"Mum said to me, on 'er deafbed," tweets Oliver "Del Boy" Kamm.
"Last thing Christopher Hitchens ever said to me was to urge us to keep on Galloway's case"? Seriously? Yes, seriously.
I have been saying for months that George Galloway would contest Tooting if and when Sadiq Khan became Mayor of London.
Today, he himself has said so.
Meaning that, more than a month before the vacancy can even arise, the Tooting by-election campaign has already begun.
Or, at any rate, Galloway's Tooting by-election campaign has already begun.
It is only four years since he pulled off the biggest by-election surprise of modern times, and possibly of all time.
Nor had he been campaigning for that for at least two months, and possibly three or four, as he will have been for this.
Londoners, if I may, please give your first preference votes to Galloway.
That way, even if he did not win, whoever did win would know that it had been on the second preferences of Galloway's supporters.
Please give your constituency votes to Labour, which is easily on course to do enormously well in the constituency seats.
Therefore, rather than waste your list votes on a Labour Party that is not going to qualify for any top-up seats, please give your list votes Respect.
And then on to Tooting, not least in order to face Nick Cohen in his first ever condescension to submit to the judgement of the electorate.
That is, unless he is what is technically called a complete and utter gobshite, his politics not the red of blood and fire, but the yellow of cowardice and of baby's faeces.
The Tooting Spring? Now, that calls to mind another episode of Only Fools and Horses.
"Last thing Christopher Hitchens ever said to me was to urge us to keep on Galloway's case"? Seriously? Yes, seriously.
I have been saying for months that George Galloway would contest Tooting if and when Sadiq Khan became Mayor of London.
Today, he himself has said so.
Meaning that, more than a month before the vacancy can even arise, the Tooting by-election campaign has already begun.
Or, at any rate, Galloway's Tooting by-election campaign has already begun.
It is only four years since he pulled off the biggest by-election surprise of modern times, and possibly of all time.
Nor had he been campaigning for that for at least two months, and possibly three or four, as he will have been for this.
Londoners, if I may, please give your first preference votes to Galloway.
That way, even if he did not win, whoever did win would know that it had been on the second preferences of Galloway's supporters.
Please give your constituency votes to Labour, which is easily on course to do enormously well in the constituency seats.
Therefore, rather than waste your list votes on a Labour Party that is not going to qualify for any top-up seats, please give your list votes Respect.
And then on to Tooting, not least in order to face Nick Cohen in his first ever condescension to submit to the judgement of the electorate.
That is, unless he is what is technically called a complete and utter gobshite, his politics not the red of blood and fire, but the yellow of cowardice and of baby's faeces.
The Tooting Spring? Now, that calls to mind another episode of Only Fools and Horses.
Cohen's last known political affiliation was Sandi Toksvig's Women's Equality Party. Let that vacuous vanity project's first ever parliamentary candidate be ... a man!
ReplyDeleteIf he did not put up at Tooting against George, then he would no longer be fit to show his face in public.
DeleteAs for parties, he abusively hectored in support of Boris Johnson at the last two London Mayoral Elections. His hostility to Johnson now, however elegantly expressed (and yes, he is a very good wordsmith), needs to be understood in that light.
The Tooting Caliphate might well elect him-I know the place well, it's a Muslim enclave.
ReplyDeleteGetting your retaliation in first, I see. It was a Conservative target seat on both of the last occasions. But then, so was Bradford West in 2010.
DeleteIt'll be all over for Galloway when the Charity a Commission is forced to release its files on him and Saddam.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-supreme-court-victory-fight-see-galloway-iraq-appeal-files-could-blow-open-freedom-information
No, it won't.
DeleteTell Cohen to put up or shut up.
Galloway has alot of skeletons in that closet.
ReplyDeleteI do feel sorry for decent leftists like Cohen who are appalled at some of the people who claim to be socialists and praise murderous regimes like that of Hussein.
Tell Cohen to put up or shut up.
DeleteAnd when it comes to skeletons, he has an awful lot of literal ones to answer for, especially in Iraq and Libya.
Galloway is finished. He's a political leopar.
ReplyDeleteEven so, it's been refreshing to see him do this badly in London.
As Cohen says, one per cent in the polls is the sign of someone who is finished.
And when those Miriam Foundation files are released it really will be all over.
No, it won't.
DeleteTell Cohen to get himself to Tooting, there to put up or shut up.