[QUOTE=amrussell]
Here, just for a laugh, is a clip of Galloway announcing that Labour voters will burn in hell
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He’s just a Johnny come lately…the Tories have been saying that for years.
[QUOTE=PaulParkhead]
Point taken. I don’t believe any unelected quango should be able to force Galloway to resign. Actually, I’m not even sure why said quango has the power to suspend him.
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They don’t. It will be up to the Commons to decide whether to suspend him.
And the Standards and Privileges Committee is hardly an unelected quango - it’s a Commons’ committee of MPs elected by MPs. Specific matters are delegated by the Commons to one of its committees, which then reports back with recommendations. That’s the way the Commons has been conducting business for centuries.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is unelected. But he has no powers, can only make recommendations to the Commons and is answerable to them.
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto]
Few subjects have been as heartily debated as the guilt or innocence of MP George Galloway.
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In what forums? The ones devoted to finding ways to justify Bush’s invasion? By finding “evidence” that containment was failing, and that the war was actually the appeaser-collaborators’ fault?
[QUOTE=Dominic Mulligan]
Hardly far out. He believes the war in Iraq was immoral and illegal - those who voted the perpetrators in, given what they knew, are therefore also immoral, no?
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We’re talking about local council elections. Even if you accept the premise that a vote for Labour is a vote for the Iraq war (as opposed to say, a vote for their recycling initiative), Galloway is still presuming to speak for God. It is completely nucking futs to think that at the pearly gates, St Peter will say, “Charity worker, one happy marriage, helped a friend get through depression, but, hey, you voted Labour in a local election - burn, you sick mother, burn”. Introducing this sort of rhetoric into British political discourse is a) offensive, b) a massive retrograde step and c) desperate pandering to radical Islamists. It’s sad, it’s desparate and it’s just wrong.
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[QUOTE=amrussell]
Here, just for a laugh, is a clip of Galloway announcing that Labour voters will burn in hell
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That is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen!