Breaking news: George galloway wins Bradford west.

[Mukulaalow]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9175133/George-Galloway-wins-Bradford-West-by-election.html

[Somalia]

HOOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!?! wow :eek:

[Mukulaalow]

The guy is just amazing. he beat Labour who held that ward since 1972. But the Labour MP there resigned lately due to ill health and a by election was held tonight, there is a huge pakistani population in Bradford west and it seems he got their vote. after he retired 2010 he is back. Good luck to George. he is a fantastic man and I wish him luck.

[Somalia]

How many lives does he have? He won by over 10000 votes.

 

I can just imagine him saying himself "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!"

 

Wow

[Mukulaalow]

This is the historic US Senet few years ago about the Iraq war, he just demolished them

 

 

[Mukulaalow]

The guy was an MP in his native Scotland for many years, then he came to London and beat Labour in Bethnal Green area, then he declared to retire from parliament in 2010 elections, and now he in back in Yorkshire area of Bradford.

 

He is a good advocate for muslims, he is fearless and a courageous man, I always pray for him to become a muslim.

[Somalia]

I know, I used to listen to his radio show.

 

These two are also great.

 

 

 

[Mukulaalow]

His funny quotes.

 

"When the jews say God gave us this land (Palestine), I say to them I never knew God was a state agent"

[Somalia]

LOL, I remember the Jewish caller who said he lived in England and George asked him; "How would the world look if we all moved back to where we were 2000 years ago?"

 

[Mukulaalow]

lol. they really feared and hated the guy. him and Tony Ben are die hard Palestine supporters, but unfortunately they don't get support from Arab and muslim countries, contrary to the jews who support their lobby.

[Abwaan]

George waa nin culus...

[Mukulaalow]

Galloway's Sensational 'Bradford Spring' Win

 

George Galloway has inflicted a crushing humiliation on Labour as he made a sensational political comeback in a by-election he termed the "Bradford Spring".

 

The controversial Respect politician won a stunning victory in the Bradford West by-election, defeating Labour by more than 10,000 votes.

 

The Tories were pushed into third place after the Budget backlash and fuel chaos, while the Liberal Democrats came fourth.

 

But it is Labour and their leader Ed Miliband who were left stunned and perplexed by the scale of their defeat and Mr Galloway's victory.

 

In his victory speech, Mr Galloway invoked the series of uprisings that have toppled dictatorships across the Arab world as he called his victory the "Bradford Spring".

 

He told Sky News' Jon Craig that the poll was "the most sensational result in British by-election history".

 

"Labour has been hit by a tidal wave in a seat it held for many decades in a city it dominated for 100 years," he told Craig.

 

He said the people of Bradford had felt "neglected, even betrayed" by the "path of treason" set by Tony Blair in 1994.

 

And he blamed New Labour's involvement in "foreign war after foreign war" for leading the party astray.

 

He was no less scathing about the Tory campaign, calling the by-election a "miserable, pathetic performance by the Government".

 

As a jubilant Mr Galloway left the sports hall he was mobbed by his supporters and had to retreat back into the building.

 

As he left again he was hoisted onto the shoulders of supporters as people chanted "Respect", while others said: "We love you George."

 

Mr Galloway was carried around the side of the building as his supporters continued to chant and cheer.

 

The by-election was caused by the resignation due to ill health of Labour MP Marsha Singh, who had held the seat since 1997 and had a majority of 5,763 over the Tories at the 2010 general election.

 

The result was declared at around 2.30am after a night of high drama and tension in the Richard Dunn Sports Centre, named after the city's former British boxing champion.

 

And after a short, three-week campaign in which he toured the constituency in a battlebus and wooed Asian voters with an uncompromising anti-war message, Mr Galloway delivered a knock-out blow on Labour.

 

Shortly after the polls closed at 10pm, senior Labour MPs were telling Sky News they were "confident, but not complacent".

 

But an hour or so later, the same Labour MPs were getting the jitters as it became clear that Mr Galloway was polling much better than they expected.

 

By midnight, the mood in the Labour camp was one of deep gloom as the party's MPs began to predict a win for Mr Galloway and MPs from other parties forecast a big victory margin over Labour.

 

At around 12.30am, Mr Gallow claimed victory on Twiter, declaring: "By the grace of God we have won the most senational victory in British political history."

 

Labour MP Toby Perkins said the result was "desperately disappointing", but pinned Mr Galloway's success partly on his celebrity status from having appeared on Big Brother.

 

Mr Perkins conceded, however, that his party had lessons to learn from the way Mr Galloway had been able to "capture the mood" of the electorate, especially young people.

 

He went on: "I think frankly there wasn't a lot the other parties could do about it. They'd seen him on Big Brother.

 

"They wanted him on their streets and now they've got it, and let's hope that he lives up to the promise that he's made to them and actually delivers on the optimism that surrounds his campaign, which hasn't always been the experience of constituents who have had George Galloway as their MP in the past."

 

"It must be a huge humiliation for Ed Miliband and his team," said Tory MP Kris Hopkins.

 

The Conservatives have not won in the area in 42 years and so did not have "high expectations", he said.

 

He added: "We probably have not had our best 10 days - a difficult budget and a whole range of issues.

 

"But still, despite all that, Labour and Ed Miliband were not able to find any traction."

 

Mr Galloway, who was a Labour MP in Glasgow until his expulsion from the party over his opposition to the Iraq war, was making his third attempt at a comeback in the past two years.

 

After defeating Oona King in Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005, he failed in a bid to oust former Labour minister Jim Fitzpatrick in another east London seat, Poplar and Limehouse, in 2010 and then unsuccessfully stood for the Scottish Parliament last year.

 

In between, he earned a living as a radio presenter and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother on TV, dressing as a cat and crawling on all fours.

 

His aggressive, anti-war campaign in Bradford West, in which he personally targeted Imran Hussein, infuriated Labour campaign chiefs.

 

Mr Galloway directly appealed to Muslim voters, who make up nearly 40% of the electors in the constituency.

 

While The Tory high command will claim Bradford West is a safe Labour seat and the by-election was held mid-term, there will be alarm at the slump in the Conservative vote.

 

With vital local elections coming up on May 3 - including the high-profile clash between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone for London mayor - there will be concerns that the big drop in Tory support has been largely self-inflicted.

 

First came Goerge Osborne's deeply unpopular Budget and the row over the "granny tax" and the 50p taxcut.

 

Then came the cash-for-access scandal in which donors paid to dine with David Cameron at 10 Downing Street - and now the panic in government over the threatened fuel strikes and VAT on hot food.

 

The result was also bad for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, who will also fear a drubbing in the local elections on May 3.

 

 

Yahoonews.com

[Maaddeey]

Takbeer!. Now we need to do the same to get Ken back.

[Jacpher]

^lol@takbeer. Adigu takbeertaadu waa la-jiifiyaa banaan.

[Maaddeey]

^^ sey ku tahay, sxb?. Islamically, wax lagu farxo haddii la maqlo waa la takbiirsadaa, Abu Aminah ma ka dhegeysan miyaa? ;P

 

Yvonne Ridley aaway, sow respect maaha iidna?, waa laba xaniinyood hiyal ukhra!