(George Galloway returns ... SR)
‘They don’t represent us’: Rochdale voters on why they deserted major parties Voters express dissatisfaction with the Labour party and other groups as insurgent George Galloway wins byelection By Josh Halliday and Aneesa Ahmed in Rochdale/The Guardian/March 1, 2024 In the freezing dark outside Rochdale leisure centre, Hassan Ali, 26, celebrated George Galloway’s stunning victory <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-wins-rochdale-byelection> hours before the result was officially declared. “We have created history tonight,” he said in the small hours of Friday, surrounded by dozens of young men, slapping each other on the back and video-calling friends in English, Urdu and Bengali. “Our families have voted for Labour <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour> for many years because they’ve got used to ticking the flower box, but this is a vote for change,” said Ali, a community worker. Around him, several men in their 20s said they had voted for the first time on Thursday in order to send Galloway to parliament – and deliver a message to Labour. “Labour have been running these streets for years and they’ve done nothing,” Ali said. “Starmer has betrayed the people of Rochdale and the Asian vote.” Galloway, the irrepressible agitator, is back in the Commons representing a fourth constituency in nearly four decades after urging voters to deliver “the ultimate protest” over Labour’s handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/11/the-ultimate-protest-against-labour-george-galloways-bid-to-win-rochdale> . The scale of his victory, winning a near-6,000 vote majority, was the final surprise in a byelection beset by chaos, controversy and allegations of dirty tricks. Full at: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/rochdale-voters-on-why-george-galloway-labour-tories -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29210): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29210 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104680266/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
