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[katy_kat]

FAO : Bethnal Green.

He is not a nice man.

I just wanted you to know.

Comments

[zanyzaz]

I wish I'd watched BBC2 and BBC1... just found out they had the swingometer on Newsnight! Did you stay up to watch it all? and did you do the quiz thing? did ya did ya?

[zanyzaz]

*BBC2 INSTEAD OF BBC1 even... +*unable to string sentences together*

[katy_kat]

stayed up for most of it. think i went to bed about half four.

saw the swingometer and thought of you .. awwww.

this whole george galloway thing is really bothering me. i don't think tower hamlets know what they've got themselves into. hmmm.

did the quiz - got lib dem, which is handy...

xxx

[zanyzaz]

Go team me making you not vote labour then!! 'mons the liberals... and SNP... argh... *torn* SNP are actually more liberal than the liberals

I fell asleep early and had to get up for uni today which was a bit crap... did you see our constinuency?

[trueconfession_]

Hmmmm, not sure I agree with you on this one

[lacuna]

The thing is, Oona King's also Jewish (through her mother, while her father was black). Bethnal Green and Bow has a high proportion of Muslims, so it's not hard to imagine Galloway going in with a message of sympathy for Muslims and creating a subtle distinction between himself and the Jewish woman. It's easy enough to exploit underlying racial tension when you have constituents saying things like "she comes here with her Jewish friends who are killing our people..."

I think she was mistaken in voting for the war and I was very much against it; however, I wonder if it may have escalated in that particular constituency to something more symbolic - her sanctioning of the murder of Muslims more than anything else.

[trueconfession_]

Well I think the only people who’ve brought up King being Jewish are her supporters. From what I’ve seen, Galloway was trying to create a none-too-subtle distinction between himself and her. She’s pro-war, pro-privatisation, pro pretty much anything Blair comes up with. He’s not

[lacuna]

I’m intrigued by “she comes here with her Jewish friends who are killing our people..." Is this something you saw quoted or are you using an imaginary quote to illustrate your argument?

It was a quote from a young male Muslim resident of the constituency, as reported in a Telegraph article detailing how King had been pelted with eggs while attending a memorial to Jewish war dead. (There was a police presence at the event, in case it attracted some kind of hostility.) I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the Middle East situation. I might imagine that was indicative of at least some tension - some of which may well have emerged after King's vote for the war. As I said, it might have assumed symbolic significance.

[kitmarlowe]

Wandered here off another journal...

Just wanted to tell you I agree :)

xx

[wakingup_tous]

omg i was so amused by that interview altho i have to say i dont think im anti-anything more than im anti-galloway

[wakingup_tous]

cept maybe anti-paxman