Fighting Talk.....

He is simply the most obnoxious, self centred, pig ignorant MP this country has ever seen. he is a shite constituency MP because he is too busy involving himself in the affairs of Iraq or wherever takes his fancy. He pissed most of the UK off with his constant apparent consorting with the murderous butcher Saddam Hussein. He is proud of ousting on of the only black woman MP's from her seat in Bethnal Green and Bow. He formed his party, Respect, in order to rally the anti-war vote. Personally I dislike both him and his politics, especially his faux-socialist policies and his pro-life/anti-abortion views. Plus, he is an absolute misery guts with no apparent sense of humour.

But whatever you or I think of George Galloway , you cannot deny that he is news, and he is utterly committed to his views. I watched in absolute fascination as he single handedly took on the US Senate yesterday and left both Senators Coleman and Levin (pro-war, anti - respectively) absolutely floundering at his attack on the US government, its policies and US companies trading in Iraq. His attack on Rumsfeld was frankly fucking superb, outlining brilliantly that he had visted Saddam as many times as Rumsfeld, but HADN'T sold him guns and maps "the better with which to target his guns".

The yanks are obviously not use to this level of open and honest polticial discussion, but to me it showed the best of adversarial and argumentative British politics, even with one of the single most dislikeable people we have in government. Watch the highlights on the BBC web site here and marvel at his complete and utter intransigence when being asked questions by the two senators.

Also, try downloading or listening to the excellent 5 Live Fighting Talk election special. The BBC (again showing real licence value for money) let you download certain shows to your PC, or MP3 player for subsequent listening. Fighting Talk, hosted by the increasingly funny Christian O' Connell is now required listening in the Jack household each Saturday morning. Its worth downloading last weeks normal edition as well, both are laugh out loud funny...as the rest of my office discovered yesterday as I laughed loud and long at both.

Later GrocerJack