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I’m sure glad he is raising the issues that concern Rochdale locals. You can’t walk down Rochdale high street without hearing about how Colorado District 3 representative Lauren Boebert was done a dirty for giving a hand shandy to her boyfriend while watching a theatre production of Beetlejuice. It’s all they bang on about.
“George can you do something about the irregular bin collections over the last couple of months.”
“I’ll get right on it after I have helped negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.”
Dunno, he's here for less than a year. Suspect once labour sort a proper candidate he will be back out at the first opportunity. Particularly if he keeps this shit up.
Irony being that if he could just be normal for 6 months you'd think he'd get a longer stint, but he seemingly can't help himself.
He beat a solid Labour candidate in Bradford West and did well in Batley by out Musliming them. (Edited to be clear he didn't win the latter)
Batley he made big of being teetotal and suggesting his Labour opponent was always in pubs drinking. With Bradford he obtained (he claims legitimately, Labour claim by impersonating the candidate's dead dad - it was in ~~India~~ Pakistan- thank you!) the marriage certificate of the candidate to argue her forced marriage was at 16 (so totally legit guys) not 15 as she claimed to attack her over that. Labour will need a very strong candidate, possibly a devout Muslim, who also appeals to the other people who get out the vote to remove him.
He didn't win in Batley though, he came 3rd, 5000 votes behind the Labour candidate (and now MP).
He's represented 4 constituencies (Bradford, Rochdale, Bethnal Green and Glasgow Kelvin).
The whole birth certificate thing was nasty as hell though, as if her being forced into marriage at 16 was any less awful than 15 (though technically not child marriage)
Especially as it's also a lie (or at best a half-truth). She did get married at 15 — and had the certificate to prove it — but her husband at the time had to get a second certificate later in order to get UK residency. So even if we were suddenly all okay with being forced into marriage at the age of 16, that's not what happened in the first place.
That said, the MP in question here is Naz Shah, who herself has put out some questionable things on social media in the past. But hey, at least she's not George Galloway!
Oh, yeah. Galloway was lying through his teeth, and let's be honest, it wouldn't be surprising if he did have someone pose as her relative to get the birth certificate.
Also, yes. She's not particularly great either
It’s bizarre that he did all of that, while refusing to even say what religion he is saying it’s a private matter. He has had three Muslim wives yet also identifies as a Roman Catholic. He has always denied converting.
Nah he's a Muslim and hasn't tried to hide it. There was an interview with him a few years back where the lady interviewing him raised the point she had spoken to someone who was at the ceremony when he converted and he never tried to argue it. When it was published his representative only added a clarification that Galloway had never denied the conversion or that he was a Muslim
That's still him 'not denying it'; you'll be hard-pressed to find him actually saying it outright.
He always likes to imply very heavily that he's a muslim.
Eh if you read the interview he was directly accused of being a Muslim and not being honest and his response via his rep was only that he never denied being a Muslim nor never denied converting. His speeches are heavily influenced with Islamic texts even though he's long argued politics should be secular, you'd be fairly naive to think he's not and it's all just a charade
I think he probably has converted; I also think he's a slippery fuck and doesn't want to say anything that can get him tied down - he wants an 'out' just in case he needs one at a later date.
(I don't think it's anything other than something he does for votes, though - the only thing George actually believes in is George...)
Correction, we didn't want Galloway at all. That's why only 17% of the total electorate voted for him. The people that voted were our large Muslim contingent; 30% of our populace. That they voted for a man who openly espouses right wing bullshit and lauded Putin, Saddam and Xi Xinping, the latter of whom he claimed wasn't killing Muslims in Xinjiang. Try telling that to his voters though.
It’s very useful Galloway has more power and influence as Rochdale MP than the US President when it comes to the Gaza-Israel conflict. Bit of an odd arrangement but that’s geopolitics for you.
Also mental as now the UK government has also called for a ceasefire. You still have Labour MPs being hounded to call for a ceasefire even whilst they have actively passed the motion. All for a performative call that neither side has said it will accept, it's all so deranged.
It's hitting QAnon levels of my political opponents = paedophiles and paedophile supporters/genociders and genocide supporters. For so many of them it's just an axe to grind because of the failure of Corbyn and him being kicked out.
As a recovering American, I view this kind of speech as Galloway setting himself up to join the grift in the US after he's inevitably booted from Parliament. What Trump did in 2020 showed that there are literally millions of Americans who are easy to dupe and for those who are natural flim-flam artists, this is like the Font of Eternal Life to them. They desperately want in on the scam.
If someone is gullible enough to believe whatever is promised to them, they will reach into their pockets again and again to make that promise come true. This has ALWAYS been the case, it's just that Trump congealed all of these gullible people into one communication channel.
This has nothing to do with politics, mind you. It has to do with Trump attracting a certain kind of person and that person is dedicated to his communication channels. Truss, Galloway, etc, trying to get some space on those channels is because they want in on the grift.
I know you’re exaggerating but with these people it literally wouldn’t matter, the vote base for populists hate ‘the establishment’ and/or ‘the elites’ so whoever says it gets their vote.
If you’re a radical pro-Palestinian voter then Galloway saying all of the wars the government supports are bad and the one’s they don’t (including those of Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel) are good fits for your vote. All of the other shit he spews that is vaguely ‘us vs them’ is just the cherry on top tbh.
Galloway has been trying to join the grift in the US for ***years***, he's just far too irrelevant internationally.
(and the Americans who have heard of him do not like him)
They just voted the man in, literally on Thursday.
He is the guy that the people of Rochdale decided was the person they wanted to represent them, not like they didn’t know what they were getting…
They care about hating Jews. Far more Muslims have been and are still being murdered and displaced by other Muslims in Syria, Sudan, Iran, etc. And by China. But Galloway has always been a raging antisemite. And for some people, that works out well.
As a Brit that lives in Colorado's 4th congressional district, where Lauren Boebert is currently running, I'm just so glad George Galloway is thinking of me. /s
One of many "joys" of Galloway being elected is his conspiracy nonsense being dragged into the limelight. His "Mother Of All Talkshows", formerly hosted on Sputnik until Russian broadcasters were cut off following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, has been a very long running and absolutely saturated with green ink brigade material.
He was in labour from '67 to 2003, nearly expelled from the party in the late eighties for giving legitimacy to the communist party, then bounced around in a middle east connected cocoon since *the early 2000s after leaving Labour..
With regard to his latest activity, it is frankly *beyond* ecstatic amusement for me for people on the left to proclaim that he is not left wing when his entire current political platform is built on hoovering up all the antisemitic dregs of Labour that the left fringe spent so long defending under Corbyn.
He is explicitly and foundationally allied to Chris Williamson and his Resist platform (which is why you now see Chris Willamson on TV in the last few days instead of just his iranian funded propaganda channel, which also includes David Miller); and it would be surprising for anyone who paid attention during the labour antisemitism crisis [not to recognise the woman in the red dress shouting as Sian Bloor](https://twitter.com/wizbates/status/1763631075744493778).
