Today, 17 January five years ago, Kay Jordan took a leading part in another historic defence of the East End. All this week we update on that act!

Today, 17 January five years ago, Kay Jordan took a leading part in another historic defence of the East End. All this week we update on that act!

0540 [0510] Hrs GMT
London
Monday
17 January 2011.
By © Muhammad Haque.
The Movement that had defended the right to democratic say for the people of the East London ‘Parliamentary constituency’ of Bethnal Green and Bow in the period to the 5 May polling day at the 2005 UK General elections, enabling the ouster of Oona King and her replacement, did not have long to review the events as the Blairite media machine got pressed into overtime service to destroy the individual who had been put in place by the electorate.
George Galloway became the target and the focus of so much vitriol starting in the second week of January 2006 that ALL evidence was that he would be out of Parliament in the not too distant future.
There was nothing on the UK Political and mainstream media horizons to suggest otherwise. Why? Because the key allies that George Galloway had relied on during the months after his declaration that he would seek election from Bethnal Green and Bow had become extinct in the second week of January 2006. EXTINCT in terms of any support to Galloway who was coming under such fierce and one-sided attack and vilification that it was impossible to think of him as the same person who only months earlier had been publicly feted in the East End generally and in the UK Bangladeshis’ front-line street Brick Lane in particular.
[To be continued]