Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35407003)

Proof that voters in large chunks of the land are idiots. :shocked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17549388

Originally Posted by peanut (Post 35407008)

I would also say the same if they voted for the Tories. This result as quoted 'his victory represented a "total rejection" of the major parties'. And I don't see anything idiotic about that.

Originally Posted by peanut (Post 35407008)

I would also say the same if they voted for the Tories. This result as quoted 'his victory represented a "total rejection" of the major parties'. And I don't see anything idiotic about that.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35407013)

Exactly peanut.:tu:

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35407016)

I would not vote for that man if my life depended on it

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35407016)

I would not vote for that man if my life depended on it

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407018)

Given the choice of George, Dave, Nick or Ed, George gets my vote every time, say what you want about him (and many have tried and failed to including the US senate and lots of newspapers) but he stands up for what he believes in, those other plastic PR mens wet dream would sell their own grannys for a sniff of power.

Originally Posted by The Telegraph

The politicians who do the least work while submitting the largest expenses claims are exposed in a league table produced following an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph. Those who work the hardest for the lowest cost are also identified....

...At the other end of the table George Galloway, the only MP for the far-left Respect party, is rated the worst-value MP. He turned up for only one in twenty votes, far fewer than any other MP, yet claimed £136,000 in expenses.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35407017)

But don't you think 'his victory represented a "total rejection" of the major parties' Sirius?.:)

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35407039)

I just think the voters who voted for that idiot are idiots as well

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35407052)

I'd have thought the anti Iraq and Afghanistan war stance would have gone down rather well with the Muslim segment of the electorate.

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35407093)

I don't think Ed will make it to the next election.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35407098)

Whatever you think of Gorgeous George (and that's not an awful lot, in my case), our political landscape is in dire need of mavericks and people who think differently to the crowd. Westminster will be a better place with him back in it.

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35407085)

I reckon that's all that got him elected.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35407098)

Whatever you think of Gorgeous George (and that's not an awful lot, in my case), our political landscape is in dire need of mavericks and people who think differently to the crowd. Westminster will be a better place with him back in it.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35407029)

Shame he doesn't do this job however. Deciding that Big Brother was more important than the vote on Crossrail, which is going though what was then his constituency. He is interested in his own ego and publicity, it wasn't the only time he prioritised media commitments over parliamentary commitments (i.e actual voting). His defence was in to invoke Tony Blair's record of attending less than he did whilst refusing to take into account that Blair was the Prime Minster.




Bradford have elected someone who will do squat for them. A professional contrarian whose 'beliefs' seems to revolve around a naive and simplistic notion that the West is always at fault. The Falklands belong to Argentina, not because of any rational and logical argument, but because of 'British Imperialism' and he will continue to rail against such Imperialism with great oratory to the delight of his fans but refuse to engage in any substance. That is on what he has based a career in politics in.

Still, at least the people of Bradford West get to see their name on a byline during one of his many forthcoming interviews in lieu of seeing it in a a parliamentary voting record.

The only good that can come of this is more pressure on Ed Miliband to step aside and get someone in who knows what they are doing.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407231)

I heard him say catagorically that his expenses were zero pounds so some one's telling lies, given the number of time he's been to court and proven libled I'll go with him especially as his name would have been top of the pile during the expenses scandle.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407231)

I heard him say catagorically that his expenses were zero pounds so some one's telling lies, given the number of time he's been to court and proven libled I'll go with him especially as his name would have been top of the pile during the expenses scandle.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407231)

I heard him say catagorically that his expenses were zero pounds.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35407275)

They Work For You - George Galloway

Expenses are at the bottom of the webpage - according to this, he claimed

2008-09 £130,340
2007-08 £136,390
2006-07 £107,610
2005-06 £107,030
2004-05 £145,072
2003-04 £105,973
2002-03 £126,759
2001-02 £84,773

That totals up to approx. £940,000, which is a bit more than "zero pounds"....

And in the "Members Interests" section, it shows he earns approx 200k per annum on his speaking and media engagements.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10218

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407288)

That's interesting wonder why he told such a blatantly provable lie on tv IIRC he was laying into some MP about duck ponds and he responded with something like I can't wait to see your expenses, that's when he said they were zero pounds.

Perhaps I being thick again

My expenses are zero. I have no second home, I have never bought a bean from the "John Lewis List", which I didn't know existed and I don't claim a penny in travel expenses.

