THE 'BRADFORD SPRING'

he city centre is filled with pound shops, pawn shops and payday loan shops,’ he said. ‘There is mass unemployment. Somebody coming from outside and offering a new start is an electoral plus.’ George-Galloway

THE BRADFORD SPRING HAS SPRUNG  George Galloway back into the limelight. His 10,000 majority in yesterday’s by-election in Bradford  was, to say the least, very impressive. The old political grifter has once more found his marker and was last night celebrating his successful harvesting of his Muslim constituents votes.

                As for last night’s biggest loser, Ed Milliband, the odds on him remaining Labour leader have shortened considerably. As with most inner-city areas, the Labour Party has long since taken them for granted, while fighting for the trust of the middle classes. Tony Blair it was who rebranded the party and took it on a journey into Middle England with considerable success, knowing that what was left of the working class would have voted for a chimpanzee if it wore a red rosette.

                Not only this, Blair also set about socially engineering a new constituency for Labour to beat the Tories. He flooded the country with immigrants, believing such people would be natural Labour supporters. When the Schengen Agreement was signed and  hundreds of thousands of east Europeans gained access from Romania and Poland, Tony Blair was in seventh heaven.

                I do not like and never have liked George Galloway. He represents the kind of politician that we are familiar with both here and across the pond – the political chancer. But I must say this, he has successfully robbed the Labour Party of the kind of constituency that Labour believed they owned; and is to be congratulated on his achievement. For not only had the Labour Party been arrogant regarding the loyalty of the immigrant population,  but arrogantly dismissive of the white working classes during the Blair and Brown years.

               

GEORGE MADE REFERENCE to the tweedle- de and tweedle- dum  politics of the other parties. This is an allusion to the three main party’s genetic  resemblance each to the other. All three parties have little out of common with each other. On the economy the relationship within the coalition speaks for itself and is easily understood by the electorate.  Even the Labour Party can no longer boast any ideological differences with the other parties; on the economy; the only ‘difference’ is over the speed at which the much needed cuts are to be made.

                On Europe, all the main party leaderships, believe in  the creation of a Federal Europe. But knowing that this is deeply unpopular in the country, their rhetoric must reflect this unpopularity. When 100,000 signatures were recently collected for a debate on an ‘in’ or ‘out’ referendum,  and the result of which had no significance regarding any implementation of  a referendum; the main parties still imposed a three line whip, to reflect the position of all the three main parties, which was of course was  against such a referendum.

                So George is  right when he says there is little difference between the main parties, and he should be acknowledged for the accuracy of his remark. He is right to point this out to the people of Bradford, and they were right to turn their backs on the three main parties.

IF I WERE A CITIZEN of this Bradford constituency, I would have also looked closely with a somewhat cynical eye at George Galloway with as much a suspicious eye as I would  have looked at the main parties’ contesting the constituency.

                For cynicism regarding Cameron, Clegg, Milliband, and Galloway, is actually a healthy  state of mind. What it does is make you immune to the advances of political rhetoric – that verbal serum which is delivered in order to tell you what you want to hear and infuses temporary adulation; only to later make you suffer a hangover; whose only valuable  quality is to invite you into becoming a political cynic.

                Galloway will showboat at every opportunity; and the media will give him every opportunity to do so. This Bradford by-election has been the curtain raiser for London and the mayoral race between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.

                If Ken wins, a gay wedding may be in prospect between these two recalcitrant  odd-balls of the Left. Each of them appealing to minorities – the Muslim variety in particular. Which is why Ken has just had apologise to the Jewish citizens of London for remarks he made about them being to wealthy to vote Labour. His remarks were made to win over London’s Muslim population

                George and Ken would make a lovely couple walking the isle of an Anglican church which is about to allow Gay marriages. Ken has, however, been outshone by his master in Bradford. George does not drink which earns him Nector points with his Muslims; while sadly Ken does like to take a tipple if reports are correct.

                Still, if Ken wins, the coming together will take place. Congratulatory telegrams will be sent out; and each will believe themselves men of destiny. Until, that is George has (or may have) ambitions for becoming London’s mayor; which of course depends upon Ken’s success and the nature of his victory regarding the demographics. If Ken is victorious, then George will be interested to identify the source of his victory. George, being an honorary Muslim, will study closely Ken’s constituent vote, to see amongst which minority his victory was made.

                The three parties have allowed these two reprobates to float once more to the surface of main stream politics. Although Ken has yet to accomplish such a floatation with a win in London – and I desperately hope that he does not; his success against Boris will hand power away from parties to individuals. – which is what, after all, mayoral politics are all about.

                You may say that Ken is the Labour Party candidate. But this means very little to him, for he will ignore the party whenever it is in his interests to do so as mayor of London. So he, like George Galloway in Bradford, care little for party discipline; but at least George had the courage to abandon the Labour Party and set out to create his own Left wing alternative.

                These two  have contributed far more than any kind of plague could ever have done, to the diminution of the Labour Party and its members in UK politics. After being expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 by Tony Blair; George Galloway  founded the Respect Party in 2005. He then won Bethnal Green and Bow in London’s East End , another constituency with a high Muslim population. He then became an entrant in the Big Brother House in 2006 – a wrong move!

                In the following General Election of 2010 he failed to win the seat  of Poplar and Limehouse. He then stood in Scotland in 2011 for the Scottish Parliament, but failed. Which of course led the old chancer to seize his opportunity in Bradford. Politics and whatever material gain can be harvested from such affaires, are in George’s blood.