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Both Galloway and Brand.
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Mar 1, 2024 12:17
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I haven't ventured into the Graun yet today to see the handwringing over Galloway (I presume there will be some). It would be great if they interviewed people who would normally vote tory or labour in Rochdale and see why they have lent Galloway their support. Is it perhaps a case of stick it to both tory & labour or really anything at all to do with the ongoing genocide? (I mean they might have done this but I haven't looked yet). The BoD are on the case already "dark day" etc.
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Mar 1, 2024 12:24
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To be fair the BoD might have just seen a brown person walking down the street without being beaten and/or murdered.
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Mar 1, 2024 12:27
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I haven't ventured into the Graun yet today to see the handwringing over Galloway (I presume there will be some). Centrist tears 
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Mar 1, 2024 12:47
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I'm gonna ask here in the UK politics thread because gently caress you that's why. Why does twitter load in Firefox but not Chrome? I've consistently got the very helpful "Something went wrong" error message on every single tweet in the past week or so on Chrome, but it's completely fine in Firefox. I'm logged out of twitter in both (incidentally I can't log in to twitter on Chrome because "Something went wrong")
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Mar 1, 2024 13:02
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I hope we get him saying "Spunk loving Sluts" in parliament again.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:04
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Darth Walrus posted:https://x.com/lukasmukaspukas/status/1763339172578795612?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Case in bloody point: Graun posted:Asked if he thought Starmer genuinely wanted a ceasefire, Galloway replied: Graun posted:If you’re really asking me what should be the final state of affairs in Israel and Palestine, well, my position is quite well known. I think there should be one democratic and secular state, between the river and the sea. And if I was doing their marketing, I’d call it the Holy Land. Le Charlatan Chat, c'est vrai.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:06
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Microplastics posted:I'm gonna ask here in the UK politics thread because gently caress you that's why. The divorced baby man broke the site, and likely something chrome does is breaking the api worse than Firefox.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:07
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gently caress sake Rochdale
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Mar 1, 2024 13:12
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No state has the right to exist except the British state which he endorsed wholeheartedly two years ago in an alliance with the far right in which encouraged people to vote Tory.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:13
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Tai posted:gently caress sake Rochdale They made what was probably the best choice out of an astounding number of lovely choices. Note that this is not a particular defence of Galloway.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:15
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Tai posted:gently caress sake Rochdale I am not going to be overly upset about Rochdale electing someone on a platform that Israel is a monstrous genocidal state and both Tories and Labour are complicit in their crimes. I wish that person wasn't George loving Galloway, but here we are.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:19
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The vengeful folk devil indeed.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:20
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Microplastics posted:I'm gonna ask here in the UK politics thread because gently caress you that's why. It works ok for me on chrome. Maybe you need to clear cache or something? Try loading in an incognito window see if it opens.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:22
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he actually pulled out “make rochdale great again” lmao
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Mar 1, 2024 13:24
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Galloway was the best choice? Ok point still stands gently caress sake Rochdale
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Mar 1, 2024 13:24
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Yeah, as pointed out in the previous thread, the other two top contenders were also absolute shite.sebzilla posted:"I'm voting for the guy who was bombed out of the Labour Party in disgrace. No, not that one. Not that one either. Yeah, him." Still, lol, lmao
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Mar 1, 2024 13:28
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Tai posted:Galloway was the best choice? Ok point still stands I think that most of the failures that made Galloway the best choice were more national-level than specifically Rochdale's fault, is what I'm saying. He got in based on institutional racism and authoritarian, antidemocratic centralisation eating away at viable alternatives.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:29
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I hate his stupid hat so much. Why does he wear it all the time? Take off the hat. Obviously he's being Ratatouilled. Watch out for any proposed amendments regarding subsidies for cheese
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Mar 1, 2024 13:42
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Tai posted:Galloway was the best choice? Ok point still stands Labour pulled support for their candidate, the Greens did the same, the Tory went on holiday during the campaign for a fortnight, the Reform candidate is a former MP for the town who lost his seat after a scandal involving sexting a teenager (17 year old) who IIRC worked in his office, which is all legal but loving lovely behaviour, the Liberals are the Liberals & no one likes them, & the independent candidate who came second & apparently didn't even realise he could get funding to help put out leaflets at the start of the campaign. It's not as if the people of Rochdale were given much of a choice. George Galloway was seen as an effective way to show fury over the British response to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Besides, Galloway got 39.7% of the votes in a by-election where only 39.7% bothered to vote.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:43
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Angepain posted:Obviously he's being Ratatouilled. Watch out for any proposed amendments regarding subsidies for cheese Earlier today his picture was directly next to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68438582, was tempted to cut and paste around
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Mar 1, 2024 13:53
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OK so Rochdale voted in Galloway (the only choice) to show their disproval of Israel being a bunch of massive cunts because there was no one else with that view. I'm dying on this hill before giving credit to Georgre for being pro Palestine. Everything smells like a grift with him.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:58
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i think that's the truth of the matter yeah
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Mar 1, 2024 13:58
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Tai posted:OK so Rochdale voted in Galloway (the only choice) to show their disproval of Israel being a bunch of massive cunts because there was no one else with that view. that seems like the only sensible take.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:01
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One thing worth noting is that the Greens suspended their candidate because he was an Islamophobic piece of poo poo, so they came out of this with a teeny-tiny scrap of dignity (in that they ended up asserting their commitment to decent values on a national level, as opposed to Labour's catastrofuck of a campaign).
