Thursday, October 20, 2005
George Galloway and a strange tale of adultry and arson
This is perhaps old news and as a result unsuited to the fast moving blogosphere but only yesterday I was shown a copy George Galloway's column from the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail (4.09.2005) in which he commented on the fire-raising peer Mike Watson who was sent to prison.
That a large part of the Galloway column is shameless should come as no surprise. Galloway describes Watson as:
He goes on to describe Watson as:
While on the subject of politicians and arson, I'm reminded of the fires in a couple of Whitefield Social Clubs after a young politician within Dundee council was queeried over missing funds from the bar and the pool table in these establishments. Both clubs burned to the ground and the account ledgers destroyed in the fires which unfortunately burnt just a few short hours before the books were to be seized for investigation.
That a large part of the Galloway column is shameless should come as no surprise. Galloway describes Watson as:
The inadequate husband who strutted ever more unconvincingly with ever younger women, giving rise to the best political joke of the decade. Mike Watson sends his apologies for being unable to be here, he is attending the birth of his next wife.Yes that's right, the Carnally Known One, Mr No Respect himself, criticising someone else for being an "inadequate husband". Beyond parody. For those who don't know the background on this Galloway was divorced from his first wife after he admitted on a press conference that he'd had extra marital affairs while in Greece for a conference with War on Want. Then during the last general election, his current Palestinian wife questioned him naming his new political party, 'Respect'. Her reasoning was that he had no respect for her, or their marriage. George is of course a serial adulterer.
He goes on to describe Watson as:
The anti-racist who, when his position was challenged by Scotland's only ethnic minority MP, Mohammed Sarwar, dredged every barrel, spun every stereotype and relied on a set of dirty tricks that would have shamed a segregationist senator in MississippiGalloway obviously learned a few tips from Watson on how to engage in a dirty campaign highlighting ethnic and religious differences.
While on the subject of politicians and arson, I'm reminded of the fires in a couple of Whitefield Social Clubs after a young politician within Dundee council was queeried over missing funds from the bar and the pool table in these establishments. Both clubs burned to the ground and the account ledgers destroyed in the fires which unfortunately burnt just a few short hours before the books were to be seized for investigation.
