George Galloway to stand for London Mayor
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Here's an interview with him in Wednesday's Evening Standard:
He seems to be standing (apart from to boost his own ego) as a pro-Corbyn, anti-Blair independent Labourite. He also wants the Muslim vote, accusing Sadiq Khan of insulting the koran.
Surely anyone who supports Corbyn will support Sadiq Khan including those voting for the interests of Islam?
I think London is too much of an ethnic melting pot for an appeal to just one particular section of the populace. Galloway is on a loser.But who knows, no-one would have tipped Corbyn…might be worth a fiver at the bookies on Gorgeous George to come in first.
Galloway stood in the 2008 London elections as the head of the list for Respect (parties can present a London-wide list for the Greater London Assembly elected at the same time as the Mayor)). His list got 59,721votes (or 2.4%). The Christian People's Alliance, which goes after the West African vote, got 70,294 (or 2.9%). See here. The lesson here must be that two can play at sectarian/communitarian politics — and that Galloway didn't come off best playing the Muslim card. He himself is (or was) a Roman Catholic Christian.
Galloway wrote:If I'm Mayor: free transport for police will be restored & extended to fire ambulance and all key essential workersIf I'm Mayor, every apprentice will have a free bus pass. That's a firm promiseIf I'm Mayor…I will refuse to end check-off payments for trade union dues. That's a firm promise @unitetheunionFrom his twitter feeds. He also promises regular Town Meetign events…
Apparently he will be rejoining the Labour Party
For the past few days i have been listening to old excerpts from Galloway's TalkSport radio show on You Tube …and i have to say, even though, i don't like admitting it, but i was impressed by how he handled those callers he more than once described as having "dragging their knuckes along the ground."In response to the bitter prejudices of some of his callers, i can well imagine a member of the SPGB on the platform often saying much the same as GG did with perhaps even more scathing scorn than GallowayAs a populist GG certainly doesn't court popularity…
I know he has said he wants to rejoin Labour and said he would if Corbyn became leader but he can't do both, i.e stand for mayor against the official Labour candidate and rejoin.
Poor conclusion from GG about the Brussels attack. https://www.rt.com/uk/336752-brussels-attacks-schengen-galloway/
Quote:Free movement between European states should have been abandoned after the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) attacks in Paris last November, former MP George Galloway said in the wake of Tuesday’s bombings inBrussels. The Respect Party’s candidate for mayor of London argued that suspending the right to free movement could have prevented attacks on European soil.Using the atrocity as part of his anti-EU campaign?
ALB wrote:Respect seem to have done rather well here but then they were standing as "Respect (George Galloway)" and so this would be largely a vote for this leader. I imagine he has now set his eyes on the by-election in Tooting now that its MP has been elected mayor of London.The two of us who went to the count for the London elections at Olympia met two counting agents from Respect. The one we talked to was a decent enough person though evidently a follower of "George" as he called him. He seemed a typical leftwinger: anti-EU, anti-corporations, anti-US and said he'd cast his second preference vote for Mayor (after George of course) for the Green candidate.A bit worrying that leftwing parties with a well-known leader such as Respect (Galloway) and SLP (Scargill) do better at elections than those with a more "it's the case not the face approach", e.g. SWP, SPEW, TUSC (even though their leader is an ex-Labour MP, Dave Nellist). I suppose it's a general protest vote against the system.
George has publicly tweeted support for us.https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/830372689277833217
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