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VOTEGEORGEGALLOWAY Wed, 03 Mar 2010
George Galloway has written to Labour's General Secretary Ray Collins, MP Jim Fitzpatrick and Labour candidate Rushanara Ali, demanding Tower Hamlets Labour Party election agent and council candidate Graham Taylor should be sacked and disciplinary action taken against him and other members. This follows Islamophobic and racist comments appearing on Taylor's Facebook.

Taylor attended a meeting on election arrangements at Tower Hamlets Town Hall with the chief executive Kevan Collins, chief legal officer Isabella Freeman and chief elections officer Louise Stamp, on Monday evening.

Before going to the meeting he put out the following message on his Facebook group - "Graham Taylor is off to that centre of Islamic fundamentalism - Tower Hamlets Town Hall". A number of his Facebook friends then responded, including former councillor and Labour's council candidate for Stepney ward Judith Gardner. Gardner wrote "Give em hell!". Another friend wrote the disgusting racist comment: "Bring some pork scratchings" and another "Pork!".

"This is a disgraceful example of the Islamophobia and racism now infecting parts of Tower Hamlets Labour Party," said an outraged George Galloway. "The comments were made just before the Dispatches programme on Monday, which a number of Labour members co-operated with and in some cases inspired. These comments should have no place anywhere, never mind in a party claiming its commitment to opposing racism and respect for people of faith.

"I am demanding that Taylor is sacked as Rushanara Ali's election agent and his nomination for council candidate withdrawn. He is clearly not a fit and proper person to hold office in the Labour Party. And former councillor Judith Gardner should also be stood down. I don't know if the other contributors are Labour Party members but, if they are, they also should be subject to action by the Labour Party, up to and including their expulsion."

DAILYRECORD Fri, 26 Feb 2010
There was another murder most foul of course, in Dubai recently - that of the Palestinian official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. No fewer than 18 brave men and women of the Israeli security service Mossad massed in the desert kingdom to cold-bloodedly murder one man. They surprised him in his hotel bedroom where he was, unarmed and without a bodyguard, then electrocuted to the head to stun him and suffocated, put into his pyjamas and tucked in nicely.

Somehow, the hotel door was locked from the inside and the murderers left him to be discovered and, they hoped, assumed to have died from natural causes.

But they reckoned without the plucky police chief and bravery of the authorities in Dubai.

What they discovered would have been covered up in many countries in the world on the basis it would cause the mother of all political storms.

They discovered the true cause of death and then pieced together a jigsaw of CCTV images from airport shopping malls and every conceivable hotel angle.

They identified first the suspicious foreigners, got their hands thanks to Jordan on two Palestinian traitors, tracked the communications of the gang to a nerve centre in Austria and, most explosively of all, revealed that the murderers were travelling on British, Irish, French and German passports, some of them diplomatic passports, which had all been stolen by thieves working for Mossad in absolute defiance of promises given to foreign governments by Israel in the wake of previous crimes.

The Israeli press has done more than anyone else to uncover all of this.

It is not denied by anyone in Israel that they committed this act of state terrorism in a third country using the sovereign property of friendly countries to do so.

So what is to be done? First there must be a comprehensive review of Britain's relations with Israel. Now that they have been caught crimson-handed not just in an act of terrorism but endangering the safety of British citizens travelling or living abroad, it's time to say enough is enough.

There can be no more crawling to the Israel lobby who mobilise thousands of sycophants to complain every time people like me write or broadcast items like this, hoping to intimidate editors and proprietors into putting a lid on criticism of Israel.

It usually works. It frightened the BBC into the scandal of the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal that never was during the recent Gaza War and it has circumscribed my work on both Talksport and even Press TV during the last year. The Record's editor is still busy, months after an article I wrote here, dealing with complaints from "outraged Record readers"..in, er, Israel.

Some people say they'll kill me. Maybe so; but if they do my son will pick up my banner.

If they kill my son, my daughter will pick up the banner.

If they kill her, others will pick up the banner of justice for the Palestinians.

