Our eye was caught by a series of tweets Galloway made this morning about Liverpool.
Why Liverpool? Well there’s likely to be a by-election there next May when Walton MP, Steve Rotheram, becomes, in all likelihood, the first-ever metro mayor for the Liverpool City Region.
This would mean a by election in his Liverpool Walton seat, probably held at the same time as the mayoral vote.
Is Galloway planning to stand? That’s the intriguing inference in a series of tweets he made this morning.
“All I ever hear from Merseyside MPs is bleating about themselves and how their angry constituents want rid of them” he wrote on Twitter, asking who will take responsibility for a quarter of Liverpool children growing up in poverty.
“What are the MPs even SAYING about it?” he demanded.
All I ever hear from Merseyside MPs is bleating about themselves and how their angry constituents want rid of them #Liverpool
— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) November 8, 2016
Who will take responsibility for 1/4 Merseyside kids living in poverty? What are the MPs even SAYING about it? #Liverpool #Poverty #kids
— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) November 8, 2016
More than 1/4 of children of Merseyside are living in poverty: Official. Shame on the system and the politicians responsible. #Liverpool
— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) November 8, 2016
Does it amount to a coded declaration? Or is it sabre-rattling to chivvy the party into readmitting him? Or merely a digital stream of consciousness?
Despite Galloway’s raw charisma and previous form in using by-elections successfully, Labour has an enormous nigh-on impregnable 27,777 majority and fringe parties fared poorly in 2015.
Perhaps there are hopes of being back within the Labour fold in time to seek the selection? It certainly seems that George Galloway’s picture on Twitter has reverted to one from a time when he was in the Labour party. Coincidence?
Roll on next May…