[Update] Countries that have banned George Galloway
 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scot...cle2330692.ece

i dont like the mans views either nice one Canada .

Re: George Galloway is to be banned from Canada.
 

Now if only we could ban all the idiots with out spoken views from this country.:erm:

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Where would you go to live then? ;):D

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Oh dear, what a pitty, never mind.

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Back tae Scotland of course:)

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You might end up next door to Gorgeous George.:sick:




Just noticed my 1000th post - I should really have waited and made it a good one. If Russ B stops posting I should catch him shortly before my 80th birthday.

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Na,he`d prefer the Leith end o Edinburgh;)

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Oh yes

The MP for Baghdad South in the news again :)

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Is it really surprising that Canada doesn't want Galloway on its shores? I imagine they like others have seen his particular form of rabble-rousing and don't want him anywhere near their population stirring up discontent, and who can blame them.

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Could someone post a pertinent quote from that item please? OpenDNS is blocking me from seeing the Scottish Sun on the grounds of 'Adult Themes'. :D

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You're missing seeing a lovely photo of GG.

"Border security chiefs have declared the Respect MP “inadmissable” because of his views on Afghanistan and the presence of Canadian troops there. "

"Canadian rules say he will be allowed in only if he has a special permit from immigration minister Jason Kenney.

But Mr Kenney’s spokesman said: “George Galloway is not getting a permit — end of story.

He defends the very terrorists trying to kill Canadian forces in Afghanistan"

Another indepth exlusive from your Super soaraway Sun.

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What's with these idiots? Galloway is a prominent critic of neoconservatives, Canada unfortunately has acquired a nest of them. Anyone defending this shouldn't come running to me when some state goon pulls the national security card on them. Thin end of the wedge. Would you like someone banned from the UK because they were nasty about Gordon Brown?

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There I was thinking that Canada was the 'True North strong and free' - evidently Stephen Harper and his crew have been busy there. Used to be a tolerant and liberal state.

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Yeah shame on Canada for not wanting in a man that openly defends the terrorists that are trying to kill canadian soldiers i mean what the hell do they think they are doing backing their troops like that. We should invite them all over to the UK to see how a government should allow people to speak about and treat their troops show them nasty little canadians the error of their ways :rolleyes:.

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its a shame we cant ban him from coming back here!

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But this just draws attention to his odious views.

People like him love it when they get 'banned' - generates loads of free publicity, massages their fragile egos, makes people think that their opinions have some kind of substance.

They should have just allowed him in so he could be ignored by everybody.

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I agree cookie but what we have here it seems is a government that has decided it doesn't want him spouting off his rubbish and as a sovereign state funnily enough they have that right. Personally i think it is people like george galloway that make it easy for certain governments to curtail free speech and erode that right for all of us who are able to state our views without offending a great majority while doing it unlike pea brains like george.

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So you think anyone whose views you don't like should be banned from the country?

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or......you think people should be able to say anything they want want to?

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:clap:

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Thats not the issue here, Its what the Canadians want.....happily our views are in agreement :D

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I agree that they have the right to do that. I just don't think it's very smart of them to exercise that right in this case.

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We should send him on a goodwill visit to Afghanistan to visit the troops ( Canadians only ) and see if he returns.

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I just got this straight from the horses, or should I say pussy's mouth;) Surprise, surprise Galloway is going "to use all means at my disposal" to challenge this decision.
Beware Canada Galloway has a reputation for being a very litigious man.:)

http://www.georgegalloway.com/

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He probably thinks that he can overrule a sovereign government decision and if he did win his case I do not think he would get past customs as they would find some means to deport him.[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

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I don't doubt it, this guy is so filled with self importance he probably believes he can overturn the Canadian governments decision.
Surprising really for a man who's well known for his disapproval of America that his comfortable pocketing greenbacks on the lecture tour over there, I seem to remember him aiming his vitriol at Tony Blair for the self same thing.
But I'm sure he can turn his greatest skill, his mouth, to explain to us why its OK for him to stuff his pockets, but not Blair.

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Don't worry about that mate, after all quality will always count over quantity lol. ;)

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no

i just dont like this mans views ,but as he is a brit he can say just about what he wants in the uk ,thats his right , but the Canadians dont have to listen to him or make him welcome , thats there right .

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Shocker george is going the legal route who didn't see that coming he really needs to get over himself and realise he is not someone who is worth that much to 99% of people.

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i would be happy if they let him in then threw him in prison for a few decades.

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Well I've been to Canada about thirty six times in the past nine years - and ALWAYS welcomed by Immigration Canada!

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Well your name is not George Galloway then.:D

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If only we could ban him from Scotland, the man gives me the creeps.

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Amusing that this thread is more anti-Galloway than the thread in a Canadian political forum that I frequent.

Amusing and unfortunate actually.