Israel cannot kill its way out of this pickle. Only an acknowledgement of its involvement in crimes against Palestine will begin to do that.

www.publications.parliament.uk 9 Feb 2010
The full Hansard debate is now on http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/20.htm

Mr. George Galloway (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Respect): Like the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley), I am a long-time member of the Labour campaign for proportional representation. Indeed, I am still a member, although not a member of the Labour party. [Interruption.] I know, that’s me expelled now—I have blown it. I was a member of the campaign when the late Robin Cook was its chairman. Imagine my surprise to learn that the hon. Gentleman has been won over by the Government’s position, thereby leaving us.

Like the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan), I came here this evening to support amendment (b), standing in the name of the Liberal Democrats, although I almost lost the will to live as we approached the 50th minute of the speech by the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth). I have sufficiently woken up that I will still vote for that amendment. However, in extremis, like the hon. Member for Foyle, I will support the Government, and for the same reasons: that what is proposed is a step forward and a slight improvement.

The Government are making a big mistake if they think that this little broom is going to sweep clean the Augean stables in this place. The labours of Hercules and the diversion of great rivers were required to cleanse the stench of those stables, and this little broom—this tiny little reform—will not do it. It will take far more radical proposals than this Government are likely to introduce to restore public trust in this place, and far more than have been canvassed in this debate, which, I am sorry to say, has been characterised by a complacent, joking, student debating society approach. [Interruption.] Well, it has. I have sat here for six and a half hours, shaking my head at the complacency on view on both sides. Members have no idea of the contempt out there in the country for the kind of debate and debating styles that have been on display this evening.

The reforms that we need in this place are beyond the reach of the existing Members of the House of Commons. That is why we urgently need a general election as soon as possible. We need to change the way in which we approach all our politics, and in my view, that includes retiring this very building. We need to acknowledge that it has become a museum ....


WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sat, 23 Jan 2010
"Its mission statement says: “Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.”

"However, people are complaining bitterly to the BBC about its pro-Israel stance when reporting on the situation in the Holy Land."...

This is a brilliant article. Congratulations to Stuart Littlewood.

The BBC's deferred Panorama episode was shown this week, supposedly about the West Bank Wall. About two-thirds of the programme comprised Israeli tallking heads, including the Mayor of Jerusalem, with his vision for the whole city, an American immigrant to Israel, intent on securing the land of the "forefathers", religious leaders explaining the historical rights of Israel, and others. But the other third did report Israeli brutality, illegal settlements and the undermining of Arab homes in Al-Quds, plus an interview at home with a Palestinian shot in the hip at point-blank range, in front of his children, with a throw-away line about a child shot dead in the same incident. The final scene was the only real footage of the wall, lasting less than 30 seconds as a backdrop for a piece to camera. Three to one is not a bad ratio for the BBC, it's more usually more like nine to one, but there's no doubting the overwhelming pro-Israeli bias in everything the BBC produces concerning Palestinian issues. And "rockets" are always the convenient fall-back when there's mention of UN Resolutions, international condemnation of illegal occupation, breaches of agreements etc. We can only strive to try and make changes.

WORLDPRESSNETWORK Fri, 08 Jan 2010
British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian uniformed plain clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be arrested.

Police – who at one point were numbered at 25 mainly plain clothes officers, refused him to return.
Several officers even followed Galloway to the toilet, rest room and a BA lounge.

Picture below is of one officer, presumed to be from Mukhabarat which was taken outside the BA lounge airside.
The incident began after George Galloway and his colleague Ron McKay arrived at the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt. As soon as they emerged onto Egyptian soil both Men were forcibly pushed into a van, refused exit and told that they were leaving the country. They were then driven off in a police convoy.

Viva Palestina convoy of 550 people from 17 countries was attacked by Egyptian riot police and plain clothes intelligence officers in the early hours of Wednesday (6th January). 55 of the convoy members were injured and 7 were also arrested.

However Galloway and Turkish MP’s struck a deal with Egyptian authorities, part of this deal was that the 7 detainees were released without charge.

On the enforced drive to Cairo, news came through of the imminent arrest of the 7 but when Galloway demanded to return to Rafah, permission was repeatedly denied.

For further information please call Alice Howard on Tel: 07944 512 469 or via email at
alice@vivapalestina.org

———————
Alice Howard
Viva Palestina UK – Administration Manager
Tel: +447944 512 469
Email: alice@vivapalestina.org
Website: http://www.vivapalestina.org/
PRESSTV Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:48:07 GMT
The Viva Palestina aid convoy entered Gaza Wednesday, after it received the approval of Egyptian authorities to bring into the besieged, impoverished coastal sliver several tons of humanitarian supplies.

