Agents Of The Regime - 4 comments
Harry's Place has the text of a George Galloway interview with Algerian newspaper, El Khabar.
There's an unbelievable amount of evidence in there that the man's completely off his head: from believing the publication of those Danish cartoons was "worse than the 11 September attacks in the US and the 7/7 incidents in London", to the delusion that "In the near future, Respect will become one of the strongest political parties in Britain." If that wasn't enough, Galloway has a private contract with God:
[Halimi] Many people are wondering where you derive this strength with which you speak and defy the powerful. Is there a secret power behind you?Poor sad git.
[Galloway - in Arabic] This strength comes from God.
Just for luck, there's a deft little anti-Semitic touch towards the end:
[Halimi] Some two million Muslims in Britain have only four parliamentary seats, while other minorities, such as Jews, have many seats. What do British Muslims need to do to become powerful and influential within the British society.Very impressive. Anyway, as they say, read the whole thing.
[Galloway] Muslims in Britain have only one seat, my seat, through which I represent them. Those you are speaking about are agents of the regime. They act against Islam and Muslims...
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Unbelievable. Not sure about the last point though - I think he's saying that the 4 Muslim MPs who the journalist claimed represented Muslims are agents of the regime, and thus not properly representative of their constituents, unlike him. I may be wrong, but that was my reading of it. Either way, the man is clearly shameless.
Yes, that's possible. Perhaps even more likely, though it certainly isn't clear, so perhaps it presses all buttons.
It's pretty repulsive for a UK politician to grovel so cravenly to a foreign media outlet, and you'd expect the religious nature to unsettle his "left of Labour" supporters. I fear, though, that they're too far gone. Once upon a time some of them would have voted Labour but I think it's much better all round that they stay outside, and don't attempt to have an influence within the Labour Party.
Ah, well, don't forget that there are lots of us on the left who won't vote for Labour again or vote for Respect. It'll be interesting to see how Galloway's party will do in the locals. I'm reluctant to call it. Hopefully they'll get demolished, but there might be a nasty surprise in store, I dunno. Galloway may have proven himself to be a nasty piece of work but you know what they say about all publicity being good publicity...
I certainly wouldn't attack "left of Labour" attitudes, it's just that (gets on high horse) those who define themselves in opposition to Labour (or indeed any party) are probably more likely to end up supporting something disreputable. Loads of people are looking for something that's radical and left-wing without being stuck in the past or tied to some bandwagon (whatever a bandwagon is).
Respect could go the way of Veritas, but I don't think the party itself (yet) has been exposed as clearly to the general public as they have in the blogosphere.
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