George Galloway now MP for Bradford West
And won 75% of the postal vote at the same time.
Having once worked there, I was wondering which bit of the place Bradford West covered. Bradford West
Eh? Little Horton isn't anywhere near the others. Boundary rigging or what?
And won 75% of the postal vote at the same time.
despite winning 75% of the postal vote in Bradford West, he is campaigning for postal voting to be banned.
"We are totally against postal voting on demand. Postal votes used to be something you got when you literally could not get to the polls; now they're available on demand and, once granted, are yours for ever. So large numbers of postal votes are delivered to places where the person no longer is. Large numbers of them are collected, unfilled-in, by these biradari chiefs," an Urdu word meaning clan seniors. "It's a kind of ritual that they bring votes to the candidate to show them: "Look, I'm bringing in 20 votes; that's 20 votes for you – I'm bringing that in.'" How can he be so sure?
"Well, I know it because they offered to do it to me. Yeah, and I said: 'I don't want to see anybody's vote, and I don't want you to see anybody's vote.' Now, I don't know that they filled them in, rather than the voter, but it's a fair inference; it's a fair inference if someone has got 20 votes in their pocket to take to the town hall, that they were either visibly observing the person filling the vote in – which is wrong, and I think illegal – or filled them in themselves. This happens in Asian areas on a widespread basis, and it is the antithesis of democracy." Does he think some of his own votes came that way? "It's possible, because people offered to show me other people's votes. So I redouble my call for postal voting on demand to be scrapped."
"We are totally against postal voting on demand. Postal votes used to be something you got when you literally could not get to the polls; now they're available on demand and, once granted, are yours for ever. So large numbers of postal votes are delivered to places where the person no longer is. Large numbers of them are collected, unfilled-in, by these biradari chiefs," an Urdu word meaning clan seniors. "It's a kind of ritual that they bring votes to the candidate to show them: "Look, I'm bringing in 20 votes; that's 20 votes for you – I'm bringing that in.'" How can he be so sure?
"Well, I know it because they offered to do it to me. Yeah, and I said: 'I don't want to see anybody's vote, and I don't want you to see anybody's vote.' Now, I don't know that they filled them in, rather than the voter, but it's a fair inference; it's a fair inference if someone has got 20 votes in their pocket to take to the town hall, that they were either visibly observing the person filling the vote in – which is wrong, and I think illegal – or filled them in themselves. This happens in Asian areas on a widespread basis, and it is the antithesis of democracy." Does he think some of his own votes came that way? "It's possible, because people offered to show me other people's votes. So I redouble my call for postal voting on demand to be scrapped."
This constituency covers the western part of Bradford. In the 1950s, the boundaries covered Thornton, Allerton and Manningham.
Boundaries 1997–2010
From 1997 to 2010, the constituency comprised six complete wards of the City of Bradford: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, Toller. It also included a part of Little Horton ward.
Boundaries 1997–2010
From 1997 to 2010, the constituency comprised six complete wards of the City of Bradford: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, Toller. It also included a part of Little Horton ward.
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