The Bizarre "Conservative Socialist" George Galloway

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[@kieraisverybored]

yeah it really sucks because as a leftist in the UK I am in the unfortunately very small minority that see him for who he is, a Putin backed demagogue. He’s tricked the majority of the far left and centre left quite convincingly which sucks a lot.

[@KikaNinja]

Same here in Germany, we got our own idiots

[@via9471]

​@@KikaNinjaGermany and the UK are so badly cooked. There is no working left in both countries, it's full of morons and conspiracy theorists. It's just sad to watch

[@SixteenJacobsCreams]

I feel like most people don't really like him, he's a pretty shitty person but sadly rare to have any pro palestine politicians

[@suomalainenvoima]

@@KikaNinjaWagenknecht?

[@DGAMINGDE]

Run your own candidates against people like him.

[@ActuallySatan]

I appreciate the use of stuff from the last video in the beginning. Real "Previously on Vaush" vibes.

[@TescoValueMemes369]

Dude saw a political compass and thought it was a Twister mat.

[@omp199]

It's more the other way round. He chooses positions based on firm and consistent principles, whereas most on what nowadays passes for the left choose positions based on nothing more than pissing off conservatives.

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

He's a Nazbol

[@CailinZwarts]

This is too accurate!

[@manjackson2772]

I saw chat asking about the guy with the giant hat in the background of George Galloway's victory speech. That's Ravin' Rodent Subortna, the candidate from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. His campaign issues were the introduction of a 99p coin and the eradication of homelessness amongst hedgehogs.

[@heathkuykendall9771]

Finally, a politician who's talking about the issues I care about!

[@Kevhuman]

Also carnival rides in the middle of all roundabouts. They got 200+ votes

[@zigowl1193]

The monster raving loony party are the most honest and respected political party in the country. 😅

[@razorednight]

He should have won. Ravin Rodent for prime minister 2024!

[@pancakes8670]

So the UK version of Vermin Supreme

[@user-pj5ub5cp9k]

Galloway is a RT employee, that's all you need to know.

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

so was chris hedges though, and chris hedges is also a pulitzer prize winning journalist and is still doing extremely good work

[@user-pj5ub5cp9k]

@@TheFamousMockingbird Galloway isn't a journalist.

[@TheSonOfRyan]

RT shitslinging is better than a tory. I don't care anymore

[@tschorsch]

​@@TheFamousMockingbirdTrue, but Hedges used a media outlet controlled by an authoritarian government. It severely affected his credibility.

[@alansmith4655]

​@user-pj5ub5cp9k that's not the point though is it.

[@thaenaa]

ok but for real vaush is dressed just like ness here it's uncanny

[@misirtere9836]

ness is when striped shirt

[@taylorledet3993]

No he is Asriel can’t you tell?

[@slackershrub8923]

Vess

[@ofanichan]

Vaush is SANS!!!

[@_____Astral_____]

​@@taylorledet3993no that's clearly monster kid

[@curvingfyre6810]

To be fair to him, it IS technically an israel free zone. Israel isn't there. Quite a distance away in fact,

[@somebloke2238]

I think he was talking about boycotting of Israeli goods which tbf I fully support

[@questioneverything8572]

The Planet should be an Israeli-free zone.

[@curvingfyre6810]

@@questioneverything8572 See, that's exactly the sorta shit from western activists that makes palestine get zero international support

[@disdoncable]

@@questioneverything8572 Sorry that your halal dreams aren't going to become a reality

[@questioneverything8572]

@@disdoncable I'm an Atheist. Believe it or not but Muslims aren't the only people who hate you Zionists lmao

[@sullen2420]

I WISH Democrats in the U.S. could talk to the media like this....people look past a lot of his bad ideas and weird personality because he FIGHTS. Nobody fights in America, nobody.

[@Powerof7even]

The problem with this approach though is to the vast majority of people he comes across as unhinged and just generally not very positive. You wouldn't get labour party MPs talking like this to sky news even though they may want to for example.

