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

But are there two Shadow Immigration Ministers as well?

The vote share stuff seems largely to be a factor of if the Liberal Democrats are a factor or not but in raw numbers both Corbyn and May did pretty well in 2017 on relatively high turnout (highest of any of the post 1997 elections)

Turnout is pretty interesting, huge drop off in 2001 at 59%, first time below 70%. Has recovered back above 60 since then but never 70. 1951 the highest at 83%

https://I.imgur.com/FmrLjze.png

Lol. Shadow Illegal Immigration minister is like WaLuigi, the inversion of an inversion

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/23/charlotte-benton-obituary

Read this obit with some sadness. The life, opportunities that are now being denied.

Illegal Immigration Minister get's paid cash-in-hand and arrives late for work every signing on day and is commiting housing benefit fraud, human rights obligations? fuck that shit as well!

The market is working

Absolutely devastating stat for the government today: in the 12 months to 30 Sep 2023, more people were made homeless than bought their first home.

164,630 households owed a homelessness relief duty by their council
126,100 households claimed First Time Buyer Stamp Duty Relief

— Dan Wilson Craw 🇺🇦🥑🏘 (@danwilsoncraw) February 29, 2024

Devastating stat for the government, I'm sure they've mandated mourning dress

Lol

GEORGE GALLOWAY HAS DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN LETTERS FOR WHITE AND MUSLIM HOUSEHOLDS IN ROCHDALE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/swSsfQxf2t

— saad 🇬🇧 ⸆⸉ (@crowndefensx) February 29, 2024

Father-of-six George Galloway in!

did I really see a video of Liz Truss describing Galloway as a "hardcore Islamist" to Bannon in front of a crowd of braying US white supremacists - have no idea what is real any more. Might have even dreamt it.

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.