George Galloway
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George Galloway is a British Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in London and an ultra conservative activist, well he's ultracconservative in some respects and very left wing in others. Other Conservatives hate him because they think he supported Saddam Hussein when he was in power. He is very intelligent and well educated, and this shows when he is engaged in an argument or discussion. Some suspect that he's really neither left wing nor right wing but just in politics for himself.
Personally, I think George Galloway is an appalling opportunist, who chose Bethnal Green and Bow as a seat in order to exploit the racial tensions there; someone who slips this way and that, someone who avoids serious debate by resorting to facile mud-slinging and ridiculous hyperbole. [1]
I would not call him an idiot as he is a political opportunist and carpet bagger. [2]
Unlike most politicians he is not afraid to speak his mind assuming he believes what he says.
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Suspected corruption and views on imperialism
He is suspected of profiting from corruption in the oil for food scheme but this has not been proven. He says he is anti-imperialist though he supported the evil USSR, but not for their imperialistic ways, which did far worse things than the United States or Israel ever did, even though Israel and the USA have done some bad things.[citation needed] . He opposed democracy in Pakistan[citation needed] . He supported Syrian imperialism in Lebanon.
Syrian troops in Lebanon maintain stability. [3]
It seems he likes some imperialists but dislikes others.
Sanity
He is normally a very serious, sane person and proved it when he appeared on Big Brother, where he pranced about in a red leotard and pretended to be a cat for another contestant, and also dressed up as a vampire, yes really. Later he hid in a cardboard box and argued with Michael Barrymore about cigars. Well we think he did for the lulz so he could say "I can do this, and keep my job" to all the conservatives who privately do it. All the time his constituents complained that he’d deserted them.
Politics
He was elected as the leader of the Respect party, a right wing,left wing anti gay, pro gay -(they can't make up their minds)-, atheist hating party, in Bethnal Green. [4] Galloway defeated Oona King one of the few black female MPs in the British Parliament thereby reducing the parliamentary representation of both groups.
On his regular visits to Iraq prior to the invasion he toadied up to Uday Hussein (a man who enjoyed throwing people into an industrial plastic threshing machine). He asked Uday about his taste in cigars and then said that all men of taste enjoy Cuban cigars. After the invasion he exhorted Arabs to rise up saying that British troops had fallen on them like wolves and deserved to be killed. Now that's a really superb. patriotic British MP for you.
He's "a black guy who thinks Elvis is the greatest artist of all time".
