Scarey George

[f4f3]

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...

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[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea, but that does rather imply that he wasn't barking before that, which I contest.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

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.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

He was still around when I was at Uni ... I recall people talking about him with a mixture of admiration and disgust ;)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

He still had a degree of personal charm back then - I'm not sure when he made the transition from maverick to rogue to unstable.

[liadnan]

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.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

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.