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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Apraxin posted:

lmao, can't alloway the galloway



local independent was second on 6k, three main parties between them barely added up to 8k

More stats:

https://x.com/taj_ali1/status/1763397199960928577?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Yeah, even accounting for the various catastrophes in other parties' local campaigns, this seems like an extremely convincing repudiation of them on a national level.

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Tesseraction posted:

George Galloway loving sucks but the plus side is that everyone you hate also think the same about him, so the key takeaway is to focus on them being upset and ignore the bad smell he's emanating.

https://x.com/lukasmukaspukas/status/1763339172578795612?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

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.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Tai posted:

Galloway was the best choice? Ok point still stands

gently caress sake Rochdale

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.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
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).

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

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).

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Itzena posted:

He's previously said it's to hide scars on his head he got when a zionist beat the poo poo out of him a while back for being pro-Palestinian.

Probably the baldness, though.

Honestly, both are plausible - he's deeply vain, and he did indeed get a pretty serious beating.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Palestine Action talks about their vandalism of Balfour's portrait:

https://x.com/newsocialistns/status/1766214507582382204?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Timely further context to the Balfour defacement:

https://x.com/ramabdu/status/1766458940118769799?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The most confusing thing about Kate news is that she looks so very much like my aunt (who is very much alive, thank you very much). Maybe she just decided keeping up a second identity was too much effort?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

God has no power there

I remember doing an Open University course where the first module contained a video on how Milton Keynes was built on Druidic principles. Genuinely quite fascinating.

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Aww, this is nice.

https://x.com/leftiestats/status/1772953903870451829?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Readers of I/P stuff will recognise Ghassan as a Palestinian surgeon who had a particularly heroic (and traumatic) career during the Gaza genocide before being forced to evacuate.

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