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question one is uh what is your opinion

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of judgment passed by the court yeah

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that's okay I'm just going to give a

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speech

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okay yeah please thanks

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Brahman mayor L Raman counselors of our

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hamlets brothers and sisters comrades

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and

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friends I'm very sorry that I cannot be

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with you this evening I'm involved in a

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bitter general election campaign in the

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constituency of Bradford West fighting

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exactly the same kind of people as have

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created this an anti-democratic coup in

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the London burough of Tower hamlets so

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forgive me please for coming to you from

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a screen uh and I hope before long I

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will be back at the front line with you

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in the East End of London which is very

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dear to my heart I scored myself a

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singular electoral Triumph there in

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2005 in the constituent say of bethor

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green and Bo when I and many of you

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watching this storm to Victory against

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the now baroness una King she received

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the air mine as a reward for her

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betrayal of the people of the

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constituency when she supported the

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bloody and disastrous war in Iraq which

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cost the lives of a million people and

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has sent extreme ISM and violence

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cascading across the world so what

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happens in tar hamlets matters to me and

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it matters also to my constituents here

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in

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Bradford because the overriding lesson

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of this

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vicious

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islamophobic racist coup which has been

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mounted against the elected mayor

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and his party and his

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administration the overriding message is

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this that Muslims should forget about

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achieving Democratic power they're

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welcome to be foot soldiers they're

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welcome to be Lobby fodder they're

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welcome to be a vote

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bank but don't dream of in your own

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right achieving Democratic

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power and how dangerous a message that

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is in an era where we are being told

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almost hourly on the news bulletins of

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the need for Muslims to turn away from

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violence and extremism

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fanaticism terrorism and stick to the

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Democratic way British values and all

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that when Muslims use the Democratic

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process stand for election win election

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over and

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over then someone will be along in a

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minute wearing a wig or not to take that

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power away from you after a blizzard of

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abuse slander

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defamation and character

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assassination I don't know may lutv well

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personally but I do know that the London

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B of tar hamlets has been much improved

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by his tenure as the elected mayor we in

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respect were the people who began the

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campaign to have a directly elected

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mayor we organized the

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petition that led to the creation of

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that position we supported mayor lur

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because he was Far and Away Head and

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Shoulders the best man for the job and

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we have participated through some of our

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members in tar Hamlet's first in making

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his administration such a

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success they hate him you see not

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because someone may or may not have got

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a Samoa at a public election

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meeting not because someone may or may

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not have written a letter to a newspaper

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saying that it was the Public's duty to

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elect him not because someone may or may

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not according to

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Mori perhaps 100 votes out of the more

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than

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35,000 that may lot for pulled may have

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been improperly cast that's not why they

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hate him they hate him because he

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proves that there there is another way

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that another way is possible that you

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don't have to be Tweedle D or Tweedle

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Dum or Tweedle d and a half or one of

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the three cheeks of the same backside in

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order to win power and use it well he

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proves that it's possible to be a man of

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independent mind a man not

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beholden to some big white chief on high

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he proved that the people of toar

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hamlets could do it for themselves could

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stand could win could govern justly

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competently and well that's why they

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hate him I have every

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confidence in mayor L for ramman I am

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sure that he will be back I am sure that

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he should seek a judicial review I'm

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sure he should seek to stay any future

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election for mayor in his absence but if

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these courses of action

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fail and whatever it's

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called the forces around the mayor must

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fight and win again and on behalf of

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respect I give you my

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pledge that whatever we can do we will

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do whatever breath that God gives us we

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will use to speak for hack to speak for

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right for justice for truth that's what

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we believe in we think that's what mayor

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lutfar believes in we think that's what

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his friends and brothers and sisters

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believe in and we'll be with you

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shoulder toosh shoulder every step of

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the way wasalamu alaykum this is George

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Galloway talking to you from the

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Bradford West constituency good

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night