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Who is George Galloway? Past controversies of UK Special Election favourite
Yahoo! News ^ | Feb 29 | Story by Andy Wells

Posted on 02/29/2024 10:18:51 AM PST by RandFan

Controversial politician George Galloway has emerged as the bookies’ favourite to be named Rochdale’s next MP following a chaotic by-election campaign.

Galloway, a former Labour and Respect Party MP, now leads the Workers Party of Britain and has set his sights on another return to parliament.

To say the contest has been be chaotic would be an understatement. Labour, which is defending the seat following the death of the sitting MP in January, withdrew support for its candidate, Azhar Ali, over remarks suggesting Israel was complicit with the massacre of its own people on 7 October.

The implosion of Ali’s campaign has meant Galloway, who is heavily campaigning on the Palestinian cause and Gaza, has been able to appeal to many of Rochdale’s Muslim population.

Elsewhere, the Reform Party candidate is Simon Danczuk – another former Labour MP who was suspended by the party after sending explicit messages to a 17-year-old girl in 2016. He has also been the subject of an alleged death threat. Meanwhile, the Green Party withdrew support for its candidate days after putting him forward after old social media posts came to light.

So, while the likely winner is hard to determine, Galloway is certainly in the mix...

Galloway has spoken openly about his feelings on the Gaza war throughout the by-election campaign and described Israel as an “apartheid” state. Campaign rallies have seen supporters chant ‘From the river to the sea’ – a phrase regarded as antisemitic by some.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antisemite; galloway; georgegalloway; gorgeousgeorge; hamas; iran; lgbtq; muslimterrorist; pervert; traitor
This freak show is going on today/tonight
1 posted on 02/29/2024 10:18:51 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Plays the flute, doesn’t he?


2 posted on 02/29/2024 10:24:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: RandFan

This old commie’s still around?


3 posted on 02/29/2024 10:27:48 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart

He says this will be his last election @ age 69


4 posted on 02/29/2024 10:30:45 AM PST by RandFan
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To: hellinahandcart

SEEMS LIKE he’s been around forever, but apparently he’s onlr four years older than me.

I am depressed.


5 posted on 02/29/2024 10:31:10 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, I thought he was a terrific flautist.


6 posted on 02/29/2024 10:52:23 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: RandFan

Labor Party kicked out their nominee for crazy anti-Semitic comments.

So now they don’t have a candidate and that district won’t vote Conservative.

Galloway is a sick freak who has been working for Chicoms doing propaganda for them.

Of course he also propagandizes for Russia and Hamas.


7 posted on 02/29/2024 10:53:49 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

This communist and terrorist supporter has a few fans here, though.


8 posted on 02/29/2024 11:09:22 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ifinnegan

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3255155/posts
The panelist George Galloway described fascism as a “Christian phenomenon”,

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387832/posts

Controversial anti-Israel politician and London Mayoral candidate George Galloway has been accused of “fascism,” after refusing a man entry to his events because he is pro-Israel.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3395348/posts

A brutal ISIS torturer wasn’t the only jihadist terrorist who traveled with former British MP George Galloway to Gaza, it has been revealed.

According to a recent report, Alexander Kotey left the UK on Galloway’s “Viva Palestina” convoy to Gaza in 2009, and from there eventually made his way to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group. [...]

As many as eight Muslim extremists who would later be convicted of or involved in terrorist activities joined the convoy, according to The Times. Among them were Amin Addala and Reza Afsharzadegan, both known associates of Emwazi from west London; and Stephen Gray, a former member of the Royal Air Force who attempted to join ISIS.

The list of extremists who traveled with Galloway also includes a member of the Taliban and former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Jamal al-Harith. Al-Harith was released from Guantanamo in 2004, and more recently joined ISIS in Syria.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449102/posts

George Galloway And The Left’s Alliance With Terror

The news that British MP George Galloway was the planned guest speaker at a February 1 Hamas fundraiser at Boston’s Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace would, in a morally coherent world, be alarming for those in the West who wonder why elected officials should be gathering support for a group of jihadist thugs whose principal efforts are dedicated to the extirpation of Israel and the murder of Jews.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690693/posts
MP George Galloway has congratulated Hizbollah on its “victory” in Israel.

At a news conference in a Beirut hotel, the controversial politician said: “I came here to extend my congratulations to the Lebanese people on a great and historic victory against this aggression.

“I want to congratulate the Lebanese resistance and their leading edge, Hizbollah, whose martyrs and her s have achieved this great victory.

“And in particular to their leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose name now rings in joy around the world.”

Galloway is in Beirut to present a phone-in radio show for a British radio station.


9 posted on 02/29/2024 11:13:08 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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And here’s one of the posts from one of this fans:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4174901/posts


10 posted on 02/29/2024 11:15:11 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4090242/posts

Another George Galloway fan club post - you are of course a “neocon” if you don’t think he is credible.


11 posted on 02/29/2024 11:17:40 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Comrade Galloway is Comrade Galloway he and Sinn Fein-IRA Gerry Adams play in the Marx-Lenin League.

But in the UK people like Sir Keir Starmer the Labour leader and Foreign Secretary David Cameron who push with Russia are also Leftists who moled their way into Mainstream Politics.


12 posted on 02/29/2024 11:20:44 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: ifinnegan

Used to be best buddies with Saddam Hussein, too.


13 posted on 02/29/2024 12:26:34 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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