Candidate for George Galloway party bizarrely claims election victory, keeping 'MP' in his Twitter bio and addressing 'constituents', despite LOSING to Labour's Jess Phillips - after whining that she only beat him due to postal votes
A hard-left election candidate spoke about helping a 'constituent' and kept 'MP' in his Twitter handle - despite losing.
Jody McIntyre stood in Birmingham Yardley for George Galloway's Worker's Party on a pro-Palestine platform.
He ran Labour's Jess Phillips close but eventually lost by 693 votes on July 4 after a bad-tempered campaign fuelled by the fighting in Gaza. Ms Phillips has since been made Safeguarding Minister in the Home Office.
However, after the vote, Mr McIntyre tweeted that he won the in-person count, with Ms Phillips majority coming from more support in postal voting. He also tweeted a link to a story about Labour postal vote fraud in 2005, in which Ms Phillips played no part.
He kept his X/Twitter handle as @JodyMcintyreMP, having set it up before the election. And, in a tweet on Tuesday, he wrote that he had spoken 'with a constituent struggling to get her disabled son into mainstream primary education'.
But his followers were quick to point out his error, with one saying: 'You don't have any constituents. You're not the MP. You lost. Move on.'
Mr McIntyre today changed his Twitter handle to remove the reference to 'MP', saying he did so before being contacted by Mail Online about it.
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![Jody McIntyre stood in Birmingham Yardley for George Galloway's Worker's Party on a pro-Palestine platform. He today changed his Twitter handle to remove the reference to 'MP', saying he did so before being contacted by Mail Online about it.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/11/13/87200087-13623323-image-a-37_1720699499707.jpg)
Jody McIntyre stood in Birmingham Yardley for George Galloway's Worker's Party on a pro-Palestine platform. He today changed his Twitter handle to remove the reference to 'MP', saying he did so before being contacted by Mail Online about it.
![He ran Labour's Jess Phillips close but eventually lost by 693 votes on July 4 after a bad-tempered campaign fuelled by the fighting in Gaza.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/11/11/87196451-13623323-image-a-20_1720694939880.jpg)
He ran Labour's Jess Phillips close but eventually lost by 693 votes on July 4 after a bad-tempered campaign fuelled by the fighting in Gaza.
![However, after the vote, he tweeted that he won the in-person count, with Ms Phillips majority coming from more support in postal voting. He also tweeted a link to a story about Labour postal vote fraud in 2005, in which Ms Phillips played no part.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/11/11/87197813-13623323-image-a-23_1720695003536.jpg)
However, after the vote, he tweeted that he won the in-person count, with Ms Phillips majority coming from more support in postal voting. He also tweeted a link to a story about Labour postal vote fraud in 2005, in which Ms Phillips played no part.
![In a tweet on Tuesday he write that he had spoken 'with a constituent struggling to get her disabled son into mainstream primary education'.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/11/11/87197817-13623323-image-a-22_1720694999460.jpg)
In a tweet on Tuesday he write that he had spoken 'with a constituent struggling to get her disabled son into mainstream primary education'.
He told Mail Online: 'I have never described myself as ''the MP for Birmingham Yardley'', neither online nor anywhere else.
'In fact, my Twitter biography clearly states that I was a ''parliamentary candidate for Birmingham Yardley''.
'Regarding the post I made on July 9, a ''constituent'', according to the Oxford Dictionary for example, is ''a member of an area which elects a representative to a legislative body''.
'It is perfectly legitimate for me to speak to ''a constituent'' of Birmingham Yardley, just as I might speak to ''a resident'' of Birmingham Yardley, and I'm always open to assisting and serving my community in any way I can.'
Mail Online has also approached Ms Phillips for comment. The MP used her victory speech to declare that the 'pretty gruesome' campaign for her seat was 'the worst election I have ever stood in' - as she was drowned out by boos and chants of 'Free Palestine'.
She looked furious and yelled back: 'I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence' before asking for the mob to be thrown out, pointing at them and saying: 'Can you throw them out?'
Ms Phillips said that a young woman delivering leaflets for her the day before the election was filmed by her rivals 'and screamed at by a much older man' and then had her tyres slashed. She also said she declined the help of the family of murdered MP Jo Cox because of the violence in her area.
She added: 'I didn't bring my children here tonight, because I knew this would happen and they deserve better.
'It's been pretty gruelling here, I'm afraid to say some of my opponents did not reflect at all the manner in which some of my constituents behaved which was with decorum and class.'
After her majority shrank to three figures, she was interrupted by shouts of 'Jody, Jody' - in support of Mr McIntyre.
There were also should of 'shame on you' after she narrowly managed to hold on to her seat, scraping 11,275 votes compared to the 10,582 won by the Workers Party candidate.
![The crowd filming and heckling Ms Phillips last night](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/11/11/86977211-13623323-The_crowd_filming_and_heckling_Ms_Phillips_last_night-a-24_1720695310289.jpg)
The crowd filming and heckling Ms Phillips last night
She also thanked West Midlands Police for their response to the 'aggression that we have suffered' during the six-week campaign.
Sir Keir Starmer was also heckled with shouts of 'Free Palestine' both at the polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency and at his election count as he was declared to have won his seat.
Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth was unseated by an independent in Leicester South.
Mr Ashworth, the shadow paymaster general who has made media appearances for the party during Labour's election campaign, was defeated by independent candidate Shockat Adam.
His main policies include 'standing for global peace and justice', and he writes on his website: 'I will champion Leicester's values of global peace and justice, which have been neglected by the current government. Our constituency MP refused to vote for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed in Gaza, resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.'
In Dewsbury and Batley, independent candidate Iqbal Mohamed, whose key focus areas include a ceasefire and peace agreement in Gaza, beat the Labour candidate Heather Iqbal.
In Blackburn, Labour's Kate Hollern lost to Adnan Hussain, who said in his online statement to voters: 'I promise to make your concerns against the injustice being inflicted against the people of Gaza be heard in the places where our so-called representatives failed.'
In Birmingham Perry Barr, Labour's Khalid Mahmood lost the seat to independent Ayoub Khan by 507 votes.
Birmingham Live previously reported Mr Khan was one of several candidates in the city who wanted to stand in the election 'with a strong emphasis on the Gaza situation'.
Labour's Paul Waugh meanwhile won Rochdale from Workers Party leader George Galloway, just months after he won the seat in a shock by-election dominated by the Gaza war.
Mr Galloway, a former Labour and Respect member, swept to victory in Rochdale in February gaining almost 40% of the vote.