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Post by owainsutton on Jan 29, 2024 18:29:47 GMT
Short timescale, so limits the ability of the various far-right characters (including GG) to mobilise.
Also a timescale that helpfully evades the "latest date to call a GE" moment, and so prevents any direct speculation. Indirect, however...
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Post by mattbewilson on Jan 29, 2024 19:07:41 GMT
Short timescale, so limits the ability of the various far-right characters (including GG) to mobilise. Also a timescale that helpfully evades the "latest date to call a GE" moment, and so prevents any direct speculation. Indirect, however... GG far right? Cause of his anti trans stuff? |
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Post by batman on Jan 29, 2024 20:28:30 GMT
his support of brutal régimes could also be construed as far right
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Post by Wisconsin on Jan 29, 2024 21:07:29 GMT
An interesting read:
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 30, 2024 2:19:40 GMT
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Post by owainsutton on Jan 30, 2024 6:54:03 GMT
Short timescale, so limits the ability of the various far-right characters (including GG) to mobilise. Also a timescale that helpfully evades the "latest date to call a GE" moment, and so prevents any direct speculation. Indirect, however... GG far right? Cause of his anti trans stuff? He went round the horseshoe long before that. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 30, 2024 10:41:48 GMT
Applications for the Conservative Party close at 4pm today.
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 30, 2024 11:35:07 GMT
GG far right? Cause of his anti trans stuff? He went round the horseshoe long before that. Almost the personification of "red-brown". |
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Post by stb12 on Jan 30, 2024 13:29:50 GMT
I’m really not sure I’d use far right as a description for him, I don’t know what political phrase could be best used to describe him in fact
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Post by heslingtonian on Jan 30, 2024 13:37:01 GMT
I’m really not sure I’d use far right as a description for him, I don’t know what political phrase could be best used to describe him in fact Populist demagogue? |
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Post by johnloony on Jan 30, 2024 13:43:30 GMT
You almost have to admire the assumption that the Rochdale branch of the Workers' Party would automatically select GG as their candidate. The thought that they might wish to meet to decide who, if anyone, they want to select has not even occurred to him for a nanosecond. He wants to stand, so he simply tells the party that and his word is gospel. He obviously doesn't think much of the other party members' ability to gain votes. Like the now defunct Respect Party, the Workers' Party belongs to George Galloway for all practical purposes; Mr Galloway is the only prominent figure in that party. The Workers Party of Britain is a peculiar sui-generis thing, because the "party" organisation bit of it is not much more than a front organisation for the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (q.v. prominent members such as Joti Brar); the "personality" bit of it is that it is an electoral vehicle for the candidacy of George Galloway. There have been a few other WPB candidates in local elections, but as far as parliamentary by-elections are concerned it is only Galloway who matters. If and when GG disagrees with the CPGB(ML) (as they inevitably will), Galloway will prevail and he might one day decide to dump the rest of the party. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Jan 30, 2024 13:51:07 GMT
Like the now defunct Respect Party, the Workers' Party belongs to George Galloway for all practical purposes; Mr Galloway is the only prominent figure in that party. The Workers Party of Britain is a peculiar sui-generis thing, because the "party" organisation bit of it is not much more than a front organisation for the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (q.v. prominent members such as Joti Brar); the "personality" bit of it is that it is an electoral vehicle for the candidacy of George Galloway. There have been a few other WPB candidates in local elections, but as far as parliamentary by-elections are concerned it is only Galloway who matters. If and when GG disagrees with the CPGB(ML) (as they inevitably will), Galloway will prevail and he might one day decide to dump the rest of the party. You're out of date! The CPGB(ML) have already stormed off in a huff. workerspartybritain.org/2022/11/22/national-members-council-met-in-manchester/ |
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Post by johnloony on Jan 30, 2024 13:59:54 GMT
The Workers Party of Britain is a peculiar sui-generis thing, because the "party" organisation bit of it is not much more than a front organisation for the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (q.v. prominent members such as Joti Brar); the "personality" bit of it is that it is an electoral vehicle for the candidacy of George Galloway. There have been a few other WPB candidates in local elections, but as far as parliamentary by-elections are concerned it is only Galloway who matters. If and when GG disagrees with the CPGB(ML) (as they inevitably will), Galloway will prevail and he might one day decide to dump the rest of the party. You're out of date! The CPGB(ML) have already stormed off in a huff. workerspartybritain.org/2022/11/22/national-members-council-met-in-manchester/Oh! Haha! The CPGB(ML) did register itself as a political party (under the name "Proletarian"*) but that didn't last long; I think I was assuming that the WPB was merely another incarnation of a party registration. * in India it is fairly common for the multiple different communist parties to distinguish themselves from each other by the shorthand of referring to the titles of their newspapers rather than acronyms |
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Post by mattbewilson on Jan 30, 2024 15:06:26 GMT
I agree, red brown from my understand and I could well be wrong is a phrase to describe people who for example switched from the French Communists to the National Front. Mostly people who don't subscribe to where they are on a political compass.
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Post by uthacalthing on Jan 30, 2024 17:35:28 GMT
Can I argue that GG has similarities to US televangelists of the 90s?
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Post by YL on Jan 30, 2024 17:40:06 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Jan 30, 2024 18:45:54 GMT
That must be the shortest nomination window in a British by-election I have ever seen-just 3 days from the publication of the notice of election until the close of nominations. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 30, 2024 19:17:05 GMT
That must be the shortest nomination window in a British by-election I have ever seen-just 3 days from the publication of the notice of election until the close of nominations. That'll be the first thing in GGs speech, won't it? "I am pursuing legal action against the Council for their deliberately short nomination timetable....." |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 30, 2024 19:28:45 GMT
That must be the shortest nomination window in a British by-election I have ever seen-just 3 days from the publication of the notice of election until the close of nominations. That'll be the first thing in GGs speech, won't it? "I am pursuing legal action against the Council for their deliberately short nomination timetable....." Of which nothing shall be heard again. |
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Post by bsjmcr on Jan 30, 2024 19:31:12 GMT
That'll be the first thing in GGs speech, won't it? "I am pursuing legal action against the Council for their deliberately short nomination timetable....." Of which nothing shall be heard again. I wonder what happened to his Trump-esque battle with Kirklees over the conduct of the Batley by-election?... |
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