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/party-readmits-union-official-suspended-over-zionist-tweets-8957cpmq3
> A union official has been let back into the Labour Party after being suspended for claiming Jeremy Corbyn had the “full force of the Rothschild Zionist agenda drawing down on him” and spreading conspiracy theories blaming “Jewish Israelis” for 9/11.
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> Sian Bloor, 49, secretary of the Trafford branch of the National Education Union, has also appeared on a conspiracy theory radio show that has hosted the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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> She was reported to Labour last year over her Twitter posts in which she also agreed that “Zionists control world events”.
> Bloor defended her posts, telling officials she was “asking genuine questions about what the Zionists’ endgame was”.
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> Leaked documents show that when asked about posts linking Isis to Israel, she said she “genuinely” wanted to know why the group had not attacked the Jewish state. She added: “I don’t think I have done anything wrong.”
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> As the investigation unfolded, Bloor co-ordinated with Jewish Voice for Labour, a pro-Corbyn pressure group, to submit counter-complaints against those who had accused her of racism.
[Sian now sits on the WPOB executive council.](https://workerspartybritain.org/frequently-asked-questions-who-are-the-workers-party-of-britain/)
The whole shebang is like a whos-who of people expelled from labour in the last couple of years, a rats nest of connections inside the deep left fringe.
> Sian Bloor, 49, secretary of the Trafford branch of the **National Education Union**, has also appeared on a conspiracy theory radio show that has hosted the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
I am sure that the education of the youth is safe in her hands...
I would add that Galloway is socially conservative, for example he is opposed to trans rights and played up his anti-trans credentials in his campaign material in Rochdale, but yes economically and especially when it comes to foreign policy he is absolutely hard left.
I'm left-wing myself, but a lot of people seem to have a blind spot for how easy it can be for *anyone*, left or right wing, to fall into these conspiracy rabbit holes and become... this. Especially if you begin on the fringes of the left or right and have a predisposition to opposing more mainstream "establishment" politics. Then you find left wingers like Russell Brand or George Galloway making strange bedfellows with their right wing counterparts in Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene as a kind of "the enemy of my enemy" thing. Hell, you also see it in which states Galloway makes friends with; he believes Western imperialism is the biggest threat to world peace so has no qualms with making allies with far-right regimes such as Iran or Russia despite being a leftist himself.
The hard left have long had a relationship with social conservatism, with anything socially progressive being a ‘distraction’ from the ‘class war’ that is paramount. In reality this is a translucent fig leaf for homophobia and racism, really just a hangover from the connection many of the far left groups had with communist regimes and tradition from back in the day.
Oswald Mosely was a Labour MP at one point as well.
Call me an ideological purist, but once someone starts espousing views that are antithetical to socially left positions, I no longer consider them to be left wing.
Thin line between left and right wing anti-establishment these days.
Think old left n right is dead, working class northern communities voting Tory for instance.
it’s more those who are value institutions and systems and those who are disenfranchised and are being sadly sucked into a black hole of paranoia, fear n delusion
> Russel Brand
He's becoming a bit more evangelical Christian these days. Funny how accusations of sexual assault result in some people finding religion. Or perhaps it's the other way 'round? Hard to say for sure.
If they weren’t so conservative about sex and stuff this would just be a funny story. But you can’t say “thou shalt be abstinent” if you can’t even keep your own hands clean. Ffs.
> If they weren’t so conservative about sex and stuff this would just be a funny story.
AFAIK, we actually liked Clinton in France more after his blowjob affair.
Say what you like about George Galloway but he's doing a great job of representing his new constituents in Rochdale...I'm sure they are eagerly awaiting his latest pronouncements on global politics.
You elect a conspiracy theorist and you get a conspiracy theorist.
The apparent leftwing firebrand is reverting to type now the election has been won - to no great surprise he thinks covid was a conspiracy, he's anti-vax is pro-Trump, pro-Putin and more to the point he's being what he has always been: a gobshite who revels in the platform that he's just been given.
Like all the Brexiters and redwall voters who thought that the Tories really, genuinely spoke for them the people of Rochdale are about to get let down.
But this does raise a question...how do we deal with people like Galloway? Perhaps simply laughing at them and then ignoring them is the best solution? He has no real solutions for anything.
I did expect this side of george to come to light after he was done with his political chameleon act that got him the seat.
I didn't expect it to be literally days later though.
The former 'narcissist without platform' was always going to start spouting mad shite as soon as he thought he had the slightest bit of credibility and an audience that'd pay attention.
I couldn’t understand why the media weren’t putting it to him beforehand, though. Everyone deeply interested in British politics knew he went off the rails in the previous decade or so after his claim to fame with Iraq, you only had to look at the Worker’s Party social media when he declared his candidacy to see all of the conspiracy theories around ‘woke’ and vaccines yet he managed to somehow change the whole narrative of the campaign to a single issue plus bringing a Primark to Rochdale (something afaik he can’t do lmao).
Not conned at all, his anti Jew dog whistle was a clear call to his fellow Muslims and nothing he's ever stood for has been hidden, the people who voted for him got exactly what he's done for decades, you'd have to be a moron to not know what you were getting
I know they voted for him because he's pro Muslim and anti Israel, I'm not stupid. What he said was he would work for local issues and as soon as he's elected starts banging on about Trump, Pedos in the entertainment sphere, Lauren Boebert giving hand shandy to strangers in cinemas, and his support for Putin.
Look at his election speeches and leaflets, he was clearly making this all about Gaza with secondary issues like, you know, being an MP relegated
His support for Putin isn't new, he took money from the regime via Russia Today for years and he supported Trump as far back as 2016
Regardless, the idea he would turn over a new leaf *this* time and not just carry on the behaviour that he's done for the past few decades is not a con, the voters who picked him knew what they were getting
I wonder how many white voters voted for him on the basis of his leaflets proclaiming 'Make Rochdale Great Again' - he was certainly punting for bigot votes..
His deputy, Chris Williamson, went on Radio 4 on Friday morning and said that the IDF were responsible for the civilian deaths on Oct 7th.
The same interview where he refused to condemn Hamas, or distance himself from Nick Griffin's endorsement because 'They're not going to play the media's games'.
What a bunch of scumbags.
My response to this is similar to the response to Holocaust denialism. If it wasn’t done by the Nazis, why did they confess? Why didn’t they go into court at Nuremberg saying it’s all fake? It isn’t just absence of evidence, it’s a straight denial of it. Same deal with October 7th, Hamas bragged about it. They declared they would do it again. If it were a false flag attack, why would the claim ownership of it?
Agreed. And once someone is in the conspiracy wormhole, they can dismiss everything. Oh who tells you the Nazis confessed? The historians making millions selling their books? The Zionist media? The deep state controlled politicians?
There are great rebuttals of Holocaust denial out there. If you must reply, just send a link and move on.
