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Galloway crushed

Regardless of how you feel about Boris Johnson’s victory over Ken Livingstone, I think most reasonable people can take pleasure in George Galloway’s humiliating defeat in the election for the London Assembly.

His apparent failure to capture more than five percent of the ‘pan London’ Party List vote without even a particularly strong showing in what he thought would be his East End ‘heartland’ raised doubts about whether he could mount a future victorious re-election campaign for Westminster in the Poplar & Limehouse constituency.

The Galloway-led Party List vote was pushed into third place in the City & East constituency, behind Labour and Tories, with around 20,000 votes, just above the BNP.

Ah, but he’ll be back.

…Galloway’s spokesman, Kevin Ovenden, told the East London Advertiser there was “no chance” he would withdraw his candidacy for Poplar & Limehouse with a General Election due in the next two years.

Update: In fact Galloway received 2.43 percent of the London-wide vote, while the SWP’s version of Respect (the Left List) got less than 1 percent.

Comments

old Labour    
  2 May 2008, 10:17 pm

Good.

Galloway’s politiking is as sectarian as that of the BNP. May they both fester together in obscurity.

hoveperson    
  2 May 2008, 10:26 pm

Lindsay German getting less than 0.5% so far

baffling contrarian    
  2 May 2008, 10:36 pm

Well I knew a day couldn’t go by on HP without a swipe at Galloway. Georgie boy has been real cannon fodder for this site. I hope he fades out soon, it’s getting to be a tiresome pastime here at HP.

mesquito    
  2 May 2008, 10:41 pm

“Well I knew a day couldn’t go by on HP without a swipe at Galloway.”

This is certainly swipeworthy.

tim    
  2 May 2008, 10:50 pm

Ovenden thinks Galloway will stand for Poplar?
Fancy a bet Kevin?

Peter Risdon    
  2 May 2008, 10:53 pm

That’s odd. Google’s context related adverts on this page load bring up:

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and, unaccountably:

How I earn £14,246 a week

David T    
  2 May 2008, 11:01 pm

hahaha. I don’t think that the last one is that unaccountable, to those of us who know the man well.

Alan Ji    
  3 May 2008, 12:09 am

I first came across Galloway early in 1974. A bloke from Dundee wrote to “Tribune” to slag off those of us who had walked out of January’s Labour students’ Conference as response to the “Militant” tendency take-over. That was sorted in two years. Galloway, sadly, has got away with his stuff for much longer.

Venichka    
  3 May 2008, 12:30 am

Well, tbh this isn’t unexpected. Do the math. Of the three boroughs (plus the tiny city where barely any person lives) in that constituency, Galloway has only ever won the votes of somewhat less than one-half of those who voted in approximately one-half of one of those boroughs. True, Respect has had some following in some parts (again let us round off to say one-half of one-half of the borough) of the next borough along, and precisely zero support in the third borough (which is the BNP stronghold) in the constituency.

None the less, as Margaret Thatcher said, Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!

Let us hope he emigrates to Syria or something

tim    
  3 May 2008, 12:46 am

He can now concentrate on his constituency work in Bethnal Green.
Alternatively……

Whatever Galloways second tier spokesman (Ron McKay handles the difficult & cash stuff). Mr Ovenden says, Georgie won’t be standing in Poplar.
Perhaps Kevin would like a decent bet for Charity on Georges intentions.
A grand Kevin?

ChrisC    
  3 May 2008, 1:08 am

I hope he doesn’t stand in Poplar. If he does, we could lose the place to the Tories…

Ben    
  3 May 2008, 1:44 am

I wonder what a “braised question” is? They’re not even close on the keyboard. I prefer slow-roasted questions, myself.

This is indeed *excellent* news, in an otherwise largely atrocious landscape.

tim    
  3 May 2008, 2:12 am

Galloway got 2.4%.
which is still 59000 prepared to vote for a corrupt MP.
Whether the votes of the 8 defendants at Woolwich Crown Court are included is not known.

old Labour    
  3 May 2008, 2:49 am

A terrible night for the reactionary/Stalinist left, and for the Islamists.

German’s SWP Respect and Galloway’s Islamist Respect in 8th and 10th place for the Assembly elections, with just 3% of the vote and 80000 votes between them. Bunglawala, Tamimi, the MCB and the MAB will be shedding tears tonight as their insignificance is revealed.

Shame that we can’t say the same for the BNP, who have been able to exploit Livingstone’s shamless sectarianism.
http://results.londonelects.org.uk/Results/AssemblyResults.aspx

Benjamin    
  3 May 2008, 3:46 am

Ah, but he’ll be back.

Let’s hope so. We never want the Galloway soap opear to end! :-)

Andy Lewis    
  3 May 2008, 4:06 am

“This is certainly swipeworthy.”

Galloway himself, however, is scarcely wipeworthy.

Alec Macpherson    
  3 May 2008, 1:12 pm

Just think, with the votes for John Rees’ totty, they could have beaten the BNP. Arseholes.

Maven    
  3 May 2008, 7:04 pm

A terrible night for the reactionary/Stalinist left, and for the Islamists.

German’s SWP Respect and Galloway’s Islamist Respect in 8th and 10th place for the Assembly elections, with just 3% of the vote and 80000 votes between them. Bunglawala, Tamimi, the MCB and the MAB will be shedding tears tonight as their insignificance is revealed.

Islamist websites like MCB and MPAC UK were always crowing about the power that Muslims could muster to make political change. In reality I always thought this was insignificant unless you take a single borough on General Election like Stepney.

The Muslim vote is muddied by those who say you shouldn’t vote Labour or Conservative (Zionist lackeys who support the war). That leaves LibDem and all the other fringe parties.

If taken as a homogenous group then the vote is almost a zero-sum game spread across the country. In the Mayoral election it carries a weight as its PR but I suspect even MORE voters came out as anti-Ken which is why the result was close. Ken took mostly Islamist votes and Boris the anti-Islamist votes from the leafy suburbs.

Anyway. they say good news comes in three so after Livingstone & Galloway who’s next?

faceless    
  4 May 2008, 11:43 am

I didn’t realise you lot were such tory cunts. Fair enough though - I suppose you’ve been quaking under your shitty rocks for years and you need a moment in the sun… a moment in the sun that amounts to nothing of importance to anyone outside London.

Toodle pip.

hahaha    
  4 May 2008, 4:07 pm

I didn’t realise you lot were such tory cunts

don’t love galloway == being a tory cunt

actually galloway is a reactionary conservative but faceless is presumably brainless too so i shan’t bother explaining this to him/her/it.

in other news: carole from big brother did worse than the english democrat candidate - now that takes some skills!

tim    
  4 May 2008, 9:07 pm

faceless is the guy who runs the couchtripper site.
Basically a circle jerk for the spivs fluffers.

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