Sunday 25 October 2009

Vote For George Galloway

With my emphasis added, Neil Clark writes:

It's time for the Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards.

I've voted for George Galloway. These are the reasons I gave in my nomination:

It has to be George Galloway. He's one of the few MPs not tied to the neocon/neoliberal junta that has dominated British politics for so long and which has embroiled us in a series of catastrophic and very costly wars. He has been proved right on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. The neocons, who even after Iraq, have such a powerful media presence, hate Galloway, which is a sign he is on the right track.

He has been attacked, smeared and demonised, but he hasn't let that stop him from speaking his mind.

The positions Galloway has taken - whether it be his opposition to the neocon war agenda, or his support for railway renationalisation, are shared by the majority of the British people. His views are mainstream, it's only the neocon/neoliberal elite who try to portray him as an 'extremist'.

On top of all of that, he is easily the best, and most inspiring, public speaker of his generation.

The Spectator has described me as ‘plucky’ for nominating Galloway and says that so far I’m a ’fairly solitary voice’ in voting for him. The ’fairly’ is positive - it means that George has got at least one other vote. Let's try and get him a few more.

Serb readers should remember that Galloway was not only one of the few MPs to oppose the criminal bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999, but he’s also taken a very strong line on Kosovo.

The neocons would hate it if Galloway won the award. So let's try and make it happen.

Here is the link to the vote. But don't delay- voting closes on Monday 26th October.

Vote Galloway: the man the neocon warmongers love to hate.

Sadly, he has gone a bit Eurofederalist in later years, and has associated with Trots and Islamists. But he is still totally pro-life.

7 comments:

  1. Have you read the RESPECT manifesto he was elected on? Man's a flipping commie!

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  2. Except that he isn't. I expect that you are using a rather less than technical definition of the term.

    But there are people who really are in and around Respect, even if its activist base is Trotskyist and its core electorate is Islamist or that way inclined. What an Old Labour Catholic boy like Galloway is doing anywhere near them, I honestly do not know.

    The story goes that he got the SWP to go around Muslim areas delivering leaflets in languages that they couldn't read, saying "Don't vote for Oona King, because she supports equal rights for homosexuals". He won. Well, if you can pull that one off, then you are bound to win.

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  3. And a committed supporter of Celtic Football Club. At Heathrow luggage carousel he claims he was attacked by Rangers supporters while police just laughed. Surely not.

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  4. what a small minded, fascist idiot you are...

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  5. Not nice to get beat, is it? Get used to it.

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