“Our mission will be successful the minute Keir Starmer has a leadership challenge”
What I found in Batley & Spen was a crumbling Labour vote, broad support for George Galloway & the beginning of organised efforts to stand candidates against Labour. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
What I found in Batley & Spen was a crumbling Labour vote, broad support for George Galloway & the beginning of organised efforts to stand candidates against Labour. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
The Galloway campaign has 3 campaign centres, (I’m told) 10 organisers and is better resourced than either Labour or the Tories. His election agent told me last week he thinks there are “no circumstances” under which Labour can retain the constituency.
novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
The idea Galloway has pulled the wool over the eyes of constituents really doesn’t get the anger people have in being taken for granted. What I found was voters, of all colours & creeds, under no illusions about *any* politicians. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
Rather than ‘values’ what is mobilising people is a highly transactional politics. This previously extended to Tory pork barrel funding but I also saw it with Galloway. His being an outsider isn’t a problem but rather an *advantage*. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
Palestine not only issue. Batley & Dewsbury Magistrates’ Court closed in 2012, Dewsbury & District A&E was downgraded in 2017 & police station shut in 2018.
Strongest attack lines against Kim Leadbetter generally involve pointing at Kirklees council .
novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
Strongest attack lines against Kim Leadbetter generally involve pointing at Kirklees council .
novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
One under-appreciated dynamic is formerly Labour-controlled Kirklees council includes Huddersfield, & perception is it is favoured. The dichotomy of town versus city, so troubling for Labour at a national level, can be found in microcosm here in Yorkshire. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
Finally those business people who invited Galloway to stand see it is as a prototype against Starmer’s Labour, “What we are doing, everyone wants to copy… they’ve asked us how can we get a good candidate to run.”
Dissatisfaction with Labour, particularly Starmer, is converging with ad hoc efforts to exert leverage over national politics. “It’s only the start...if he doesn’t win here there are 10 other places Galloway can stand. And if he doesn’t win it’ll still lose Labour the vote”.
These networks extend, I am told, to Lancashire, West Midlands & elsewhere in Yorkshire. If Galloway doesn’t win (probable) expect another campaign anywhere with a similar make up to Batley & Spen.
The anger towards Starmer from Muslims is extraordinary. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
The anger towards Starmer from Muslims is extraordinary. novaramedia.com/2021/06/25/its…
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