#Rochdale

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Not an exhaustive list, but for any Brits who see this, there's expected rioting tonight in:

Cleveland, Thornaby. Likely to be at the mosque in Westbury Street at ~5pm

Durham. Both in the city centre and apparently at the Bishop Auckland Town Hall.

Leicestershire, Coalville. Potentially starting at the clock tower.

Manchester. Potentially the police station in Salford.

Peterborough. Some talk about gathering outside the prison.

Rochdale. Outside the Broadfield Hotel on Sparrow Hill.

Scunthorpe. Reports of it starting at Scunthorpe Museum on Oswald Street moving off to Frodingham Road. Late to posting this as reports said it would start at 12.

Sheffield. The Holiday Inn is a suspected target. I believe it's off of Victoria Station Road.

Stoke-on-Trent. Potentially at the Best Western Hotel on Audley Road.

Also in Northern Ireland, there's expected to be one at Chimney Corner in Belfast, and in Newton Abbey.

[useless-englandfacts]

it’s almost impressive that there are now 3 people running in the rochdale by-election who have been suspended from the labour party

[probablyasocialecologist]

[richwall101]

Marbles...

Manchester (UK) Rochdale Children play street marbles in the early 1970's

[frankwoodheadart]

1996 Frank Woodhead - Littleborough, Rochdale, Lancashire

[whatevergreen]

Sunderland, and the rest:

Identify and expose as many of the racist rioters as possible. Make their lives hell.

Also, more of this:

[rainndearr]

[dailytunes6]

playlist of the week: chwefror

by me!! i have another one like this called enero (see the theme? if you cant, chwefror is february in welsh and enero is january in spanish!) and they both have 10 albums i fuck with this month. for february we’ve got:

autumn variations by mr ed, folklore by mother, the good witch by maisie peters, lover by madame swift, pick-up full of pink carnations by the vaccines (absolutely adore this one), SOS by sza (is it pronounced sihza or sizah??), the rise and fall of ziggy stardust by sir bowie, teach me to swim by rochdale, voulez-vous by abba, you signed up for this by maisie peters <3

anyways! those albums are delicious, and i really like having them in one place lol

[drdamiang]

GOBLINS!

GOBLINS!

Noddy is very angry

the goblins have

elected one

of their own

to the Toytown Parliament

he has asked Mr Plod and

Mrs Plod to arrest this goblin

upstart before

he gets to take his

seat in Parliament

sits down, stands up,

and makes a maiden speech

attacking Noddy for

his bellicose nonsense

mocking his rather

diminutive stature

and reminding him

what happened

to another short fellow

called Napoleon

and also the leader of

the tribe of Goldilocks

when, within a century

of each other

they foolishly attacked

the frozen homeland

of Rumpelstiltskin

and the three bears.

[ivovynckier]

Elvis Costello is a British MP.

[bluepecanpie]

I'm legit asking on here having actually gone through the process of how electoral politics works, including and especially canvassing, and candidate selection, how much disaffection and local resentment can play in deciding an sway an election, and how a very media-savvy charismatic candidate saying the right keypoints around a constituency, particularly one that's really deprived and one of many regions which experiend the brunt of deindustrialisation.

Like, I want people to really think about what happened during the rochdale by-election and why the result happened. This was a by-election where:

We had three candidates who were had either been Labour MPs at one point, or within the party machine only to fall into disfavor - including within the by-election itself.

Speaking of the Labour candidate, the reason why he fell into disfavour despite up until that point being a 'company man' is that he said in an event that the October 7 events happened with Israel's foreknowledge. Saying that like that on its own whether it's true or not (it isn't) is deeply embarassing for Labour which is committed to supporting Israel, and weaponised antisemitism to clear out/suppress its left-wing - especially if you can't switch out a new candidate in time.

The Green Party candidate was found to have posted Islamophobic remarks years before and also had to stop campaigning, and likewise, the Green Party couldn't change their candidate cos it was too late.

The local Labour branch quietly mouthed support for someone booted out of their tribe: Simon Dancuzk, a nasty dude selected for the Reform Party, a metamorphosed UKIP - who basically was only out because he was sexxting an underage girl - all to keep out Galloway. Yes, Labour was banking on a sex pest that they booted out to keep out a political nemesis.

A well-known vehicle shop owner presumably with his own money, was able to get out his messaging better than the establishment candidates, and was rewarded in the by-election with second-place.

Yes, Galloway is a vain, chauvinistic blowhard but he understands what the miasma of labourism in dissaffected areas does, and that's basically why the Worker's Party basically exists - Galloway also happens to legitimately hate Britain's foreign policy in the Middle East, something that will bring the support of the Muslim base. They're not going to care about that time he pretended to be a cat on big brother twenty years ago, if right now he's saying what Labour and the Tories won't say - that what's happening in Gaza is a genocide conducted by Israel with the material support of the British government. Labour is pissed as the main opposition not because they actually think Galloway's an antisemite, but because he represents the very real possibility that they could leak blocs of so-called 'natural voters' to independent candidates just when they thought they had a tight election program, and Galloway's gonna be slamming them from the left, which the Tories may capitalise on. They'll blame Galloway but they honestly it is no-one but themselves that they should blame.

So that's the rub. It's amazing that after ten years of shit like this going back to the Scottish referendum, nobody seems to have lerned anything, and on here what comes out is this moralistic chastising. It's not about whether what happened is 'good', it's about understand the conditions for why it happened, and why things like it will happen again.

[rashmeerl]

#rochdale #gaza

Some British commentators variously and colourfully noted the triumphant return to parliament of a “political maverick”, with Politico describing him as a “walking Molotov cocktail”. It was left to more sober analysts to acknowledge that the Rochdale election result demonstrated something else. The Financial Times said it showed not just “the anger felt by many Muslims over Labour’s position on Israel” but pointed “to a deepening frustration with Britain’s political establishment ahead of this year’s general election”. https://www.rashmee.com/george-galloway-rochdale-gaza-baghdad-central/

[scholarofgloom]

[maddiemadeituk]

Ready for my first con! If any of you are in Rochdale today come check it out!!

[browbuss]

Nordeste 4920 #browbuss #busofilia #expressonordeste #sp280 #castelobranco #rochdale #osasco #saudadesdecasa (em Rochdale) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpfF7sZunri/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[liverpoollomo]

Hollingworth Lake. Nikon F65. Rollei RPX 25.

Hollingworth Lake was originally built as a water source for the Rochdale Canal and was developed as a tourist resort in the nineteenth century.

I decided to take a drive to deepest darkest Greater Manchester in November last year purely because I had driven through it on the way home from an earlier day out and it had caught my eye.