It doesn’t surprise me at all. Both the Tories and Labour governments have been fucking over Rochdale for years. The town is a shadow of what it once was.
Galloway’s main appeal to people in Rochdale was pointing out that you can’t be born in Rochdale unless it’s in an ambulance on the way to Oldham, you can’t be educated in Rochdale if you have any special educational needs, and you can’t die in Rochdale unless it’s in an ambulance on the way to Oldham.
In the past couple decades they’ve had their hospitals, aged care and education all cut to save costs.
He was telling Rochdale folk in a town hall debate that even if they disagree with his beliefs (i.e. Catholic views on gender and sex), he’s the only one with a stake in actually doing anything for them, and Rochdale apparently agrees.
Listening to what Galloway has been saying in regards to pretty much every single imperialist aggression over the past few decades you cannot disagree that he’s been consistently anti-imperialist throughout. If anything his more conservative cultural views are largely irrelevant as someone in the global south, since first and foremost what matters to us out here when looking at a politician in the core is their foreign policy, and so far Galloway has not missed. I feel here we are being too quick to discard someone purely for their cultural views, when anti-imperialism is supposed to be a unifier across all cultural lines.
It doesn’t surprise me at all. Both the Tories and Labour governments have been fucking over Rochdale for years. The town is a shadow of what it once was.
Galloway’s main appeal to people in Rochdale was pointing out that you can’t be born in Rochdale unless it’s in an ambulance on the way to Oldham, you can’t be educated in Rochdale if you have any special educational needs, and you can’t die in Rochdale unless it’s in an ambulance on the way to Oldham.
In the past couple decades they’ve had their hospitals, aged care and education all cut to save costs.
He was telling Rochdale folk in a town hall debate that even if they disagree with his beliefs (i.e. Catholic views on gender and sex), he’s the only one with a stake in actually doing anything for them, and Rochdale apparently agrees.
Listening to what Galloway has been saying in regards to pretty much every single imperialist aggression over the past few decades you cannot disagree that he’s been consistently anti-imperialist throughout. If anything his more conservative cultural views are largely irrelevant as someone in the global south, since first and foremost what matters to us out here when looking at a politician in the core is their foreign policy, and so far Galloway has not missed. I feel here we are being too quick to discard someone purely for their cultural views, when anti-imperialism is supposed to be a unifier across all cultural lines.