Neutral Report from Bethnal Green and Bow

[respect]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1461769,00.html

[kosovan]

Defeating Fascist Spivs

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1461621,00.html

[Yahya]

Defeating Fascist Spivs

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1461621,00.html


Nick Cohen, who wrote this article, supported the war in Iraq, opposed legislation to ban religious discrimination, and campaigns relentlessly against "Islamo-fascism" i.e. us.

Kosovan, I know you hate Galloway, you've made a good case against him, but this guy is a bigger threat. Galloway's an untrustworthy ally, this guy's actually an enemy.

[kosovan]

Discuss the content of the article rather than its author.
Galloway stains the east end as did Mosley.

[respect]

Discuss the content of the article rather than its author.
Galloway stains the east end as did Mosley.

Why can we not talk about the author? So are you saying it ok for someone to talk bad about Islam? Are you saying you have respect for someone as nasty as the man who wrote that piece? Even though you know hes not a friend of the muslim? well?

I understand Kosovan that you don't like galloway and you think king is great, but lets not get carried away here ... Islam is the most important thing ...

wake up!

[kosovan]

Which is why for Muslims to be taken for a ride to elect the Stalinist Spiv George Galloway would be such a shame.

[kosovan]

Vote for decency

The Times
Leading articles



April 18, 2005








Pearly King
Bethnal Green and Bow should re-elect its MP




In this election, as in the past two, The Times intends to back individual candidates from across the party spectrum who strike us as worth preserving for the nation. Last Monday, we suggested that the electorate of Maidenhead should retain the services of Theresa May in the Commons. Today we support another woman MP, but from a different party and a very different constituency.
The seat of Bethnal Green and Bow is the sixth poorest in the country and is now home to many voters whose origins lie in Bangladesh but who have made Britain their home. It is also the site of an intense political battle between Oona King, the Labour incumbent, and George Galloway, the out-going MP for Glasgow Kelvin, who was expelled from the Labour Party for his remarks during the Iraq war and found his constituency was abolished by the boundary commissioners.



This contest has, therefore, been portrayed as a referendum on “the war” in a place where many were hostile to it. This is obviously how Mr Galloway would like to frame the question. The electors would be wise to view things differently. The issue here is whether they wish to be represented from the mainstream or the far fringe.

Ms King, who has been the MP since 1997, is an unusual individual. She is black and Jewish in a seat that is becoming more Asian and Muslim. Her initial selection was, thus, controversial locally, yet she responded with vigour and zeal, throwing herself into the defence of her constituents and their interests. Few of her colleagues, including opponents as well as fellow partisans, would deny that she has engaged in parliamentary heavylifting.

She is also an independent spirit. Her views on many policy arguments are some distance to the left of this newspaper. But she has also shown an ability to be pragmatic, for example in championing any approach towards public service reform that will improve the quality of life for the people in her area. Ms King has been consistently principled. She was a founder of the All Party Group on Genocide Prevention in 1998 and called on the Government to do “anything and everything in its power ” to be rid of Saddam Hussein a year later. Her backing for the war in Iraq was not “careerist”.

The contrast with Mr Galloway is instructive. He too has been consistent. It cannot be claimed that he has been pragmatic. He has held the same hard-left outlook — on foreign as well as domestic policy — for decades, irrespective of the revitalisation of the British economy since the 1980s, the collapse of communism and the mounting evidence that the citizens of the Middle East do not see democracy as an imperialist imposition.

In the 2003-04 parliamentary session, Mr Galloway took part in 1 per cent of divisions. His stated reason was that most votes were on government motions or Tory amendments and “I seldom wish to vote for either”. One might have thought that he was itching to oppose all these proposals. Bethnal Green and Bow voters should ask themselves whether he would perform any better on their behalf.

[kosovan]

Galloway supports mass murderer of Muslims (again)

Anti-war MP George Galloway came under fire today for calling for the release of Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz.

Labour rounded on Mr Galloway when it emerged that he had told Al-Jazeera TV that Mr Aziz was a "political prisoner".

Mr Galloway, standing for Bethnal Green and Bow in the general election, told the Arabic station that Mr Aziz was an "eminent diplomatic and intellectual person" being held illegally in a Baghdad prison.


His Labour opponent Oona King today said: "Tariq Aziz was henchman of Saddam Hussein, implicated in some terrible crimes, including the gassing of Kurds at Halabja.

"Mr Galloway regards him as a diplomat and an intellectual. That says everything you need to know about Mr Galloway."

[LegalEagle]

Oona King is a Zionist

Zionists have supported terrorism and mass murder of muslims
in every state from Fiji to Argentina.

George Galloway is a socialist

He suuports peace and intenational law

Time to kick out the Zionists