The activists entered Gaza through Rafah border crossing. More than 500 international activists accompany the convoy organized by the British-based group Viva Palestina, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Fifty-nine vehicles were not allowed into the strip but the supplies were unloaded and taken through by the activists.

The Egyptian approval came after activists and security forces clashed earlier in the day when Cairo refused to allow part the aid convoy to pass through its land to the Hamas-ruled territory.

More than 55 activists and over a dozen members of the security forces were injured in the clashes. Some sixty convoy-members were also arrested.

Gaza has been under a tight Israeli blockade since June 2007 when the democratically elected Hamas took control of the area. Egypt has come under fire from Arab and Muslim groups for cooperating with Israel.

British lawmaker George Galloway, who is accompanying the convoy, said that the activists had been forced to renegotiate with the Egyptian authorities.

"We refused this because it's a breach of the agreement which we reached in Aqaba between the government of Egypt and the Turkish side," he said. "It is completely unconscionable that 25 percent of our convoy should go to Israel and never arrive in Gaza, because nothing that goes to Israel ever arrives in Gaza."

Egyptian authorities had also refused the convoy entry into the country from the Red Sea, forcing it to change course to a Mediterranean port.

GUARDIAN Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:24:47 GMT
Activists and officers injured after some of the 198 trucks led by British MP George Galloway are stopped from crossing into strip Egyptian security forces clashed today with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by the British MP George Galloway as it tried to deliver aid supplies into the Gaza Strip. The convoy of 198 trucks and more than 500 supporters left London a month ago hoping to enter Gaza despite the Israeli economic blockade. The trucks are now at el-Arish, an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean, a few miles south of Gaza. Several protestors and police officers were injured after clashes early today. Reuters reported that Egyptian police threw stones at the crowd and arrested seven demonstrators, while some members of the convoy held four harbour police officers. Police fired water cannon to disperse the crowd, where they had gathered to receive their aid trucks. Israel's strict blockade of Gaza, now in place for more than two years, prevents all exports and limits imports to a few humanitarian items. The policy has grown ever tighter since Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, won parliamentary elections in early 2006 and then seized full security control of Gaza a year later. Israel now regards the strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, as a "hostile entity". But Egypt too has kept its one border crossing with Gaza, at Rafah, largely closed. Egyptian officials told the convoy some of their trucks could not pass through Rafah, but had to enter into southern Israel and then pass through an Israeli-controlled crossing into Gaza. There was no guarantee that the trucks would be allowed to enter the strip. Galloway said that was unacceptable. "We refused this," he said. "It is completely unconscionable that 25%of our convoy should go to Israel and never arrive in Gaza. Because nothing that ever goes to Israel, ever arrives in Gaza." Egypt has tried to curb a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the past month after hundreds of foreigners tried to reach the Gaza border to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel's war in Gaza in which nearly 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. At the same time, Egyptian officials are building a new, underground steel wall along their border with Gaza in an apparent effort to prevent smuggling. Hundreds of smuggling tunnels dug by Palestinians reach into northern Egypt and supply Gaza with a wide range of products from food to cars. Israel and the US have said they are concerned about weapons smuggling. Israeli military officials said today they would consult more closely with their legal advisers during future combat operations after a wave of international criticism over last year's war in Gaza. General Gabi Ashkenazi, the chief of staff, has ordered the military to consult with legal advisors not just while planning an operation but during an offensive as well, officials said. The orders appeared to be a reaction to the serious, documented allegations of war crimes raised by human rights groups and, most prominently, by a UN investigation which was strongly critical of Israel's policy and accused both the Israeli military and Hamas of war crimes. However, although the military has said it is investigating some incidents from the war the Israeli government has still not agreed to the major independent inquiry that the UN investigation recommended. Hamas too has rejected any such inquiry. Israeli leaders have insisted their troops did not breach international law and were fighting in Gaza only to halt Palestinian militant rocket fire into southern Israel. The threat of further investigations still remains, however. An Israeli military visit to Britain was cancelled last week for fear of arrests over war crimes allegations and last month a British court briefly issued an arrest warrant for the former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni before withdrawing it after realising she was not in the country. Egypt Gaza Palestinian territories George........
ALJAZEERA Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:36:16 GMT
Cairo announces three-day opening as Gaza march activists begin to head home.

