In 2016, to win Mayor of London, it took 1,310,143 votes, including 1,148,716 first preferences. The lowest scoring party to get anyone elected on the list did so with 165,580 votes. In Glasgow, where George Galloway may seek a list seat at Holyrood after 18 years as an MP, it took 23,398 votes to elect anyone last time. In his native North East Scotland, where he still has family, it took 18,444.
But in 2017, it took all of 749 votes to win a seat on Durham County Council for the ward of Chester-le-Street West Central, and 854 for the Leader of the Council to top the poll. Turnout was 1,870. George would get that just by being on the ballot paper at all. He is George Galloway.
The defeat of that Leader would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, George is just the man to do this.
I do not always agree with him, but it must be said that I usually do. And who else could there be? Who else would be absolutely guaranteed to win this one? We would need only to get him registered to vote in County Durham, and preferably in Chester-le-Street, in time to be a candidate on Super Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Eric Joyce once described George as having stepped beyond what was "reasonable and acceptable for Labour MPs". Any Labour electoral opponent of George's, including the present Leader of Durham County Council, has therefore been endorsed by Eric Joyce, and may look forward to being described as such. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at George's election, and not least at his election against this opponent.
But in 2017, it took all of 749 votes to win a seat on Durham County Council for the ward of Chester-le-Street West Central, and 854 for the Leader of the Council to top the poll. Turnout was 1,870. George would get that just by being on the ballot paper at all. He is George Galloway.
The defeat of that Leader would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, George is just the man to do this.
I do not always agree with him, but it must be said that I usually do. And who else could there be? Who else would be absolutely guaranteed to win this one? We would need only to get him registered to vote in County Durham, and preferably in Chester-le-Street, in time to be a candidate on Super Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Eric Joyce once described George as having stepped beyond what was "reasonable and acceptable for Labour MPs". Any Labour electoral opponent of George's, including the present Leader of Durham County Council, has therefore been endorsed by Eric Joyce, and may look forward to being described as such. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at George's election, and not least at his election against this opponent.
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