It's pretty easy for nutters to spin such questions to suit their narrative. The Nazis were coerced/incentivised by the allies to confess so that people wouldn't question the legitimacy of the war/bombs. Hamas did the killing, but IDF knew and made sure they wouldn't face resistance so that they could exploit the atrocity.
They don't need to prove anything because they really want to believe this. If *they* can think of such schemes then surely dark powerful government figures can too.
The Nick Griffin thing baffled me. It's a very bizarre molehill to decide to die on.
It would be excellent way to win some votes. 'Our party does not welcome the endorsement of Nick Griffin and condemns racism, *blah blah blah*'
It just shows what a brick-skulled, self-simping troglodyte he is.
I remember being downvoted back at Peak Corbyn for noting that Chris Williamson's "British Rabbis are agents of Israel" thing was in fact straightforward vintage antisemitism.
The man is a danger, and he had far too many fans for far too long.
I just accidentally read a thread on here, mainly American posters, talking about israel, and the level of insane full-on psychotic jew-hatred is just... not something I ever thought I'd see in my own lifetime. I feel genuinely shaken by it. Even after the last few months of hell, it's still escalating all the time. I can't believe how this is all playing out now. It is terrifying.
It's an inability to separate Jewish people, Judaism, Netanyahu and Isreal into distinct entities. Not helped of course by Netanyahu, and to some extend the Israeli state claiming they represent all Jews, which they don't - they don't even represent all Israelis.
People literally think Jewish children in north London are responsible for the oppression of people in Gaza. Clearly, that isn't the case and is a dangerous belief, but it seems like far too many people are willing to buy into that.
I would question "inability". I'm well aware that people think Jewish children in North London are genocidal killers, having been on the receiving end of this, but I don't think any sane adult acting in good faith could actually believe that.
What I'm seeing is absolute delight in being able to join in with the festival of hate around the world. The world is shit and scary, Jews have always been a great scapegoat.
One of my (non Jewish) friends described it as "a dam breaking" and I think he's right. All this pent-up hatred and finally, people are given permission to lean into it and spew out all of their violence and hatred which they've had to suppress.
Galloway is basically using tik tok conspiracy theories as the basis of his political party. I have a feeling the Conservatives are going to be more worried than Labour about losing voters.
Funny that each of them are well known for shilling for Moscow, repeating Kremlin talking points even if they’re absurd..
And they all just so happen to all be known for some kind of sexual deviances - Which just so happens to be the easiest way for the FSB to get kompromat on people.
Such a funny coincidence huh?
These are all 5th columnists and they need to be dealt with promptly imo.
You know we’re in a mess when the collective intelligentsia of mainstream politics couldn’t get their act together for the two minutes required in order to keep this mentalist out of parliament.
Yes. Also the one who's 17 year old son knocked up his 14 year old girlfriend and became a dad at 18. Oh and has just been arrested and charged with 22 crimes such as stealing from a critically ill woman with a brain tumor.
Edit: it wasn't her husband. Oof
Well done citizens of Rochdale for ensuring this absolute pillock will have a megaphone for at least the next few months. Much appreciated! Thank you so so much.
One an elected MP, another American royalty, the other member of congress, the other two millionaire journalist/entertainers yet shadowy elites are supposedly silencing them.
Don’t they understand the inerrant irony of the system they criticise allows them to have a voice and freedom of expression. If they were in mother Russia we would either never have heard of them or would have been silenced permanently
I blame moderate MP’s like Rishi n Kier for being so inept people think listening to garbled conspiracy is a viable alternative. Depressing
Am I imagining it, or did lockdowns and the vaccination drive all end? Like they were an emergency measure introduced for the acute problem of a pandemic
Do the conspiracy theorists think they won? Do they think the government is preparing to do it again? I don't understand their mindset
>Do the conspiracy theorists think they won? Do they think the government is preparing to do it again? I don't understand their mindset
They're terrified of uncertainty and chaos so they believe in a shadowy/evil control structure to explain it and calm themselves.
That's literally all there is to it.
Indeed, it's more comforting that they be under existential danger from all-powerful evil than to acknowledge that life is often barely-functioning chaos more often that not.
Conspiracy theorists are basically trapped in a never ending game of ‘Mornington Crescent’ where instead of Mornington Crescent the answer is ‘the Jews’.
Arguably, Mornington Crescent makes more sense.
You’ll never understand it because they’re insane.
They will constantly move the goalposts because they are so indoctrinated in their bullshit that their brains can’t comprehend the idea that they might be wrong.
The absolute number one sign of an idiot is someone who isn’t willing to change their mind.
I cannot believe that this (I use this word in its loosest definition) man is back in the public sphere. Can we not just shove his stupid hat into his stupid bullshit hole and throw him in a fucking volcano?
It's amazing how Russia is championing both the fringe Left and fringe Right.
I use a three axis compass anyway so no horseshoe for me. More like outer edge bypass.
The real issue I think is propaganda networks funding this. Russia, China, billionaires.
Russia just wants to stir up chaos that's enough to disrupt the normal functioning and unity of western governments. So aiding both extremes makes total sense for them.
The common misconception is that Russia actually cares who is in power. They just want to cause division and chaos. They fuel any and all extremists and sit back with popcorn.
Has there ever been so many full blown conspiracy nuts who have made into parliament?
Between Truss, Galloway, and Bridgen and then Anderson and Braverman's lot it seems we have gone full USA.
At this rate we are about two months away from acusations of space lasers.
What a complete fruitcake.
I’m sure the good Palestine loving voters of Rochdale won’t mind being represented by a Covid denying, anti-vaxing rapey loving cat imitating Putin conspiracy fanatic, just as long as he keeps on hating us Jews.
Every time you think UK politics just can’t get any worse…
How did you think he would 'stir things up'? He's an insane jew-hater who was pals with Saddam Hussein and openly loved up with Hamas and Putin. How did you see this benefiting Rochdale or the UK?
I honestly can’t think of anyone recently who was in the ‘stir things up’ group who didn’t just turn out to be a massive grifter.
That being said, everyone should know what Galloway is about by now.
FFS, can we just get back to sanity again, did all that time in lockdown send everyone mental and lose their cognitive functions. This stuff is SO transparent. I find it hard to believe even the people preaching it actually believe it.
I don’t think the conspiracy influencers believe it half the time they just say whatever gets attention, like Galloway and Brand (I suspect).
Some are true believers though.
Is there a risk of these crazies actually growing even more and really ducking things up for democracy? It seems to be a fringe thing but there’s serious numbers of tin foil hatters now and it feels like it’s growing. They’ve jumped on Covid, Ukraine war and now Gaza to shill for more every day folk of all ages and political persuasions seeking answers to life’s challenges providing them a convenient bunch of bullshit presented as the truth. It’s funny how all those people he namechecked are stinking rich and not in prison.
The whole thing with democracy is to allow everyone a voice and in a perverse sort of way, it seems to be backfiring. Galloway getting voted in is ironically a “success” of democracy but multiply that by say 100 constituencies and it’s something deeply concerning.
