Galloway, the grit in the oyster: The Mail's take on George's bid to become an MSP.

"The Holyrood Labour party in action is not a pretty sight. If it gains power next month the Cabinet could come to resemble the social committee of a 1960s working men's club.

"Their response to finding an alternative way of making spending cuts in the public sector has been patchy and unconvincing.

"It has been left to Galloway, campaigning on a fairer cuts ticket, to point up the iniquity of the richest companies in the UK withholding taxes worth hundreds of millions in dodgy avoidance schemes."

"At the age of 28 he was Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party following a period when he led Dundee City Council. The words 'firebrand', 'controversial' and 'mercurial' have never since featured in the same sentence as that city on the Tay.

"In 1987 he defeated Roy Jenkins in Glasgow Hillhead, a feat that even his closest supporters thought was beyond him. And when John Smih became Labour leader a few years later, it seemed that Galloway was destined for a Cabinet position under the only party leader to whom he ever bent his knee".

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George Galloway on Kashmir - speaking in 1990

Yellow-bellied Lib-Dems to blame for cuts

WANDERING the streets of Glasgow in 2011, grass grows in the potholes and despair grows in the hearts of the poor and the unemployed.

Life expectancy for men in some parts of the former "second city of the empire" is lower than in most of the former empire.

And the Con-Dem Thatcherites have cut another £100million from public services.

I don't blame the Tories; that's the kind of vermin they are. I blame their Lib Dem auxiliaries without whom it couldn't happen.

George on Stop the War emergency demonstration

A Coalition Against Cuts

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George Galloway has announced that he has reached agreement with community and trade union activists and organisations, including Solidarity, to stand as a Coalition Against Cuts in the forthcoming Scottish parliamentary elections.

"I'm very pleased we have been able to come to an agreement on a common programme against the cuts. These will devastate our public services and blight thousands of lives," said George Galloway.

"We have a full slate of candidates, a very strong team including Angela McCormick, a longstanding anti-war and anti-poverty campaigner, Brian Smith who is Branch Secretary of Glasgow Unison and leader of the Defend Glasgow Services Campaign as well as students and community activists.“

“We will be campaigning to resist these cruelly unnecessary and counter-productive cuts. We will provide a range of proposals to take Glasgow and Scotland forward.”

"It's got three letters ... O ... I ... L"

Last nights Young People's Question Time on BBC 3 was dominated by Libya.

George on occupation at Glasgow University

George Galloway statement on the removal of the sit-in at Glasgow University.

"Since when have police been employed as brutal bailiffs by what is effectively a closed private company - Glasgow University, run with about as much democratic accountability as Muammar Gaddafi's Libya?" George Galloway said. "Students were peacefully occupying a building bought and paid-for by the public purse in protest at the savage £20 million cuts Anton 'Axeman' Muscatelli intends to impose, agreed only by his sycophants and paid hirelings. Glasgow University - and universities full stop - must be democratically accountable and not run as the private fiefdom of here today gone tomorrow academics whose real ambition is a knighthood and several fat directorships. What is the Rector of this university, Charlie Kennedy, saying about this? Silence equals supine acceptance."

Galloway added that he would be visiting the new occupation shortly to lend his support.

George Galloway discusses Libya on BBC Radio Scotland

George Galloway on Sky News on Libya

Galloway to head Coalition Against Cuts list

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George Galloway today announced he had reached agreement with community and trade union activists and organisations, including Solidarity, to stand as a Coalition Against Cuts in the forthcoming Scottish parliamentary elections.

“I’m very pleased we have been able to come to an agreement on a common programme against the cuts. These will devastate our public services and blight thousands of lives,” said George Galloway.

"We have a full slate of candidates, a very strong team including Angela McCormick, a longstanding anti-war and anti-poverty campaigner, Brian Smith who is Branch Secretary of Glasgow Unison and leader of the Defend Glasgow Services Campaign as well as students and community activists. “

Should we intervene in Libya?

With talk of intervention in Libya growing, George alloway argues against British involvement, while Conservative MP Mark Pritchard says inaction is not an option. Susanna Rustin adjudicates.

Read the debate in The Guardian here

Galloway lambasts police and law officers for failure over Neil Lennon security

Letter sent today to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Scotland's chief law officer, and Stephen House, the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police

I am writing to you as a former Glasgow Member of Parliament for 18 years and prospective candidate for Glasgow in the forthcoming Scottish parliamentary election. My concern is the intolerable situation regarding the Celtic manager Neil Lennon and what appears to be the complete lack of effective action by the police and the justice authorities to identify, arrest and prosecute those who have made series of death threats against him and his close family.

Mr Lennon has, I understand, 24-hour police and security protection, a panic alarm in his house and has to have his partner and child removed to a safe house when he is absent at matches. Prior to the recent Old Firm game he had credible death threats against his family and live ammunition sent to him in the post and since the match dozens of websites have emerged, some of which give his home address together with pictures of his partner and child. Many even call for him to be killed.

"The winds of change in the Arab world"

George will be speaking at the London School of Economics (central London) on "The winds of change in the Arab world" on Monday 7th March at 7.00pm

"The best way to bring about regime change is to stop propping up dictatorships"

"In he ambles, straight off the beach, a little dishevelled, a lot unshaven. This isn’t how he presented himself to the American Senate in 2005. He’s in Dubai on holiday with his family, and he seems relaxed. He talks with the skill of a 35-year career politician – the diction is immaculate, the voice beautifully modulated and clear. In fact, for a scourge of the British establishment, he is thoroughly charming and likeable. And then suddenly, in conversation, you realise he has made a series of twinkly-eyed allegations about very, very important British people being on the payroll of Muammar Gaddafi — allegations that will shortly make our lawyers tremble and blush — and the reputation of George Galloway, 56, becomes a little more easy to understand. That said, over coffee for an hour, discussing what the Arab revolutions mean, you’d be hard pushed for better company."

Interview with George Galloway - read it in full at www.arabianbusiness.com

George Galloway says no to western intervention in Libya

Listen to George Galloway on Radio Five Live this morning, destroying the case for “armed humanitarian assistance” by the West into Libya.

George is debating with former British ambassador to Libya, Sir Richard Dalton. Galloway asks where the calls for a no-fly zone were during Israel’s attack on Gaza. There is a marvellous moment when Sir Richard is completely silent and unable to respond to George.