George Galloway of the UK RESPECT party won last month's Bradford West by-election. http://www.respectparty.org/ The Bradford seat, a Labour stronghold since 1973, was considered safe but Galloway won a majority of over 10,000 and a swing from Labour to Respect of 36 percent. Some say this swing was due to the discontent of the working class who would like the Labour Party to be old-style Socialists. Class resentment is o.k. in Britain but Muslim separatism and racism is taboo. The BBC couldn’t bring itself to even utter the word "Muslim" even though a crowd of young men with beards were seen on television swarming around Galloway. Labour paid the price for its failure to act as an opposition party and connect with women and Muslims and young people. Galloway managed to make those women and Muslims and young people feel that they matter and are important. He has that personal touch. He went out into communities and spoke to people. He took votes from the three main parties: Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems. Was this an anomaly or could it be that British voters are looking for something different...someone with the passion to stir their blood and an escape from a narrow and stagnant power clique? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/03/galloway-melenchon-expose-gap
George Galloway talks to Channel 4 News about the "tidal wave of alienation" which led to his recent victory in Bradford West:
And the following article looks into why the media and inner circles of British politics hate George Galloway: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/09/why-do-they-hate-george-galloway-so-much/
"Britain does sometimes feel like Egypt, a country in which disasters occur but somehow nobody running the country is ever held responsible and where power circulates within a narrow clique."
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