Whilst some faults may well be able to be attributable to Mr Galloway his stance in winning the Rochdale bi-election on the face of it is very understandable despite the charge levelled by many of opportunism. Multi cultural Britain has a large population of muslim voters & they deserve a voice.

Ethnic cleansing or genocide - take your pick should be condemned wherever it occurs & history does not give Israel the moral high ground right to commit it today. Galloway & his followers could make it very uncomfortable for Labour at the next election & are quite capable of forcing a hung parliament which would be a disaster. This could comfortably have been avoided if party leaders had shown some leadership by calling out atrocities when they happen.

Labour didn’t put up a candidate, the Tories were never going to win in Rochdale so Galloway had an armchair ride to Westminster.

It just shows how despised the Tory’s are when they get an open goal (as a result of the Labour Party removing the support of their original candidate, and rightly so) and still lose out to a man who only campaigned on 1 issue and only stood as a candidate late in the process.

He’s a very divisive politician and has never lasted more than one term in office, so he may be out again later this year in the GE.

He could be classed as a protest vote politician but with the election forecast for May it could add up to a quite a few seats when the numbers of muslim voters throughout the country react to what is going on in Gaza. He also campaigned, I believe, against the war in Iraq & was not proven wrong on that one. 

Neither Starmer nor Sunak cut a very convincing figure when they try to dismiss him as an irrelevance. They know full well that he has the debating skills to make their lives very difficult.

Yes, Galloway is a great debator and no will give MPs a really hard time (regardless of their political background) but the fact that he has represented 4 different political parties in 4 different constituencies just shows that he is a man who is all about himself and not about the people who vote for him.  He has proven time and time again that he will represent just about any party that will put him up as a candidate, who knows, he may stand for Plaid Cymru n the future.

He can’t be seen as a serious politician due to the fact that he has never survived more than one term as an MP.

The fact that he stood as a candidate in the Rochdale by-election says more about the party that he represents, and what they are willing to do to get a MP into Westminster.

Galloway is a dangerous man. He will incite racial hatred for his own ends. If he really wants to go after islamophobia why doesn't he challenge Lee Anderson at the next GE ?

He is also an absolute vile idiot.

Lofty sir this sitting on the fence has to stop - say what you mean & be done with it. 

I think you have his number.

I read a comment this week from someone in one of his former constituencies who said something like: "Once he was elected, we never saw him again. He did nothing for the people of (constituency)."

Also, I'm amazed that anyone can vote for a person who made a complete *** of himself appearing as a cat on 'Big Brother': 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7n98OUGdMM8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7n98OUGdMM8

Maybe I should have used 'breast' instead.