In one room, boxes of leaflets are piled high against secondhand cars. In another, he takes his campaign to the airwaves.
This week, when MPs raised fears for their safety amid the increasingly fraught votes on Gaza, Galloway told thousands of supporters online that the names of Keir Starmer's team were "dripping in blood". From the boardroom where, according to activists, he broadcasts his twice-weekly online polemics, he said Labour's motion had been proposed by "the Labour fiends of Israel, not friends" and "the worst scoundrels and criminals in the international community at this time".
With less than a week to go until the vote described as "the most radioactive byelection in living memory", Galloway, the veteran agitator, is the bookies' favourite to win. "I stand on the brink of an historic byelection victory which will shake the walls of Westminster, which will change history," he bellowed with characteristic brazenness this week.
Galloway, 69, has twice unseated Labour, his former party, in similarly ugly elections and plans to ride another wave of anger from Rochdale to the Commons on Thursday. The former host at Press TV, an Iranian state network, refused to talk to the Guardian at his election HQ this week, but the mood among his activists was upbeat. Around 30% of Rochdale's population is Muslim - around 30,000 people and they feel the have enough support to overturn Labour's 9,668-vote majority.
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