...well, we know how that one ends. Although in this case, perhaps it should be "brown"? Andrew Gilligan, of Press TV (which I rather like) and late of the BBC (which I criticise so strongly because I love it so much), presumes to criticise an obscure Bengali-language television channel for failing to be impartial, specifically by supporting Lutfur Rahman, whose Head of Publicity Gilligan appears to have become.
One need only add that the Bengali channel available on Sky 786 is apparently funding the Labour candidate. And that in 2005 George Galloway had SWP students deliver leaflets in Bengali, which they could not read, urging people not to vote for Oona King because she was "in favour of abortion, and equal rights for homosexuals." No wonder that he won. Not right about everything. But right far more than he is wrong. And an undeniable class act.
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Are you going to pull the same stroke in Polish?
ReplyDeleteEU citizens can vote in local and European elections, but not in parliamentary ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's a tough one isn't it? The Poles are obvious fodder the party within the Labour Party you are maintaining in the old Derwentside area with several of the most prominent old Derwentside figues and/or Catholics in it. But an Old Labour right-wing/populist opposition to immigration and the EU is a key part of your/its appeal.
ReplyDeleteAnd the rest. He voted for No2EU (Bob Crow, Tommy Sheridan and friends), campaigned for them on here and still links to them. He would have been one of their candidates if they had been prepared to take their seats.
ReplyDeleteMany of his allies here in the constituency are from the old right-wing Labour Establishment, and many of those are Catholics. But about as many are very definitely Left, again including several prominent Catholics.
He has been very much identified with the Left factions here in the past at constituency level, but with the ruling right-wingers at district level when there was one.
"The ruling right-wingers at district level" were not only in the Labour Party. The Official "Opposition" were a group of Independents who voted with Lindsay's mates against the supporters of Kevan Jones MP.
ReplyDeleteThose were more left wing because they came from Stanley, where there is not the heavy Catholic influence or the Lib Dem threat that there is in Consett, and not the Tory or Lib Dem threat that there is in rural areas. But Lindsay was also very close to the union and antiwar Left because sided with them against Hilary Armstrong at CLP.
Lindsay is also big mates with the Independents and endorsed their leader for MP once he was too ill to stand himself (which was true). They are his sort of Tories and they never contested the ward of his very big mate the Leader of Derwentside Council, who in return gave them more scrutiny chairs than they were entitled to. Are you starting to see where Lindsay learned how to do politics?
Unfortunately what Lindsay says about an AV election for the new seat is true, his mates would make Kevan's life a misery as a candidate by refusing to do anything for him and Lindsay would win on third or fourth preferences.
Get used to it, Anonymous.
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