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Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:21 pm
by Quickenthetempo
I'm not interested in the politics of why he has been on the news but
Why is the Rochdale Labour candidate wearing a Burnley hat on the news?
Has he any links to Burnley? Or just a fan?
Not sure many Rochdale fans would like that?
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:28 pm
by Gaia
He is from this area, lives in Brierfield. There was a photo in the media yesterday of Keir Starmer holding a Burnley shirt next to Azhar Ali.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 pm
by claretandy
Can't speak a word of the queen's English though...
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:33 pm
by BurnleyFC
Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:21 pm
I'm not interested in the politics of why he has been on the news but
Why is the Rochdale Labour candidate wearing a Burnley hat on the news?
Has he any links to Burnley? Or just a fan?
Not sure many Rochdale fans would like that?
There’s literally loads of Burnley fans in Rochdale.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:34 pm
by gawthorpe_view
BurnleyFC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:33 pm
There’s literally loads of Burnley fans in Rochdale.
Ellen Smith's coaches used to bus them in during the 70s.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:40 pm
by Bosscat
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Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:44 pm
by Quickenthetempo
BurnleyFC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:33 pm
There’s literally loads of Burnley fans in Rochdale.
I just remember the stick their fans used to give us in the 4th division days.
Not quite Stockport hatred but not far off.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:46 pm
by AlargeClaret
claretandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 pm
Can't speak a word of the queen's English though...
He speaks English perfectly well
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:56 pm
by Swizzlestick
claretandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 pm
Can't speak a word of the queen's English though...
Yes he can.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:19 pm
by AlargeClaret
I can’t stand the guy or his politics but he speaks perfectly good English . The video that sent Tommeh’s followers crazy was where he stood with another Asian MP who was translating to Urdu . The loons thought it was the Lab candidate himself who was talking Urdu because he “couldn’t speak English”
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:21 pm
by ClaretAndJew
The Queen is dead also
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:28 pm
by Casper2
claretandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 pm
Can't speak a word of the queen's English though...
Don’t you mean the Kings English, then again being so ignorant that’s a minor detail.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:30 pm
by ElectroClaret
The other guy in the news today, Graham Jones, certainly wouldn't be seen wearing a Clarets shirt.
Staunch R*vers fan.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:31 pm
by distortiondave
I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years.
For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:36 pm
by clansman
Jones is a Rovers fan and complete bell end
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:37 pm
by Jellybean
How utterly typical that Burnley FC get inadvertently brought into this! Was hoping it was a West Ham kit but thanks for the detail on where he's from!
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:41 pm
by bfcjg
Can he play in Central midfield ?
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:44 pm
by Westleigh
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:55 pm
by TheFamilyCat
clansman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:36 pm
Jones is a Rovers fan and complete bell end
The two things usually go hand in hand.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:57 pm
by distortiondave
When the (Lancashire)(Evening)Telegraph had a fan opinion section on the weekends football for Burnley and Blackburn, I seem to remember he was on it a lot.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:33 pm
by Rowls
distortiondave wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:31 pm
I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years.
For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him.
Definitely looks like him but I haven't seen him there for years and I'm not the best with faces.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:49 pm
by AmbleClaret
claretandy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 pm
Can't speak a word of the queen's English though...
You need to stop reading the Express and Mail,bad for you.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:04 pm
by Rowls
distortiondave wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:31 pm
I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years.
For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him.
Yeah I think it's him. Found a pic from a few years ago and 99% sure it's the same guy.
Got himself a nice OBE for his services too.
Just think: Back in the early 2000s when I was living in Nottm, if I told people I was a Burnley fan, more often than not the next question was, "So are you a racist?" or "Do you support the BNP?"
We've come a long way since then when the people of Burnley were stereotyped as an insular townsfolk who went around peddling racist conspiracy theories.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:11 pm
by TheFamilyCat
Rowls wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:04 pm
Yeah I think it's him. Found a pic from a few years ago and 99% sure it's the same guy.
Got himself a nice OBE for his services too.
Just think: Back in the early 2000s when I was living in Nottm, if I told people I was a Burnley fan, more often than not the next question was, "So are you a racist?" or "Do you support the BNP?"
We've come a long way since then when the people of Burnley were stereotyped as an insular townsfolk who went around peddling racist conspiracy theories.
Until claretandy posts.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:14 pm
by Rowls
Or, as it turns out, the Labour candidate* for Rochdale opens his mouth.
*(as he was)
NB: I've no idea who claretandy is and I can't recall any of his posts.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:27 pm
by TheFamilyCat
Rowls wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:14 pm
Or, as it turns out, the Labour candidate* for Rochdale opens his mouth.
*(as he was)
NB: I've no idea who claretandy is and I can't recall any of his posts.
Have a quick look at the 3rd post.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:31 pm
by Clarets4me
I trust the powers that be will be looking at rescinding his OBE ...
