Looks like the old Commie is back in parliament
Galloway was first elected to parliament 37 years ago
He should update his campaign message from a vote for galloway is a vote for Gaza, to include “a vote for, Iran, a vote for Yemen, Syria, Libya, Saudis, Afghanistan, and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihaad. That might even put him over the top in a general election.
Reform UK’s leader says their candidate has suffered intimidation and business supporters threatened with firebombing
He was running essentially unopposed because Labor Party pulled their candidate for anti-Semitic statements.
BBC says official declaration coming soon
Galloway yet to arrive at the official count
You can bet he will milk this.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3255155/posts
The panelist George Galloway described fascism as a “Christian phenomenon”,
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387832/posts
Controversial anti-Israel politician and London Mayoral candidate George Galloway has been accused of “fascism,” after refusing a man entry to his events because he is pro-Israel.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3395348/posts
A brutal ISIS torturer wasn’t the only jihadist terrorist who traveled with former British MP George Galloway to Gaza, it has been revealed.
According to a recent report, Alexander Kotey left the UK on Galloway’s “Viva Palestina” convoy to Gaza in 2009, and from there eventually made his way to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group. [...]
As many as eight Muslim extremists who would later be convicted of or involved in terrorist activities joined the convoy, according to The Times. Among them were Amin Addala and Reza Afsharzadegan, both known associates of Emwazi from west London; and Stephen Gray, a former member of the Royal Air Force who attempted to join ISIS.
The list of extremists who traveled with Galloway also includes a member of the Taliban and former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Jamal al-Harith. Al-Harith was released from Guantanamo in 2004, and more recently joined ISIS in Syria.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449102/posts
George Galloway And The Left’s Alliance With Terror
The news that British MP George Galloway was the planned guest speaker at a February 1 Hamas fundraiser at Boston’s Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace would, in a morally coherent world, be alarming for those in the West who wonder why elected officials should be gathering support for a group of jihadist thugs whose principal efforts are dedicated to the extirpation of Israel and the murder of Jews.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690693/posts
MP George Galloway has congratulated Hizbollah on its “victory” in Israel.
At a news conference in a Beirut hotel, the controversial politician said: “I came here to extend my congratulations to the Lebanese people on a great and historic victory against this aggression.
“I want to congratulate the Lebanese resistance and their leading edge, Hizbollah, whose martyrs and her s have achieved this great victory.
“And in particular to their leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose name now rings in joy around the world.”
Galloway is in Beirut to present a phone-in radio show for a British radio station.
Turnout was 39.7%
Result expected shortly...
He’s the only man I know who has his suicide vests fitted on Saville Row.
The news that British MP George Galloway was the planned guest speaker at a February 1 Hamas fundraiser at Boston’s Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace would, in a morally coherent world, be alarming for those in the West . . .
They’re about to announce
Awaiting declaration
EVERY single Jew should leave the UK, let it sink into the abyss. It will aventualy have a Muslim/Hindu civil war anyway.
The UK could have listened to Enoch Powell.. but no.
I don’t follow UK politics. Was hoping this was a win for sensible government.
Looks like not, eh?
WIKI
Galloway opposed the 1991 Gulf War and was critical of the effect that the subsequent sanctions had on the people of Iraq. In his book I’m Not the Only One (2004), Galloway expresses the opinion that Kuwait is “clearly a part of the greater Iraqi whole, stolen from the motherland by perfidious Albion”, although Christopher Hitchens claimed the state existed before Iraq had a name. The massacre of Kurds and Shias just after the 1991 Gulf war, was according to Galloway, “a civil war that involved massive violence on both sides”.
Writing for The Observer in April 2003, David Aaronovitch speculated that Galloway changed his opinion of Saddam Hussein under “the belief that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. Or, in the context of the modern world, any anti-American will do. When Iraq stopped being a friend of the West it became a friend of George’s.”
In 2003, he was expelled from the Labour Party for bringing the party into disrepute over his prominent opposition to the Iraq War.
The official history of War on Want comments about Galloway that “even though the problems were not all of his own making, his way of dealing with them heightened tensions”.
His deputy at the charity, Simon Stocker, recalled: “If you went into a fight with George, you knew you would never walk out with a win.
In a 2002 The Guardian interview, Galloway said he had supported the Soviet Union and said that its end was “the biggest catastrophe of my life”. He told Robert Chalmers of The Independent on Sunday in June 2012: “I am not a pacifist. I am a revolutionary. I am a Socialist who doesn’t like Capitalism and who likes Imperialism less. I am a revolutionary and I support the armed struggle where there is no alternative.”
Giving evidence in his libel case against The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2004, Galloway testified that he regarded Saddam as a “bestial dictator” and would have welcomed his removal from power, but not by means of a military attack on Iraq. Galloway also pointed out that he was a prominent critic of Saddam Hussein’s government in the 1980s, as well as of the role of Margaret Thatcher’s government in supporting arms sales to Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. In his memoir, I’m Not the Only One first published in 2004, he wrote that “just as Stalin industrialised the Soviet Union, so on a different scale Saddam plotted Iraq’s own Great Leap Forward.” He continued: “He managed to keep his country together until 1991. Indeed, he is likely to have been the leader in history who came closest to creating a truly Iraqi national identity, and he developed Iraq and the living, health, social and education standards of his own people.”
