Galloway: Enigmatic Puss?
ByBeing marooned thousands of miles from Britain doesn’t mean I miss every twist and turn in the George Galloway/Big Brother saga thanks to regular updates from British blogs (most notably the irrepressible Harry’s Place).
Courtesy of Harry, we kick off today with an excerpt from Radio 4 in which Ian McMillan reads a poem inspired by George’s feline antics. The audio is here. Text is below:
George Galloway’s a Mystery cat; an enigmatic puss
Who slinks around the BB house and kicks up quite a fuss.
When his fellow housemates diss his thesis based on Alienation
Of the lumpenproletariat George fears for his reputation
As Galloway, George Galloway, there’s no-one quite like Galloway
He sees the world in black and white and scorns the very thought of grey
But in the BB house he’s just another famous face
And we’re watching and we’re waiting for each famous fall from grace;
George Galloway’s a smooth old cat; his voice is pure shot silk
And his tache is dripping sexily where Rula spilt her milk
And folks like George go in the house to show the watching youth
That politicians aren’t just crooks who like to bend the truth…
But Galloway, George Galloway, be careful you don’t throwaway
Any respect you might have gained; rejection’s just a text away
Cos in the BB house you’re just another Z-list mug
To be laughed at then ignored and then discarded with a shrug;
George Galloway’s an MP, but the voters stand in line
At his vacant MP’s surgery, while he sits quaffing wine
With a basketball sensation with the manners of a bear
And when constituents bring their complaints, Well Galloway ‘s not there!
Oh Galloway, George Galloway, you thought that you were well away,
Until an ancient DJ wandered in the house the other day
And Rula Lenska flicked her tail at Jimmy Savile’s hair
Cos when it comes to true star quality
Well…
Galloway ‘s not there…
Meanwhile, Marcus at Harry’s Place says that despite being cut off from the world George “has twigged that his prolonged stay in the Big Brother House might be attracting some attention from his colleagues in the other House.” And it isn’t the kind of attention he wants. You can read more here.
And finally Clive Davis has an interesting quote from Johann Hari in the Independent:
For years, I have had a protracted row with people who believe George Galloway is truly, madly, deeply opposed to Saddam Hussein and to dictatorships across the world. No, no, he wasn’t saluting Saddam, they’d say – he was saluting the Iraqi people he had just being massacring in their tens of thousands…
But now when know for sure. On “Celebrity Big Brother”, the most revealing moment has not been the MP’s purring puss impression, nor his car-crash Elvis impersonation. It is when he was asked by Rula Lenska, “Was he [Saddam] hated by the ordinary [Iraqi] people?” He replied: “Not at all; not at all…as is obvious now; now they admit that. He was hated by political opponents as he suppressed all opposition political forces, but he wasn’t hated by the ordinary Iraqi – no, not at all”.
To anybody but the wilfully blind, it is now undeniable Galloway is minimising Saddam’s crimes. He could not keep up the act while being filmed for three weeks…Look at the opinon polls – the same ones Galloway quotes when they say they want the American troops out: they find that 97 percent – 97 percent – of Iraqis hate Saddam.
… I hope all sane people – from whom I exclude his groupies in the Respect ‘Coalition’ – will now acknowledge that George Galloway is an apologist for Ba’athism, and apologise for disputing what was clearly, blatantly staring them in the face all along..
