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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
but that's just silly. The tories would be the least likely to be elected in Rochdale under any circumstances and labour told everyone not to vote for their representative because they had dropped them. So how could it be a crushing defeat for either party when labour basically didn't even field a candidate  |
That may be but still 12,000 people came out and voted for Galloway. There were 11 candidates there and he got nearly 40% of the vote on a fairly standard turnout for a by election. That's for a candidate who makes a big point of sticking two fingers up to the main parties so it's not a result to be ignored.
I for one welcome Mr Galloways return to Westminster. A one off politician and you don't get many like him these days. You look at most politicians today and most of them are almost clones of each other. There'll be numerous other Rishi Sunaks or Keir Starmers in British politics over the next 50 years but there won't be any more George Galloways. Arista appreciates this I feel.