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In a bizarre British by-election, a pro-Palestinian firebrand just swept to victory
CNBC ^ | March 1,2024 | Elliot Smith

Posted on 03/01/2024 3:28:34 AM PST by C19fan

Staunchly pro-Palestinian left-wing firebrand George Galloway on Thursday won a chaotic by-election in Rochdale, northwestern England that was defined by the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The controversial former Labour MP, who was standing for the Workers Party of Britain, won 12,335 votes with a majority of 5,697, giving his party its first-ever Member of Parliament in Britain’s House of Commons. It will be Galloway’s fifth constituency in 37 years, having now unseated his former party in three separate elections.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Gaza; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: islam; muslim; parliament
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Rochdale is a constituency in the Manchester area that has 30% Muslim population. The Labour candidate, a Muslim, was kicked out for anti-Semitic comments. Leftist firebrand George Galloway, using the Palestinian flag as his symbol, easily won the seat.
1 posted on 03/01/2024 3:28:34 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The live thread from last night

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4221013/posts

ICYMI


2 posted on 03/01/2024 3:35:50 AM PST by RandFan
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To: C19fan

Muzzies, they are civilizations nemesis.


3 posted on 03/01/2024 3:36:47 AM PST by spincaster
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To: C19fan

Britain has fallen.


4 posted on 03/01/2024 3:41:27 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: C19fan

The UK has had a strong anti-semitic element for a very long time. And now with the Muslim immigration, results like this should not be considered surprising at all.


5 posted on 03/01/2024 3:41:37 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Sirius Lee

Yep, open immigration has its pitfalls. We import their dirt, politics, disease ignorance and the very things that have their home nations failure.

Now due to numbers they run the upcoming failed state. They are the new overlords and oppressors that obama wants for America.

FJB


6 posted on 03/01/2024 3:46:31 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff )
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To: C19fan

The scary thing about Galloway is that he does not rant. He talks calmly about his bulls..t


7 posted on 03/01/2024 3:51:21 AM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon! )
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To: C19fan; sinsofsolarempirefan

Rochdale does not have a 30% Muslim population. But the rest of what you said is soo true

from 2021:

Religion Number %
Christian 104,841 46.9%
Muslim 42,121 18.8%
Jewish 218 0.1%
Hindu 613 0.3%
Sikh 191 0.1%
Buddhism 398 0.2%
Other religion 675 0.3%
No religion 64,349 28.8%

George got 40% of the vote. An independent got 21% and the third was a Conservative at 12%


8 posted on 03/01/2024 4:25:16 AM PST by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: C19fan

And an independent finished 2nd. Cons 3rd Lab 4th. LibD 5th


9 posted on 03/01/2024 4:36:21 AM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon! )
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To: C19fan

At the same time, Britain has troops in the Ukraine and a useless destroyer in the Red Sea.

Priorities…


10 posted on 03/01/2024 4:43:10 AM PST by EEGator
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From 2002, on George Galloway...

Saddam and me He's Saddam Hussein's sole friend in Westminster, believes the collapse of the Soviet Union was a tragedy and thinks his party has been hijacked. Doesn't it ever get lonely being George Galloway?

Some of us have very long memories.

11 posted on 03/01/2024 4:45:25 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Sirius Lee

The UK has a Deep State, too.

What the UK doesn’t have is a Trump.


12 posted on 03/01/2024 4:46:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: himno hero

Soon, in our nation, we will see pro-communists from Venezuela elected....the same “shock troops” who installed Chavez are now entrenched in our communities waiting for the right time to rise up and demand an end to capitalism and constitutional rule.


13 posted on 03/01/2024 4:54:36 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

1913 Federal Reserve
1920 19th Amendment
1965 Immigration Act

Game over


14 posted on 03/01/2024 4:56:40 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I would add the coup of ‘63 and the final abdication of a backed currency in 1971.

But the 3 you mentioned were probably the 3 pivotal points.


15 posted on 03/01/2024 5:04:17 AM PST by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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From 2005...

The Galloway Papers Parliament’s damning report about Saddam apologist George Galloway.

Do folks in the UK really have a shorter memory than I do...

Or was their election rigged...?

16 posted on 03/01/2024 5:04:48 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: EEGator

I’d add the creation of the IRS and the federal income tax in 1862.


17 posted on 03/01/2024 5:07:25 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
"War is the health of the State."

Randolph Bourne

From 2011...

Bourne of War

18 posted on 03/01/2024 5:09:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: C19fan

All I can say is:

LIVE WITH IT YOU STUPID, WEAKLING BASTIDS.


19 posted on 03/01/2024 5:10:08 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: nitzy; mewzilla

We’re all just playing our instruments on the Titanic.


20 posted on 03/01/2024 5:12:46 AM PST by EEGator
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