George in the House

I should, of course, be ashamed that I am sitting, most evenings, with my two oldest and watching GG on BB. That someone should inflict something so catastrophic upon themselves and their rather horrid movement ON PURPOSE, adds a pathos to the extraordinary comedy.

Almost as funny as Geoge in a leotard or George being caught out lying, are the contortions of his supporters, including many on the web. It ain't so bad, he may still come through it, it's irrelevant compared to the suffering in (insert favoured location here), he'll sue you when he comes out, or - best of all - "it shows how petty you are for caring so much about this one flawed man appearing on an ephemeral TV show". Doesn't it, just! Fancy laughing at the truly comic!

This is the hero of Bethnal Green, the hero of DC, the hero of the Telegraph Trial, showing himself to be everything we said we was and that you insisted he wasn't. And this is how - saving an investigation or two into l'affaire Zureikat and the wife's oily bank account - he will pass into history.

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[bruschettaboy]

True enough Dave. On the other hand, I seem to remember your lot doing the odd bit of rationalisation about how the Senate hearings didn't really go all that well for GG and the BG&B election result was just the politics of communalism and didn't reflect a popular verdict on That Bloody War, so in my assessment neither side is completely innocent of hilarious wriggling.

Out of interest, how do you think your man Blair will go down in history?

[Backword Dave]

"... showing himself to be everything we said we was ..." [sic]

Correct me if I'm wrong, David, but I'm sure you've never written about yourself in a leotard or being caught out lying.

[Citizen Sane]

Don't feel ashamed, you're not alone. I too tune in every night because, you see, I hate that man. He is repulsive in every way. I hate him. I hate the Respect 'Coalition' too. I hate their backers and all their feeble-minded supporters. And by watching Galloway on CBB every night, what I am really doing is seeing GG's career, and the whole Respect movement, corroding in front of my very eyes in beautiful slow motion.

I can't wait for him to come out and attempt to justify himself. Oily little weasel.

[David T]

The thing is that he now has what Carter - referring to Bush Sr - described as a 'silliness problem'. Silly is fine, if you're going to make a career out of being a buffoon. Or - like Mellor - if you're going to be very very humble and accept that your days of being taken seriously by anyone are well and truly over.

I've seen some apposite comparisons in the last few days. Galloway is a Malvolio, not Hamlet. Galloway is Roderick Spode, not Mosley.

Galloway is finished as a mainstream - or near-mainstream - political figure. He will now go down the lucrative David Irving route. He'll find a paying audience amongst the fan clubs of dictators and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. Every so often, he'll do something "outrageous", to get his name in the headlines. When he is slapped down or mocked, he'll take the press clippings and mail them out to the handful of loons who still take him seriously to prove that he is still a fighter, taking the punches for the Cause.

It is the SWP I feel really sorry for. They enjoyed the brief delusion that they were going to found a new mass working class party, in coalition with the Muslim Brotherhood, headed by a Stalinist who used the term "trotskyite" as an insult.

The SWP are now been shocked to discover that their figurehead - the man whose name appeared in the title of their party on the ballot paper - is even more opportunistic and self serving than they are.