You may have seen on Labour list that Bradford Constituency Labour Party last night picked 33 year old Imran Hussain, the city’s Deputy Council Leader to fight the upcoming by-election on the 29th following Marsha Singh MP’s decision to retire on the grounds of ill health. George Galloway is planning to contest the seat in his usual opportunist way seizing an opportunity to exploit Muslim voters. As if his Big Brother miaowing cat impression and donning a leotard to do a clockwork dance in wasn’t bad enough he has deeply unsound politics: often spotted chewing the fat over a cigar or several with murderous middle eastern tyrants past and present. He must be soundly defeated so he does not impact the Labour vote and help the Tories there.
If you’re nearby and Labour-inclined in the 17 remaining days go and lend a hand to the campaign HQ nearby Forster Square station to make this a thumping big Labour vote. If you’re in London you’ll probably be doing the same for Ken Livingstone in the run-up to the mayoral elections.
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March 13, 2012 at 2:27 am
monty
“he has deeply unsound politics: often spotted chewing the fat over a cigar or several with murderous middle eastern tyrants past and present”
Are you talking about Tony Blair or George Galloway?
Such a shame that Imran Hussain is a barrister. New Labour already has too many of these wealthy legal types in its ranks. The party needs more teachers, social workers, health workers, and others from employment backgrounds which are not motivated by money.
March 13, 2012 at 9:10 am
Ralph Berry
We will in Bradford see this goon off, I am confident the community is well able to see the blatant opprtunism and cynicism.
Like the others from the Bradford Longlist I will be working to get a great result for Labour.
This Social Worker is off to ensure that George gets back to his cat suits and Iranian TV slots…..
March 13, 2012 at 9:41 am
james?
lets not get in to a debate about galloway but lets just notice that tony blairs government did provide support for human rights abusers around the world. lets stop this nasty criticism and recognise our own faults galloway would after all claim his partnerships with dictators were to prevent war. the labour governements were simply for economic gain and strategic imperitives.
March 13, 2012 at 10:09 am
rupahuq
My point is that these faux right-on spoiler candidates are electorally the enemies of those who want progressive candidates to succeed. Ralph Nader helped deliver us 8 years of George W Bush.
As for the other Ralph (Berry) thanks for your comment highlighlighting that it’s now all hands on deck/ to the pump/ (insert other chosen phrase).
March 13, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Dirk Mersheimer
James? How did Kosovo and Sierra Leone help human rights abusers around the world? And for that matter what were the economic gains and strategic imperitives met from those wars?
March 19, 2012 at 11:43 am
james?
i have a policy of not commenting more than once on blog posts i hope that you forgive me for breaking it just this once. Rupa you do critisise galloway for relaitionships with dictators in your post and that is what i responded to not the vote splitting argument which is something different and might be solved by a change in voting system such as the electorate rejected.
Also Dirk i was talking about the labour governments collaboration with human rights abusers again that is a seperate debate to that over military intervention. I advice you to read mark curtis who gives a good summary of labours collusion in government with human rights abuse by colombia,indonesia, israel, turkey and others.
March 26, 2012 at 2:26 pm
The British Asian Blog
I must say – I am, somewhat, bemused by this post. What has George Galloway’s past got to do with Bradford? I mean, if we all did some research behind other members of government (past and present) you will be eating your words when you come to learn the network’s that exist with members of foreign governments.
That said, I think the important thing for me is to understand one thing – this election is not about George Galloway or his appearance on Big Brother – but it’s about Bradford, and which party will do it’s best for the people living there.
Talking about Muslims, George, and what else, does not answer the question of youth unemployment in Bradford, it does not talk about NHS in Bradford or schools.
Let’s get real and let’s talk about what’s helpful over what is not.
April 2, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Okani
Laugh out loud!!
Not so smug now are we!? Labour got a well deserved whupping, justice has been served.
The arrogance of Labour cost it dear, did you clowns really think that all you had to do was put up a candidate from a Pakistani Muslim background and you would be sure to win? It might have helped if you had not put up someone who had the personality of a chip. George wiped the floor with him.
Labour has long since lost the trust of the people and has no clue how to get it back.