Showing posts with label Rochdale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rochdale. Show all posts
March 09, 2024
March 03, 2024
George Galloway Wins Rochdale
The UK just saw what may become a trend when the general election rolls around later this year. Former UK Labour MP, George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election on a platform of reviving the town's fortunes, saving its soccer team, and ending the UK's complicity with the genocide in Gaza.
Just to put in sharp focus what just happened in Rochdale; the much touted Reform party couldn't even manage third place when all they had to compete with was Galloway, and in second place a bloke who got out of bed the day before candidates had to have their paperwork done, thought why not, let's give it a shot. Then, ahead of Reform, a Labour candidate who wasn't a Labour candidate, or he was kinda sorta; we'll never know.
And then to cap it off Reform's leader, Richard Tice stood beside his Rochdale candidate who had been thrown out of Labour for sending inappropriate messages to a 17-year-old girl.
Yeah, the people of Rochdale gave the Conservatives, Labour, and Reform a huge FU.