| Azhar Ali 07:18 - Feb 13 with 13455 views | Duckegg |
The Labour party have removed their support from Anzar Ali in the up coming Labour byelection...
This is due to his speach about Isreal, Hamas and Gaza....
People will not agree with what Mr Ali said and some will...
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| Azhar Ali on 08:57 - Feb 13 with 8522 views | DaleFan7 |
I guess it'll make little difference to Labour. People in Rochdale would vote for a wet paper bag if it was the Labour candidate, unfortunately. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 09:34 - Feb 13 with 8443 views | turnthescrew |
So Labour now have no candidate to vote for and so cannot win this by-election, though Ali stays on the ballot paper. He will now have to decide whether to stand as an Independent or re-invent himself as something else.
George Galloway must be skipping with joy at the news. Starmer has created a massive headache for himself. Only yesterday morning, Angela Rayner, deputy leader was describing Ali as 'a wonderful candidate'.
It's a pantomime. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 10:01 - Feb 13 with 8376 views | Toffeemanc |
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| Azhar Ali on 12:30 - Feb 13 with 8138 views | ChaffRAFC |
Maybe not all:
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| Azhar Ali on 12:55 - Feb 13 with 8045 views | D_Alien |
What do you reckon RB... the Sandy or the Pearl St? | |
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| Azhar Ali on 12:59 - Feb 13 with 8023 views | RAFCBLUE |
I don't think he'll bother with either DA.
He'll be out campaigning on Tuesday night next week ahead of Thursday's by election so the inherent value in the ticket is undermined from that standpoint if he's not going to do all 8 games. | |
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| Azhar Ali on 13:04 - Feb 13 with 8000 views | D_Alien |
If he "doesn't bother with either" it'd be because he was in the Main Stand, and there's a by election in Rochdale on 29 February
Which by election will he be at next week? | |
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| Azhar Ali on 13:30 - Feb 13 with 7906 views | RAFCBLUE |
No idea DA, but then that's true on most things! | |
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| Azhar Ali on 13:43 - Feb 13 with 7848 views | 49thseason |
Well done Simon, Galloway is using football just like his support for Gaza, the man is an opportunist, pure and simple. Have any of these candidates actually talked about the problems the town has,.. the high mortality rate, having some of the poorest wards in the country, the education standards below National Averages, the money wasted on vanity council projects, the lack of a proper hospital, the lack of government jobs other than at the job centre, why Kingsway industrial estate which was built on the promise of high value jobs has become just another warehousing estate? And why even more warehousing is to be built in Heywood alongside 7000 houses with no apparent improvement in the local services like schools and doctors? All this and 60 councillors drawing £1m a year overseeing it. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 19:12 - Feb 15 with 7158 views | Rochdalian45 |
In the forth coming election you can choose between -
- Ex labour - thrown out for antisemitism - Ali
- Ex labour - 10 x more antisemitic than Ali - Galloway
- Ex labour - thrown out for inapropriate texting - Dansuck
- Thrown out of the greens for being islamophobic -
- Tory - a wasted vote
- Lib Dem - remember Cyril Smith
- Misc - The indepandants of which DAVE TULLY is the only man to vote for. Not one of the above are as good a candidate as Dave. Do not waste your vote on the dross, vote TULLY and keep the crap out. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 19:19 - Feb 15 with 7132 views | ArthurDaley |
Was on the top of Yorkshire St this morning near the petrol station. Saw a Palestinian flag with George Galloway on it, just who is he going to represent . | |
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| Azhar Ali on 20:11 - Feb 15 with 7021 views | frequency |
Vote David Tully independant rochdale season ticket holder  [Post edited 15 Feb 20:12]
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| Azhar Ali on 00:04 - Feb 16 with 6776 views | Sandyman |
A trip down Tweedale Street today on the 471 suggests Galloway has fooled the community in that area, judging by the posters in shop windows and the front of houses towards Manchester Road. If elected, he won't solve the problems of Gaza.
As it stands today, David Tully gets my vote. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 06:13 - Feb 16 with 6683 views | ThreeLions |
Yeah Tully has my vote aswell. Even if it's for just for a few months Galloway can cause more harm to the towns reputation if he is voted in. Only interested in himself not the town of Rochdale and it's people | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 09:30 - Feb 16 with 6515 views | EllDale |
And there’s the irony.
The people in that area are exactly the demographic that Ali was selected to attract into continuing to vote Labour. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 10:46 - Feb 16 with 6435 views | mikehunt |
Correct.
I’m guessing Ali hoped his comments would only be disseminated amongst the voters who wanted to hear such things. How they became public knowledge will be of major concern. I’m not accepting his apology at all. He said what he meant.
Galloway is a crafty sod. He knows his audience and how to play them. When he used to rant about workers’ rights I was quite impressed. But his opportunistic approach and self-centredness in his election campaigns soon showed him in a truer light. If he gets in on the strength of the Gaza vote, it will be a travesty. He will do nothing for the town. | |
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| Azhar Ali on 11:06 - Feb 16 with 6390 views | RAFCBLUE |
I think it would be a good thing for Rochdale if a Rochdale person won it as an independent even if for only a few months.
Come the General Election it will be a safe Labour seat but the opportunity is to prioritise local issues and that is desperately what the town needs.
David Tully reads like a decent bloke from what I've read:
https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/155110/rochdale- | |
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| Azhar Ali on 11:18 - Feb 16 with 6366 views | turnthescrew |
So, the postal vote received for this by-election totals a massive 24,000. Staggering by any standards and entirely unjustifiable that so many are allowed to vote in this way. Of course it by-passes the 'show your ID' scenario required at the polling station, so draw your own conclusions from that.
It's time this racket was stopped. The only people entitled to a postal vote, should be those who are registered blind or disabled, or those out of the country on the day of the ballot.
With 24,000 postal votes submitted, the winning candidate may already have been elected before any of us get near a ballot box.
It's a sick joke. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 11:36 - Feb 16 with 6342 views | mikehunt |
How soon were the postal votes allowed. Might some of these be for Ali? Wasted, if so. | |
| The worm of time turns not for the cuckoo of circumstance. |
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| Azhar Ali on 12:44 - Feb 16 with 6204 views | Zac_B |
We are two of those postal votes, as we were away on holiday last time there was a vote on something. I assumed we would automatically revert back to a standard vote after that, but apparently not. Having then headed over to the online portal with our unique reference and password, we couldn't simply change back to a standard vote and instead kept following dead ends. Ultimately, I need to just pick up the phone and speak to someone, I think, but I won't be doing so for this vote as I fear something will go wrong and I'll end up with no vote!
I suspect there will be people in similar positions amongst that 24k. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 13:06 - Feb 16 with 6156 views | EllDale |
Electoral rules are changing next year so that postal voters are no longer automatically renewed.
It will be much harder to apply for one then apparently. | | | |
| Azhar Ali on 13:12 - Feb 16 with 6133 views | D_Alien |
I should think so too
Unless absolutely essential (i.e. can't physically make it to the polling station) postal voting exposes the system to all types of manipulation, including coercion. It goes against everything our forebears fought for, not least votes for women, for which some gave their lives | |
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