[@XMysticHerox]

@@Powerof7evenThats because he *is* unhinged not because how he talks. People love that. Just look at Bernie. Or Trump for that matter frankly. Trump speaks absolute nonsense and is ancient and still comes across as more energetic than most Democrats. Simply because he makes clear statements even if those are nonsense half the time. None likes political whaffling unwilling to commit to anything. But thats all that liberal politicians have most of the time. And no it's not because they are particularly nuanced. It's because they always go for the broadest possible target audience. But most people sort of being ok with you is often not enough nor desirable.

[@watamatafoyu]

Passion over policy, got it.

[@sullen2420]

@@Powerof7even That's why Labour and Democrats are SO intolerably weak. Things are NOT positive and people will respond to that type of attitude. It reflects our reality.

[@sullen2420]

@@watamatafoyu You need BOTH of those. Here in America, we don't have EITHER. Even if you have the policies...without passion, how do you expect to sell those ideas to ordinary people??

[@xb2856]

Everything vaush liked about this guy is being done already by the snp but with better politics

[@xuxuang8574]

The SNP are only concerned with Scotland. If they stood for election down here I'd vote for them, but they only care about Scotland.

[@aigarsjevers1274]

Vaush when talking about US politics: fascism is bad never give a fascist a chance Vaush when talking about UK politics: he is a firebrand populist he can realy shake things up in UK parliment.

[@walterk9916]

I mean the UK's politics are a mess

[@leftisthindrance]

It’s the UK fascism is super common

[@XMysticHerox]

@@walterk9916So is US politics. Anglophone brainrot.

[@XMysticHerox]

Literally. In US politics Vaush rightfully gets mad at Bernie or Bust nonsense. For the UK and other nations he happily repeats the exact same nonsense.

[@lewisw3436]

True!

[@DanteCorwyn]

He's a carpetbagging waste of space. His anti SNP party was a joke, when he was in the Labour party he had the biggest expense account going (classic champagne socialist), and at least one charity fundraiser he was involved in had its money disappear.

[@Nerobyrne]

I think socialism has always attracted abusers and narcissists, which is why to this day it's full of infighting.

[@AnthonySopran0]

Literally every socialist streamer is a Champagne socialist

[@Frserthegreenengine]

As a Labour supporter myself, I'm so glad he didn't get elected to the Scottish Parliament. He would have been one of the best gifts the SNP could have asked for.

[@alfsmith4936]

@@AnthonySopran0 It's easier to promote than gulags.

[@mickmacgonigle5021]

Accusations without evidence..par for the course

[@Nerobyrne]

That reporter was so bad at interviewing him that I felt like supporting Galloway. What a goof.

[@radical6905]

non progressive leftists are fairly common in UK and Europe generally. Galloway is weirder than just that descriptor tho

[@SarastistheSerpent]

A non-progressive leftist is either a neo-liberal, or basically a member of the far right

[@omp199]

"Progressive" doesn't mean what it used to. The people who are thought of as "progressive" now are anything but. There's still a lot of social progress that we could be making, but today's "progressives" are pushing in completely the wrong direction. Better to be socially conservative - i.e., to stay where we are - than to go in that direction.

[@Empyre18]

39:25 Nah, Vaush, I’m with Chat on this one, and this is a rare disagreement with you from me. You are kinda talking about Galloway in identical language to how people talk about other demagogues who present the right formula of Entertaining, Confident, and Half-right. If the Trump comparison is too on-the-nose, here’s a different one: before I learned more about leftism, I felt a similar way about Nigel Farage in the early 2010’s: I thought he was a hoot, I laughed my ass off when he told Herman Van Rompuy to his face that he looked like a low-grade bank clerk, and I thought that even though I didn’t care for his actual politics, he was at least a useful gadfly to shake up a smug and self-important European political establishment and be a lone voice who talked about how much austerity sucked and how badly Greece was getting screwed over. Fast forward from 2010 to 2016, and he became a lot less funny. I find the campist vs. fascist distinction academic at best, and I think you underestimate 2016-era Trump’s appeal of being the guy who filled the role of being Finally A Guy in Politics Who Was Saying Neoliberalism Sucked. He legitimately felt refreshing to a lot of folks at the time. It’s just that his solutions were nonexistent to monstrous. Galloway would be the same. Finally, I think dismissing concerns about LGBT rights under Galloway by pointing to the (true) fact that Labour are as useful as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest is naive about how it really could get meaningfully worse. Galloway would be no different: a cure who’s worse than the disease. I don’t hold this against you, but I hope this is a lesson that no one, even you, is immune to demagoguery.

