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A left-wing United Kingdom politician has registered a landslide win in a parliamentary by-election on a platform promising to advocate for Gaza.

George Galloway won the seat in the northern English town of Rochdale after a fractious campaign, which saw the Labour Party withdraw support from its candidate over his anti-Israel comments.

Galloway won 12,335 votes compared with 6,638 for second-placed David Tully, an independent candidate. The former Labour candidate, Azhar Ali, came fourth after the opposition party pulled its support after he was recorded espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. Turnout was low at 39.7 percent.

“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” Galloway said on Friday, referring to the Labour leader who initially refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza where more than 30,000 people have been killed in the past five months of Israeli bombardment.

Late on Friday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who supports Israel’s war, said the election of Galloway to a parliamentary seat was “beyond alarming” and accused him of dismissing Hamas’s October 7 attack.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (22 children)

The summary doesn't mention it, but the caption in the article photo says that George Galloway is the head of the Workers Party Of Britain, a socialist party that he founded in 2019.

Their Wikipedia entry describes them as euroskeptics, anti-NATO, and says their website "defend[s] the achievements of the USSR, China, Cuba etc, not least the debt owed by humanity to the Soviet Union and Red Army in their war of liberation against German fascism"

Wikipedia also describes the party as "adopting social conservatism, such as its rejection of gender self-identification."

So social conservatives who admire Russia, China, etc.

What a weird world we live in...

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (20 children)
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[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Sounds bas- ah fuck - they're tankies.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rochdale, town north of Manchester. Will have to visit sometime.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

I can confirm that Rochdale is a fucking skeleton shitehole of a town

If you like betting shops, mobile phone covers, or kebab takeaways, you'll be masturbating in the street. You won't be the only one

[–] corymbia@reddthat.com 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I’m all for condemnation of Israel’s OTT war on Palestine, but TBH George Galloway is a shitcunt.

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

George Galloway is not a serious politician.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 points 6 months ago

Unfair to tankies. He really is that awful.

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