What's New Pussycat? (30/03/12)



The news today that George Galloway has won the Bradford West by-election is a devastating blow to the Labour Party.

Bradford West has been a safe Labour seat since 1974 one where Labour has actively courted the Muslim vote, but the bottom line is that the voters rejected Labour in favour of a political demagogue.

Now as regular readers will know George Galloway stood in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections and got absolutely nowhere.

My view is that the voters of Glasgow were too canny and wise to be taken in with his particular blend of bombast which is designed to appeal to disaffected Muslim voters these days.

Which is not to say that George does not raise some important issues about wars and military intervention in foreign countries, the present conflict in Afghanistan being a case in point.

Because the original mission was to deny a safe haven for the al-Qaeda terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks on New York, yet what purpose we are serving there now seems a mystery to many people including me.

But George Galloway was against the original military mission which was fully backed by the United Nations (UN), it has to be said.

Just as he was against the decision to intervene in the civil war in Yugoslavia, of course, which ended the 'ethnic cleansing' regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

I haven't heard any of George's thoughts about the military intervention in Libya come to think of it which finally got rid of Colonel Gaddafi and his murderous crew.

Although I would be surprised if he was anything other than completely opposed to that decision either which had the support of the UN and Arab League.

To my mind George is against just about everything, except George.

Which is why I think the voters of Glasgow decided he wasn't worthy of a seat in the Scottish Parliament and sent him packing elsewhere.

As I said at the time Holyrood needed George in the same way as a fish needs a bicycle.

But I suppose Labour now needs him in Westminster - like the party needs another hole in his head - because how does Ed Miliband explain such a crushing defeat?

George knows - of course.

Apparently God was on his side - which we know because he said so on Twitter - proclaiming his great victory over Labour was 'By the grace of God...'

A dog whistle comment if I ever heard one.

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