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Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:04 am
by davidjay
mattomac wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:52 am
davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:59 pm
First it's anti-Semitism, now it's Islamaphobia. It's as though someone is moving through Labour supporters stirring a checklist ofdiscontent.
Yup and I sadly feel it has momentum…
Well put.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 4:56 pm
by Youngian
Low down tacky electioneering. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:06 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 4:56 pm
Low down tacky electioneering. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.
Was this from Labour?
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:13 pm
by Youngian
No suggestion it came from Labour. Galloway’s list of enemies is limitless.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:19 pm
by MisterMuncher
I'm amazed someone had to fake a photo of George making a tit of himself. That's like taking a wanker with you to Wetherspoons
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:45 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Have Labour thought about telling Muslims that Galloway doesn't give a shit about them being killed if Americans or Israelis aren't doing it?
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:03 pm
by The Weeping Angel
As this is Guido I'm inclined to be doubtful but if this is true
https://order-order.com/2021/06/22/excl ... eadbeater/
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:42 pm
by MisterMuncher
True is quite a spectrum there.
Such messages may well be circulating. How authentic and influential they are is an open question.
It is a little convenient for Guido narrative about Muslims. It's a little less clear how "Antisemitic Homophobes reject Labour, go Tory" is a win for their side.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:07 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
I'll take this one over the Savanta poll with a 14 point lead. God knows what the situation is in Batley and Spen.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:44 pm
by davidjay
The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:03 pm
As this is Guido I'm inclined to be doubtful but if this is true
https://order-order.com/2021/06/22/excl ... eadbeater/
There's more than an element of ""While we cannot say for certain that....but..." here.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:36 am
by MisterMuncher
A screenshot from a WhatsApp group isn't particularly convincing, given you can give yourself whatever handle you like, spoof numbers, messages with burner phones or straight up fakery, as well as just simply omitting context and reaction.
It's barely a step above posting a chain email.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 3:15 pm
by The Weeping Angel
There's also this.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/exclusive ... y-1.517918
Residents in Batley and Spen have told the JC “lesbianism” and the “Zionist lobby” are reasons why they will abandon Labour at the constituency’s upcoming by-election.
One voter also criticised the Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater because she “spoke against Palestine”, adding that her sister, the murdered Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox, had spoken “favourably of Muslims and Palestine” but “they gave an English a pistol to kill her”.
Over two days the JC spoke to residents across the West Yorkshire constituency, covering areas including Hyrstand Road, Albion Street, Market Place, Town Street and Oak View.
One voter said that Labour leader Keir Starmer “follows the Zionist lobby” and that the party’s candidate Ms Leadbeater was promoting “male to male relations” within schools.
Residents – several of whom were speaking in Urdu - also voiced strong support for the independent candidate George Galloway.
Mr Galloway, who has previously heaped praise on the Assad regime in Syria, was sacked by talkRADIO over an alleged antisemitic tweet last year.
The former MP for Bradford West also declared the city an “Israel-free zone” in 2014, prompting West Yorkshire Police to interview him under caution.
In Batley and Spen, one voter told the JC: “The local community feels that Labour leader Keir Starmer is a wrong man from the Muslim point of view.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:24 pm
by davidjay
Someone, somewhere, is doing a very good job of destroying the party.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:08 pm
by Nigredo
davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:24 pm
Someone, somewhere, is doing a very good job of destroying the party.
A smirk upon their face as with vindication, they stir a pot of jam in an Islington kitchen.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:09 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:33 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:35 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Galloway's put round a letter saying vote for me to get rid of top Israel supporter Keir Starmer. And a shameless homophobic dogwhistle about parents having say over education so that kids aren't "taught in a moral vacuum".
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:36 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The more appalling people that come out in the by election, the better it is for the Tories. Galloway knows exactly what he's doing.
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:40 pm
by Samanfur
Currently doing the rounds on Twitter:
Re: 2021 Batley & Spen by-election
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:59 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The school protest's biggest gobshites weren't local either. The damage done to the area is very local though. Not that damage is local only, of course.