[@jascu4251]

We're lucky that while both Farage and Galloway are skilled orators and politicians they both have huge limitations as well which limited their reach. If Farage had convincingly been pro-NHS and had triangulated to include that in his platform, I think he could potentially have smashed the ceiling he imposed on himself. In different ways I feel like both Galloway and Farage have about 60-70% of what is needed to build that kind of movement that could sweep them to power, but that the remaining 30% or so acts as a huge block on them doing so (thankfully!). The addition of Brexit created a huge opportunity they failed to take (I'm surprised they didn't form some kind of alliance)

[@salomongilberto5347]

I agree, Vaush should not dismiss the danger of this level of demgagoguery, its naive and it speaks of carelessness. Campists are known for having no actual real positions or beliefs outside their team, however, he is also (ideologically) a conservative whose plattaform can be unchallenged considering the current status quo of the UK. Its better to know what you are facing than not knowing and this guy can flip to a bad position, and there is no way to know which one. Its dangerous

[@jascu4251]

@@salomongilberto5347 I would argue that Galloway is pretty consistent and predictable. Ironically, for all its faults, the UK's political system is structurally quite robust. I think its quite difficult for someone like Galloway to build anything outside his personal brand Lets not forget the huge opportunity Brexit presented as a vehicle to either Farage or any other potential demagogue to harness, and the abject failure to take advantage of it

[@xuxuang8574]

​@@jascu4251 Farage is probably the most successful individual politician we've seen in the UK for a hundred years.

[@TheSpeep]

Worth keeping in mind that "Finally a guy in politics who says neoliberalism sucks" is kinda exactly what people mean when they say fascism is the socialism of fools.

[@np4029]

3:29 "There are plenty of muslims in the UK who are conservative." Never has stating the obvious been more obviously stated 😅

[@WeenusMcMenace-dm6ep]

That's not so obvious to Americans, since Muslims are lean left due to massive racism from the Republican party. They might not know that everywhere else in the world Muslims are largely conservative

[@TheTokkin]

As Christoperh Hitchens pointed out at the time, Galloway wasn't banished from Labour for merely opposing the Iraq War. There were plenty of Labour MPs that opposed the war. Galloway was explicitly calling for the killings of British service members in Iraq and celebrating their fascist killers as "freedom fighters".

[@jeannedarc7533]

Because the Iraqis that did resist neocon imperialism WERE freedom fighters, whether you like it or not!

[@allmodcons2274]

Hitchens regretted his stance on Iraq in the end, once he realised what the US was really up to.

[@alfsmith4936]

He was actually kicked out because he said Adolph was a Zionist.

[@elgee6202]

Because Galloway consistently supports the right of occupied people to resist their occupier - violently, if necessary. Nelson Mandela led an armed struggle against Apartheid and was responsible for bombings and murders. He was on terror watchlists until 2008. Was he a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Almost every revolution or overthrow of a regime has taken place via bloodshed. The British Empire was dismantled by violent uprising in the colonised lands. This is nothing new and Galloway's position isn't novel or surprising given today's general sentiments towards (i.e. against) imperialism and colonisation. It's an old but pertinent and ever true adage: one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It entirely depends on whose standpoint you're viewing it from.

[@TheTokkin]

@@allmodcons2274 no he didn't. The iraq war was justified. Hitchens thought it wasn't as effectively persecuted as it should have been. All of the anti war claims about oil, gold etc turned out to be bullshit. Today iraq is a parliamentary republic with a nationalized oil company: exactly the thing every antiwar activist thought was impossible.

