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dear brothers and sisters in oldham

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assalamu alaikum

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my name is george galloway

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i've been a member of parliament for

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almost 30 years the last three of which

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i've had the honor to be the member of

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parliament for the bradford west

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constituency which i'm fighting to

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retain on the 7th of may

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and i just wanted to send a message

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to the brothers and sisters that i met

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in the saint mary's ward in oldham last

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weekend and to those brothers and

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sisters i have not yet met that i hope

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everyone is getting fully behind the

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campaign of the respect candidate for

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the saint mary's ward tariq mahmoud

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ullah

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i was very proud when

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i was able to sign the nomination forms

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as the leader of respect for tariq he's

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an outstanding candidate and would make

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an outstanding counsellor

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he's a lion as i said

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on top of my bus in the saint mary's

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ward last weekend and he's really

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frightening the sheep you know the kind

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of sheep that i'm talking about the

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people who just make up the numbers the

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people who just put their faces into the

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nosebag and eat their way through their

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term as counselors doing nothing for the

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ordinary people being unavailable to the

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ordinary people and not getting very

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much in the way of resources from the

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oldham city council's budget tariq won't

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have any of that he'll roar out

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for the people of saint mary's he'll

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demand

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their share their fair share

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of what's going in terms of council

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resources

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and he'll be nobody's sheep

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a lion is a lion and tariq

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ullah is a lion thank you for the

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fantastic response that our boss and our

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friends here from bradford west when we

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came through we really felt we were at

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home we really felt that we were not in

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another city in another county we felt

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that we were one big family a family

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fighting for respect

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for the poor for the working people for

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the minorities for the muslims

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and we will continue that fight and if

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we could make a breakthrough in oldham

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then it would be sending a shockwave

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across lancashire it would show that the

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people were not prepared to put up any

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more with second-rate or third-rate

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representation

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tariq mahmoud ola

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is a first-class candidate he'll make a

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first-class councillor you make sure

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that only the best is good enough for

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the people of the saint mary's ward

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please give him your support and i look

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forward to coming through again

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inshallah for his victory celebration

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this is george galloway in bradford

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wassalamualaikum