“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

Hardcore opportunist more like

Still, lol Labour

Congratulations to <checks notes> Elvis Costello

Rochdale got me thinking about how Leadbeater is on borrowed time and somehow I missed that Batley & Spen is getting split into two new constituencies, now it will be Batley + Dewsbury and Spen Valley. "After months of “soul searching” Ms Leadbeater" i.e. blatant career self-interest she decided that the rather more white Spen Valley is where she will be standing at the next GE.

LOLbour in fourth place, even the Tories beat them. Reform 6th, even the Lib Dems beat them.

I'm calling it "the worst by-election result for Labour since the 1930's" even if it isn't.

George Galloway won by appealing to disaffected white voters as well as Muslim ones – sharp on-the-ground analysis by @Anoosh_C. https://t.co/pCnk5Jfull

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) March 1, 2024

In Rochdale, he used anti-woke talking points, and spoke about tackling grooming gangs: a racially tense aspect of the town’s recent history.

Useful to be reminded what a prick he is while so annoyingly OTM about one big issue.

Pretty sure he’s a terf as well

He's vile, that's for sure.

he's an opportunist + a bigoted piece of shit, but when I said this to an Asian woman this morning I think she took it that I was saying this as a Labour supporter. Didn't have time to explain I'm not polarised on this matter, lol

Truly. At least Danczuk finished last despite all the free media attention he was getting 🙄

"He is, but are they so different?"

xp to calzino

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7VdbReWsAYG4De?format=jpg&name=medium

I wonder if Bannon is aware that he has previously met this "radical Islamic party" candidate that Liz Truss told him about.

Do hope there are better people with pro-Palestinian positions who are going to be MPs.

They should be voted for.

dining with a hat on? i dodn't think my opinion of him could get any lower.

dining with a bannon? i dodn't think my opinion of him could get any lower.

Pretty sure he’s a terf as well

Yeah, if you look at those different election leaflets (which to be clear I'm not recommending), it's "the first thing you should know about me is, I'm a TERF"

more focussed on the TE bit than the RF I would say

not that any TERF is particularly interested in feminism of course

I don't think Galloway believes in anything except Galloway but he's obviously happy to jump on the transphobia train if he thinks it'll win him a vote. Utter scumbag

On the Galloway thing: He will enjoy this morning. But in a few months, he will return to the political obscurity which he so richly deserves.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) March 1, 2024

Love this confidence

What was that definition of liberals? Incapacity to learn?

that dunty tweet all but guarantees gorgeous george will be pm by 2028

So he and Dunt will have something in common at last.

if ever there was a misnomer it's Gorgeous George, it's enough to make me vomit just knowing that he has copulated with an unfortunate female at least 6 times in his life

I'm almost certain it was Galloway himself who came up with that nickname. Why he hasn't been #metoo-ed yet I don't know.

Man carries a gun

Sadly oddschecker doesnt have specific odds on Rochdale in the general (yet?)

tho with it being so close I'd assume he has a pretty good chance of holding it, difficult to see what would change between now and a general election to precipitate a change

Parliament passing a law making it illegal to use the word "Palestine"?

Wtf??

For serious?

Oh right, I see our unelected and corrupt prime minister made a speech on threats to our democracy, nice one rish

No, but throwing foreigners with visas out of the UK if they dare protest anything here seems to be on the cards. Great news!

Has starmer agreed on that yet?

How about now?

Has anyone actually explained how these "Islamic extremists" are a threat to our democracy? Or even just told us who they are? Are there hundreds of thousands of them? Where are they based? Are they going to blow us all up? Maybe they have dirty bombs (remember those?) And so on.

Meanwhile...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/labour-at-risk-of-taking-muslim-voters-for-granted-says-thinktank-rochdale-byelection

At risk? LOL.

lol, is that thinktank unstuck in time and trapped in 2005. More chance of a Muslim buying a Starbucks coffee than voting Labour where I live, but this isn't a new problem for them - it's an old one that has been exasperated to breaking point by Kieth and pals.

Afaict apart from the brief Corbyn period - which also featured him not sacking Sarah Champion for this shit, so you know - Labour has treated Muslim voters with a mixture of overt contempt and embarrassment. Literally the only thing that’s previously saved them from widespread desertion is the fact that the Tories have been hammering the white supremacy button for a long time now.

Some of us have been wondering for years if they would ever learn from what happened with working class voters in Scotland but... still waiting!

Sorry lads my post was a satirical answer to the post before, but not far now

Well I think Rachel Reeves looks great. pic.twitter.com/5UVh2f69YT

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 2, 2024

lol i made my own

this new Rachel Reeves shoot goes hard pic.twitter.com/mNJxxAXaE9

— broke back molar (@AckAckGunz) March 3, 2024

👌

The person who called her Mystic Smeg was OTM.

Progress a bit slow on Andrew Bridgen's wife's GoFundMe

GoFundMe: Please help us to recover from heartbraking tragedy

As you can read in my interview with @thetimes by @cazjwheeler , my husband, the MP Andrew Bridgen, left me and our young son homeless just in time for Christmas. My sister came to my rescue and put down a year’s… pic.twitter.com/KIMt3zEbXp

— Nevena Bridgen (@NevenaBridgen) March 3, 2024

My favourite is the anons who are chucking in a fiver. Respect

anyone offering her a sofa to kip on?