Guess who’s back.. 

George Galloway’s victory and its scale on Friday surprised everyone.

Perhaps, it shouldn’t have.

The Respect MP has appeared on Press TV for some time now, talking about the very isues that matter to ordinary Muslims, especially the young.

When Tony Blair threw this man out of the Labour Party he immediately made a matryr out of someone who had dared to stand up to a Prime Minister that was about to take this country into an illegal war.

Then, there was that appearance on Sky News during Israel’s Lebanon war, where he forcefully put across the other view, namely that Tel Aviv was the aggressor and not Hezbollah.

Of course this is a protest vote, it was the same for Bethnal Green and Bow where the Respect MP ousted Oona King.

George Galloway has been called maverick. He is that, however the Labour High Command need to take a long hard look at themselves, and to listen to some of the things he said after that stunning victory, in which he secured more votes that all the other parties combined.

Labour cynically fielded a Pakistani Muslim and assumed that would be enough to regain this safe seat.

One only has to look at Bradford as a whole – never mind the West – to know how badly the people of this city have been let down by professional politicians.

At the moment, Labour isn’t working – it isn’t coming across as a viable alternative to the Coalition, something that worries those who are concerned about the social consequences of George Osborne’s programme of austerity.

Perhaps, finding a way of bringing Galloway and his Respect Party back into the Labour Party, would be a good place to start.

For at the moment, he appears as an uncomfortable reminder of how bady Labour Party is letting down everyone.