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:47 pm
by jrgbfc
Hasn't he been the Labour candidate for Pendle the last few years? Up against Andrew Stephenson.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:52 pm
by Gaia
Yes he has stood for Labour in Pendle against Stephenson, think it was 2019.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:51 pm
by abdulp
He’s from Brierfield and is a county councillor for Nelson I think he’s been the Labour candidate at two recent elections. Pendle Labour Party rejected him when he tried to get the nomination before Christmas, maybe he was seen as on course to lose a third time. Labour have chosen a guy raised in Downham who had worked as a police inspector for the Met until last year. Presumably Ali went for the Rochdale nomination after being rejected by the local Labour group
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:52 pm
by abdulp
abdulp wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:51 pm
He’s from Brierfield and is a county councillor for Nelson. I think he’s been the Labour candidate at two recent elections. Pendle Labour Party rejected him when he tried to get the nomination before Christmas, maybe he was seen as on course to lose a third time. Labour have chosen a guy raised in Downham who had worked as a police inspector for the Met until last year. Presumably Ali went for the Rochdale nomination after being rejected by the local Labour group
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:43 am
by claretonthecoast1882
Is it really a shock both main parties have turds in them.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:17 am
by bfcjg
I know you need talent in politics but I'm sure there must be someone in Rochdale's Labour Party membership who could represent the town and be good enough to perhaps get a ministerial role . I remember when Kitty Usher was selected to represent Burnley, what a waste of space she was, knew nothing about Burnley but was a Blairite so that was all that was required.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:55 am
by The Hung Juror
distortiondave wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:31 pm
I'm 90% certain he sat next to/in front of/behind me and my dad in the Bob Lord for a few years.
For some reason we had a season where I was number 113 and my dad was number 111, so 112 was open to a mystery guest and I'm sure it was often him.
Yes, I thought he was a season ticket holder, he sat near me in the Bob Lord. As did Brendan Flood just in front of me.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:33 am
by dougcollins
Kitty Usher sat next to me in the JHL.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:47 am
by abdulp
Asher Ali secured the Rochdale nomination after beating Paul Waugh, a well known national political journalist. The selection process process was a farce, done with undue haste following the death of the sitting MP. Waugh was born and raised on a Rochdale council estate and a lifelong Rochdale supporter, looks like his ethnic background didn’t suit those running Rochdale Labour Party.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:58 am
by evensteadiereddie
"looks like" not fact, then.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:05 am
by GetIntoEm
as good as fact. People aint stupid, we know how this works.
just watch at the next Burnley council elections where all these disgraced Labour Councillors spring up as independents but still get the votes.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:20 am
by evensteadiereddie
"As good as" not fact, then.
I don't know the makeup of the Rochdale electorate but perhaps the bloke was selected because, ironically, he was seen to have the best chance of winning.
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:52 am
by abdulp
It’s worked out well picking a winner didn’t it? Because of Labour’s incompetence checking the background of candidates we are likely to have the insufferable George Galloway back in Parliament
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:15 am
by abdulp
abdulp wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:52 am
It worked out well picking a winner didn’t it? Because of Labour’s incompetence checking the background of candidates we are likely to have the insufferable George Galloway back in Parliament
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:25 am
by mdd2
Be great to get George back into the House IMO. I love the way he debates. Dont agree with his opinions but he is a wonderful debater. As was Tony Benn another politician whose views I didnt agree with.
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Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:38 am
by Clarets4me
evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:20 am
"As good as" not fact, then.
I don't know the makeup of the Rochdale electorate but perhaps the bloke was selected because, ironically, he was seen to have the best chance of winning.
74% White British, 19% Asian/Asian British, 7% Other .... according to the 2021 Census.
This is now politically quite interesting, what effect will Labour's disowning of it's Candidate have ? George Galloway is standing for the " Worker's Party ". He has previously won at a General Election in Bethnal Green & Bow ( 2005 ), a by-election in Bradford West ( 2012 ) and took over 20% in the Batley and Spen by-election ( 2021 ), which nearly allowed the Tories to win because of " splitting " the vote, Labour held on by 323 votes ... All the above contests were in constituencies with a sizable Asian/Muslim vote ...
He's now favourite to win, following Labour's withdrawal of support for Mr Ali ...
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:14 pm
by evensteadiereddie
abdulp wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:52 am
It’s worked out well picking a winner didn’t it? Because of Labour’s incompetence checking the background of candidates we are likely to have the insufferable George Galloway back in Parliament
That's why I used the word "ironically"....
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:21 pm
by ŽižkovClaret
dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:33 am
Kitty Usher sat next to me in the JHL.
Never quite decided who was more to blame for the massive decline in Labour vote in Burnley, her being crap, or the mechanism and machinations that parachuted her in.
That said, still waiting for the Lib Dems to bring the A&E dept back to Burnley.......
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:15 pm
by fatboy47
AmbleClaret wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:49 pm
You need to stop reading the Express and Mail,bad for you.
He can read?
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:40 am
by Clarets4me
ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:21 pm
Never quite decided who was more to blame for the massive decline in Labour vote in Burnley, her being crap, or the mechanism and machinations that parachuted her in.
Whole books have been written on the gradual decline of the Labour vote in Northern and Midlands post industrial towns ....
My take is that they voted against the establishment ... in these places, many voters had had a Labour MP, Labour run Borough Council and County Council, as well as local Labour Councillors. Far from the Tories being the establishment, Labour were the establishment in these areas. In 2019, there was the additional spectre of Jeremy Corbyn being the prospective Prime Minister ...
Re: Azhar Ali
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:54 am
by daveisaclaret
I agree with that take. That they voted against the local establishment by voting for the actual establishment is pretty important though, and it seems most have learned one of two obvious lessons from it - don't vote Tory or just don't vote.
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