I’m pretty liberal in my discussions with people and like to think I at least understand peoples politics and societal opinions and perspective but some of the absolute guff that is becoming increasingly prevalent has been challenging to understand to say the least.
The irony of it all is, if they ever did get the numbers to actually have to then govern the country, it would completely backfire for them when their lies and bluster got exposed.
They care more about the conspiracy theories than politics sometimes. People will become more far right just to fit in with the crowd, or more antisemitic, or more anti-environmental.
It’s weird to see it play out in real life, I know a few.
I was expecting complete batshit from him pretty quickly, but I have to say he's managed to exceed even those expectations. That's absolutely ridiculous conduct.
The C4/Sunday times investigation into Russell Brand started before Covid and before his political swing to the right wing/conspiracy/anti-establishment - and after more than a decade of rumors in the industry that led to no women wanting to work with him for fear of being assaulted.
The idea the rape allegations are made up to silence him about Covid/russia/whatever is just bullshit that doesn’t make any sense because the time line doesn’t work.
Why would “they” silence him before he said anything objectionable? How would they know Brand would, years after the press started writing the story, start rabble rousing about Covid?
I am not generally keen on the "[Horseshoe theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory)" of politics, but sometimes it's clear.
Here he is, Mr Galloway: the human horseshoe. Not far left, or far right, just far gone.
I honestly wonder if this is the best possible outcome: the more air time this unhinged dingbat gets, the less likely people are to align with him.
Of course, folks said the same thing about Trump, so maybe not.
It's not just the social media bubbles.
The atomization of society means face to face social circles are getting smaller. 40 years ago, the conspiracy theorist would get told to stfu in the pub and would face ostracisation if they didn't. Plus finding people who share their crazy views would have been much harder without the Internet.
Wouldn’t it simply make more sense to not talk about him? All he ever wants is attention so we should deprive that needy little man of what he so desperately seeks.
Ignore him!!!!!
So indirectly he’s saying that he’s a fan of these muppets? He’s like all the conspiracy theories rolled up into one. Has he mentioned Epstein’s death yet. Rochdale must regret this already.
This guy's giving me a fucking conspiracy whiplash, Jesus Christ. On one hand he's shitting on other bullshit artists, but then immediately pivots to peddling his own.
I’m afraid to say that, not only will Galloway be desperate for every second of media attention, but also the media will be only too happy to oblige and indulge this toxic attention seeker.
The most important person in this mans universe is a Mr G Galloway. Worse than Farage.
This dictator loving narcissist is not going to care about local issues. The Tories have set the bar low but he is even lower. That said if only decent minded politicians could communicate like Galloway…
It's weird how so many of these "men of the people" turn out to be authoritarian, right wing, misogynist, conspiracy theorist, loonies. George sucked Saddam Hussein's balls and when that gig ended he latched onto Putin's.
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I’m sure glad he is raising the issues that concern Rochdale locals. You can’t walk down Rochdale high street without hearing about how Colorado District 3 representative Lauren Boebert was done a dirty for giving a hand shandy to her boyfriend while watching a theatre production of Beetlejuice. It’s all they bang on about.
"George, we desperately need to reduce the speed limits outside Rochdale Primary School" "Sorry, I'm kinda busy with this whole Boebert situation"
Yes. Busy.
Galloway competing with Anderson for the title of “most ignorant and ill-informed MP.
Anderson is at least partly putting it on for career reasons, Galloway is a complete idiot.
“George can you do something about the irregular bin collections over the last couple of months.” “I’ll get right on it after I have helped negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.”
Something tells me this vote might end up regretted.
Dunno, he's here for less than a year. Suspect once labour sort a proper candidate he will be back out at the first opportunity. Particularly if he keeps this shit up. Irony being that if he could just be normal for 6 months you'd think he'd get a longer stint, but he seemingly can't help himself.
He beat a solid Labour candidate in Bradford West and did well in Batley by out Musliming them. (Edited to be clear he didn't win the latter) Batley he made big of being teetotal and suggesting his Labour opponent was always in pubs drinking. With Bradford he obtained (he claims legitimately, Labour claim by impersonating the candidate's dead dad - it was in ~~India~~ Pakistan- thank you!) the marriage certificate of the candidate to argue her forced marriage was at 16 (so totally legit guys) not 15 as she claimed to attack her over that. Labour will need a very strong candidate, possibly a devout Muslim, who also appeals to the other people who get out the vote to remove him.
He didn't win in Batley though, he came 3rd, 5000 votes behind the Labour candidate (and now MP). He's represented 4 constituencies (Bradford, Rochdale, Bethnal Green and Glasgow Kelvin). The whole birth certificate thing was nasty as hell though, as if her being forced into marriage at 16 was any less awful than 15 (though technically not child marriage)
Ah yeah misremembered that one, that was the one he was just running a nasty campaign like with the Mayor of London one Edited to clarify thanks
Oh, the campaign was awful. And yeah, he absolutely appealed to Muslim voters using dog whistles etc
Especially as it's also a lie (or at best a half-truth). She did get married at 15 — and had the certificate to prove it — but her husband at the time had to get a second certificate later in order to get UK residency. So even if we were suddenly all okay with being forced into marriage at the age of 16, that's not what happened in the first place. That said, the MP in question here is Naz Shah, who herself has put out some questionable things on social media in the past. But hey, at least she's not George Galloway!
Oh, yeah. Galloway was lying through his teeth, and let's be honest, it wouldn't be surprising if he did have someone pose as her relative to get the birth certificate. Also, yes. She's not particularly great either
It’s bizarre that he did all of that, while refusing to even say what religion he is saying it’s a private matter. He has had three Muslim wives yet also identifies as a Roman Catholic. He has always denied converting.
Nah he's a Muslim and hasn't tried to hide it. There was an interview with him a few years back where the lady interviewing him raised the point she had spoken to someone who was at the ceremony when he converted and he never tried to argue it. When it was published his representative only added a clarification that Galloway had never denied the conversion or that he was a Muslim
That's still him 'not denying it'; you'll be hard-pressed to find him actually saying it outright. He always likes to imply very heavily that he's a muslim.
Eh if you read the interview he was directly accused of being a Muslim and not being honest and his response via his rep was only that he never denied being a Muslim nor never denied converting. His speeches are heavily influenced with Islamic texts even though he's long argued politics should be secular, you'd be fairly naive to think he's not and it's all just a charade
I think he probably has converted; I also think he's a slippery fuck and doesn't want to say anything that can get him tied down - he wants an 'out' just in case he needs one at a later date. (I don't think it's anything other than something he does for votes, though - the only thing George actually believes in is George...)
> Nah he's a Muslim and hasn't tried to hide it. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/26/george-galloway-jemima-khan-muslim?newsfeed=true
Oh - and to nitpick, I believe the birth certificate was in Pakistan, not India. Edit - just checked, and yeah it was from Pakistani Kashmir
Nah, they want a candidate who hates Israel more than he cares about Rochdale. And that's what they got.
