Is it just me, or did George Galloway look completely bug-fuck crazy on Question Time last night - all starey eyes, and barking exclamations? I think the CIA is putting something in his porridge...
It's my theory (well, ok, that's stretching it a little - it is my unfounded speculation) that he never actually made it back from Washington after giving evidence to the House, and that he's been replaced by a double with the job of totally discrediting him - I mean, Celebrity Big Brother? Say no more...
No, he was my MP back in the 80's in Glasgow - charming, clever, very committed to middle-East affairs (as well as Ugandan affairs, if I remember rightly. He'd come out of War on Want, I think, and was actually quite a good costituency MP.
He's a bloody awful one at the moment. His interest in Tower Hamlets constituency matters (Crossrail, the future of the Royal London, stuff like that) beyond playing to the Muslim gallery is pretty minimal.
It seems to be non-existent. I wonder how much of his behaviour is down to the seduction of the far from innocent, and how much of it is a genuine despair about what he sees as ongoing attrocity.
I've got a can of the diet stuff on my desk just now - I'm banned from the sugary rush of the regular version.
Their advertising still makes me smile:
At the moment they're running the fairly amusing "We're Backing Scotland in the World Cup" campaign, centering on Jason Scotland of Trinidad and Tobago, and I'll put up the links to the TV spots if I remember.
I researched the campaign when they were using a song parody - bah, my memory's going. Something else we don't get here. The ads I mean. And my memory.
Unfortunately GG is up there with Michael Moore in having lots of good things to say, and the position to say them widely but it is all ruined by the manic raving delivery and the paranoid conspiracy theorising.
It was the first time I've seen him quite so bug-eyed - normally he gives the impression of someone manfully reigning in his contempt, this time he reminded me of Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast".
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Maybe Jeremy Paxman put something in his Irn-Bru.
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Mind you, I like the low-cal version, which is very hard to buy round here, although whenever I drink it, I feel I'm basically missing the point.
I did research on their advertising, way back in the day...
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Their advertising still makes me smile:
At the moment they're running the fairly amusing "We're Backing Scotland in the World Cup" campaign, centering on Jason Scotland of Trinidad and Tobago, and I'll put up the links to the TV spots if I remember.
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I researched the campaign when they were using a song parody - bah, my memory's going. Something else we don't get here. The ads I mean. And my memory.
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