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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 04:20:09 PM

Title: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 04:20:09 PM

While I have an intense dislike of Galloway, it does highlight the state of the Labour party in Gorton and elsewhere.




https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/21/george-galloway-to-stand-in-manchester-gorton-byelection?CMP=share_btn_tw

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: floo on March 21, 2017, 05:21:17 PM

I agree the Labour Party is a MESS. Galloway is not a nice guy at all! >:(

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Anchorman on March 21, 2017, 06:55:23 PM

He's now a caricature of himself. Sad, really - he was once a visionary and a very well respected, if maverick, Scots Labour MP - but that was now far in the past.

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 07:05:23 PM

Quote from: Anchorman on March 21, 2017, 06:55:23 PM

He's now a caricature of himself. Sad, really - he was once a visionary and a very well respected, if maverick, Scots Labour MP - but that was now far in the past.

never been respected by me. I had the misfortune of meeting him

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Gordon on March 21, 2017, 07:10:20 PM

He's obviously crawled out from under his current rock: we now need a bigger rock!

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Robbie on March 21, 2017, 07:45:40 PM

I think he's fascinating  :-[. Can hear you all saying there's no accounting for taste.

Title: Re: George Galloway to stand in Manchester Gorton by election.
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 22, 2017, 12:54:39 AM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 04:20:09 PM

While I have an intense dislike of Galloway, it does highlight the state of the Labour party in Gorton and elsewhere.




https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/21/george-galloway-to-stand-in-manchester-gorton-byelection?CMP=share_btn_tw

I am very tempted to rejoin the Lib Dems. The Labour Party seems to be on the verge of a Bennite takeover, which would mean decades of the righteous talking to themselves in opposition.