On the Egyptian side of the border, hundreds of international activists held repeated protests around Cairo this week demanding the authorities permanently reopen the crossing point.

Around 1,300 members of the Gaza Freedom March (GFM) had gathered in Egypt from more than 40 countries to march to Gaza with aid and supplies as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinians there.

However, Egyptian authorities barred the group from crossing the border, citing security reasons, and instead offering to allow 100 members to cross.

Up to 92 delegates did eventually cross into Gaza, meeting with non-governmental organisations and witnessing first-hand the devastation wrought by last year's war and the continuing siege of the Strip, march organisers told Al Jazeera.

Many of the GFM activists were leaving Cairo on Sunday for their respective countries with a sense of accomplishment, Ann Wright, a co-ordinator for the march, said.

On Friday, the Gaza Freedom March approved the "Cairo Declaration" , a document calling for the end of Israeli occupation and Palestinian self-determination, as well as for "boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to compel Israel to comply with international law".

Meanwhile, a long-delayed aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip is expected to arrive in the coastal territory on Monday.

The Viva Palestina convoy, with 210 lorries full of medicine and other supplies, set out from the UK nearly a month ago.

A ferry carrying the supplies reportedly arrived in the Egyptian port El Arish on the Mediterranean on Sunday after sailing from Latakia in Syria.

WORLDPRESSNETWORK 28 Dec 2009
Members of the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to Gaza have begun a hunger strike in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the convoy entry onto its soil.

Diplomatic negotiations are also taking place between the Turkish and Egyptian governments over the convoy's entry to Egypt. IHH, Turkey's main humanitarian aid agency, has 63 vehicles travelling on the convoy.

The Syrian government has also provided aid and vehicles, as has the government of Malaysia. More than 400 people from 17 countries are travelling on the 150 vehicle convoy, which is taking medical, humanitarian and educational aid to Gaza.

The convoy departed London on 6 December and have travelled nearly 3,000 miles across Europe and the Middle East. However, the convoy and its cargo of aid is now stopped in the Jordanian port town of Aqaba, having been denied entry into Egypt.

British MP, George Galloway, who is travelling with the convoy, said: 'Israel has kept Gaza under siege for three-and-half years against international law. It has not allowed aid or rebuilding materials in following its attack on Gaza earlier this year. Our convoy is determined to break the siege and take in urgently needed supplies Spirits are high in our camp in Aqaba, and we are going nowhere except to Gaza.'

It was at 11.25 am on December 27 2008, that Israel dropped its first bombs on the besieged population of Gaza. Three weeks later, following a sustained air, land and sea assault, more than 1,400 Palestinians had been killed.

The Viva Palestina hunger strikers will consume only liquids until the convoy is allowed entry into Egypt.

Convoy members will also mark the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's Operation Cast Lead by holding a march through Aqaba, jointly with the Jordanians. In the evening, more than 1,400 candles will be lit for a vigil.

The convoy has been jointly organised by the charity Viva Palestina and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the UK's largest organisation campaigning for solidarity with the Palestinian people.

For more information on Viva Palestina and updates visit"...

http://www.vivapalestina.org
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sat, 26 Dec 2009
Well folks, as you awake today from your Christmas hangover, over 500 people from 20 countries, in 250 vehicles loaded with Humanitarian Aid, are left stranded in Aqaba, Jordan, having been refused permission to enter Egypt. From Ireland, 10 volunteers in 2 ambulances, a van, and a truck loaded with Humanitarian Aid are part of this convoy. The convoy is organised by "Viva Palestina", a charity founded by George Galloway, MP.

The Egyptian Government have placed 3 conditions on the convoy if it wants to enter Egypt.

1. We hand all our vehicles and aid over to UNRA.

2. We drive 500 miles back to Syria, and take a 24 hour ferry through the Suez Canal.

3. We have to ask Israel for permission to cross from Egypt to Gaza.

All 3 conditions have been flatly rejected by everyone on the convoy, as we want to cross into Gaza and hand our aid over to the Palestinians ourselves.

