MP for Baghdad East to stand as candidate in Poplar and Limehouse

Lorin Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 03:36:03 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6940517.stm

Traitor George Galloway is going to challange Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick in the next election.



Fitzpatrick enjoys a majority of over 7,000 and is a very good local MP. And actually does something for his constituents rather than lick imaginary milk or grumble all day in a radio station.

Looking at the result of the local shadwell by-election, dis-respect's majority is now only 97 (was 400), this thanks to the campaigning of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party and grayee from Labourhome.

Respect are going to lose Bethnal Green and Bow, and Kitty will lose against Fitzpatrick.



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MP for Baghdad East to stand as candidate in Poplar and Limehouse | 16 comments (16 topical)

Majority (#1)

by Andrea on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 04:00:07 PM GMT

"Fitzpatrick enjoys a majority of over 7,000 "


Boundary changes should reduce his majority to around 3,800-4,000 votes over the Tories.


Re: MP for Baghdad East (#2)

by jkitleft on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 04:02:03 PM GMT

George is apparently standing in the tradition of Keir Hardie. Jim Fitzpatrick in the style of Ramsey Macdonald. Keir Hardie as we all know, addressed sexist, homophobic, racist, sadist, rapists, with the title 'sir' or 'your honour'. As George did unto Uday Hussein


Re: MP for Baghdad East (#3)

by Lorin on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 04:07:06 PM GMT

Lol :),
I never understood why he says that he meant the "strength, courage and Indefatiguability" of the Iraqi people?
Why didn't he just say "Sir I salute your people's courage, strength and Indefatiguability"?
Has anyone seen him on that episode of HIGNFY when Hislop said that if he were saddam he would hate anyone who was up his arse like george was


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Another Kitty untruth (#4)

by bigpapi on Sat Aug 11, 2007 at 01:17:57 PM GMT

On a serious point read the Hansard of Kitty's speech before Michael Martin kicked him out, and he begins by saying that he intended to stand against a Minister at the next election, and that the rumours were true - therefore this guff about not deciding to stand until he was suspended was yet another Kitty-lie!


Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#5)

by fluffymike on Sun Aug 12, 2007 at 08:26:28 PM GMT

Not a great fan of Galloway after his comments about vegetarians in the BB house, but it's a bit harsh to describe him as a Traitor - after all he fought tooth and claw NOT to get kicked out of the Labour Party, and the process by which he was kicked out was suspect in the extreme imho.


Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#6)

by doctordunc on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 04:23:10 PM GMT

Yes, I was trying to work out if it meant 'traitor' as in a traitor to the party (I don't agree with people standing against official Labour candidates, even if they've been treated very shabbily - but we've forgiven Ken; and some to my right appear to have forgiven most of the SDP who weren't even chucked out) - or 'traitor' as in to the UK?

It's a thoroughly depressing situation: I'm a Labour Party person so I'll be hoping Fitzpatrick wins, but with no enthusiasm whatsoever: how much admiration did Fitzpatrick give to the Iraqi people when he voted for them to be killed in their thousands?  I remember when Galloway was protesting outside the Iraqi embassy over Halabja and I don't believe his view of Saddam's politics ever greatly changed.  Others take a different view which I respect - I am strongly critical of Galloway on a number of other matters, and am tribally Labour - but this is not qualitatively different from Ken v. Frank (only I had a lot more time for Frank Dobson than I have for Jim Fitzpatrick!)


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Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#7)

by Lorin on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 04:37:26 PM GMT

Traitor as in Traitor to the UK for calling on insurgents to attack british troops.
And traitor to the party because after being kicked out he started slagging of the party(collectively) rather than the leadership of the Party, and he even took that to a new level comparing Blair to Hitler.
I have been very critical of Blair, but think that 85% of the governments decisions were the right ones.


Although I was against the war, and undortunatly Fitzpatrick supported it, It would be a great shame for the people of Poplar and Limehouse to get an MP (if he can be called that) like Galloway, he has an attendance level of 12% and wasn't present at important debates like the Crossrail debate for example, becuase he was to buisy licking imaginary milk, and he says the people of BG&B are the people most effected by it.
In short Galloway would be a terrible choice, but I'm glad he's out of my constituency and Labour will retake the seat.


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Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#8)

by jkitleft on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 05:42:04 PM GMT

Regardless of anyone's views on Iraq, Galloway should have been expelled for calling on people to 'rise up' against British forces.


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Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#10)

by fluffymike on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 08:00:23 PM GMT

but he didn't actually say that did he...


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Re: Galloway to stand in Poplar and Limehouse (#11)

by Lorin on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 11:12:45 AM GMT

He called the Iraqis in the Iraqi security force collaborators and said it would be normal for them to be the target of suicide bombers.
He says that the Iraqi government isn't democratic even though it was elected by the people of Iraq.
He told Iraqis to resist the occupation of their country by british and american troops.


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Re: (#9)

by stuartm on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 07:48:51 PM GMT

I think we should empaphsise Afghanistan and stay wellclear of Iraq. We should link Galloway to the supporting the Taliban.


His friends in Respect the Jammattis are all in favour of an Islamic state.


We need to point out that he doesn't support British troops but supports their killers! That would make it easier to squeeze the Tory vote.


I've heard that on his Radio show he denounced Jim Fitzpatrick for supporting Gay rights and a ban on foxhunting!


people are trying to flesh that one out.




Re: (#12)

by doctordunc on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 12:56:12 PM GMT

I should think they are...  Just in the interests of being fair, even to our political opponents, I should link to Galloway's voting record which would suggest that it is unlikely that he would have made the suggested denunciation.




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Re: MP for Baghdad East to stand (#13)

by TonyH on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 02:11:30 PM GMT

Fair play to you Doctor Dunc for demonstrating why this is a very good forum - being fair.

I find Galloway very distasteful but I also find the way he's been written about in national media outlets pretty dodgy indeed.

If he called on anyone to "rise up" against British forces then he is a traitor. If however he said something along the lines of: "insurgency or resistance is what you get when you attack a country" - then, he's absolutely correct.

That goon Norm Coleman and his effortlessly incompetent committee also swung at Galloway without a shred of proof as did The Telegraph which makes talking about Galloway and exposing his actual flaws (as opposed to the groundless, invented ones) a very difficult matter.

Also, in the interest in being fair - I think it says a lot about the country that with regard to the whole Iraq debacle, after all the recriminations and how it has suffocated and stifled the national debate for some five and a half years, after all the mistakes - the one politicial to be caught and punished for something was the guy taking money to give to a charity for dying children!

He's hardly the Kinpin of blame in this whole business...


Re: MP for Baghdad East to st (#14)

by JM on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25:29 PM GMT

Galloway vs. Paxman

Still amazing. 


Re: MP for Baghdad East (#15)

by grayee on Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 06:32:31 PM GMT

Check out "Labour Friends of Iraq" post on Galloway


Re: MP for Baghdad East (#16)

by Angiem on Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 09:12:45 PM GMT

Nice to see him shown up for what he is. According to the blog of Chris Paul, things are not so rosy between GG and the SWP. What I dislike most about GG is that he is so full of bile, bitterness and hate.

There is even better news in that we may be pulling out of Iraq. I wish we had never gone there in the first place.


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MP for Baghdad East to stand as candidate in Poplar and Limehouse | 16 comments (16 topical)