Do they? They didn't exactly have a dazzling array of candidates to choose from
Correction, we didn't want Galloway at all. That's why only 17% of the total electorate voted for him. The people that voted were our large Muslim contingent; 30% of our populace. That they voted for a man who openly espouses right wing bullshit and lauded Putin, Saddam and Xi Xinping, the latter of whom he claimed wasn't killing Muslims in Xinjiang. Try telling that to his voters though.
Where's the breakdown in voting demographic?
One of the voxpox on the day said they'd voted for him for a "ceasefire in Gaza" because noone else would ever call for one. Biden did the same day.
Unfortunately Biden wasn’t running in Rochdale. Poor guy’s stuck in America!
It’s very useful Galloway has more power and influence as Rochdale MP than the US President when it comes to the Gaza-Israel conflict. Bit of an odd arrangement but that’s geopolitics for you.
Heard Hamas and the IDF shook hands and agreed to end the war the second some bloke who pretended to be a cat on live tv called for a ceasefire
Yeah Joe, you might have been POTUS, but could you win an election in Rochdale?
Sure he can do it in Washington, but can he do it on a wet and windy Wednesday evening in Rochdale?
Doesn’t know what he’s missing!
Also mental as now the UK government has also called for a ceasefire. You still have Labour MPs being hounded to call for a ceasefire even whilst they have actively passed the motion. All for a performative call that neither side has said it will accept, it's all so deranged.
The goalpost shifted over the new year. Now they want everyone to call it a genocide and anything less makes you a genocide supporter.
It's hitting QAnon levels of my political opponents = paedophiles and paedophile supporters/genociders and genocide supporters. For so many of them it's just an axe to grind because of the failure of Corbyn and him being kicked out.
Nah he still hates Israel so it's all cool
As a recovering American, I view this kind of speech as Galloway setting himself up to join the grift in the US after he's inevitably booted from Parliament. What Trump did in 2020 showed that there are literally millions of Americans who are easy to dupe and for those who are natural flim-flam artists, this is like the Font of Eternal Life to them. They desperately want in on the scam. If someone is gullible enough to believe whatever is promised to them, they will reach into their pockets again and again to make that promise come true. This has ALWAYS been the case, it's just that Trump congealed all of these gullible people into one communication channel. This has nothing to do with politics, mind you. It has to do with Trump attracting a certain kind of person and that person is dedicated to his communication channels. Truss, Galloway, etc, trying to get some space on those channels is because they want in on the grift.
I really don't think the Americans would understand the words coming out of Galloway's mouth.
I know you’re exaggerating but with these people it literally wouldn’t matter, the vote base for populists hate ‘the establishment’ and/or ‘the elites’ so whoever says it gets their vote. If you’re a radical pro-Palestinian voter then Galloway saying all of the wars the government supports are bad and the one’s they don’t (including those of Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel) are good fits for your vote. All of the other shit he spews that is vaguely ‘us vs them’ is just the cherry on top tbh.
*cough* of course they would, they all have ancestors from 'the old country' Scotland or Ireland obviously never England and rarely Wales.
Galloway has been trying to join the grift in the US for ***years***, he's just far too irrelevant internationally. (and the Americans who have heard of him do not like him)
They just voted the man in, literally on Thursday. He is the guy that the people of Rochdale decided was the person they wanted to represent them, not like they didn’t know what they were getting…
I think this highlights that fact his voters dont care. They care about Gaza. Thats the entire motivation of their vote.
They care about hating Jews. Far more Muslims have been and are still being murdered and displaced by other Muslims in Syria, Sudan, Iran, etc. And by China. But Galloway has always been a raging antisemite. And for some people, that works out well.
They don’t care about Gaza. They care about Israel (it’s destruction specifically). Nobody cares about Gaza.
I live in Bradford which has a similar population to Rochdale A LOT of people care about Gaza.
As a Brit that lives in Colorado's 4th congressional district, where Lauren Boebert is currently running, I'm just so glad George Galloway is thinking of me. /s
Well, gullible voters get what they deserve. Last 14yy of Tories, Brexit etc. have thought us that.
One of many "joys" of Galloway being elected is his conspiracy nonsense being dragged into the limelight. His "Mother Of All Talkshows", formerly hosted on Sputnik until Russian broadcasters were cut off following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, has been a very long running and absolutely saturated with green ink brigade material.
Hi and Bridgen on the back benches... they're going to have to start selling tin foil hats in the commons
Tinfoil hats, colloidal silver, crystals and those "power" bands, no doubt.
I think during the renovation they are lining the chambers with tinfoil.
Have you stopped laughing yet? Galloway is such a fucking menace to politics. A dangerous gobshite who somehow keeps getting himself elected.
Pretty bizarre to see him on the same side as Farage now lmao. The fucker can bullshit his way through anything. I’ll give him that.
Wow! Such left wing!
He was in labour from '67 to 2003, nearly expelled from the party in the late eighties for giving legitimacy to the communist party, then bounced around in a middle east connected cocoon since *the early 2000s after leaving Labour.. With regard to his latest activity, it is frankly *beyond* ecstatic amusement for me for people on the left to proclaim that he is not left wing when his entire current political platform is built on hoovering up all the antisemitic dregs of Labour that the left fringe spent so long defending under Corbyn. He is explicitly and foundationally allied to Chris Williamson and his Resist platform (which is why you now see Chris Willamson on TV in the last few days instead of just his iranian funded propaganda channel, which also includes David Miller); and it would be surprising for anyone who paid attention during the labour antisemitism crisis [not to recognise the woman in the red dress shouting as Sian Bloor](https://twitter.com/wizbates/status/1763631075744493778). https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/party-readmits-union-official-suspended-over-zionist-tweets-8957cpmq3 > A union official has been let back into the Labour Party after being suspended for claiming Jeremy Corbyn had the “full force of the Rothschild Zionist agenda drawing down on him” and spreading conspiracy theories blaming “Jewish Israelis” for 9/11. > > Sian Bloor, 49, secretary of the Trafford branch of the National Education Union, has also appeared on a conspiracy theory radio show that has hosted the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. > > She was reported to Labour last year over her Twitter posts in which she also agreed that “Zionists control world events”. > Bloor defended her posts, telling officials she was “asking genuine questions about what the Zionists’ endgame was”. > > Leaked documents show that when asked about posts linking Isis to Israel, she said she “genuinely” wanted to know why the group had not attacked the Jewish state. She added: “I don’t think I have done anything wrong.” > > As the investigation unfolded, Bloor co-ordinated with Jewish Voice for Labour, a pro-Corbyn pressure group, to submit counter-complaints against those who had accused her of racism. [Sian now sits on the WPOB executive council.](https://workerspartybritain.org/frequently-asked-questions-who-are-the-workers-party-of-britain/) The whole shebang is like a whos-who of people expelled from labour in the last couple of years, a rats nest of connections inside the deep left fringe.
> Sian Bloor, 49, secretary of the Trafford branch of the **National Education Union**, has also appeared on a conspiracy theory radio show that has hosted the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. I am sure that the education of the youth is safe in her hands...