[@no_expert]

Just for the record - this thumping majority Galloway speaks about is 39.7% of a 39.7% turnout. Unless I am completely forgetting how to do GCSE maths, that means that 15.8% of those who could vote did vote for him. Not quite the majority he claims.

[@RealOGfikey]

These are similar figures for a lot of elections though. You're not proving anything.

[@faelirra]

@@RealOGfikeyit's proving that the majority of the area was against him.

[@RealOGfikey]

@@faelirra That's not logical at all. Otherwise the majority of the area was against everyone else as well.

[@KavsLockedOut]

​@@faelirranon-voters don't count. If they were against him, they'd vote.

[@no_expert]

​@@RealOGfikey Yes, the majority of the area was against everyone else too. This showcases the problem with majoritarian electoral systems and also is a good argument for why having elections go through with such a low turnout produces an illegitimate winner.

[@markbaker4425]

Hes been around forever and his whole schtick is "im the white saviour of uk muslims" Its such a grift i hope my islamic countrymen realize theyre being taken for a ride.

[@zivkovicable]

I think plenty of Muslim voters in Rochdale know exactly who he is, but wanted to send the strongest and loudest message possible to the UK Parliament regarding Gaza anyway. This has happened before. He waits until a constituency with a large Muslim population becomes available during a time of conflict (Iraq war last time), wins, but is then defeated at the next election cycle.

[@bendyrland7213]

​@@zivkovicableThanks for the perspective. Don't know much about this guy.

[@omp199]

Irony overload! You hope that Muslims realise that they're being taken for a ride. You never know with those naïve Muslims, do you? Lucky they have got you to look out for them! /s

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Galloway is a mixed bag. Against him is Brexit support and transphobia and stance on Ukraine and Syria but in his defence he was one of the central opponents to the Iraq war (which got him thrown out of Labour) and an almost lifetime support of Palestine, the highlight of which was him personally driving a convoy of food and medicine to Gaza from the UK. Seeing the scenes of him being greeted by tearful hungry Palestinians at the Raffah crossing was a soul touching moment, whatever extremely bad takes he has that one deed goes a long way for me

[@scooby1992]

True apart from he was thrown out of Labour for suggesting that the killing of British troops in Iraq was justified . You can agree with him on that and agree that they shouldnt have been there in the first place , but no mainstream UK political Party can have a member publicly calling for the killing of their country's troops.

[@davidpryle3935]

Traditionally many left wing people in Britain have been opposed to membership of the neoliberal EEC/EU.

[@LimeyLassen]

What is it with RT employees and having public fetishes

[@emizerri]

Galloway is a personality that teaches us how to give and take. His goods and bads are so extreme that they can be easily distinguished, showing clear nuance.

[@XMysticHerox]

Vaush in the US: Bernie or Bust is a ridiculous position to take. You always have to vote for the least bad option. We need to prevent fascism. Vaush on literally any other country: This funny fascistic campist is very goofy and it's good he won against both parties actually since it might stir some shit in regards to something I actually care bout.

[@Jasonsmith-sr1ke]

Also Vaush: I don’t know what fascism is

[@Jasonsmith-sr1ke]

The least bad option is Trump. Vote Trump.

[@quorryraphael9980]

See who you've summoned? This guy who doesn't know what fascism is and wants trump in office

[@KavsLockedOut]

Look. I'm a Brit, everything's fucked. The economy is fucked. Rent and food are through the roof. And the Tories are to blame. He's not someone I would support, but he's someone that it's easy to rally support against, being that he's fuckin insane an all

[@nathanmeagher7869]

This guy sounds like a grifter version of Jeremy Corbyn dashed with transphobia

[@Themlpg73]

If he's a grifter, you can call every other politician the same. The guy has been much more consistent than most liberal politicians. It doesn't mean I agree with him but he's not a grifter.

[@rationalroundhead6739]

Dashed?! It's bloody drenched, mate.

[@swaythegod5812]

What does supporting trans have to do with supporting working class honesty

[@Lotan_]

@@Themlpg73 The fact that literally nothing has come of his "work", and that all his "support" human rights was just lip service with little to no voting behind it, screams grifter.

