Galloway criticises Respect office - Respect Split

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Last night I started reading the comments on the link where the letter from Carole Swords was published and left a message calling those who attacked her a bunch of whinging arseholes.

I went back today and was absolutely disgusted by some of the comments and insults thrown at her. She's stood her ground well though. check it out - it's quite a lot of reading, but really shows how bitter the SWP people are. I'm about to remove the 'Lenin's Tomb' link from the Galloway section after seeing his wanky comments.

http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=1574

[nico]

[Mandy]

Note the feedback : http://independent.co.uk/galloway


Biased article .. an anti-GG hatchet job ..

Posted by: Anon | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 08:07 AM

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Biased article written by a journalist with NO respect. There are plenty if reasons not to like George Galloway. If your a conservative or a bigot, zionist, racist, facist or war monger in any way you will definately not like him.

Posted by: anon | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 09:55 AM

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What's the issue here? George and his supporters are backing Ken Livingstone for mayor, so why not simply call them 'New Labour'?

Posted by: lenin | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 09:56 AM

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Why Not ... "The Honest party"... Like him or loath him, we know him to be much more Honest that NuLabour...He was the only Politician in the house to correctly anticipate the Chaos and Defeat that we have suffered in Iraq.

Posted by: Hal | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 10:38 AM

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The only ones who feel Georgie Boy is bad for British Politics they are are the ones normally tagged to Fascist- Tories- Zionist- Right Whingers gutter press -and all those with there heads buried in the sand.

We should be in total support to someone who takes a stand on all that is bloody wrong" with this world.
name me one member of the cabinet who is able to take on the US Senate-in fact name me one member who has half the charisma and guts like GG.

I say go get em George its a shame you cannot clone him.
Hes got my vote no matter what his party is called !!!!!

Posted by: Carole | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 11:11 AM

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One of the most biased articles I have ever read in this newspaper, shame on you, we need MP's like George Galloway
who are not lapdogs of party policy and think for themselves

Posted by: SteveN | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 11:21 AM


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Disrespect! are you not fed up with that one yet Graysee.
what hat have you got on today John New Labour the Lib-Dem. Lapdog for Fitzpatrick. union turncoat.
you know your mate Oona was ousted because Galloway spoke the truth not with fork tongue like your New Labour buddies
Good luck to Mr Galloway in the GLA and more luck getting rid of Fitzpatrick.

Good name for the party 'The Anti Sleaze Party'
that all we have had to endure from your so called buddies
(by the way no-one can stand you)

Posted by: anon | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 11:39 AM

[nico]

Mandy I haven't been following this lately, what exactly is going on?
where did it all start and why?

[Mandy]

[Axlsbabe]

hes looking old in that pic, wonder how recent it is

[nico]

Thanks guys

[Axlsbabe]

Just got this in the mail -

Dear friend

Below is a letter written by Respect MP George Galloway to the editor of The Independent newspaper after its story this morning alleging that George was no longer part of Respect.

We're still waiting for a response from the editor. Please visit http://www.respectrenewal.org for updates.

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To the editor

The story which you run on Page 17 of The Independent today alleging I have split from Respect is deliberately inaccurate and unless a prominent retraction is printed by you tomorrow I intend to refer it to the Press Complaints Commission.

Your reporter James Macintyre made no attempt to contact me or my office (all of my numbers and those of my colleagues are widely known to your staff and easily obtainable and I had no missed calls on my mobile phone at any time yesterday from whoever James Macintyre is) and it is entirely based on a totally fallacious story which ran, briefly, on the BBC website before being replaced with the accurate version.

I have not split from Respect and have no intention of doing so. It is the anti-democratic Socialist Workers' Party faction which has left Respect but is trying to claim custody of the party name. The ownership of the name Respect legally resides with my close colleague Linda Smith - as the Electoral Commission can confirm - who is supporting my Greater London Assembly candidature.

The proposal to stand a list broader than Respect in the GLA elections is not new and was first raised by me in an article in the Morning Star last November. The proposal is to have a slate which is not an alternative to Respect but is more than Respect  Respect plus. To achieve such a slate it will, for legal reasons, have to run under a different name.

Splits in Respect do not go back to 2005. The division within Respect came to a head over a letter sent by me to Respect's National Council last August about the way that National Secretary John Rees was running the organisation. In particular it was over his acceptance of a $10,000 donation from a foreign businessman which I referred to the Electoral Commission who will now decide if it was illegally accepted.

I am not rarely seen at Westminster. I attend my office every day including weekends, as any lobby correspondent can testify. This is a deliberate smear.

All of this would have been made clear to the reporter had he made genuine attempts to contact me or my spokespeople. He preferred, instead, to concoct a totally fabricated tale plagiarised from a fleeting and wrong BBC internet account.

I therefore demand an apology and a correction to this smear story.

George Galloway MP

[Mandy]

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cheers for posting that letter axls

[nekokate]

It'll be interesting to see if they publish a retraction. Shame on The Independent, though - that's the only paper I buy, it's usually quite good.

[Mandy]

[faceless]

I see they didn't post my comment. Probably because I said that the reason he didn't think Galloway was in Parliament that much was because he (the journalist) was too busy in the back rooms sucking off New Labour mps.

[Mandy]

[faceless]

it did go to pre-post moderation - it said it was because the spam-filter picked up something. Probably the swearing.

I posted around 1pm