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george galloway you've described this as

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the most sensational upset in history i

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think you got a little bit carried away

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there were two uh previous results with

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bigger swings but it is pretty

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sensational nevertheless what do you put

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it down

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to no i don't think i was exaggerating

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if you forgive me i'm a bit of a student

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of these matters

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no party to the left of labour has ever

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taken a labour seat

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in a period when labour has been in

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opposition and by the way after the

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mother of all bad weeks for the

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government the condem uh liberal

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coalition so i think they were bigger

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but i'll we won't get hung up

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there were bigger swings in 1983 and i

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think 1967.

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no

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well

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you obviously didn't hear what i said

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it's understandable i'm in the street

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i'm not talking about the swing i'm

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talking about a party to the left of

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labor seizing a seat from labour whilst

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labor is in opposition and after a very

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bad week for the government right you're

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defining your terms very clearly and

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quite narrowly but within those terms a

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sensational victory what do you put it

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down to

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i don't know why you're being so

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childish about this i know more about

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left-wing history than you do i assure

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you but anyway i put it down to

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a tidal wave of alienation in the

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country and not just in bradford against

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the tweedledee tweedledum politics of

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the major parties if a backside could

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have three cheeks they would be the

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three cheeks of that black side

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people want something different they

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want leaders that they can believe they

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want leaders who say the same thing

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wherever they are and whenever they say

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it whether before an election or

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afterwards and i think we saw what i

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described last night as a bradford

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spring moment a kind of uprising a

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peaceful democratic uprising

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especially young people isn't it

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slightly presumptuous or even arrogant

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though to describe to compare a

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by-election victory with a revolution

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that has claimed tens of thousands of

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lives across the arab world

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well i can see you and i are not getting

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on very well and uh probably that's a

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sign that i should go and do one of the

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many other interviews that are waiting

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for me you obviously weren't listening

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or you're not hearing me i said i'm

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hearing you perfectly democratic a

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peaceful democratic uprising a peaceful

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democratic uprising that's what i think

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it was you evidently don't we'll see if

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it comes to anything thanks very much

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because i really do have a lot of very

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important interviews to do