Agreed. Nothing more to say.

i agree with everything you say swatantra nandanwar,good cooments.

Racial Unity Unites! Multi-racial Diversity Divides.
Millions of ordinary people would love to be like pro queer, multi racial lover Billy Bragg and up roots and move to quintessentially English Burton Bradstock Dorset. A million miles away from heavenly Brixton, and Oldham. Phil Woolas is no longer a naive socialist idealist, I believe he now realizes belatedly, that mass non white/Christian immigration will inevitably lead to disaster. The likes of the unworldly, hypocritical, gutless Socialist Unity are advocating white genocide by the back door.

I can't remember another single issue that has been capable of uniting such a wide spectrum of political opinion. From the blogosphere, to twitter, to publications like the staggers, everyone agrees that Woolas is a stain on Parliament. The only person I have seen that will lend his support to Woolas is a BNP supporter. Funny, that.

Back 'neo-realist' Phil Woolas.

Phil: Better late than never! Get back to the Front Bench ASAP, as Immigration Minister. Tragically, Socialist Unity Andy Newman declined on the offer but do gooders: well heeled middle class: Shami Shakrabarti and Michael Mansfield QC, have both agreed to accept; unconditionally: the filthy, smelly, thieving, workshy Romanian gypsies as unpaid lodgers. Mercifully, they will no longer be a charge to the long suffering UK tax payer. Now, that is what I call putting a penny where your mouth is. Sorry, Shami and Michael the gratuitous Gypsy just stole the penny, your gold fillings and your life possessions. Never mind!

Devon are so full of english educated dreaming prats it is unbelievable. Take that Hugh Fernley-Whitinstall that wants us to live on plant leaves and slugs, the total wankcheff.

Leave Devon to the Devonites I say, oh arr!

To CrISpY DuCk I would simply say that Woolas' behaviour does not have to be proved illegal in court before it is condemned as unacceptable - and the same to jeremiah. These leaflets were disgusting. Whether they are illegal is another matter but they were certainly a disgrace.

jeremiah - it is certainly worse than the 'bloody Lib Dems' have ever done. I've yet to see a more deplorable campaign from any party,and in that I would include the far right.

Woolas should be expelled for his actions. Not only hasn't he been, he hasn't been suspended pending a verdict and now he has been promoted. Now that definitely is worse than the bloody Lib Dems have ever done.

"Oh please, this is bollocks. Woolas's leaflets are no worse than many put about by tories and libdems"

Really Chris? In my experience of campaigning during the last election the only campaign literature I've seen that compares to this are BNP leaflets.

And even if it was the case that some Tory and Lib Dem candidates had stooped to such levels I suppose that makes what Woolas did perfectly acceptable then?

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Even if he is Guilty it is no worse than the bloody Lib Dems have ever done.

This is a difficult one that I admittedly know very little about.To be honest I was shocked by the leaflet,shocked into doing ten minutes of internet research.Now I know that's not much but it drew me to the conclusion that Woolas was probably up against some pretty unsavoury characters in his battle for Oldham East.Now there's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade (Muslim Extremists)but I find the tabloid tone of the leaflets and emails from those running Woolas's campaign as unacceptable as the views of the Muslim extremists.It remains to be seen as to whether Woolas has proved a significant amount of distance and ignorance from both.

The man should not even be at Westminister! Mandelson and Campbell give advice to Milliband and now this says everything about the Labour Party!

Post economic meltdown gastrology.
'Imprudent' Brown's legacy: Is that we will be forced to eat raw plant leaves (Mandelson guacamole salad) and slippery Mandelsonian slugs; these will become coveted luxury food items. Cider and carrots will be but a distant dream.

Elections in Oldham East and the previous constituency Littleborough and Saddleworth have been vicious for many years.When Phil Woolas became the candidate after backing from Labour HQ a decision was made to play dirty and appeal to the lowest common denominator trying to avoid any rational arguments wherever possible by resorting to tabloid style campaigning.The 2010 campaign just got a bit out of control. The mark was overstepped.However I do have reservations about elections being decided by judges.Woolas should step down and fight an honest by election. No chance of that though

I agree with much of what you say and was half expecting Woolas to either distance himself from those running his campaign or come up with a good reason for aligning the Lib Dem candidate with extremists.From what I've read so far he is yet to do either but the case continues.I may have been naive in thinking that his promotion meant there were extenuating circumstances.

Crispy Duck

It's important not to conflate different things. On the one hand, many Muslims choose not to support politicians who voted for things like the Iraq war, 90 day detention etc etc. What's wrong with that? Don't we all try to vote for people who will represent our views in the Commons?

But obviously, there are occasions when people overstep the normal boundaries of political debate. An example of this would be death threats. Woolas claimed he had received death threats from islamist fundamentalists. In court Woolas failed to produce one shred of evidence for such death threats. He lied.

What's more, Woolas claimed that the Lib Dem had entered into "a pact with the devil" and was condoning such death threats. This, too, is a complete fabrication.

Woolas admitted in court that his team thought they were losing and sought to "make the white folk angry" by using photos of "mad moslems" from the Danish cartoon farago two years ago - photoshopping them to look more relevant to thecase.

This is not calling a spade a spade. This is race-baiting, fabrication, and trying to destroy people's lives for personal gain.