Galloway by-election win rattles Sunak; he’ll crack down harder on protest against him
Sunak’s speech: look at that face. He knows the game’s up.
Rishi Sunak has responded to George Galloway’s pro-Palestine by-election win in Rochdale with a speech attacking the new MP himself – and also peaceful protest.
His comments outside Downing Street were pre-publicised, meaning some of us were able to speculate on what he would say…
Rishi Sunak is going to give a speech outside Downing Street at 6pm.
It will be about his crackdown on peaceful protest, and he will unveil more measures to criminalise a problem, that is only a problem for him.
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) March 1, 2024
… and that was very close to the fact of it:
"It is beyond alarming that last night the Rochdale by-election returned a candidate who dismisses the horror of what happened on October 7"
PM Rishi Sunak says he fears the UK's democracy is being "undermined"
Follow live https://t.co/mzvtsysOtO pic.twitter.com/kZjFt9oi3P
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 1, 2024
1. George Galloway wins a by-election by a large margin
2. The Prime Minister viciously attacks Galloway in a speech to the nation
What Sunak was really saying:-
We – the ruling class – do not consider Galloway to be legitimate
We have contempt for the voters of Rochdale
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) March 2, 2024
While he did not announce new laws against protest, Sunak did encourage police to act more strongly during events – attracting heavy criticism:
Rishi Sunak standing outside Downing Street and telling the police to do more to stop Palestine protests… the day after Palestinians were killed by Israel for wanting to eat food
— 🎴 (@v2muli) March 1, 2024
You can read about the Flour Massacre here.
The speech has provoked strident responses from both pro-Palestine protesters and the Workers’ Party of Britain, whose MP George Galloway now is:
Just a few days ago 100 starving Palestinians seeking emergency food rations were gunned down in cold blood by the Israeli army. Yet it is those who call for peace who are demonised as violent extremists.
The racists and warmongers know they are losing ground. They know the vast… pic.twitter.com/QAPREY0Vsu
— Stop the War (@STWuk) March 2, 2024
It is staggering, yet unsurprising, that the media criticise us for running a campaign against genocide in Palestine. What they really cannot stand is that workers, many of whom living in poverty, can see beyond their immediate material concerns and mobilised for a candidate and…
— Workers Party of Britain (@WorkersPartyGB) March 2, 2024
Sunak was really saying he would do everything he could to silence Galloway and stop the protests against the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Gaza.
If you are as disgusted by this revolting display as This Writer, you have two options. The first is to join peaceful protests and bear witness to attempts at suppression by police, acting as Sunak’s political puppets as described in his speech.
The other is to vote for parties other than either the Conservatives or Labour. Remember:
🚨 BREAKING: Labour has endorsed the Conservative Party's plans to restrict pro-Palestine protests.
Rishi Sunak has called for a more robust police response to pro-Palestine protest. The BBC reports that Labour believes "the proposals are sensible". pic.twitter.com/xQu0S500F1
— Stats for Lefties 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) February 29, 2024
Sunak and Starmer – and the parties they lead – are as bad as each other. Rochdale has shown the way and it is for those of us in other constituencies to follow.
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Everything about Sunak’s far right speech was wrong.
Last time the Police were encouraged to be more heavy handed they brutalised (mainly) young women on a peaceful vigil following the bloody murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman.
Sunak’s (and Starmer’s) subservience to the fascist Netanyahu and his unblinking supporters, including Biden, over a flawed and corrupt definition of anti-Semitism is shameful and shows his moral and political corruption.
Love him or hate him, Galloway was elected by a huge majority in a fair election in an official UK election, clearly Sunak is not the democrat that he claims to be.
The UK is a train wreck, everything has failed but mostly Sunak, the Tories and Government.
RE: That picture of keef in the tweet near the bottom of the article….
“Working towards a two state solution”
Yet there’s a union flag and an israeli flag… And NO Palestinian flag, so this “two state solution” obviously doesn’t involve the Palestinians.