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Mar 1, 2024 14:07
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lol just saw that the Labour candidate Ali was picked over journalist Paul Waugh, noted centrist bellend, who wrote a column about how it should have been him.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:07
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is being an MP for three different parties a record? e: or four different constituencies
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Mar 1, 2024 14:11
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Julio Cruz posted:is being an MP for three different parties a record? Dunno about the first one but Churchill was MP for 5 constituencies during his life. Tai posted:OK so Rochdale voted in Galloway (the only choice) to show their disproval of Israel being a bunch of massive cunts because there was no one else with that view. There's a lot of reasons to be sceptical about Galloway as a self-obsessed egotist, this is a man who during the indy referendum declared that if Scotland got independence there would be pogroms all across Scotland against Irish Catholics, which may have been true in 1864 but less so in 2014. But I think one of the few sincere beliefs he holds is he's against western imperialism. Which includes Israeli colonialism in the Occupied Territories.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:18
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Julio Cruz posted:is being an MP for three different parties a record? Mosley was technically MP for three parties + Independent (Conservative, Independent, Labour, New Party)
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Mar 1, 2024 14:19
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Julio Cruz posted:is being an MP for three different parties a record? offhand I remember Chuka Umunna was a Labour, Change UK and Liberal Democrat MP within one term, though being elected under three different parties is a different matter
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Mar 1, 2024 14:20
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Tai posted:OK so Rochdale voted in Galloway (the only choice) to show their disproval of Israel being a bunch of massive cunts because there was no one else with that view. I'm much inclined to agree. I'll extend Rochdale the benefit of the doubt until the General at least, then we'll see.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:22
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I like how Keith apologised for not putting up a decent candidate when Galloway of all people won and his platform was "gently caress Israel" same as what got Ali cancelled.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:26
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Actually most I can find is Walter Long, who between 1880 & 1921 was the MP for Wiltshire North, Devizes, Liverpool West Derby, Bristol South, Dublin South, Strand & Westminster St George's. Longest he was out of parliament was between the July 1892 general election & the January 1893 by-election Arthur Henderson, the former Labour leader, is another with Churchill in the 5 constituency club. As are 19th century PMs Peel & Gladstone. One of the people tied with Galloway on 4 is Ramsay MacDonald, which I would hope boils Gorgeous's piss.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:26
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Ms Adequate posted:I'm much inclined to agree. I'll extend Rochdale the benefit of the doubt until the General at least, then we'll see. That said, I doubt that there'll be another decent Rochdale candidate in the GE (except possibly from the Greens, and they may be too small and under-resourced locally to mount a serious challenge to Galloway).
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Mar 1, 2024 14:28
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smellmycheese posted:Centrist tears They are right Tesseraction posted:I like how Keith apologised for not putting up a decent candidate when Galloway of all people won and his platform was "gently caress Israel" same as what got Ali cancelled. gently caress Israel is a bit different to "Israel false flagged to invade Gaza". While it's not something I'd put past Galloway to claim, I don't believe he has yet. If Ali hadn't made those claims he'd probably have walked it, even with the wider labour party not giving a poo poo about Palestinian lives. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 14:30
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Jim Sillars was a notable one, he was a Labour MP from 1970 to to 1976, initially a quit outspoken anti-nationalist MP but he ended up quitting to found the Scottish Labour Party, which was founded to be an explicitly pro-Home Rule party, & he stayed on until '79 when he lost his seat to the awful prick & dedicated BritNat George Foulkes (who in 1981 put forward a pill called the Control of Space Invaders (and other Electronic Games) Bill, trying to ban them. And then Sillars joined the SNP & was MP for Govan from 88 until 92. Can't find anyone who represented 4 parties though.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:39
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Mega Comrade posted:gently caress Israel is a bit different to "Israel false flagged to invade Gaza". While it's not something I'd put past Galloway to claim, I don't believe he has yet. True, although it's not far off criticisms within Israel that they had been warned about the attack a year in advance and opted not to act on it, which is true. More of a Bush slept on 9/11 rather than he did it in order to invade Iraq situation, mind you.
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Mar 1, 2024 14:43
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Jedit posted:It's because he's bald. George Baldoway. Edit: Also as soon as I saw his comments about no place deserves Statehood, I immediately thought "this guy is anti-Ukraine." And sure enough after some brief Googling, he was parroting Russian talking points over Ukraine, threatened to sue Twitter for calling him a Russian mouth piece....before putting out a Radio show on a Russian Network. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 14:46
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The Question IRL posted:George Baldoway. Better than my attempt of George Hair-away
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Mar 1, 2024 14:48
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"average mp has 3 stances per issue" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Rochdale Georg, who lives in cave & has over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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