Galloway secures remarkable victory

Galloway beat Labour Party candidate Imran Hussein by a massive and surprising margin. The victory is regarded as a serious blow to Ed Miliband’s Labour party as the constituency has been a Labour stronghold since 1974.

The by-election was triggered only after Labour backbencher Marsha Singh declared he was resigning because of serious health problems. Singh had represented Bradford West since 1997.

“By the Grace of God we have won the most sensational victory in British political history,” Galloway posted on Twitter after the votes were counted.

Galloway, who is also an anti-war activist, called his remarkable victory as the Bradford West Spring, and compared it with a series of awakenings in some Arab countries.

“Labour has been hit by a tidal wave in a seat they have held for many decades and dominated for 100 years. I have won a big victory in every part of the constituency, including in areas many people said I should not even compete,” he said.

He stressed that his victory went back to “the path of treason by Tony Blair in 1994” that took away the party from its supporters. He insisted that Blair “remained revered inside the modern Labour party, swanning around making millions, instead of facing trial in The Hague for war crimes.”

He urged Britain’s major political parties to consider his dramatic victory as it has had a very salutary lesson for them.

Galloway, a former Labour MP for Glasgow, was expelled from the party in 2003 for comments he had made about the war in Iraq.

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