George Galloway Not An Honest Man

[Peter Presland]

Well, I have to differ on my take. As you know I'm quite sure 9-11 was an inside job. That said, I like GG and most of the things I'm aware of he has said and done. He is head and shoulders over most others in his field - especially regarding the Middle East and how they have been treated by the UK and USA and others. Many were or still are deniers on 9-11 for a variety of reasons - mostly that it just seems too fantastic and far too LARGE an event to 'fake'. I disagree with that conclusion, but do notice that one by one many of those otherwise progressive persons, but 9-11 deniers, are coming over to the side of the painful Truth.....give him time. In a more general way, I'm against condemning a person for one or two bad ideas, if they have many other good ones to offer. This is why the Left never seems to get along and the Right does much better marching in lock-step toward fascism. If we are to fight them, we have to learn to get along despite some differences - we can't all think alike and agree on all. My tuppence.

I agree with much of that Peter.

I started the thread because what Kevin Boyle says rang a bell. The fact is that, for all his good works he has an almost unique ability to alienate his natural supporters and colleagues when it comes to who must be in the driving seat - guess what? it's always George and if he doesn't get his way he throws his rattle out of the pram. He did a sterling Job of splitting his "Respect" party down the middle and thus lost his Bethnal Green seat in the May general election. He's now looking for Scottish parliamentary constituency. I know a few of the people he's pissed off and believe me, he's done it big time.

Same with that video. He clearly knows diddly squat about the detail of 9/11 and 7/7 but nonetheless he invests his response to leading questions with same kind of authority and withering contempt for the questioner that wins him plaudits on the Palestinian issue. It all illustrates to me the care we need to exercise in choosing ANY leader - and prima-dona egotism should probably be an automatic disqualification.

I know what you mean about the so-called "Left" constantly fragmenting and indulging in fratricide. But so far as I am concerned the entire LEFT-RIGHT political paradigm is well past it's sell-by date. It is the language of a totally bankrupt political establishment orthodoxy and I reckon it's about time we found a better paradigm to frame the real issues facing us. The old left certainly does not have a monopoly of political - or any other virtue in my book.

Aside from this kind of comment I personally decline to frame my politics in terms of RIGHT and LEFT. To do so is to work at breathing life into a rotting corpse - All IMHO of course.