[@rationalroundhead6739]

@@swaythegod5812 “what does solidarity have to do with socialism honestly”

[@SarastistheSerpent]

This guy is an absolute monster. Unfortunately however, essentially all left wing UK media channels have been championing him, and there is a very active extreme social conservative element of the “left” in the UK. It’s terrifying that anyone on the left supports this guy.

[@Kevhuman]

Because the official "left" kicked out all the actual lefties over false antisemitism. They sold out to Israel . George is the only loud voice against genocide . I absolutely support his views on Isreal. George is one of the greatest orator of modern times.

[@chazcmeekins83]

Wait.....so is there any Left media In Britain that would critique/criticize this guy....like at all?

[@Charlie-et4td]

There isn't any left media in the UK. There are a few social media channels like Novara, but they will simply back anything that anyone they like the aesthetic of says, and then anyone who actually makes a difference gets grilled for leftist purity...​@@chazcmeekins83

[@xuxuang8574]

​@@chazcmeekins83There isn't any Left wing media at all.

[@xuxuang8574]

What left wing UK media channels?

[@JenkinsOwen]

If only there was a name for socialism WITHOUT internationalism

[@dildonius]

What does "internationalism" mean in this context? Genuinely asking.

[@theoldcavalier7451]

Like a nationalist socialist…

[@User39814]

Lmao​@@theoldcavalier7451

[@dildonius]

@@theoldcavalier7451 That wouldn't be socialism, however.

[@horacioelconserjeopina3956]

​@@theoldcavalier7451I'm a national socialist, not in the grifter genocidal way, but in practical, patriotic, communal and conservative socialism

[@walexander8378]

When the state fails and democracy is zombified, you get very strange politicians.

[@tobymaltby6036]

As an inhabitant of Perfidious Albion, I agree.

[@geedee1264]

I'm glad you agree the British were and are deceitful, plus Galloway has been a politician since before either of you were probably born

[@tobymaltby6036]

@@geedee1264 Well our politicians certainly are....but, ummmm... Hey US citizen: like, your politicians *AREN'T???!*

[@shoutykenneth5115]

For those who haven't visited Rochdale, think Dark souls 3 undead settlement.

[@benjaminmatheny6683]

Vaush is basically making the same arguments that the Trump supporters are making in defense of this guy. "He shakes things up". etc.

[@nock3893]

Missing the point

[@riverroth3688]

PERFIDIOUS ALBION oh my GOD.

[@dildonius]

Albion-line, laughing at Galloway for using phrases like "Perfidious Albion."

[@AkivaMerkavah]

yes he's quoting imperial germany what a forward thinking progressive

[@geedee1264]

The British Empire was called the Albion, and Perfidious Albion was used by many people who opposed the British Empire, "Imperial Germany" didn't invent the term 😂

[@geedee1264]

Perfidious Albion simply means deceitful Britain. And ummmm.. Britain gained its Empire through deceit , it's not a German Empire term it's been used in every colonised country the British ransacked

[@holyguy2940]

@@AkivaMerkavaham sure plenty of the people Britain colonized would call them perfidious

[@djungelskog9581]

Critical Support for Galloway to continue his eternal rivalry with eylon levy

[@lindsaycole8409]

Welcome to George Galloway, the tankiest tankie that ever tankied.

[@swanstarr1441]

He is antisemitic. He said tottenham (a club predominantly supported by Jews) winning the Premier League would mean "Israel flags on the cup".

[@loxism72]

Because that's all you saw that season at shite fart lane. Tell me clown, everything these days is Antisemitic, why is that.

[@fifiadan]

This is a dishonest talking point if I’ve ever seen one. I’m curious wether you made this up or have just been manipulated. The basis for his statement is not simply that Jews support spurs, the owners of spurs has actual links to Israel and there’s a lot online you can read up onto see why it is not antisemitic

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Antisemitism doesn't include anti Israeli but it can include it.

[@geedee1264]

No he isn't antisemitic, like he pointed out "Is Tommy Robinson Jewish when he flies the Israeli flag?"

