Victory be good for Bradford and Britain?
Because back then, years before political correctness, voters had clear choices from politicians who spoke about the concerns of real people and offered genuine solutions to those concerns.
JOHN BATES, Widdrington, Northumberland. GEORGE GALLOWAY’S victory in Bradford reflects the ethnicity of the electorate there, with Galloway appealing directly on an anti-war platform to the large Muslim vote in the constituency. This is a harbinger for future elections. The electorate is rightly sick of the corruption and greed of the existing major parties and will vote on individual/issue bases with politicians weighing up the make-up of their constituency and pitching their campaigns accordingly. Galloway was certainly correct in his assessment of Blair and his greed and egodriven politics which have effectively destroyed the Labour Party, which once fought for those denied a basic right of opportunity and decent standard of living.
TERRY THOMAS, Enfield, Middx. I HADN’T realised that a fine city like Bradford had such a plethora of stupidity.
Regardless of political leaning, surely even the most simple-minded of voters can see that they should select one of the mainstream candidates to represent them rather than someone who has his own agenda at heart?
Despair must be the word of the day among the few sensible people who live in Bradford West. Lord help them.
BOB BAILEY, address supplied. WHATEVER you think of George Galloway, his win should be a reason for us all to cheer. Why? Because it gives the lie to the theory that ethnic minorities will always ‘vote for their own’. The ethnic population of Bradford looked at the issues, not at the skin colour. I salute them.
DAI WOOSNAM, Grimsby. WHAT a wonderful result, and a timely kick up the backside of the British Establishment. If you were to put the front bench spokesmen of the three major parties in a line, I doubt if anyone could tell the difference.
They all look the same, dress the same and most of them come from the same privileged backgrounds.
No wonder SNP leader Alex Salmond and George Galloway are doing so well under this discredited and inept system. More and more people are turning away from mainstream politics and will in future vote for more extreme parties. RICHARD REYNOLDS,
Bulkington, Warks.