Incidentally Galloway doesn't praise the Taliban, his most recent quote on the war in Afghanistan was this:

One can be anti-war as a lot of British people are without being pro-Taliban. Galloway is emotive, controversial, and Canada did this purely for political points scoring with some of their Jewish and other constituents. It's backfiring spectacularly of course as it gives Galloway that thing he loves - attention - and makes Canada look even more like a formerly liberal and free thinking society that's presided over by a bunch of rabid neo-con wannabe Bush-ites. In the absence of neo-cons in power in the US it appears Canada has decided to take up the mantle with the Harper government keeping a tight reign on ministers, dampening down the press coverage of things they don't like nicely, for example the banning of a British MP from Canada has barely been on the radar, and even going as far as slagging off Barack Obama, with a nice undertone of being very deeply up Israel's backside in true Bush fashion:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/h...rvative_speech

Incidentally the immigration minister, Jason Kenney, who made this decision has a few other great things to his credit including:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League

Sorry to disturb, let the Galloway bashing please continue.

Incidentally I don't agree with a lot of what he says either, but I respect his right to say it, and think Canada are idiots for doing this - they lose whichever way you look at it beyond scoring points with the Jewish in Canada.

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Surprise surprise, the Jews are behind this decision:rolleyes: With their troops currently fighting and dying in Afghanistan why should Canada except this rabble-rouser inside their borders? He may well be a British MP but so what, we choose to do the same in not admitting Dutch crap stirrer Geert Wilders.

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It would appear so going by the open letter from the JDL / Jewish Defence League requesting he be kept out of Canada and the reactions of various influential groups within Canada.

I've already given examples of how heavily influenced Canada is by Israeli interests at this time, add to this that they were 2nd after Israel to declare a boycott on a UN summit due to anti-Israeli undertones. Yep before the US even. I'm not sure how 'up' on Canadian politics you are but Stephen Harper, the PM of Canada, very quickly slid further up Israel's behind when George Bush vacated space.

And of course as I mentioned earlier about the inevitable result of this:

That it came a few days after a Jewish activist agency wrote to the Government could be coincidence or not, either way the only things it's achieved are to give Galloway a soap box and a wider audience. Canada would have known this but did it anyway. As there's no practical reason to do this the only thought has to be that it was politically motivated.

Oh and as you appeared to miss this in my post directly before yours so I'll do it again:

Opposing a war is not the same as wishing harm on those who fight it.

Lastly Geert Wilders, hey I never said we here were any better. I find it mildly amusing and not a little tragic that a convicted hate criminal like Le Pen is waved through while Geert Wilders is not for fear he'll upset people. There I was thinking we had freedom of speech and laws to ensure that it was upheld should a party attempt to infringe upon it, silly me. With Whacky Jacqui and her fascist crew in the Home Office I'm surprised they didn't let him in so far just so they could add his DNA and biometrics to the national database along with holding him without charge for a while before kicking him back out. I just didn't expect to see this kind of right wing crap from Canada, a country I once considered emmigrating to to escape the way the UK has been turning into 1984.

Still all that said you can of course believe what you want, all I can give you are the facts as I see them :)

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That's probably on the list to be sneaked into some irrelevant legislation next to the bit allowing Jacqui Smith to do as she pleases with our DNA, criminal or not (coming soon to a bill near you after the Euro Court of Human Rights said the old way was illegal, new way is Jacqui can just do as she pleases, didn't commit a crime, tough you Jacqui's now).

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Careful, last time someone's immigration officers, Egypt specifically, detained him he ended up getting an apology from the Egyptian President! :erm:

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Gorgeous George is now persona non grata in Egypt as well - BBC

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I was expecting some silly reason like last time but actually sounds like a fair reason this time.

Although anything that encourages GG to spend time in this country is a bad thing.

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Isn't he still an MP? Shows nothing but contempt for his constituents and the political system yet feels free to lecture others on democracy.

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I think that ship sailed when he went on Celebrity Big Brother.

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Thread title updated.

:D

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During an important debate in Parliament that goes straight though his constituency if I recall correctly? Not often there is a debate on something that has such direct effect on individual constituencies and none on others yet their representative was promoting himself on a entertainment program. :dozey:

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Not for much longer, he isn't standing for re-election at the general election, thankfully.
He's entire time as an MP for "Respect" has been one long ego trip, now he'll go out into the world to make some serious money for himself.

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Since when has 'annoying Mubarrak' been something to ridicule someone for? Good for George Galloway, it's not like Hosni is exactly Mr. Nicely Democratic, is it?

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Informational, not ridiculing.

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Not standing for Bethnal Green and Bow but is standing in Poplar and Limehouse...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1559...-minister.html

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I honestly thought we'd seen the last of him in parliament, having said that this time round he may not find it as simple as he thinks.
What an ego he has comparing himself to Keir Hardy.:rolleyes:

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He's perhaps talking about another Keir Hardie, the opportunist attention seeker who is happy to make a tit of himself on national TV, rather than the more famous Keir Hardie, one of the founding Fathers of the Labour Party. :D

I'd agree that Keir Hardie could be turning in his grave looking down on some of the things new Labour have done, but I think he'd be spinning even faster at the comparison with Gorgeous George.;)

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Fortunately he's extremely unlikely to win. He probably only picked on that area as he thinks it has the best demographic for him however it doesn't change that he's been so busy being on TV and doing his thing for Palestine that he's totally forgotten he's supposed to be an MP looking after his constituents.