Would you phone Canada to ask permission to enter the US? Would you ask France for permission to go to Germany? For the 1st time, Egypt have now openly admitted that they are under control of Israel/US.

This has been the lead story on Al Jazeera for the past 24 hours, and there are media teams from all over the Arab world here in Aqaba following this story. Needless to say, everyone watching is totally outraged by Egypt's complicity with Israel/US in denying this convoy of aid to reach Gaza. Needless to say, the western media have so far refused to cover this story.

Yesterday, Christmas Day, I dressed up as Santa to lighten the mood, and everyones sprirts lifted.
Al Jazeera interviewed Santa, who explained that the children in Gaza were the only ones in the whole world who didn't recieve any presents. Santa explained that while flying through the air on his sleigh with the reindeers, he was stopped and refused entry. Santa was upset as this was the only place in the world he could not visit.

Tomorrow marks the 1st anniversary of the start of the 22 day massacre of over 1,400 people. In solidarity, we are all going to embark on a fast. We will all fast for as long as it takes for us to get into Gaza with our aid.
We are calling on people all over the world to fast with us, and with the Palestinians, who fast every day due to the illegal siege imposed upon them by Israel/US/Egypt.

It's time to take a stand and say "Enough Is Enough". This siege has got to stop, for the sake of humanity, and our aid must be allowed to reach the stricken people in Gaza.

I am calling on you to contact the Egyptian Embassy and demand that we be allowed to enter Gaza, and deliver our aid.

The contact details for the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin are: +353-1-6606718 / +353-1-6606566 /
consular@embegyptireland.ie

The contact details for the Egyptian Embassy in London are: 0044-20-7499-3304 / eg.emb_london@mfa.gov.eg

Please contact them, and express your outrage at their refusal to allow Humanitarian Aid into Gaza, and to let them know that you will never travel to Egypt again, as long as they are the lap dogs for Israel/US.

Please forward this message on to everyone you know, and ask them to do the same. Plus, please reply and leave a message of support for everyone who is stranded here in Aqaba, and for the Palestinians who need our support now, more than ever.

If you are a member of Facebook, please join the following "Ireland To Gaza" group for all the latest updates on our progress:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=ho ... 199&ref=ts


John Hurson

Stranded in Aqaba, Jordan
BLOGSPOT Tue, 22 Dec 2009
"DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Upon his arrival at Damascus international airport, British lawmaker George Galloway, who is leading an aid convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip, expressed his dismay at the absence of the Arab role in organizing aid convoys to Gaza. “It is a shame that this convoy is coming from Europe and not from the Arab countries,” Galloway was quoted as saying.

He expressed his thanks to the Syrian authorities for facilitating the entry of Lifeline 3 convoy organized by the UK-based Viva Palestina movement, describing Syria as a fortress and the symbol of pride that never forsook Palestine.

In a press statement on Monday to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Galloway said that Lifeline 3 convoy is a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza on the first anniversary of the Israeli war.

The British activist added that this convoy is aimed to direct the world’s attention on this anniversary to the war criminals in Israel on one hand and to the valiant Palestinian resistance on the other hand, expressing hope that Egypt would read the massage from this perspective. “We come in peace to Egypt to get safely to Palestine,” he underlined.

The activist also said that the growing pressures on the British government resulted in the arrest warrant against former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, noting the pro-Palestine pressure groups in Europe are working on tightening the noose on Israel.....

For its part, the Palestinian popular struggle front strongly denounced on Sunday Egypt for complying with the Zio-American dictates and tightening the siege on Gaza through building a steel wall on its borders in Rafah area......."

BIKYAMASR Mon, 21 Dec 2009

Bikya Masr sat down with British Member of Parliament George Galloway as he traverses Europe, leading the third Viva Palestina convoy from the UK to Gaza in order to deliver much needed aid to the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Currently, the group is pushing on from Turkey, where they received a warm welcome. The goal is to pass through Syria, Jordan and Egypt before entering Gaza via the Rafah Border Crossing.

Galloway has been in Parliament since 1987.

Bikya Masr: What makes Viva Palestina so important and why did you feel the need to do this?

