George Galloway took part in a debate last week at the Oxford Union. Galloway was supposed to be debating against Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, and also to debate the head of the British Army. Both of them chickened out at the last moment, and instead Tobias Ellwood (dim but nice, and head of the 77th Brigade) was put in their place. If interested here’s Galloway’s closing speech of the debate…
Powerful stuff. What a showman too.
Evvy, I don’t know how old you are (I guess a little bit younger than me?). There was a time when the HOC was full of people like Galloway, from both sides of the political divide. People with real passion and intelligence who could hold an intellectual debate. Whether you agreed with them is beside the point.
Nowadays the House of Commons is stuffed full of people who are like 5-year-olds on LSD.
They are called ‘law makers’, and there’s some really interesting stuff here about the validity of the laws that they pass (basically it’s all invalid). I’ll get into that another time, if anyone’s interested.
Second that, Rob! Paedominster has become little more than a lies-and-braying factory recently, stuffed with intellectual and moral eunuchs. Look at the way they go berserk when someone like Andrew Bridgen stands up and - for once - speaks a cold truth into the foetid atmosphere of the chamber! Anti-feckin’-semitic, FFS!
Comes of having one-party ‘government’, in two nearly-identical flavours, I suppose; both Tweedle-factions arse-kissingly obedient to globalist imperial powers quite separate from the British electorate. As in the US, we suffer a captured - and always very half-arsed - ‘democracy’, which delivers reliably what the gics want, whatever the people vote for.
PS: George is a simply wonderful speaker, even though he has his head firmly up his rectum on certain matters. What a pity he and good-but-dowdy Jeremy Corbyn never became PM and Foreign Secretary - whichever way round you want it. That would have been a government worth having; something approaching a bit of genuine democracy in Britain for once. Something like Attlee and Aneurin Bevan once were. Also seriously flawed, but giants compared to the ballsless, conscienceless midgets we suffer now.
I’ve had many disagreements with George Galloway over the years. The thing about him is that he’s now just about the only real politician still standing.
No notes, no autocue, and he still tears them all apart.
GG used to make speeches like this in the House of Commons (where he was an elected MP for many decades). The same with the likes of Shirley Williams and Tony Benn, et al.
That’s all now gone. There is now no one left in the HoC of any calibre.
In a similar vein, if interested here’s Robin Cook’s resignation statement in 2003. I’m sorry about the audio quality. It was the best one I could find (it all goes down the memory hole)…
