identity politics, good to see it called out. But all in all, I'm not sure this is a good advertisement for the state of UK politics at the moment. There are discussions as to whether he will even stand in Rochdale come the election or whether he might try someplace else (I gather on the same ticket but somewhere with a larger Muslim community). I do wonder what the people of Rochdale of thinking this morning, not those who got their man of course but the majority who have seen their MP voted in because of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians rather than the needs of people of Rochdale. Thankfully they might not have to wait so long to pick again. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2024 15:44:14 GMT 1
Over 6 out of 10 Rochdale voters stayed at home, I don't blame them.
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Post by martinshrew on Mar 1, 2024 15:50:44 GMT 1
Over 6 out of 10 Rochdale voters stayed at home, I don't blame them. My house would be on Rightmove by tea if I was in Rochdale. What a farce. |
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Post by ssshrew on Mar 1, 2024 17:35:27 GMT 1
While I don’t blame voters for not going out in this instance, it does illustrate what you can end up with if you don’t bother.
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Post by rob62 on Mar 1, 2024 20:08:57 GMT 1
As other people have mentioned the General Election will have a far higher turnout so Galloway and this band of pro Palestinian fanatics will have no chance of being elected. They may however in a few seat with large Muslim populations split the "left" vote (not that Stammer is advocating socialist policies) which could influence who wins with our crazy and out dated First Past the Post electoral system.
Of course Gaza may not be headline news in 6 Months
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Post by ssshrew on Mar 1, 2024 20:20:39 GMT 1
Sadly. I think it will.
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