George Galloway wins a landslide.

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Call me a skeptic but the way things have gone is it too surprising what has happened here. George has popped up saying all the right things and pops up in the press after awhile from being in the public view.

The point is that he would not have been able to voice pretty solid public opinion without what has gone on before.

Fintan's words along the lines of - it's in the script as is our response is in the script rings in my ears often.

The scenario has been laid down by politicians and the media so well that it should have been expected that it was only time when someone i.e. George Galloway with his newish party comes out on stage to reflect over the story so far.

The strength of the vote is equal to the quality of the political system and the media efforts that got us to this stage. The final episode in a long running dope opera.

Even Miliband has a final word from our dope opera by promising to go visit to find out where Labour went wrong. You see, they still deny having no idea that their stage play has been so successful.

It is a forgone conclusion that GW's Respect party would have a landslide vistory but these things do not happen by chance.


http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/article/voters-ready-to-rebel-mp-galloway/42351/

George Galloway has warned of a "tidal wave" of disillusioned voters ready to rebel against all three mainstream parties around the country as he celebrated his shock victory in the Bradford West by-election with an open-top bus tour of his new constituency.

Mr Galloway, an ex-Labour MP who was expelled from the party in 2003 after urging British troops to disobey "illegal" orders to invade Iraq, won 18,341 votes to the 8,201 for Labour candidate Imran Hussain in a contest sparked by the resignation due to ill-health of Marsha Singh.

The Labour leader promised to learn the lessons from the defeat, and said he would visit Bradford in the weeks to come to find out what went wrong.

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Money, money, money - it's a rich man's world.

Isn't Labour supposed to be the opposition party? Even they are conceding to the government alliance. Seems the whole mainstream party structure is pushing [not pulling] in the same direction. That is towards the hard hit taxpaying public.

Well, they can't seem to get the richer of our society to pay more [tax] or accept less [child benefit] and we all know it's much easier to take from pensioners.

We ain't going to get out from under this one unless we become more politically active. Everyone has laptops don't they. Never does any good, you say. These folk have already conceded.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/30/galloways-shot-across-the-bows/

A stance against the cuts clearly resonated as well. Labour make the case that they are being forced to make local cuts because Tory slash and burn of local government budgets. But those on the receiving end often do not see it that way: indeed, there have been £67m worth of local cuts, and up to 1,000 jobs lost. And indeed Galloway took a far stronger line against the cuts than Labour is willing to make nationally.


Of course, the bottom line is that large sections of British society no longer feel that they have a voice, and this will manifest itself in a whole variety of ways. But Galloway’s surprise victory should not simply be dismissed as an eccentricity, a simple one-off. In an age of cuts and plummeting living standards, here is a wake-up call to an extraordinarily complacent political establishment.

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