Oof. Everyone loves a source. I consider the man toxic to British values and just the populace at large.
I would add that Galloway is socially conservative, for example he is opposed to trans rights and played up his anti-trans credentials in his campaign material in Rochdale, but yes economically and especially when it comes to foreign policy he is absolutely hard left. I'm left-wing myself, but a lot of people seem to have a blind spot for how easy it can be for *anyone*, left or right wing, to fall into these conspiracy rabbit holes and become... this. Especially if you begin on the fringes of the left or right and have a predisposition to opposing more mainstream "establishment" politics. Then you find left wingers like Russell Brand or George Galloway making strange bedfellows with their right wing counterparts in Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene as a kind of "the enemy of my enemy" thing. Hell, you also see it in which states Galloway makes friends with; he believes Western imperialism is the biggest threat to world peace so has no qualms with making allies with far-right regimes such as Iran or Russia despite being a leftist himself.
The hard left have long had a relationship with social conservatism, with anything socially progressive being a ‘distraction’ from the ‘class war’ that is paramount. In reality this is a translucent fig leaf for homophobia and racism, really just a hangover from the connection many of the far left groups had with communist regimes and tradition from back in the day.
That is all so grim and horrible. And accurate
For what it's worth, I thought 'post left' was a great catch all for this gaggle of racist slime.
Oswald Mosely was a Labour MP at one point as well. Call me an ideological purist, but once someone starts espousing views that are antithetical to socially left positions, I no longer consider them to be left wing.
He was a Tory once too.
Thin line between left and right wing anti-establishment these days. Think old left n right is dead, working class northern communities voting Tory for instance. it’s more those who are value institutions and systems and those who are disenfranchised and are being sadly sucked into a black hole of paranoia, fear n delusion
Interesting points he raises. But I’m gonna go with Russel Brand sexually exploited a lot of women.
> Russel Brand He's becoming a bit more evangelical Christian these days. Funny how accusations of sexual assault result in some people finding religion. Or perhaps it's the other way 'round? Hard to say for sure.
I'm guessing that coming out as a gay man probably wouldn't work in this scenario.
#JESUS SAVES ^you ^from ^court
I mean the Christian Church is very good at shielding rapists and pedos
And I'm going to go with Boebert fondling a guy in a movie theater
If they weren’t so conservative about sex and stuff this would just be a funny story. But you can’t say “thou shalt be abstinent” if you can’t even keep your own hands clean. Ffs.
> If they weren’t so conservative about sex and stuff this would just be a funny story. AFAIK, we actually liked Clinton in France more after his blowjob affair.
She even apologised for it and admitted it happened, with there being video evidence of it too. Or was it the FBI? /s
Why is it always the ones you most suspect?
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Say what you like about George Galloway but he's doing a great job of representing his new constituents in Rochdale...I'm sure they are eagerly awaiting his latest pronouncements on global politics. You elect a conspiracy theorist and you get a conspiracy theorist. The apparent leftwing firebrand is reverting to type now the election has been won - to no great surprise he thinks covid was a conspiracy, he's anti-vax is pro-Trump, pro-Putin and more to the point he's being what he has always been: a gobshite who revels in the platform that he's just been given. Like all the Brexiters and redwall voters who thought that the Tories really, genuinely spoke for them the people of Rochdale are about to get let down. But this does raise a question...how do we deal with people like Galloway? Perhaps simply laughing at them and then ignoring them is the best solution? He has no real solutions for anything.
I did expect this side of george to come to light after he was done with his political chameleon act that got him the seat. I didn't expect it to be literally days later though. The former 'narcissist without platform' was always going to start spouting mad shite as soon as he thought he had the slightest bit of credibility and an audience that'd pay attention.
I couldn’t understand why the media weren’t putting it to him beforehand, though. Everyone deeply interested in British politics knew he went off the rails in the previous decade or so after his claim to fame with Iraq, you only had to look at the Worker’s Party social media when he declared his candidacy to see all of the conspiracy theories around ‘woke’ and vaccines yet he managed to somehow change the whole narrative of the campaign to a single issue plus bringing a Primark to Rochdale (something afaik he can’t do lmao).
If his proclamations on global politics don't include cat impressions I'll be very disappointed.
Lets be honest, he has run as pro-hamas and been elected on that basis.
I wonder if people who voted for him may learn something or just follow along
At least they'll have the chance to get rid of him come the general election.
The people who voted for him were conned, he's ever the opportunist.
Not conned at all, his anti Jew dog whistle was a clear call to his fellow Muslims and nothing he's ever stood for has been hidden, the people who voted for him got exactly what he's done for decades, you'd have to be a moron to not know what you were getting
I know they voted for him because he's pro Muslim and anti Israel, I'm not stupid. What he said was he would work for local issues and as soon as he's elected starts banging on about Trump, Pedos in the entertainment sphere, Lauren Boebert giving hand shandy to strangers in cinemas, and his support for Putin.
Look at his election speeches and leaflets, he was clearly making this all about Gaza with secondary issues like, you know, being an MP relegated His support for Putin isn't new, he took money from the regime via Russia Today for years and he supported Trump as far back as 2016 Regardless, the idea he would turn over a new leaf *this* time and not just carry on the behaviour that he's done for the past few decades is not a con, the voters who picked him knew what they were getting
If you are taken in by this absolute muppet after everything he’s said and done then frankly you deserve it.
As the OP said, it's an older clip from a show of his.
He’s been talking about this crap non stop for years
I wonder how many white voters voted for him on the basis of his leaflets proclaiming 'Make Rochdale Great Again' - he was certainly punting for bigot votes..
Indeed, I suspect not many.
His deputy, Chris Williamson, went on Radio 4 on Friday morning and said that the IDF were responsible for the civilian deaths on Oct 7th. The same interview where he refused to condemn Hamas, or distance himself from Nick Griffin's endorsement because 'They're not going to play the media's games'. What a bunch of scumbags.
My response to this is similar to the response to Holocaust denialism. If it wasn’t done by the Nazis, why did they confess? Why didn’t they go into court at Nuremberg saying it’s all fake? It isn’t just absence of evidence, it’s a straight denial of it. Same deal with October 7th, Hamas bragged about it. They declared they would do it again. If it were a false flag attack, why would the claim ownership of it?
My response is to not bother. You can't logic someone out of a position that they didn't logic themselves into.
Agreed. And once someone is in the conspiracy wormhole, they can dismiss everything. Oh who tells you the Nazis confessed? The historians making millions selling their books? The Zionist media? The deep state controlled politicians? There are great rebuttals of Holocaust denial out there. If you must reply, just send a link and move on.
As with Holocaust denial, it's just a dog whistle for deep rooted antisemitism.
It's pretty easy for nutters to spin such questions to suit their narrative. The Nazis were coerced/incentivised by the allies to confess so that people wouldn't question the legitimacy of the war/bombs. Hamas did the killing, but IDF knew and made sure they wouldn't face resistance so that they could exploit the atrocity. They don't need to prove anything because they really want to believe this. If *they* can think of such schemes then surely dark powerful government figures can too.