[@richardhunter132]

I think it's good that there's an MP in parliament speaking out on this issue, and I'm happy that Labour has been given a bloody nose, but there's still a large amount of things to dislike Galloway about: his apparent support for Russia; his hypocrisy over Scottish independence; his blatant grifting etc.

[@dildonius]

That's the thing. Sure, it's _nice_ that there is now an MP in British Parliament who is loudly & proudly opposed to the genocide that Israel's Likud Party & the Israeli military is committing against Palestine/Palestinians and who is unafraid to call-out the Israeli military & Israel's Likud Party for what they're doing and have been doing for decades now (since before the Likud party itself even existed) and we _do_ desperately need more of the people who occupy political office around the world to do this (especially the people who occupy political office in The USA & in The UK & in all the other "1st world" democracies like Canada & Ireland & Australia & New Zealand & Germany & Japan & South Korea & South Africa etc etc etc) to follow suit; but it means nothing if he spends his time in office working to make things worse in the country. Like for example, it'd be great if a US Senator was equally eager & willing to call-out Likud/Netanyahu/IDF/etc for their attempted genocide of Palestinians. However, said Senator's eagerness & willingness to do that would ultimately mean nothing if they also spent their time in office eliminating/cutting social programs & welfare benefits and trying to cripple unions in his state and working to make the ultra wealthy even more wealthy at the expense of the working class and so-on and so-forth. Which isn't to say that's what this Galloway guy will do. I'm just illustrating an example of how there is a bigger picture when it comes to the people who hold elected office & political power. Illustrating how a politician's willingness to SPEAK OUT against the Palestinian genocide would be ultimately meaningless if the actual ACTIONS they took while in office were detrimental to the people & the nation as a whole.

[@Thought_Processing_]

Wasn’t a bloody nose for Labour, they disowned their candidate and he only ran under the banner of Labour due to a technicality, Labour provided him no support.

[@AB-zl4nh]

Supporting the unity of the UK, a country that has existed longer than the vast majority of countries in the world, is not hypocritical. Get a grip.

[@dildonius]

@@AB-zl4nh The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (formerly The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) has only existed since 1707, when The Act of Union united the nations of England (with Cornwall), Wales, Scotland, & Ireland into one single country. And I guarantee you there are many nations that can trace their history further back than 1707 and others that might not go as far back as 1707 but come very close (such as The United States of America, who declared their independence 69 years after The UK was formed, in 1776). And not to mention the fact that a little century-long conflict called *THE TROUBLES* led to nearly all of Ireland seceeding from The United Kingdom to form their own independent & autonomous republic (with only a tiny fraction of the northern section of Ireland remaining in The UK due to the fact that it was primarily populated by Protestants while the rest of Ireland was Catholic, leading them to ally with England & Britain), utilizing violent means quite often, ultimately resulting in nearly all of Ireland gaining their full independence and establishing The Republic of Ireland and causing The UK to change into The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So it isn't exactly unprecedented for the various nations of The UK to want to get out from under England's boot. After Brexit, the notion of Northern Ireland leaving the UK to finally reunify all of Ireland seemed entirely possible (especially since Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, as did Scotland and Wales too iirc and possibly Cornwall as well, with England being the only member of the UK where the majority voted to leave). Anyway, point is that it is indeed a bit hypocritical to claim to be opposed to imperialism while supporting the existence of The British Monarchy and being opposed to the nation of Scotland's independence movement. Wales & Cornwall are one thing. They have a many-centuries-long history of being English territories. However both Scotland and Ireland had been independent nations for much longer than they have been English territories. There is a significantly stronger national & cultural divide between Scotland and England than there is between Wales & England or Cornwall & England. Just as strong as the divide between Ireland & England. The main reason they've stayed unified for so long is the fact that they both occupy the isle of Britain, which is also probably why the isle of Ireland ultimately split from The UK. But make no mistake, Scotland & England _are_ 2 separate countries.

