question one is uh what is your opinion
of judgment passed by the court yeah
that's okay I'm just going to give a
speech
okay yeah please thanks
Brahman mayor L Raman counselors of our
hamlets brothers and sisters comrades
and
friends I'm very sorry that I cannot be
with you this evening I'm involved in a
bitter general election campaign in the
constituency of Bradford West fighting
exactly the same kind of people as have
created this an anti-democratic coup in
the London burough of Tower hamlets so
forgive me please for coming to you from
a screen uh and I hope before long I
will be back at the front line with you
in the East End of London which is very
dear to my heart I scored myself a
singular electoral Triumph there in
2005 in the constituent say of bethor
green and Bo when I and many of you
watching this storm to Victory against
the now baroness una King she received
the air mine as a reward for her
betrayal of the people of the
constituency when she supported the
bloody and disastrous war in Iraq which
cost the lives of a million people and
has sent extreme ISM and violence
cascading across the world so what
happens in tar hamlets matters to me and
it matters also to my constituents here
in
Bradford because the overriding lesson
of this
vicious
islamophobic racist coup which has been
mounted against the elected mayor
and his party and his
administration the overriding message is
this that Muslims should forget about
achieving Democratic power they're
welcome to be foot soldiers they're
welcome to be Lobby fodder they're
welcome to be a vote
bank but don't dream of in your own
right achieving Democratic
power and how dangerous a message that
is in an era where we are being told
almost hourly on the news bulletins of
the need for Muslims to turn away from
violence and extremism
fanaticism terrorism and stick to the
Democratic way British values and all
that when Muslims use the Democratic
process stand for election win election
over and
over then someone will be along in a
minute wearing a wig or not to take that
power away from you after a blizzard of
abuse slander
defamation and character
assassination I don't know may lutv well
personally but I do know that the London
B of tar hamlets has been much improved
by his tenure as the elected mayor we in
respect were the people who began the
campaign to have a directly elected
mayor we organized the
petition that led to the creation of
that position we supported mayor lur
because he was Far and Away Head and
Shoulders the best man for the job and
we have participated through some of our
members in tar Hamlet's first in making
his administration such a
success they hate him you see not
because someone may or may not have got
a Samoa at a public election
meeting not because someone may or may
not have written a letter to a newspaper
saying that it was the Public's duty to
elect him not because someone may or may
not according to
Mori perhaps 100 votes out of the more
than
35,000 that may lot for pulled may have
been improperly cast that's not why they
hate him they hate him because he
proves that there there is another way
that another way is possible that you
don't have to be Tweedle D or Tweedle
Dum or Tweedle d and a half or one of
the three cheeks of the same backside in
order to win power and use it well he
proves that it's possible to be a man of
independent mind a man not
beholden to some big white chief on high
he proved that the people of toar
hamlets could do it for themselves could
stand could win could govern justly
competently and well that's why they
hate him I have every
confidence in mayor L for ramman I am
sure that he will be back I am sure that
he should seek a judicial review I'm
sure he should seek to stay any future
election for mayor in his absence but if
these courses of action
fail and whatever it's
called the forces around the mayor must
fight and win again and on behalf of
respect I give you my
pledge that whatever we can do we will
do whatever breath that God gives us we
will use to speak for hack to speak for
right for justice for truth that's what
we believe in we think that's what mayor
lutfar believes in we think that's what
his friends and brothers and sisters
believe in and we'll be with you
shoulder toosh shoulder every step of
the way wasalamu alaykum this is George
Galloway talking to you from the
Bradford West constituency good
night