LONDON: Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway misplaced his parliamentary seat in Britain’s election on Friday, defeated by the Labour candidate within the northern English city of Rochdale.
Galloway had served for simply 4 months after profitable a by-election triggered by the dying of the city’s earlier lawmaker.
Again in March, Galloway’s pro-Palestinian marketing campaign helped him win votes from the city’s Muslim neighborhood and he secured what was his seventh stint as a lawmaker, representing his left-wing Employees Occasion of Britain.
That win got here after Labour withdrew assist from its candidate over a recording espousing conspiracy theories about Israel.
Each the Conservatives and the Labour Occasion have stated they need the preventing in Gaza to cease, however they’ve additionally backed Israel’s proper to defend itself, angering some among the many 3.9 million Muslims who make up 6.5% of Britain’s inhabitants.
Galloway criticised Labour for supporting Israel in its battle in opposition to Hamas throughout his profitable by-election marketing campaign in March.
However this time he misplaced to Labour candidate Paul Waugh, a former political journalist who has beforehand labored for Britain’s Unbiased and Night Commonplace newspapers, and who grew up within the city.
Galloway, 69, was himself a former Labour parliamentarian earlier than being expelled from the celebration in 2003 for criticising then-prime minister Tony Blair over the Iraq battle.
By that point, he already had a fame for controversy.
In 1994, he drew criticism for assembly Iraqi chief Saddam Hussein and telling him: “Sir, I salute your braveness, your energy, your indefatigability.”
His fame reached its top in 2006 when he impersonated a cat on a actuality tv present.
Galloway had served for simply 4 months after profitable a by-election triggered by the dying of the city’s earlier lawmaker.
Again in March, Galloway’s pro-Palestinian marketing campaign helped him win votes from the city’s Muslim neighborhood and he secured what was his seventh stint as a lawmaker, representing his left-wing Employees Occasion of Britain.
That win got here after Labour withdrew assist from its candidate over a recording espousing conspiracy theories about Israel.
Each the Conservatives and the Labour Occasion have stated they need the preventing in Gaza to cease, however they’ve additionally backed Israel’s proper to defend itself, angering some among the many 3.9 million Muslims who make up 6.5% of Britain’s inhabitants.
Galloway criticised Labour for supporting Israel in its battle in opposition to Hamas throughout his profitable by-election marketing campaign in March.
However this time he misplaced to Labour candidate Paul Waugh, a former political journalist who has beforehand labored for Britain’s Unbiased and Night Commonplace newspapers, and who grew up within the city.
Galloway, 69, was himself a former Labour parliamentarian earlier than being expelled from the celebration in 2003 for criticising then-prime minister Tony Blair over the Iraq battle.
By that point, he already had a fame for controversy.
In 1994, he drew criticism for assembly Iraqi chief Saddam Hussein and telling him: “Sir, I salute your braveness, your energy, your indefatigability.”
His fame reached its top in 2006 when he impersonated a cat on a actuality tv present.
