I missed this until today. Check out Ilford South Labour MP, Mike Gapes web and his astonishment on finding out the lies that the George Galloway “Respect” Candidate in the local Council by-election in Valentines Ward had put out. This Candidate claims to be the Director of the government sponsored “Redbridge Against Islamophobia and Extremism (RAIE).”
A totally fictional public meeting supposedly organised by RAIE with Respect dork Galloway and Mike Gapes was invented with the headline “The Iraq War was good for Britain!” Posters were even placed in local schools and handed to people outside mosques in the area (paid for by whom?). Mike had not been invited and was totally unaware of this meeting.
The extremist Galloway Respect candidate has now resigned as "Director" (believe it or not) from the anti-extremists group RAIE – but apparently not as a "Respect" candidate?
The best way of countering these utterly vile people is of course to help out with the Labour campaign
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Indeed. This is likely to be a close by-election, and we'll need plenty of people out on Thursday to ensure Labour is re-elected in Valentines ward.
Hi Garry
The result was a shame. Still, such is life, live, learn and move on.
BTW - What is the name of your "unusual" cat?
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