George Galloway

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Looks likely to win the Rochdale by-election.
Does anyone know his position on gender ideology?

Crikey. How will the identitarian left cope with their new crypto fascist status?

I mean, they call us Prosecco Stormfront but we’re not the ones on the same team as Nick bloody Griffin (sort of surprised he’s still alive, he’s always looked one pie away from a furred artery).

Nick Griffin praised Corbyn, but I think guilt by association only works when it involves women.

I doubt George Galloway knows the first fucking thing about gender ideology. Loads of these cunts pay lip service to GC because they know it plays well, but they don't give two shits about women.

George Galloway does know about gender ideology and called it out years ago. This board has gone to pieces, it’s full of loudmouths and sycophants

Watch George Galloway at the Senate then come back here to dismiss him.
He's fearless, independent and authentic.

He won. 🙈

But they haven’t announced it yet because he’s not actually in the building?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68402672

What a weird situation!

He’s confirmed as won it. Noo! I thought he’d not come back in to Parliamentary politics.

He appears to have turned into Elvis Costello.

(If Elvis Costello was a cunt and you bought him from Shein).

Also not a single woman to vote for on that list of candidates in Rochdale. How depressing.
Glad there will be a general election soon and hope that the result changes then with better candidates to choose from than showman Galloway as their MP.

Who knew that this parliament could actually get worse.

So angry with the Labour Party for the clusterfuck of absolute woefulness that handed the election to this creep.

He’s a demagogic arsehole.

If giving a fuck about forced marriage and rape means this board has gone to pieces, then it's to be welcomed.

Comprehending the concept of forced marriage and rape is as basic as feminism gets, and your apparent inability to condemn either is a moral failing on your part.

Forced marriage is a euphemism in itself, because forced marriage naturally encompasses rape. It is a form of modern slavery. Stop sucking up to a middle-aged man, and focus on the iniquity of someone saying a girl couldn't have been forced to marry if her family were there. Does he actually believe that they have the right to consent for her?

However deep his understanding of gender ideology may be (how much depth can we expect from a man who doubted a woman's account of domestic abuse within a forced marriage because she didn't tell enough people because she left the marriage), it is more than cancelled out by dismissing the entire concept of forced marriage.

from the Guardian:

“The veteran political agitator George Galloway has won the Rochdale byelection after urging voters to lodge “the ultimate protest” over the conflict in Gaza”

And just a few hours previous to Israel massacring more than a hundred civilians trying to access basic food for their families. Perhaps this win for the “agitator” will be the push British politicians need to stop backing genocide?
Many European leaders are calling Israel out (Macron etc), what’s up with UK?

Because we don’t share your enthusiasm for horrendous authoritarian misogynists?

Both times he has been elected, he has been a useless MP. His only policy is to rabble rouse about Palestine. He will not represent the people of Rochdale, Muslim or not. Hopefully he will excel himself and prove his utter uselessness before the next election. It will be interesting to see the turnout.

Lots of people on here parroting the line that Galloway is a madman/nutcase/arsehole etc. I'm wondering what policies of his you disagree with. He's basically Labour before they became New Labour. Doesn't seem that controversial to me. He's just a bit gobby but I prefer that to smarmy and lacking principles.

Then you don’t know much about him, do you? It might be worth educating yourself.

Here. From the Guardian, a contemporaneous article from another forced marriage survivor, explaining why Galloway's comments were so reprehensible.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/george-galloway-forced-marriage-naz-shah

No girls anywhere should be subjected to forced marriage (a package of sexual slavery and domestic forced labour for life), but we are powerless to stop it on the other side of the planet. But we should be able to condemn it as a practice in our own country, and protect and believe victims here.

It won't become acceptable to ignore it if Galloway mouths the right words about gender ideology. I'm not interested in trading the bodies of some girls into sexual slavery to protect others from gender ideology.

My take fwiw

people In the UK from across the political spectrum don’t trust Tories or Labour seeing them as all part of the political ‘elite. They percive GG as being outside of that elite the same way they do Nigel Farage. It’s interesting that the runner up was an independent candidate.

the next election might see quite a few more independents getting elected.

i think both main parties will be nervous of this possibility

I think k it will be the opposite. I don't think you quite realise how much the Identitarian Left hates Kier Starmer. They would revel in any defeat, especially when it's Palestine related. Galloway is part of the Identitarian Left. They will conveniently ignore his opposition to gender self ID because his only policy is Gaza. They will conveniently ignore that he is a terrible local MP and will do absolutely nothing for Rochdale but appear on some marches in London.

There is no age limit on forced marriage. It can happen at any age.
If she was under 16 then that's a different range of offences her parents could have been charged with (encouraging or facilitating sex with a minor)

This. In a nutshell.
He is not a supporter of women's rights.

@Aishah231 have you read the whole thread, including all the links?