George Galloway: This isn’t about the aid, as important as that is. But to put it in context our convoy amounts to around 200 vehicles. Gaza needs about 400 trucks a day in relief. These convoys are a statement that we won’t rest until this illegal siege is broken. We get amazing support and help through all the countries we traverse and we’re getting the message across about how the Palestinians in Gaza are suffering. The convoys also, I believe, provide a beacon of hope for the beleaguered people of Gaza that the world has not forgotten them.

The idea came to me when we were protesting outside the Israeli embassy in London when the war broke out. It was necessary to protest but not sufficient. This is the third such convoy we have run and by far the most successful so far.

BM: Do you see it as an educational endeavor that can engage the world about the issues facing Israel/Palestine?

GG: I think world opinion has changed markedly since the war last year and the massive and disproportionate assault on Gaza. We are just underlining the message with our convoys and hopefully educating and propagandizing as we go.

BM: In the UK, what is the overall sense of a mission like this? Has it ostracized you with your colleagues?

GG: Ostracized? Not at all. My colleagues are fiercely and determinedly behind it. There is no dissent. We could have hope, although not expected, better media coverage in the UK but those in the cause know what is happening.

BM: The Israeli government isn’t too keen on the Viva Palestina convoy. How do you try to rectify this sort of sentiment?

GG: We don’t deal with the Israeli government so I don’t know and certainly don’t care.

BM: How has the Jewish community in the UK received these convoys? The Muslim community?

GG: There hasn’t been noticeable support from any Jewish organizations -rather than the reverse – but progressive Jews support us. Bear in mind that we took a group of rabbis on our last convoy. The Muslim reception has been fabulous, particularly in the poorer parts of Great Britain.

BM: What are the overall goals of this specific convoy and how do you spread the word?

GG: I think I answered the first part in my first answer. We spread the word through our websites, enormous databases and through mosques and sympathetic groups. We haven’t been at a loss for support thus far. You can find out more about Viva Palestina by going to www.vivapalestina,org or at www.georgegalloway.com

BM


DAILYRECORD Tue, 15 Dec 2009

MPs' expenses are knocked into a top hat by the eye-watering news that David Cameron's star parliamentary candidate Zac Goldsmith - son of billionaire Jimmy and brother of comely Jemima Khan - has robbed the British taxpayer of £5.8million in dodged tax.

Nothing could speak louder about the nature of the would-be Tory government than this.

There are more Old Etonians and other public school types on Cameron's front bench than at any time since the 19th century. Their treasurer and chief funder Lord Ashcroft presides over their affairs from the tax exile of Belize.

As Gordon Brown voluntarily paid back the £500 for the painting of his shed, how about would-be MP and non-domicile Zac pays back the £5million in unpaid taxes? From time to time, I come across the deluded and the deceived who've fallen for the "We're closing in" rhetoric of the campaign against benefit cheats. Of course nobody should be allowed to rip off the benefits system. But why don't we start at the top, where the big money is going missing? Why don't we start with Lord Ashcroft and Zac Goldsmith? If Brown and Darling were men instead of mice they'd do just that, and quickly.

Who knows, guys, it might even help in the forthcoming election? Did anyone check that Tory defector, now a New Labour Defence Minister, Quentin Davies - surely the only rat ever to clamber aboard a sinking ship - hasn't slipped in a claim for the removal of that hump on his back? In the middle of a war in which he is the spectacularly unsuccessful procurement minister - a combination of essential equipment never ordered and a £6billion overspend on the otiose, the grandiose and the merely gross - he sat down to compose a £20,000 expense claim for, among other things, the repair of the bell tower on his stately home. A Labour MP, that is, with a stately home. And a bell tower. There is another Labour MP, also a Tory defector, Shaun Woodward. Married to a Sainsbury, he has SEVEN homes worth tens of millions and complete with butlers. He is the richest man in parliament, one of the richest in the country. But that doesn't stop him sitting down and filling in an expense claim form on which he extracts to the penny the exact maximum in second home allowance.

What's wrong with these people? Then there's Tory grandee, head of the controversial Conservative Friends of Israel, James Arbuthnot MP. He's the chairman of the Commons Defence Select Committee. In the middle of a war, he too had other things on his mind. He might have been watching the history channel. Or Newsnight, Question Time or the BBC.

