what on earth did the immigrants see in galoaway

Alex Salmond has got a serious rival in the popularity stakes, in the guise of George Galloway...18,000 English citizens (voters) can testify to that fact.

While he is a total buffoon publicly, it seems he is widely regarded by his peers as a very able politician.

I heard a senior party figure say yesterday that he could always expect to see the House of Commons crowded when Galloway was expected to speak.

It is also expected that both front benches are not looking forward to his return!

Even allowing for the fact that this was a mid term bye-election in a high Muslim constituency, how Ed Milliband could contrive to lose an 8,000 majority in a week when things could hardly have got worse for the Tories is beyond me!

Well I view him as just another carpetbagging chancer who got tossed out of one constituency for his views then went searching round for another one to settle on. First glasgow, then bethnal green, an attempt on limehouse and now bradford. He's like a touring snake oil salesman always looking for a fresh pitch.

He puts up a good line of bluster and panders to elements in our society that are less than desireable but I for one will neither forgive nor forget his humble toadying to the tyrant hussain.

He represents an extreme element in politics, just like nick griffin does, and in my view he is just as acceptable. (One reason galloway has been sucessful in parliamentary elections compared to griffin is that his core support tends to be clumped together in large enough groups to make a difference in polls, whereas griffins supporters tend to be more thinly spread).

WTM

fourm member "..rather than wait for people to start slinging mud"

Since that election I haven't been aware of anyone in the media, or otherwise, suggesting fraud at the poll (except for yourself, in two posts). Do you really suspect fraud and not just very clever, intense targetting of the 38% muslim community of the constituency? Have you got reasons/evidence for asking for Galloway to call for an investigation of his own result?