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Anyone Know If George Galloway Is Likely To Be Re-Elected in Bradford West?
Anyone know if George Galloway is likely to be re-elected in Bradford West? Do you live in or near the seat or work there and get an impression of how well he's being recieved by the people there? If so what is it, good, bad, in between?
If Labour do regain the seat it won't really help them per se as they did have the seat before he gained it off them but it will be interesting to see if he holds onto this seat or not.
If Labour do regain the seat it won't really help them per se as they did have the seat before he gained it off them but it will be interesting to see if he holds onto this seat or not.
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I heard that his back up plan is to stand as London Mayor which gives me the impression that he could lose the seat. If he does lose the seat and I hope he does actually then I doubt he will win as London Mayor either.
Dunno, I don't think many Londoners actually take the Mayoral race seriously. The winner seems to chosen due to being Most likely to piss off the Prime Minister
George could fill that one easily
The UK ambassador to one of the despotic regimes he supports!
Please let him win! Please let him win!
It would be very funny.
That will be interesting as he has been a big supporter of Mr Rahmann. Perhaps he thinks that will be a plus point in that constituency.
George has a way to go to outdo Boris in the self promotion stakes. As for doing the job which then Boris is going to be a part time MP and a part time Mayor. Not ideal is it?
My comment is here:
Comrade Ken did both jobs for a period so there is a precedent. Alex Salmond was an MP and First Minister for a while - and Edinburgh is a lot further from Westminster than Uxbridge.
It all depends what Commons job Johnson gets if he is elected (and that's not 100% certain). A backbench MP is essentially a part-time job anyway but it would be hard to see how he could remain as mayor if he become party leader or has a front bench position. I don't know what the mechanism is for replacing a mayor if they resign.
He always finds/identifies other places where he stands a good chance of getting elected doesn't he? Having said that, he was the MP for Bethnal Green up until 2010 and then he didn't stand for re-election there and Bethnal Green is part of the Tower Hamlets area isn't it? If its the case that he didn't do a good job there as a constituency MP and the people remember that and the words has goton round that area that he didn't do a good job, then it might not be another shoe in place for him to win.
I remember shortly after he was expelled from the Labour party and I was angry with Labour for doing that and I met 2 different people at the time who both said that he had been there MP in Scotland and they didn't have a high opinion of him at all. Again, if it is the case that he doesn't do a good job as a constituency MP then maybe he willl lose this seat. There was one guy in a newsnight report in Bradford west who said that "you never see him".
Well he didn't and now he has.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-galloway-standing-for-mayor-of-london-in-2016-after-losing-seat-at-mp-10281825.html
He's no chance, has he?
He's as likely to become Mayor as I am.
Just to be sure....you aren't Seb Coe or anyone like that?
I can barely run 8 metres, let alone 800.