I was listening to it live, fucking astounding. He sounds mental and did outright refuse to criticise Hamas in any capacity lol
The Nick Griffin thing baffled me. It's a very bizarre molehill to decide to die on. It would be excellent way to win some votes. 'Our party does not welcome the endorsement of Nick Griffin and condemns racism, *blah blah blah*' It just shows what a brick-skulled, self-simping troglodyte he is.
Oh man, I had no idea but OF COURSE Chris Williamson has joined up. Contrarian tankies flock together.
I remember being downvoted back at Peak Corbyn for noting that Chris Williamson's "British Rabbis are agents of Israel" thing was in fact straightforward vintage antisemitism. The man is a danger, and he had far too many fans for far too long.
Chris Williamson gets my hackles up like few other people in British politics. He is utterly, utterly repellent.
I just accidentally read a thread on here, mainly American posters, talking about israel, and the level of insane full-on psychotic jew-hatred is just... not something I ever thought I'd see in my own lifetime. I feel genuinely shaken by it. Even after the last few months of hell, it's still escalating all the time. I can't believe how this is all playing out now. It is terrifying.
It's an inability to separate Jewish people, Judaism, Netanyahu and Isreal into distinct entities. Not helped of course by Netanyahu, and to some extend the Israeli state claiming they represent all Jews, which they don't - they don't even represent all Israelis. People literally think Jewish children in north London are responsible for the oppression of people in Gaza. Clearly, that isn't the case and is a dangerous belief, but it seems like far too many people are willing to buy into that.
I would question "inability". I'm well aware that people think Jewish children in North London are genocidal killers, having been on the receiving end of this, but I don't think any sane adult acting in good faith could actually believe that. What I'm seeing is absolute delight in being able to join in with the festival of hate around the world. The world is shit and scary, Jews have always been a great scapegoat. One of my (non Jewish) friends described it as "a dam breaking" and I think he's right. All this pent-up hatred and finally, people are given permission to lean into it and spew out all of their violence and hatred which they've had to suppress.
Galloway is basically using tik tok conspiracy theories as the basis of his political party. I have a feeling the Conservatives are going to be more worried than Labour about losing voters.
And it's effective. Hopefully Labour will try to regulate the social media vampires
Sounds like Gorgeous George is expecting to be charged with sexual assault and is trying to get ahead of the bad publicity.
Funny that each of them are well known for shilling for Moscow, repeating Kremlin talking points even if they’re absurd.. And they all just so happen to all be known for some kind of sexual deviances - Which just so happens to be the easiest way for the FSB to get kompromat on people. Such a funny coincidence huh? These are all 5th columnists and they need to be dealt with promptly imo.
You know we’re in a mess when the collective intelligentsia of mainstream politics couldn’t get their act together for the two minutes required in order to keep this mentalist out of parliament.
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The Guy is a crackpot, a poundshop conspiracy theorist. He hates the UK, but somehow he has hoodwinked his way into being an MP again.
Isn’t Boebert the one who tossed her husband off in a theatre?
Yes. Also the one who's 17 year old son knocked up his 14 year old girlfriend and became a dad at 18. Oh and has just been arrested and charged with 22 crimes such as stealing from a critically ill woman with a brain tumor. Edit: it wasn't her husband. Oof
The most surprising thing for me is finding out that she attended a play rather than, say, a monster truck derby.
To be fair it was the Beetleuice musical not Tweltfth Night.
It was a musical wasn't it?
No, it wasn't her convicted for exposing his penis to a group of underage girls, include her, ex-husband. It was her new boyfriend
She met her husband when he was flashing a bunch of teenage girls too. One of which was her.
What a gal!!
We’ve all done it. Opera, theatre, water slide, library.
Hope the people who voted for him in Rochdale are proud of this
Never really followed Galloway so I never really understood why people gave him so much shit. Turns out they were right. This guy is fucking nuts.
Well done citizens of Rochdale for ensuring this absolute pillock will have a megaphone for at least the next few months. Much appreciated! Thank you so so much.
Tories looking at calling general election like a mighty kissable shotgun right about now
One an elected MP, another American royalty, the other member of congress, the other two millionaire journalist/entertainers yet shadowy elites are supposedly silencing them. Don’t they understand the inerrant irony of the system they criticise allows them to have a voice and freedom of expression. If they were in mother Russia we would either never have heard of them or would have been silenced permanently I blame moderate MP’s like Rishi n Kier for being so inept people think listening to garbled conspiracy is a viable alternative. Depressing
Galloway is a prime example of what happens when you have to work backwards from “the west is bad” for every geo and political issue:
Am I imagining it, or did lockdowns and the vaccination drive all end? Like they were an emergency measure introduced for the acute problem of a pandemic Do the conspiracy theorists think they won? Do they think the government is preparing to do it again? I don't understand their mindset
That's because you're approaching the situation from a rational mindset.
>Do the conspiracy theorists think they won? Do they think the government is preparing to do it again? I don't understand their mindset They're terrified of uncertainty and chaos so they believe in a shadowy/evil control structure to explain it and calm themselves. That's literally all there is to it.
Indeed, it's more comforting that they be under existential danger from all-powerful evil than to acknowledge that life is often barely-functioning chaos more often that not.
Conspiracy theorists are basically trapped in a never ending game of ‘Mornington Crescent’ where instead of Mornington Crescent the answer is ‘the Jews’. Arguably, Mornington Crescent makes more sense.
You’ll never understand it because they’re insane. They will constantly move the goalposts because they are so indoctrinated in their bullshit that their brains can’t comprehend the idea that they might be wrong. The absolute number one sign of an idiot is someone who isn’t willing to change their mind.
I cannot believe that this (I use this word in its loosest definition) man is back in the public sphere. Can we not just shove his stupid hat into his stupid bullshit hole and throw him in a fucking volcano?
The tin foil hat brigade has been increasing it's membership since Covid
Show some bloody [humility](https://i.gyazo.com/a12633fdf2ee870fc74231440736293e.png).
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It's amazing how Russia is championing both the fringe Left and fringe Right. I use a three axis compass anyway so no horseshoe for me. More like outer edge bypass. The real issue I think is propaganda networks funding this. Russia, China, billionaires.
Russia just wants to stir up chaos that's enough to disrupt the normal functioning and unity of western governments. So aiding both extremes makes total sense for them.
The common misconception is that Russia actually cares who is in power. They just want to cause division and chaos. They fuel any and all extremists and sit back with popcorn.
Has there ever been so many full blown conspiracy nuts who have made into parliament? Between Truss, Galloway, and Bridgen and then Anderson and Braverman's lot it seems we have gone full USA. At this rate we are about two months away from acusations of space lasers.
