George Galloway by-election

By George, what is happening in Bradford!

 

I have recently been thinking about the problems in Bradford, particulary Bradford West.

Facts:

• The Westfield Bradford was supposed to start work round about the year 2006, but we still see a pile of rubble almost 6 years on.
• The British Soldiers are still in Afghanistan
• Bradford has a very large population of young people and youths, who are politically very disengaged.

So it must have come as quite a surprise when famous politician George Galloway anounced he was running for the role of Bradford West's new MP (Marsha Singh had resigned due to health issues).

I have attended two of Galloway's Rallies now, and the way he persuades and gets people to listen with his tone of voice and the words he uses, is exeptional. But people were not very critical and were just accepting what George Galloway had to offer.

The Respect party were against the Labour, Conservative, and the Liberal Democrats. George Galloway won by over 10,000 votes, followed by Imran Hussain who came second and got 8,201 votes, which leads me to an incident that happened yesterday when I was on my way to the George Galloway party in town.

We went by taxi (due to most petrol stations being closed) and my dad asked the taxi driver if he voted for Imran Hussain or George Galloway. The taxi driver replied that he voted for George Galloway, because a couple of days ago Imran Hussain knocked on his door, introduced himself, and then added "Are you going to look after us BRO?". 

"Are you going to look after us BRO?" rather than discussing how Labour could help him and his family is not the way to win an election.

The only time we might catch George Galloway using any sort of slang word is when he is drunk-but then again George has never touched a drink in his life.