Exceeding Expectations
In a recent piece, George Galloway MP suggested that Iran’s democracy was more healthy than our own. The proof is thus, says Galloway:
More than 85 per cent of the electors turned out to vote – compared with 35 per cent in our own elections recently. That’s nearly 40million Xs on ballot papers.
This massive exercise took place without trouble of any kind – the polling stations were kept open longer than required to facilitate the huge lines of people outside.
Indeed, that’s one of the reasons I discount the opposition complaints.
When a candidate is reduced to protesting that too MANY people were allowed to vote, you know he’s in trouble.
Well now Galloway must be thrilled. According to a report in The Guardian, even he has under-estimated the robust enthusiasm for democracy in Iran. In some areas, voter turn-out has exceeded one hundred percent!
It’s a staggering endorsement of democracy. If only we could match such a passion for casting ballots!
Galloway, of course, is something of an expert in the area of popular democracy. A staggering 81.6% of his constituents voted for him in the 2005 General Election. According to Electoral Reform Society statistics:
Representatives can get elected on tiny amounts of public support. In 2005, for example, George Galloway polled the votes of only 18.4 per cent of his constituents, yet ended up in the House of Commons
Oops! Did I say that almost 82% of his constituents voted for him? Sorry, of course what I meant was that 82% of Bethnal Green & Bow constituents didn’t vote for him.
Comments
| 18 June 2009, 12:08 pm |
In the old German Democratic Republic, 97% or even 99% of voters routinely cast their ballots for the bloc headed by the Socialist Unity Party.
It was said by German wags that the others spent the day escaping to the West.
| 18 June 2009, 12:18 pm |
Even on the officially released figures, some counting regions had 99% turnout or more.
| 18 June 2009, 12:23 pm |
Those ACORN chappies do get around, don’t they.
| 18 June 2009, 12:27 pm |
Sam Allardyce will be pleased. He always likes to see 110 per cent.
| 18 June 2009, 12:28 pm |
When Bush got elected I am sure Galloway was one of those screaming that the election was wrigged.
But when a president gets elected in one of those middle Eastern countries he loves so much, even if there is the slightest risk that it might not be legite he says it’s all legit and anyone who disagrees is a racist.
| 18 June 2009, 12:56 pm |
Galloway is 60% ignorant and 60% pure twat.
| 18 June 2009, 1:00 pm |
>>>More than 85 per cent of the electors turned out to vote – compared with 35 per cent in our own elections recently. That’s nearly 40million Xs on ballot papers.>>>>
- Correction Geo, ballot papers had to be HAND written with candidate name and candidate number. Illiterate voters had their forms filled in for them by helpful polling station staff.
>>>>This massive exercise took place without trouble of any kind – the polling stations were kept open longer than required to facilitate the huge lines of people outside.>>>>
Which makes the annoucement of the results two hours after the polls officially closed even more astonishing. Must be some counting machines they have out there – can read text.
| 18 June 2009, 1:04 pm |
never mind, this odious piece of shit will be out of a job soon.
| 18 June 2009, 1:19 pm |
Bearing in mind the huge turnout, one simply has to marvel at how quickly those votes were sorted, validated and counted.
| 18 June 2009, 1:26 pm |
Gargoyle: Galloway is 95% ignorant and 100% pure twat, surely.
| 18 June 2009, 1:48 pm |
and 110% fertiliser.
| 18 June 2009, 2:26 pm |
Galloway – now with 70% more horseshit, Free!
| 18 June 2009, 2:37 pm |
“More than 85 per cent of the electors turned out to vote – compared with 35 per cent in our own elections recently. That’s nearly 40million Xs on ballot papers.”
What’s even more impressive is that they counted all 40 million ballots within a couple of hours!
| 18 June 2009, 3:33 pm |
Galloway is…60% pure twat.
That makes my head hurty. And anyway, he’s weapons-grade twat. ~90% Twat. The rest is a jumble of asshole, jerk and wretched scumbag.
| 18 June 2009, 5:12 pm |
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of “twat”. He’s whatever percent schmuck, and definitely an asshole.
| 18 June 2009, 7:31 pm |
Have to agree with Lynne on the sexist and misogynistic use of the “t” word.
Galloway is 100% bampot.
| 18 June 2009, 7:59 pm |
What’s wrong with ’shit’?
| 18 June 2009, 8:16 pm |
Me:
Because shit, when mixed into soil, improves its tilth and raises its nitrogen content, and therefore has an agricultural value provided that it’s decomposed enough for a plant to benefit from an application.
Galloway’s only value is to suck up to tyrants for personal gain while playing at being concerned for the downtrodden and disadvantaged.
| 18 June 2009, 8:37 pm |
OK, you convinced me.
Now you need to accept that shmucks serve a useful purpose too ;-)
| 18 June 2009, 9:08 pm |
100% traitor will do me.
Bags I rotate the fork while his entrails are twisted around it. I’ll take bids for his bollocks.
| 18 June 2009, 9:34 pm |
Some schmucks do indeed give pleasure to others, just as some twats do.
If Galloway or his male organ happens to, it’s not because he gives a toss about anyone’s interest but his own.
| 19 June 2009, 1:02 am |
Martin Amis good on This Week. Clear sighted about the role of thuggery in the regime.
Also noting how pro-American the youth are in Iran – not something I’d heard reported elsewhere. Is it true? The men certainly seem to go for US influenced fashion.
However he was perhaps going a bit wobbly when calling for non-interventionist Obama-style approach. If all the years of Bush-style interventionism had created such a pro-American feeling in Iran, what was to be gained from non-interventionism. MA had already noted that there was no chance of the Mullahs giving up on power – and that has nothing to do with America.
| 19 June 2009, 2:45 am |
“Amis claimed that Iranian youth were queuing up outside the American embassy for visas after they left school – but there isn’t an American embassy in Iran!”
There is a huge American section in the Swiss Embassy and this handles the paperwork for US visa’s, although mostly you have to visit a ‘real’ embassy in another country to pick up your documents.
Galloway now says that he’s 110% certain that reports of 100% plus turnouts are untrue.