Freedom Farter Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 His stances on sex education in schools is part of his party's election pitch. These aren't just personal views he holds, they were on the leaflets his party distributed. They're party policy. Therefore, it's entirely relevant to ask him about them yet he goes all stroppy in response. Annoying man/cat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) 16 hours ago, Freedom Farter said: His stances on sex education in schools is part of his party's election pitch. These aren't just personal views he holds, they were on the leaflets his party distributed. They're party policy. Therefore, it's entirely relevant to ask him about them yet he goes all stroppy in response. Annoying man/cat. It's the morons running to defend him - the usual tankie apologists mixed in with rightwing scumbags. Galloway is a political grifter who will take advantage of any cause to advance the interests of George Galloway. Edited May 6 by DeeTillEhDeh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 14 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: They are friends and have shared a platform many times. They do that intellectually dishonest thing where they pretend they come from opposite ends of the spectrum one being a Catholic socialist and one a protestant Conservative. But being such reasonable enlightened men they can find common ground - transphobia, islamophobia, rejecting women's bodily autonomy and libertarianism for reactionary old white men. “George Galloway is an Islamophobe” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 I’m not sure it’s possible to be less Islamphobic than Galloway. He’s whatever the opposite of Islamophobia is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 18 hours ago, Leith Green said: And then George denies saying it. He's a lunatic. I heard some of that first interview. Wants education about normal relationships apparently. He's obviously an expert on relationships, as (according to Wikipedia) he's had 4 marriages and six children by 3 different mothers. What could be more normal than that? Fine example for us all to follow. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 7 hours ago, MazzyStar said: “George Galloway is an Islamophobe” Go back and read it again. I'm referencing the Ribbentrop pact between Spence and Robertson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 2 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: Go back and read it again. I'm referencing the Ribbentrop pact between Spence and Robertson Aye, fair enough. I don’t pay much attention to what Jim Spence does and I don’t know who David Robertson is (I’m assuming it’s not the ex Peterhead manager) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 6 minutes ago, MazzyStar said: Aye, fair enough. I don’t pay much attention to what Jim Spence does and I don’t know who David Robertson is (I’m assuming it’s not the ex Peterhead manager) He's a Free Presbyterian minister who was in Dundee but I think has since gone to Australia where his bigotry will find a more accommodating home 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 The thing that really tells on Galloway is that when he was expelled by Labour, didn’t take anyone with him. He was a fairly prominent figure on Scottish politics - MP for nearly two decades, leader of the council in a major city, prominent in mainstream campaigning organisations (Scotland United, War On Want). But absolutely nobody from Scottish Labour came with him, even those on the Left. he has tried to stand in Scotland I think three times - once with Respect, once with his hilarious Celtic/Catholic focused stuff and once with the lunatics he trawled for his Unity party last time. He’s never got near elected. The more people have to do with him the less support he gets - to know him is to hate him. He has also been roundly turfed from the places he’s won with his dog whistle tactics. I know people involved with Scottish Labour who were absolutely poisonous about the guy and these were not Blairites. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 He's not happy with West Ham's decision to part ways with David Moyes. Based on very little at all, I am utterly convinced that Moyes is also the most likely serving Premier League manager to endorse the "Workers Party of Britain" at the next general election. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 11 hours ago, ICTChris said: The thing that really tells on Galloway is that when he was expelled by Labour, didn’t take anyone with him. He was a fairly prominent figure on Scottish politics - MP for nearly two decades, leader of the council in a major city, prominent in mainstream campaigning organisations (Scotland United, War On Want). But absolutely nobody from Scottish Labour came with him, even those on the Left. he has tried to stand in Scotland I think three times - once with Respect, once with his hilarious Celtic/Catholic focused stuff and once with the lunatics he trawled for his Unity party last time. He’s never got near elected. The more people have to do with him the less support he gets - to know him is to hate him. He has also been roundly turfed from the places he’s won with his dog whistle tactics. I know people involved with Scottish Labour who were absolutely poisonous about the guy and these were not Blairites. @Granny Danger will probably know better, but my memory of him in Dundee is that he was not particularly liked by many in the local Labour Party or the wider Trade Union movement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 23 hours ago, JS_FFC said: I’m not sure it’s possible to be less Islamphobic than Galloway. He’s whatever the opposite of Islamophobia is. Islamophilic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 11 hours ago, ICTChris said: The thing that really tells on Galloway is that when he was expelled by Labour, didn’t take anyone with him. He was a fairly prominent figure on Scottish politics - MP for nearly two decades, leader of the council in a major city, prominent in mainstream campaigning organisations (Scotland United, War On Want). But absolutely nobody from Scottish Labour came with him, even those on the Left. he has tried to stand in Scotland I think three times - once with Respect, once with his hilarious Celtic/Catholic focused stuff and once with the lunatics he trawled for his Unity party last time. He’s never got near elected. The more people have to do with him the less support he gets - to know him is to hate him. He has also been roundly turfed from the places he’s won with his dog whistle tactics. I know people involved with Scottish Labour who were absolutely poisonous about the guy and these were not Blairites. He was never elected as a Councillor. His power base was as a full time Party organiser, the only paid post outside Labour Party HQ in Glasgow. 34 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: @Granny Danger will probably know better, but my memory of him in Dundee is that he was not particularly liked by many in the local Labour Party or the wider Trade Union movement. Not particularly liked by some sections of the TU movement but controlled Dundee Labour Party with few dissenters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 On 06/05/2024 at 09:14, Salt n Vinegar said: I heard some of that first interview. Wants education about normal relationships apparently. He's obviously an expert on relationships, as (according to Wikipedia) he's had 4 marriages and six children by 3 different mothers. What could be more normal than that? Fine example for us all to follow. What a charlatan. The brassest neck in politics and that's some doing. An utter grifter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 13 hours ago, ICTChris said: The thing that really tells on Galloway is that when he was expelled by Labour, didn’t take anyone with him. He was a fairly prominent figure on Scottish politics - MP for nearly two decades, leader of the council in a major city, prominent in mainstream campaigning organisations (Scotland United, War On Want). But absolutely nobody from Scottish Labour came with him, even those on the Left. The reason he lacks allies is that the George Galloway project is all about getting as much attention as he can. He opposed the Iraq War but he is also in favour of capital punishment. He was in favour of EU membership but then he went against it. Hopelessly inconsistent about where he is on the political spectrum. Just a maverick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 I remember when George worked for War on Want, before his political career, he wrote an article in the Spectator saying there was no point in helping Bangladeshis after a huge flood, it was their fault for farming on land that was susceptible to flooding. Stupid people! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 This might go somewhere towards explaining his recent utterances. Quote I have had a lifelong fear of being gay and this led me into ostentatious, rapacious heterosexual promiscuity. I pursued women even when I had women already, good ones. I pursued other women to prove to myself and to others that I was as straight as could possibly be. It made me from that day onwards want to be Jack the lad, always chasing girls. That’s maybe why I became “gorgeous George”. https://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2016/02/02/george-galloway-londons-next-mayor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 One of the more interesting excuses I’ve heard for being a mad shagger. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Methinks thou doth protest too much, Georgie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 "I'm scared of being gay" is some excuse for cheating on yer misuss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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