How much George Galloway is costing the taxpayer by being in the Big Brother house. (Via)
Archive: Respect
I have no useful opinions on any of the current hot talking points.
- Ariel Sharon’s illness
- Charles Kennedy / Liberal Democrats
- George Galloway on Celebrity Big Brother
- The death of Rachel Squire MP
…so here are some completely useless opinions instead.
Ariel Sharon’s illness — Nothing interesting to say, apart from the fact that I once again found BBC News 24′s headline a bit weird. They often seem to have trouble describing a story in just two or three words. “SHARON VERY ILL”. It sounds more like a headline on Newsround. It was later changed to “SHARON GRAVELY ILL”, and then “SHARON STROKE”.
Charles Kennedy / Liberal Democrats — I read that every leadership contender needs to get seven signatures before they can be nominated. So if all of the other contenders wuss out of playing Heseltine, and Charles Kennedy is unable to get seven signatures, we presumably have the possibility of there being a leadership contest with no nominees.
George Galloway on Celebrity Big Brother — Nothing apart from the obvious: “WTF — what an ego-man”. But it could be risky for him. If he puts his foot in it in the BB house, that’s it.
Rachel Squire / Dunfermline and West Fife By-election Labour shoo-in — Monkeys with red rosettes in the Dunfermline area are polishing up their CVs.
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Scottish Political Junkie blogs about the Scottish Socialist Party, who haven’t exactly been having the best of years.
It would be no surprise if the SSP imploded before the next Scottish Parliament election and Tommy Sheridan stood for Respect, the party started by George Galloway MP.
Well things certainly sound bad for the SSP at the moment. The SSP may be troubled, but I wouldn’t know if it was on the brink of implosion. Whatever, though, Scotland’s socialist movement won’t be going anywhere. Support for the SSP seems to me to be higher than that for similar left-wing parties in Europe (the SSP got 7% of the second votes in 2003 compared, for instance, to 4% for the PDS in Germany in 2002).
Post-SSP, if such a period were to exist in the near future, Tommy Sheridan would still be a figurehead. And I certainly don’t see him joining up with Respect given that Sheridan is in favour of Scottish independence whilst George Galloway is equally against it, so much so that it was the major barrier to Galloway joining the SSP following his expulsion from Labour.
Imagine, though, Sheridan and Galloway in the same party. Both are (now) sharp dressers and, whether or not you agree with them (or even if they agree with each other!), they are both undoubtedly great speakers. I certainly wouldn’t like to try being in a debate opposing the pair!
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While he’s on his trip to the USA to have an argument, George Galloway is going to miss his deadline to take the oath.
Unless the Speaker lets him off, if he sets foot on the floor of the House when he gets back, he will be fined £500, and his Bethnal Green and Bow seat would be automatically vacated.
Oh well. I’m sure he won’t mind. As his former constituents in Glasgow Kelvin probably know, it’s not as if he ever attends Parliament anyway.
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