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Galloway out of his depth? Surely not…

"Someone of my age and class is not used to young women talking as they do in here, with no orifice left unopened."
George Galloway, 2006.

As well as demonstrating his hitherto undiscovered prudish side, Gorgeous George, who listed his hobbies on entering the house as "…sex and sunbathing…" has been complaining about the lack of political debate in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Meanwhile his abandoned constituents have set up a petition to highlight the fact that he's actually paid to have political debates in another house…

There are only 13 other MPs with worse voting records than Gorgeous George. Two are dead, one is Prime Minister and the others don't vote on any matters other than Northern Ireland.


Galloway: getting boring now

'Respect' Party officials have claimed that their celebrity demagogue is being censored by Channel 4.

A spokesman for the single MP party said that he didn't think Galloway's appearance on the show had "backfired" on the party saying the Respect MP had managed to make some political points, about Guantanemo Bay and "low pay for cleaners in the Isle of Dogs".

Posted by Ben on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 6:35 pm |

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Posted by Blogger Ben | Tue Jan 10, 06:40:00 pm  

The external petition doesn't list the number of people who have signed it. And I have to say, there's a fair number of MPs who are paid £61,708 to do damn all - the difference is that few of them do it so publicly. It's just a shame that politics makes such awful TV, cause otherwise he might have been quite an entertaining part of the show.

Posted by Blogger Matt | Wed Jan 11, 09:20:00 am  

Matt,

I'm sure he salutes your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.

If he'd had a perfect voting record up to now, maybe he could get away with it.

The fact is that it appears that the guy just doesn't give a stuff about democracy.

If he did, he might of been there for the terrorism bill vote, instead of being on the telly in Ireland...

Posted by Blogger Ben | Wed Jan 11, 09:28:00 am  

Well, he's obviously of the opinion that representative democracy doesn't really work. It's an opinion I occasionally share. It's oft quoted, but how much power do the people have if 2 million of them taking to the streets of London doesn't stop the country going to war? Did Blair really think that meant the remaining 58 million were behind him?

While I don't necessarily agree with the man on a lot of his principles, he's trying to highlight some things he thinks are really very wrong. How is he best going to do that? By attending another vote on fox hunting, or by getting on the telly and shouting at people? If all of our politicians felt so passionately about things, politics would be more interesting. It probably wouldn't be as efficient though...

Posted by Blogger Matt | Wed Jan 11, 11:31:00 am  

I reckon a man pretending to be a cat is worth the people of Bethnal Green and Bow being unrepresented in Parliament. Do we think he's going to shag Rula Lenska?

Posted by Blogger Matt | Fri Jan 13, 10:47:00 am  

And wait a minute, Ben - were you comparing me to Saddam Hussein with all that strength, courage and word-I-can't-be-arsed-to-spell-ility stuff?

Posted by Blogger Matt | Fri Jan 13, 02:22:00 pm  

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