‘This Is For Gaza’: George Galloway Puts Labour ‘On Notice’ In Rochdale By-Election Victory Speech

George Galloway, the veteran political firebrand, secured a resounding victory in the Rochdale byelection, clinching nearly 40 percent of the votes cast amidst a backdrop of chaos and controversy.

Galloway’s win reverberates as a striking rebuke to traditional party politics, particularly Labour, whom he targeted directly in his victory speech.

“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” he declared. “You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Gaza, in the Gaza Strip.”

The victory marks Galloway’s third successful unseating of his former party, Labour, this time with a 5,697-vote majority.

The expectation of a fairly routine byelection contest collapsed in past weeks after Labour withdrew its support of candidate, Azhar Ali, over anti-semitic remarks. The fallout was party-wide but in Rochdale, amid the chaos, Galloway’s campaign successfully rallied support from disaffected and frustrated voters.

Galloway, in his speech Friday morning, predicted greater repercussions: “This is going to spark a movement, a landslide, a shifting of the tectonic plates, a score of parliamentary constituencies, beginning here in the north-west, in the West Midlands, in London, from Ilford to Bethnal Green and Bow.”

He added: “Labour is on notice that they have lost the confidence of millions of their voters who loyally and traditionally voted for them generation after generation.”