littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
What vote did she get? She comes across very well in the media, ime. Good votes don't count for much, though. It's seats that count.
Galloway returns to Parliament in sensational win in Bradford West - Labour/Coalition smashed
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The correct formula is complex. I'm waiting for the 39th Step to relaunch the RCP myself.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
second to labour, trailing by 3,799 votes. Yaqoob's 12,240 votes was an increase of 13.9%, with an 11.7% vote swing from Labour to Respect.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
She came second to Labour in Sparkbrook, an inner city seat dominated by corrupt Labour for years. Iirc she got about 30% of the vote in a straight Labour/Respect fight. The other parties were wiped out. Whilst the seat does have a large Muslim population it's possibly more mixed than Braford West.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Possibly more accurate figures than my addled guesswork.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I'd hope to think that people voted for her based on more than just her religion. It's rather odd how socialism and Islam have become conflated with Respect.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
RESPECT made that pretty hard to do. We still have GG last night shouting the victory was to Allah. How the hell do you think those non-muslims you've been trying to establish voted for him would view that?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I'm not defending Galloway or Respect. However, on the couple of occasions I've seen Yaqoob speak in the media, she hasn't played on her religion at all. Doesn't mention it as far as I can tell - she has far more compelling things to talk about.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This is RESPECT - it's how they operate. I've not once heard her not mention her religion - and there's a gap between mentioning your religion and why people vote for you.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Ok. tbh I don't know enough about it to comment further.
yes, and its interesting she hasn't defected to NL where she would be guaranteed a shadow post...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
She would not be! Besides she seems more classical lib-dem.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And may God have mercy on our souls.Stretches to fit
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Someone, either on here or on A.N. Other board said that she never used to wear the hijab before going into politics. And when I saw her speak in Brum she really didn't mention religion at all, apart from saying that suicide bombing was a really bad idea.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Yeah, this is what interests me about her. She avoids the shite that Galloway trots out (forgive the pun) and her interviews in Birmingham do focus on anti cuts/bread and butter stuff. Where she stood has a large black and white population and as I said is possibly more mixed than where GG won.
But ultimately Respect and Islam are tangled together and there's no way back.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Hmm. Well I did think that - that she wears the hijab of course effectively means that she has already mentioned her religion before she even speaks.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'm sure she's very capable - but there's no way she'd be hoofed into the shadow cabinet after two years - what's her speciality?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
no, she was (supposedly) very 'westernised. until the war started and there was a rise in islamophobia, when she felt 'drawn back' to her religion.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Chuka thingy has some minor role already. Its possible. And I daresay she'd be given a speciality is she joined a party where she had to be everything that GHeorge wasnt
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
By a gob in the face. Which her islamist business family already felt.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
He's being groomed - and in parliamentary terms he's very good.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
You mean someone spat in her face? Literally?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
If only lustbather were here to respond to this one.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I believe that's what she said. Let me check.
Born in 1971, at university she studied biochemistry and psychology and she met her husband, Aqil, at the age of 24.
Working part-time as a psychotherapist, she become politically active two weeks after the attacks on New York on 11 September 2001, when a man spat at her in the street.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
This is true, and she was offered a safe seat as partof a deal with Nu Labour in the City.
She is defo Classic lib-dem too, very good way of capturing her politics and approach.
Byrne is a) a total shit and b) never in the city and not respected in it.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
He's a new labour creep, though. So basically what you're saying is that she could have had a career as a new labour creep if she had wanted.
She gets a tick for rejecting that at least.
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