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RandySF

(57,588 posts)
Thu May 7, 2015, 11:12 PM May 2015

George Galloway likely to lose seat in Parliament.

George Galloway is the latest senior politician set to lose his seat this election.

Twitter is the main source of these rumours at present.

There was speculation that there was going to be a recount in his constituency, Bradford West, but that is no longer going ahead.

It is still unsure whether the Respect Party candidate has lost his seat.

Bradford Council has also allegedly reported Galloway to the police for allegedly breaking election laws after tweeting about election polls before they closed.


http://www.yourelection15.co.uk/news/05/08/george-galloway-tipped-lose-seat/

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Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
3. "Always been a shitheel"?
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:32 AM
May 2015

Really? Like the time when he tore GOP senators a new one for their baseless attacks against him?

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
4. Here he is kissing Kim Jong Un's ass
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:36 AM
May 2015
http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3050682

Stalinist, authoritarian shitheel.

Fan of:

Saddam
The Ayatollahs
Assad
Gaddhafi
North Korea's government
Putin
The USSR

Stalinist, authoritarian shitheel.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
9. "Fan of Saddam"? Really?
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:42 AM
May 2015

"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defense made of his. "

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
10. You are free to defend a man who has praised every anti-American dictatorship
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:43 AM
May 2015

under the sun.

Even the Pam Gellar/George Galloway types need their advocates.


Here are his love lyrics to Saddam:

Your Excellency, Mr President: I greet you, in the name of the many thousands of people in Britain who stood against the tide and opposed the war and aggression against Iraq and continue to oppose the war by economic means, which is aimed to strangle the life out of the great people of Iraq. I greet you, too, in the name of the Palestinian people, amongst whom I've just spent two weeks in the occupied Palestinian territories. I can honestly tell you that there was not a single person to whom I told I was coming to Iraq and hoping to meet with yourself who did not wish me to convey their heartfelt, fraternal greetings and support. And this was true, especially at the base in the refugee camps of Jabaliyah and Beach Camp in Gaza, in the Balatah refugee camp in Nablus and on the streets of the towns and villages in the occupied lands.
I thought the president would appreciate knowing that even today, three years after the war, I still met families who were calling their newborn sons Saddam; and that two weeks ago, when I was trapped inside the Orient House, which is the Palestinian headquarters in al-Quds [Jerusalem], with 5,000 armed mustwatinin [settlers] outside demonstrating, pledging to tear down the Palestinian flag from the flagpole, the hundreds of shabab [youths] inside the compound were chanting that they wish to be with a DSh K [machine gun] in Baghdad to avenge the eyes of Abu Jihad. And the Youth Club in Silwan, which is the one of the most resistant of all the villages around Jerusalem, asked me to ask the president's permission if they could enrol him as an honourary member of their club and to present him with this flag from holy Jerusalem.

I wish to say, sir, that I believe that we are turning the tide in Europe, that the scale of the humanitarian disaster which has been imposed upon the Iraqi people is now becoming more and more widely known and accepted. Fifty-five British members of parliament opposed the war, but 125 are demanding the lifting of the embargo; and this does not include the invisible section of the Conservative Party who must also be moving in that direction, and Sir Edward Heath is being a very persuasive advocate inside the Conservative Party.

It is my belief that we must convey the very clear picture that 1994 has to be the year of the ending of the embargo against Iraq. Otherwise, famine and all the awful consequences, including acts of despair by Iraqis, will be the result; and this is the message we must convey to civilized opinion in Europe.

Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds (until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem).
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
15. Broken clock is right twice a day.
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:52 AM
May 2015

He doesn't care about human rights, just self-promotion and furthering the cause of fascist authoritarianism.

If you love dictatorships and hate the United States, George Galloway is your guy.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
16. I read his quotes
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:52 AM
May 2015

I do not agree with all of them, but clearly he has been vidicated about his opposition to the Iraq War.

And comparing him to Westoboro Baptist Church is just over the top.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
17. No, tongue-kissing North Korea's government
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:55 AM
May 2015

is over the top.

Calling this fascist, narcicisstic shitheel for what he really is-that is rational discussion.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
18. Can you direct me to some of his quotes
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:29 AM
May 2015

where he is actually "tongue-kissing North Korea's government", supporting Stalinism, and being anti-semitic rather than anti-Zionist?

Throd

(7,208 posts)
14. His quotes are always self serving .
Fri May 8, 2015, 12:50 AM
May 2015

He's really really awesome. Just ask him.

I used to listen to him being interviewed on Pacifica Radio (KPFK Los Angeles) and my take away was always "this guy will embrace any authoritarian shit that reflects his views and is totally in love with himself".

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
20. Vile homophobe of the Santorum sort, always talking about dog sex when marriage equality is
Tue May 12, 2015, 10:52 AM
May 2015

the subject, because that shit plays to his bigoted base. Glad to see him lose to Labor.

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