george galloway you've described this as
the most sensational upset in history i
think you got a little bit carried away
there were two uh previous results with
bigger swings but it is pretty
sensational nevertheless what do you put
it down
to no i don't think i was exaggerating
if you forgive me i'm a bit of a student
of these matters
no party to the left of labour has ever
taken a labour seat
in a period when labour has been in
opposition and by the way after the
mother of all bad weeks for the
government the condem uh liberal
coalition so i think they were bigger
but i'll we won't get hung up
there were bigger swings in 1983 and i
think 1967.
no
well
you obviously didn't hear what i said
it's understandable i'm in the street
i'm not talking about the swing i'm
talking about a party to the left of
labor seizing a seat from labour whilst
labor is in opposition and after a very
bad week for the government right you're
defining your terms very clearly and
quite narrowly but within those terms a
sensational victory what do you put it
down to
i don't know why you're being so
childish about this i know more about
left-wing history than you do i assure
you but anyway i put it down to
a tidal wave of alienation in the
country and not just in bradford against
the tweedledee tweedledum politics of
the major parties if a backside could
have three cheeks they would be the
three cheeks of that black side
people want something different they
want leaders that they can believe they
want leaders who say the same thing
wherever they are and whenever they say
it whether before an election or
afterwards and i think we saw what i
described last night as a bradford
spring moment a kind of uprising a
peaceful democratic uprising
especially young people isn't it
slightly presumptuous or even arrogant
though to describe to compare a
by-election victory with a revolution
that has claimed tens of thousands of
lives across the arab world
well i can see you and i are not getting
on very well and uh probably that's a
sign that i should go and do one of the
many other interviews that are waiting
for me you obviously weren't listening
or you're not hearing me i said i'm
hearing you perfectly democratic a
peaceful democratic uprising a peaceful
democratic uprising that's what i think
it was you evidently don't we'll see if
it comes to anything thanks very much
because i really do have a lot of very
important interviews to do