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We've got 59 parliamentary candidates ready to go and we'll stand in therefore three score labour seats

and either defeat them ourselves or cause their defeat.

I think Kirstarmer's woken up this morning to his worst nightmare.

I wouldn't want to delve into Kirstarmer's mind

because maybe there are worse nightmares,

but to have George Galloway back in Parliament

in Rochdale in a safe labour seat is probably a pretty bad nightmare about what else it might

mean if the Workers' Party were to field candidates in numbers of constituencies across Britain

in the forthcoming general election.

Rochdale was the safest of safe labour seats.

Through a combination of incompetence, mismanagement, effectlessness, poor decision-making,

the Labour leadership has not only managed to hand this reddest of red dots on the political

map to an opponent, but to one of its fiercest and most implacable enemies. What does the George

Galloway victory mean for Kirstama and for politics to come? Welcome to the newsagents.

It's John in London.

And it's Lewis on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Actually, in a small outside toilet.

And Lewis, I would imagine huge numbers of people in the Yucatan just talking about Rochdale.

You know, honestly, it's Thursday night into Friday morning.

It's a big night in Mexico, John, as you know.

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