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hello,
the official statement:
"07/01/2006
Sir Humphrey, in Yes Minister, would term it a 'brave' decision. The decision by this politician to enter the Celebrity Big Brother House, bereft of watch, phone, family and all contact with the outside world was, however, an easy one.
Firstly it was for Palestine. Millions of people vote by premium phone and text lines to choose who should face eviction. A percentage of the proceeds goes to the charity of the participants choice. My choice is Interpal, led by my friends Ibrahim Hewitt and Ismael Patel in Leicester, Anas Al-Takriti in Leeds and Dr Azzam Tammimi in London. Like me Interpal have faced the witchhunters in Washington and the Zionist movement in London. But every smear against them has fallen away and the truth about their humanitarian work amongst some of the most oppressed people on the earth has prevailed. They don't get many opportunities to raise really serious amounts of money. My appearance on Big Brother will give them the chance to move up the Premier League.
Secondly, I'm doing it for the audience. The biggest audience I will ever have. Every night on prime-time television millions of viewers will tune in. Almost everyone in the country will see at least a part of at least one episode. In the slow January news month the newspapers will be chock-full of Big Brother.
I have done almost 2000 public meetings since 9/11, traveled tens of thousands of miles and spoken to thousands of people. These face-to-face meetings are invaluable. But often I’m talking to people who already agree with what I say. I want to attempt to connect with the politically untouched, the millions of people – most of them young people – who are completely turned-off by conventional approaches. It’s the Generation X-Factor. One of the crucial elements in the equation, the success of which will be the removal of this corrupt and discredited government and the replacement with a genuinely socially democratic one. We need to use new and innovative methods to put across our arguments. I’m determined that there are no no-go areas for us and I believe Celebrity Big Brother will be hugely successful for our ideals. If I'm wrong at least many will eat in the Gaza Strip because I tried.
I hope, within the difficulties of C4's editing of 24 hours down to one hour per day (though E4 will have wall to wall coverage), to reach this mass, young, overwhelmingly not yet political audience with our simple case. That war without end, war throughout the world is leading us all to disaster. That exploitation, one of the other, is not the only way to run a railroad. That another world is possible and that it's there to be won.
I will talk about racism, bigotry, poverty, the plight of Tower Hamlets, the poorest place in England sandwiched between the twin towers of wealth and privilege in Canary Wharf and the spires of the City. I will talk about war and peace, about Bush and Blair, about the need for a world based on respect. Some of it will get through.
Sure, there may be an indignity to be suffered along the way. But it will be worth it. If I'm voted out early I'll be back on the road again. If I go a long way I'll have reached a lot of people. If I win it will be my greatest election victory since, well, my last one.
George Galloway MP, House of Commons, London"
great man, i say
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Posted: 2006-01-08 18:12:17
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I agree with his statement there.....indeed George Galloway is a great man...I can honestly say that he is one of my idols...The only politician in the world who has the balls and guts to stand up against the American Government and fight for what he believes in..i.e: The Truth..he's not a 2 faced hypocrite like the rest of the MP's in parliament.
George Galloway is the Original Bush Hater and i get my inspiration from him..
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Posted: 2006-01-08 18:20:36
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Or he did it to draw attention to himself!
Despite his words, I somehow get the impression he's rather self-serving and has bigger ego than he's willing to admit to!
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Posted: 2006-01-08 18:34:59
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On 2006-01-08 18:12:17, dealer3 wrote:
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Firstly it was for Palestine.
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I will talk about racism, bigotry, poverty...
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Actually, his job is to represent his constituents, and he gets paid over a thouand pounds per week to do so.
Perhaps if he wants to talk about Palestine, racism, bigotry and poverty he should resign from his well-paid job and do it in his own time, with his own money?
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Posted: 2006-01-08 19:59:23
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I agree Absinthe, well put - in fact I believe his constituents are rather pissed that he's done this!
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Posted: 2006-01-08 20:12:02
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absinthebri: Im sure that he gives equal time to his constituents aswell,he's not the type of politician to ignore his duty...some issues are bigger than others...if he were to neglect his dutys as MP im sure he would be voted out.
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Posted: 2006-01-08 20:17:50
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On 2006-01-08 20:17:50, axxxr wrote:
absinthebri: Im sure that he gives equal time to his constituents aswell,
When is he doing this? When he's "bereft of... all contact with the outside world"? He's not paid to give 'equal time' to his constituents; he's there to give them his all.
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he's not the type of politician to ignore his duty...
You know, I think you actually believe most of what you post; it's worrying. When was the last time he held a surgery in his constituency?
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some issues are bigger than others...if he were to neglect his dutys as MP im sure he would be voted out.
He's paid to do a job, not 'save the world'. And do you really think he stands ANY chance of being re-elected?
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Posted: 2006-01-08 20:28:42
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On 2006-01-08 20:28:42, absinthebri wrote:
When is he doing this? When he's "bereft of... all contact with the outside world"? He's not paid to give 'equal time' to his constituents; he's there to give them his all.
Absolutely i agree,but there are some more important issues in the world aswell and someone has to speak out about them...his staff im sure take care of the constituents issues.
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On 2006-01-08 20:28:42, absinthebri wrote:
You know, I think you actually believe most of what you post; it's worrying. When was the last time he held a surgery in his constituency?
Well i'd like to think i do but hey im not perfect...We are human after all and do make mistakes....I don't know how Mr Galloway does his business as MP but i have complete faith in him that he doing his job admirably.
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On 2006-01-08 20:28:42, absinthebri wrote:
He's paid to do a job, not 'save the world'. And do you really think he stands ANY chance of being re-elected?
like i said im sure that he is doing his job to the best of his abilities...even more so than he's collegues in parliament...again someone has to speak out for the injustices in the world,if we can't depend on our MP's to be our voice and raise these issues then who will?...I believe that the vast majority of his constituents actually support what he is doing thats why they voted for him in the first place.
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Posted: 2006-01-08 20:40:53
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Firstly, George Galloway has established a proud record of campaigning for his constituents. He has held more public meetings in the constituency in the first eight months of his incumbency than Oona King did in her full eight years. As a result of his campaigning alongside Defend Council Housing, the New Labour council was recently defeated in five of the seven ballots it held to give away council housing to private landlords and called off another three in the face of certain defeat.
George has assiduously taken up the individual cases of hundreds of constituents over the last eight months. His surgery proceeded as normal last Friday as it will this Friday. Local protestors did not parade up and down outside it.
Representing his constituents also means carrying to a wider audience the argument for the policies they voted him in on - opposition to war and the continued bloody occupation of Iraq, privatisation, cuts in the NHS, the growing gap between rich and poor and so on. He has therefore travelled the country speaking to thousands of people at the largest meetings any politician could have commanded.
His decision to take the risk of going on Big Brother was motivated by the same sentiment - the need to reach a very large and young audience with the political message that the majority of his constituents support.
I live in East London, and i am proud to say he's got my vote! Why? Because i don't just watch the news and read the papers that have been infected, with bias propaganda, but i look beyond the headlines. If any man with common sense was to look at the whole picture, independantly they would know what kind of an MP George Galloway really is.
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Posted: 2006-01-11 17:38:44
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well said dealer3.....i agree 100% with your statement.
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Posted: 2006-01-11 17:44:14
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