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George Galloway back to Scotland?

November 8, 2010 by trialbyjeory

George Galloway has flown so many kites over the years that I’m sure he grew up not up in Dundee but in Afghanistan. In his column in today’s Daily Record, here, he hints that he will stand for the Scottish Parliament next May.

In the time I’ve known him, he’s “considered”: running for Tower Hamlets council, as a councillor and as mayor; standing against Jack Straw in Blackburn; running alongside his friend Tommy Sheridan in 2007; running for London Mayor in 2008; and just last week hinting that after the disgrace of his former researcher Phil Woolas he would stand in the forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by election.

None of those materialised, of course, but as he’s fervently anti-nationalist, I can see him quite fancying taking on the SNP’s Alec Salmond. His aides reckon he’d need around 10,000 votes from Glasgow to make the Parliament’s top-up list.

At least it would give him a job and an excuse to avoid Iain Duncan Smith’s ‘work-shy detectors’.

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  1. on November 8, 2010 at 2:35 pm You couldn't make it up!

    This is the man who was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead, and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the Labour Party in October 2003?


  2. on November 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm HtheW

    George Galloway is “fervantly anti-nationalist”. Hmmmm he is only anti-nationalist when the nationalism comes from his own country (e.g. Scotland). However, if the nationalism comes from a foreign country such as that espoused by the pseudo-fascist IFE and their affiliates he is only too glad to get really involved and wind things up as much as he can.

    George must take a lot of satisfaction in his work in London where since 2005 he has comprehensively destroyed the delicately maintained inter-communal relationships as he pursued singlemindedly his highly egocentric and fractious career. The debilitating effects of his political belly-flop on the East End are going to be felt for many years to come.

    The people of Scotland must be dreading his return. Hopefully this time he will go home and stay home. Perhaps he will provoke a civil war? If he does, lets pray he leads his troops from the front and allows himself to be martyred.


    • on November 8, 2010 at 8:57 pm Weird and weirder

      What is HtheW’s evidence for these bizarre assertions?


  3. on November 9, 2010 at 7:51 am The Late Lord Shore

    Who is George Galloway? What does he do and what has he done in Scotland that people in that country should vote for him?


  4. on November 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm Fighting4EdMiliband

    Late Honorable Peter, that’s my line (you’ve stolen!) of questioning a candidate’s suitability!



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