Galloway could replace disgraced Muslim mayor

From the Times

The stage has been set for George Galloway to fight to replace Britain’s ousted first Muslim mayor if he fails to keep his seat in parliament. The timetable for electing a replacement for Lutfur Rahman was published yesterday, leaving a week after the general election result for candidates to be nominated to the mayoral post.

Mr Galloway was given an enthusiastic welcome by local voters when he spoke out in praise of the beleaguered mayor at a public meeting last year. 

Galloway has said that he will run for the post of Mayor of London if he is not re-elected in Bradford next month. However that was before the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets became vacant,and he remains popular in certain circles in the borough. The budget is £1 billion, providing education, housing, social care to a quarter of a million people. So who knows. Rahman may appeal via a Judicial review. I doubt he will get very far.