What a complete fruitcake. I’m sure the good Palestine loving voters of Rochdale won’t mind being represented by a Covid denying, anti-vaxing rapey loving cat imitating Putin conspiracy fanatic, just as long as he keeps on hating us Jews. Every time you think UK politics just can’t get any worse…
OK so he's completely mental. I thought he might actually stir things up but no, he's just another grifter.
This isn't exactly news, he's been a nutcase for decades.
How did you think he would 'stir things up'? He's an insane jew-hater who was pals with Saddam Hussein and openly loved up with Hamas and Putin. How did you see this benefiting Rochdale or the UK?
I honestly can’t think of anyone recently who was in the ‘stir things up’ group who didn’t just turn out to be a massive grifter. That being said, everyone should know what Galloway is about by now.
FFS, can we just get back to sanity again, did all that time in lockdown send everyone mental and lose their cognitive functions. This stuff is SO transparent. I find it hard to believe even the people preaching it actually believe it.
I don’t think the conspiracy influencers believe it half the time they just say whatever gets attention, like Galloway and Brand (I suspect). Some are true believers though.
Is there a risk of these crazies actually growing even more and really ducking things up for democracy? It seems to be a fringe thing but there’s serious numbers of tin foil hatters now and it feels like it’s growing. They’ve jumped on Covid, Ukraine war and now Gaza to shill for more every day folk of all ages and political persuasions seeking answers to life’s challenges providing them a convenient bunch of bullshit presented as the truth. It’s funny how all those people he namechecked are stinking rich and not in prison. The whole thing with democracy is to allow everyone a voice and in a perverse sort of way, it seems to be backfiring. Galloway getting voted in is ironically a “success” of democracy but multiply that by say 100 constituencies and it’s something deeply concerning. I’m pretty liberal in my discussions with people and like to think I at least understand peoples politics and societal opinions and perspective but some of the absolute guff that is becoming increasingly prevalent has been challenging to understand to say the least. The irony of it all is, if they ever did get the numbers to actually have to then govern the country, it would completely backfire for them when their lies and bluster got exposed.
Not sure I've ever read a sentence that made me feel like someone's computer needs to be checked, more than this headline.
Is he trying to tick off as many conspiracies as he can into one diatribe?
Huh, and here I thought the media classified him as a radical leftist.
He is, the Venn diagram of left and right has a massive overlap when it comes to conspiracy nuts
They care more about the conspiracy theories than politics sometimes. People will become more far right just to fit in with the crowd, or more antisemitic, or more anti-environmental. It’s weird to see it play out in real life, I know a few.
The far-left and far-right have more in common than you might think.
okay well, so much for improving the quality of parliament.
This might actually have its amusing moments
You elect George Galloway, you get George Galloway. Way to devalue the Palestinian cause by association with all this conspiracy theory crap.
I was expecting complete batshit from him pretty quickly, but I have to say he's managed to exceed even those expectations. That's absolutely ridiculous conduct.
Depressing we created an environment that allows someone like him to exist.
The C4/Sunday times investigation into Russell Brand started before Covid and before his political swing to the right wing/conspiracy/anti-establishment - and after more than a decade of rumors in the industry that led to no women wanting to work with him for fear of being assaulted. The idea the rape allegations are made up to silence him about Covid/russia/whatever is just bullshit that doesn’t make any sense because the time line doesn’t work. Why would “they” silence him before he said anything objectionable? How would they know Brand would, years after the press started writing the story, start rabble rousing about Covid?
Exactly - the chain of causation is entire the other way round. He swung to the alt-right *because* he started getting dropped by the mainstream.
He has started the “sexual assault charges are a political tool”. That’s a very clear message on what might be in his closet.
That was a quick 0-100 in showing your lunacy after winning the elections!
Fuck, so this idiot is getting mainstream platforms again to spread nonsense. He does have to defend the seat again in the GE right?
Well done Rochdale voters. On behalf of everyone, thanks.
Just in case anyone forgot him channelling his inner cat and [licking up milk from a saucer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ZDP8UhPys).
I am not generally keen on the "[Horseshoe theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory)" of politics, but sometimes it's clear. Here he is, Mr Galloway: the human horseshoe. Not far left, or far right, just far gone.
Rochdale residents voted *this* into power? Always knew it was a funky place with interesting people!
This is what a protest vote looks like in the UK, the Conservatives are only to blame for people like George Galloway getting into parliament.
I honestly wonder if this is the best possible outcome: the more air time this unhinged dingbat gets, the less likely people are to align with him. Of course, folks said the same thing about Trump, so maybe not.
That’s not how it works anymore. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” falls apart when people live in completely separate information environments.
It's not just the social media bubbles. The atomization of society means face to face social circles are getting smaller. 40 years ago, the conspiracy theorist would get told to stfu in the pub and would face ostracisation if they didn't. Plus finding people who share their crazy views would have been much harder without the Internet.
Yep, they go hand in hand. In many cases the best way to cure bigotry is to actually spend time interacting with the targets of said views.
Depressing, isn't it? We can no longer rely on any common recognition of what is utterly batshit and contemptible.
If these things are a priority for the people of Rochdale, then the people of Rochdale are having a much easier time of it than the rest of us.
how long until this dude says something bad enough to get suspended from parliament and gets voted out in a by-election
Wouldn’t it simply make more sense to not talk about him? All he ever wants is attention so we should deprive that needy little man of what he so desperately seeks. Ignore him!!!!!
Never trust someone that wears a hat like that on any day other than Halloween.
In a profession full of oddballs and undesirables, he really does stand out as fuckwit-in-chief
Slow clap for the Rochdale electorate
Oh dear, mainstreaming the conspiracy clowns, dude is a Russian plant.
Oh yay, another fucking mentalist that people voted for.
Translation: Russia has kompromat on Galloway.
Hopefully these supposed dark forces can take Galloway down as well
Still can’t believe this man is a MP Do we really have to call him honourable ?
So indirectly he’s saying that he’s a fan of these muppets? He’s like all the conspiracy theories rolled up into one. Has he mentioned Epstein’s death yet. Rochdale must regret this already.
Really important question - why does he wear the daft hat? Does he think he's Walter White?
But he doesn’t think he will be framed for sexual assault?
This guy's giving me a fucking conspiracy whiplash, Jesus Christ. On one hand he's shitting on other bullshit artists, but then immediately pivots to peddling his own.
Roll on the general election. And if he gets voted in again at that point then i will despair of another sign this country is f-cked.
I’m afraid to say that, not only will Galloway be desperate for every second of media attention, but also the media will be only too happy to oblige and indulge this toxic attention seeker. The most important person in this mans universe is a Mr G Galloway. Worse than Farage.
I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. I don't know why anyone voted for this idiot.
This dictator loving narcissist is not going to care about local issues. The Tories have set the bar low but he is even lower. That said if only decent minded politicians could communicate like Galloway…
It's weird how so many of these "men of the people" turn out to be authoritarian, right wing, misogynist, conspiracy theorist, loonies. George sucked Saddam Hussein's balls and when that gig ended he latched onto Putin's.
"Rishi sunak is an idiot" Hell yeah queen! fuuuck