Galloway advised members of Saddam Hussein’s government about the ways to deal with a potential American invasion:
The only war that can be fought against a superpower is a war of movement. I brought Tariq Aziz all the writings of Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung on the arts of revolutionary war and he had them translated into Arabic. Fight a war of movement, take the uniforms off, swim among the Iraqi people and whatever their views on the regime, they will undoubtedly provide deep aquifers of support for a patriotic resistance.
Galloway defended Iraqi insurgents targeting Western forces as “martyrs” during August 2005 in appearances on Middle Eastern television channels, calling Iraqis who were with the allies security forces “collaborators” and said it was “normal” for them to be the targets of suicide bombers.
On 22 April 2003, The Daily Telegraph published news articles and comment describing documents found by its reporter David Blair in the ruins of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. The documents purported to be records of meetings between Galloway and Iraqi intelligence agents, and they stated that he had received £375,000 per year from the proceeds of the Oil-for-Food Programme. Galloway completely denied the claims and pointed to the nature of the discovery within an unguarded, bombed-out building as being questionable. He instigated legal action against the newspaper, which was heard in the High Court on 14 November 2004.
On 2 December, Justice David Eady ruled that the story had been “seriously defamatory”, and that The Daily Telegraph was “obliged to compensate Mr Galloway ... and to make an award for the purposes of restoring his reputation.” Galloway was awarded damages of £150,000 plus, after a failed appeal in 2006, legal costs of about £2 million.
In May 2005, The Guardian reported that “despite all the investigations in the oil-for-food programme, no one has ever produced any evidence that Iraqi oil money ended up in Mr Galloway’s pocket”.
It emerged in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme in 2010 that the Islamic Forum of Europe, which advocates sharia law, had been involved in campaigning for Galloway in the Bethnal Green constituency. In a secretly recorded speech at a dinner shortly after his election, Galloway said that the involvement of the IFE had played “the decisive role” in his win. Although the IFE itself denied the accusation, Galloway admitted in a statement that the allegation was true.
At a 22 July 2006 demonstration (and later in a Socialist Worker op-ed), Galloway stated that “Hizbollah has never been a terrorist organisation. It is the legitimate national resistance movement of Lebanon”, on the basis that they are, in his opinion, “freedom fighters”.
During the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, also known as Operation Cast Lead, Galloway commented in his speech at an event in Trafalgar Square on 3 January 2009: “Today, the Palestinian people in Gaza are the new Warsaw Ghetto, and those who are murdering them are the equivalent of those who murdered the Jews in Warsaw in 1943”.
Galloway has worked for the Iranian state-run satellite television channel, Press TV since 2008. During an event at the London School of Economics in March 2011, he said: “Because I don’t believe that the government of Iran is a dictatorship I have no problem about working for Press TV in London
Scott Long, writing in The Guardian on 31 March, criticised Galloway’s claim that “homosexuals are not executed in Iran, just rapists,” pointing out that current law in the country stipulates that “Penetrative sex acts between men can bring death on the first conviction.” Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, writing in The Guardian on 26 March, wrote that Galloway’s “passionate opposition to a war against Iran, which I share, seems to have clouded his judgement” and “his claim that lesbian and gay people are not at risk of execution in Iran is refuted by every reputable human rights organisation, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the International Lesbian and Gay Association”.
On 2 August 2014, during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Galloway delivered a speech at a public meeting in Leeds.[237][238] He said:
We have declared Bradford an Israel-free zone. We don’t want any Israeli goods, we don’t want any Israeli services, we don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or the college, we don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford even if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
Dave Hill, writing for The Guardian in November 2015, accused Galloway of making “cutting personal attacks” about the Labour candidate Sadiq Khan, a Muslim whom “Galloway ... appears to consider ... an inadequate practitioner of his faith” (a reference to Galloway’s remark that Khan held the Quran in his left, not right, hand, and it “wasn’t missed by people who care about these things”).
I work for NO #Russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I’m the leader of a British political party and spent nearly 30 years in the British parliament. If you do not remove this designation I will take legal action.” After Twitter users pointed out that Galloway associated himself with Russian state media outlets in his profile, these associations were removed from his profile.
Galloway expressed support for the Syrian presence in Lebanon five months before it ended, telling the Lebanese Daily Star in August 2008: “Syrian troops in Lebanon maintain stability and protect the country from Israel”.
Of Bashar al-Assad, and the country he leads, he said during a visit to the University of Damascus in November 2005: “For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs”. He also called Assad a “breath of fresh air”.
A month later, in an August 2011 piece for the Al Jazeera website, Galloway wrote he “was never close to the Syrian regime” and acknowledged its “authoritarian character, its police state mentality”, and the “rampant” corruption “much of it concentrated around his [Assad’s] own family”.
“You were the greatest man I ever met Comandante Fidel”, he tweeted when Castro died in November 2016.
Galloway has disputed reports from the Israeli government surrounding the events of 7 October 2023 in Southern Israel. Specifically, he has disputed the number of babies killed and suggested two-thirds of those killed on this day were from the IDF. He also suggested that those that propogate the official Israeli government account of 7 October are “war criminals”.
There’s more I’m pretty sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway
I suspect that George would in the future would like you to be kind to bulls in china shops.
Will we get to see him dance around in a leotard again?