Instead one night last summer he was watching the shopping channel QVC. As you do when you're a top parliamentarian. His eye was caught by a three-pack of garlic crushers and peelers. Well, every home should have one. But three? And at the public expense? Even Gordon Brown claimed £500 for the re-painting of his "summer house" - what the rest of us call a shed - in Queensferry.

Why? Tory toff Lord Snooty Cameron, who last year claimed to cut back his Wisteria, now bills us £1000 for Aga oil.

Two millennia ago, the Roman Emperor Nero famously fiddled whilst Rome burned. Our rulers fiddle while they burn our money and destroy what's left of parliament's reputation.

Ask not for whom Mr Quentin's bell tolls? It tolls for all of them.


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George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 5 February 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 5 February 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially MPs' expenses, John...
GEORGE GALLOWAY: OUT OF IRAQ - OUT OF AFGHANISTAN
YOUTUBE 1 Feb 2010
STWC
Blair attends the Iraq Inquiry - George Galloway reports
YOUTUBE 29 January 2010
Video shot outside Iraq inquiry the day that Tony Blair gave 'evidence'
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 29 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 29 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Tony Blair's performance...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 23 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 23 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the bankster bonuses, RBS...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 22 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 22 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially children's upbringing and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 16 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEO Saturday 16 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially pharmaceutical companies'...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 15 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEO Friday 15 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially whether banning extremist...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 09 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 09 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially how the Robinsons'...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 08 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 08 January 2010
Must Hear : George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially George's...
George Galloway Deported from Egypt: "A Badge of honour from a Tin Pot Dictatorship"
YOUTUBE 8 Jan 2009
George Galloway whilst attempting to coordinate humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, is deported by the Egyptians. Thanks to SetFree who states "For those of you who say I only pick on...
Viva Palestina Convoy Breaks Siege of Gaza
YOUTUBE 6 Jan 2010
Al Jazeera Wed 06 Jan 2010 @ 1700GMT: First vehicle (C-11) crossing the Rafah border. 31d 07h 02m 26s from London.

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George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 02 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 02 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the Iraq invasion, and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 01 January 2010 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 01 January 2010
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially media...
Al Jazeera English trying to be Sky News : Viva Palestina Report on Al Jazeera English
YOUTUBE 29 Dec 2009
AJE's Sohail Rahman reports and discusses Egypt's decision to block the Viva Palestina Convoy from entering Egypt at Nuweiba. Includes commentary from Institute of Palestinian Studies' Mouin...
[Press TV] Egypt Bars Viva Palestina Convoy From Entering It's Territory
YOUTUBE 25 Dec 2009
The Viva Palestina Aid Convoy en-route to Gaza, has been prevented and blocked by Egypt from entering it's territory so as to provide aid and assistance to the people in the impoverished and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 19 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 19 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially discrimination, Blair,...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 18 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 18 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the Copenhagen climate...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 12 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 12 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the MPs' expenses...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 11 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEO Friday 11 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the budget, economy and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 5 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 5 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Global...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 4 December 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 4 December 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially tax payers funding...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 21 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 21 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the Iraqi enquiry, the...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 20 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 20 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Britain's failings in...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 14 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 14 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially discussing victims of...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 13 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 13 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the Glasgow North East...
Solidarity Scotland's Socialist Movement PEB
YOUTUBE
The Party Election Broadcast of Solidarity, Scotland's Socialist Movement - founded by Tommy Sheridan MSP and Rosemary Byrne MSP. This PEB was released to coincide with the Scottish Elections...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 7 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 07 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially a discussion on the fall...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 6 November 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 06 November 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Afghanistan - a futile...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 31 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 31 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially MPs' expenses reform and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 30 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 30 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the drugs versus alcohol...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 24 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 24 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Nick Griffin's appearance...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 23 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 23 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the postal strike and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 17 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 17 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially children's education and...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 16 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 16 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially the UNHRC's war crimes...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 9 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 9 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, including NHS rewards policy, the...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 3 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 3 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially Europe and the...
George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 2 October 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 2 October 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs.


George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 26 September 2009 "The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 26 September 2009
George Galloway's very popular and award winning radio show - the fastest growing radio show on the air waves. Today's radio show covers current affairs, especially G20 meeting; Gordon...

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