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/cgi-b...cludeBlogs=162

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35407299)

Not sure why he said even that really. The link I provided show taxi fares and stuff and he does claim some expenses....

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35407324)

However, that does not equate to

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35407324)

However, that does not equate to

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35407366)

The man is a odious little treacherous creep who has only won because the electorate didn't have a viable option .Hopefully any decisions and actions he takes will be limited to Bradford and not be felt anywhere past those borders

Originally Posted by peanut (Post 35407404)

Why, could he do any worse than those already in?

I hope it is a start of things to come. It doesn't matter what I think of George, but that's the point, they'd rather vote him in over the other options, and that says it all. To me 'personally' I think it's great.

Watching Harman etc squirm on Daybreak was excellent I must admit. I haven't seen or heard from any Tories over it though. (I haven't looked around much though I must admit).

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35407420)

I understand what you are saying and fully agree that the voters made a statement .But don't you think that it is testament to how,and i'm having trouble thinking of the right word here, so i'll just say pathetic British politics have become to require this type of voting because they are so disolusioned with mainstream parties ,especially the ones actually in power.

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35407420)

I understand what you are saying and fully agree that the voters made a statement .But don't you think that it is testament to how,and i'm having trouble thinking of the right word here, so i'll just say pathetic British politics have become to require this type of voting because they are so disolusioned with mainstream parties ,especially the ones actually in power.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35407460)

Well we were offered a different system but voted against it..

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35407476)

I don't think it's the system it's the quality of politicians ,unless the system is stopping decent ones getting power

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35407599)

I think that the bunch of idiots are the people that voted for the party that are in power at the moment.

Sometimes l wake up in the morning thinking that we are still living in the fifities, no money to pay bills.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35407557)

Well I guess by that analagy, Galloway is the Marmite of politics.:D

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35407018)

Given the choice of George, Dave, Nick or Ed, George gets my vote every time, say what you want about him (and many have tried and failed to including the US senate and lots of newspapers) but he stands up for what he believes in, those other plastic PR mens wet dream would sell their own grannys for a sniff of power.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35407022)

I would never vote for a man who turns my stomach the way he does.He is a oily car salesman,a reptile and a skunk and I'd never give him the time of day let alone my vote.

I'd trust every idiot in the main stream parties before him every time because they are just idiots compared to him.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35407622)

I thought this was entertaining too:

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35407650)

Total loony pandering to superstitious lunatics, and as they multiply in numbers they will no doubt use their votes to force us to change to their ways, little by little. Our own democratic system used against us.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35407699)

I would have thought the "New World Order" would be preventing that......

Originally Posted by Peter_ (Post 35407980)

As I said earlier Galloway is a media whore and his inability to remember which by election he has won speaks volumes about the type of idiot the people of Bradford have elected, they deserve all they will get from this idiotic man.

A picture speaks a thousand words as per below.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35407804)

the processing power does not exist to analyse (real time) all communications that are happening, be that voice comms, twitter, Facebook, email, etc...

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35408060)

Anyone going to his victory rally?

Originally Posted by Derek (Post 35407003)

Proof that voters in large chunks of the land are idiots. :shocked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17549388

Originally Posted by ToxinUK (Post 35407637)

Does he believe in de-evolution for Scotland and if so, why the hell is he taking control of an English constituency? ;)

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35416810)

Lets put it this way, while George Galloway is of the Far left he and his party "Respect" have become nothing but a joke and sadly so has the Far Left in general,

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35416845)

Reminds me of another fantasied ;)

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35416810)

Lets put it this way, while George Galloway is of the Far left he and his party "Respect" have become nothing but a joke and sadly so has the Far Left in general, the main issue that has caused this is after 9/11 they did a deal with the devil, they allied themselfs against the War on Terror and sided with Islamists (who would normally consider them as unislamic), since then they have complained about Iraq and Afganistan etc, along with a Anti-Israel bias!

But its not just that, George Galloway himself is a publicty seeker and a Bad MP, he and his party represent the worst of the left, if I was talking to some young (and old) lefties, I would tell them to look away from idiots like George Galloway and more to Nick Cohen, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Tatchell

(As for Ken Livingstone, while he also has too close links with Islamists, at least he has done good thnigs for London)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35417005)

Agreed - but he doesn't hold the views that Alan seems to think he does...