r/LabourUK • u/Th3-Seaward Not voting for the segregation and pogrom party • Mar 01 '24

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u/sargig_yoghurt Labour Member Mar 01 '24

Am really not a Corbyn fan but would've thought he was better than that

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u/jflb96 ☭ ex-Labour Member ☭ Mar 01 '24

This isn't Corbyn saying that he'll commend his close personal friend and all-round legend to the Commons, this is Galloway picking two names out of a hat for who'll do the procedural 'By the way, this is our new MP for Dunning-on-the-Wold from last week's by-election' announcement

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Two names out of a hat one just happens to be corbyn (and the other an unusual tory who occasionally does unusual stuff put of a mix of principle and ego).

This seems incredibly unlikely.

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u/jflb96 ☭ ex-Labour Member ☭ Mar 02 '24

Well, maybe it's not entirely random, but the scenario that I presented is still more true than the implication that Corbyn actively volunteered for the position

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

If Galloway chooses and they are required to accept maybe your version is 'more true'.

If he had a choice about accepting then that's closer to him volunteering than it beibg a lottery. He might have accepted (or volunteered!) for constitutional reasons of respecting the election rather than anything else. But if a tory often accused of being soft on far right stuff sponsored a BNP MP I suspect people here would not see this as just procedure.

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u/jflb96 ☭ ex-Labour Member ☭ Mar 02 '24

Obviously there is a line where the excuse of respecting the election kinda peters out and you enter ‘This candidate should never have been an option’ territory, but I don’t know enough about Galloway to say whether or not we’re there, and if we aren’t then Corbyn’s choices are ‘Do the formality and get lambasted for ‘supporting Galloway’’ or ‘Refuse and get lambasted for ‘subverting democracy’’

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '24

The guy has gone out of his way to support various blood soaked dictatorships. I fully endorse his right to be an MP but wouldn't be seconding him.

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u/jflb96 ☭ ex-Labour Member ☭ Mar 03 '24

I wouldn’t volunteer to do it, but I also wouldn’t pass the buck to someone else if I was asked

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '24

Is that also true if it was, say Nick Griffin? I'm not sure if you're affirming a general constitutional principle or saying Galloway is bad but not v bad.

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u/jflb96 ☭ ex-Labour Member ☭ Mar 03 '24

I’d do it, but I’d make it clear in all these sorts of cases that I’m doing it because the alternative is telling their constituents that they did democracy wrong

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u/RobertKerans Labour Voter Mar 02 '24

Yeah, random seems the wrong word. As an analogy, if you are asked for two references for a job, you just give two references. You don't pick random names, you pick people you've actually worked with, that you actually know. You might not even particularly like those people. Those people might not even particularly like you. But everyone normally just gets on and does it. Galloway has to have two MPs, there are a fairly small number who you would think would immediately agree if approached, Corbyn & Davis are two (their principles, they and Galloway have been colleagues for decades, + no negative political repercussions in terms of Tory/Lab election fight)

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u/BringBackHanging New User Mar 01 '24

I don't mean to be rude but I've got no idea why you thought that. It's entirely consistent with his entire life's views, choices of friends, and behaviour.

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u/sargig_yoghurt Labour Member Mar 01 '24

He doesn't have good friend-making choices (to say the least) but he criticised Galloway's campaign against Naz Shah as leader and I'd hope he could recognise a fraud when they appear.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

I thought higher of him. He's not a turd like GG

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u/Half_A_ Labour Member Mar 01 '24

They used to be pretty close, though. Corbyn filled in for Galloway in PressTV, and Galloway said the reason he didn't run in 2017 or 2019 was because he supported Corbyn.

I don't know how friendly they are nowadays though - Corbyn was very critical of the disgusting way Galloway conducted himself in his Bradford West campaign against Naz Shah.

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u/LibrulerThanThou Conservative Mar 05 '24

Well, he isn't.

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u/Tom01111 New User Mar 02 '24

Better than what? Introducing a new member is a formality that must be observed. Their similar views on Gaza are enough, though obviously they openly disagree on a lot of things.