[@dildonius]

@@Thought_Processing_ You just described exactly why it's a bloody-nose for Labour. The fact that they worked so hard to sabotage him and ensure he absolutely did not get elected under any circumstances.....only for him to still get himself elected anyway. That is a bloody nose for Labour. As in that is embarrassing for Labour and makes them look bad.

[@BowlerHatMan]

The Only Person Galloway Cares About Is Galloway

[@tomimpala]

His Maiden speech backed up Rochdale quite a bit

[@lucasprobably]

i'm going to sit george down and not let him leave until he explains what "god made everything in pairs" means

[@steampunklemon1508]

To be fair, God clearly did make George Galloway’s election leaflets in pairs.

[@supersuede91]

Also ask him what his thoughts on trans women and men are while he's there

[@fifiadan]

Who the hell cares about peoples theories of gender? You people will have us live in a dystopia so long as the people running it believe men can be women.

[@for111]

Oh he'll tell you.

[@baileygregory9192]

How does that not make him left wing or socialist tho? Marx would probably agree that their are only 2 genders

[@LazyboneBandit]

Every single time Vaush tries to talk about the UK, he just says "dying empire" and realises he doesn't have any other talking points. The UK is such an easy country to criticise, but Vaush misses every single time because he can't be bothered to actually learn anything.

[@jascu4251]

For an American streamer I think he's pretty clued up on how things work, but you're right in that then when it comes to synthesising or analysing he falls short. I wouldn't say he can't be bothered to learn anything, I think he knows the structural stuff reasonably well, but he could benefit from having British guests on more I think (lonerbox I think has been on, Owen Jones too but I have significant misgivings about Jones)

[@wumpyjumps]

My feeling is he's talking out of his lane, where the lane is the biggest extent someone who wants to understand foreign politics (as in the issues of many different countries) can do. Unless he wants to treat the UK as one of two countries to fully understand (along with the USA) I think surface level understanding where you read up on overt, structural issues is the best that can be done. Trying to analyse the whole country, including its culture, from this small amount of knowledge is fruitless. It's best to have people who know a lot about Britain specifically on as guests to understand more, e.g. British pundits like LonerBox or anyone else with expertise.

[@simontaylor2143]

Phil from "a different bias" could school him

[@DamianMoody]

Yeah he is just embarrassing himself here, I don't even like GG myself but this take is simply uninformed.

[@rorysparshott4223]

He is absolutely clueless on the UK. He doesn't have to be an expert, but Jesus Christ he is unable to apply a single shred of nuance to any country other than the US.

[@stewy497]

I'm lost. If Galloway hates the UK, why'd he vote for Brexit and against Scottish independence? Both highly UK-nationalistic stances.

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Former yes, latter not so much. Most Scottish Unionists aren't really British nationalists. George Galloway is one though. However, this is quite common for British nationalists, they hate that the UK is not how they want it to be. Same with Morrissey, he very much hates the current UK establishment but he is very much a British nationalist.

[@stewy497]

@@Frserthegreenengine oh I'm aware of the nuance, I'm Scottish. I just think it's a bit confusingly ironic.

[@Oscar-rq8zr]

His support for Brexit might be a genuine desire to see the UK go back to the “good old days”, or it’s a position he holds because it fragments the West and we all know who else likes that idea

[@davidtkocz8356]

Because he is a screwball.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Russia Today was signal boosting both UKIP and pro brexit voices

[@historyandpoliticsexplaine4876]

Not saying Palestine is not critical but it should not be lost on anyone that russia loves that we have something else to argue about.

[@ArBee123]

Gods Vaush has so little political literacy when it comes to British politics.

[@geedee1264]

so do the brits, they don't even know who Freddie Scappaticci was or that 95 percent of Loyalist terrorists investigated in the Stevens Inquiry (a British inquiry) were working for British Intelligence, they don't teach you that in England. And just have a read of the recently released Stakeknife report, British agent in the IRA murdering all around him and being protected( "golden goose, untouchabke" one British officer called him) He killed many innocent people and the British made sure anybody who had an inkling he was a spy met a horrific end. Have a wee Google of Stakeknife

[@rorysparshott4223]

He genuinely hasn't a clue

[@MrDemian0666]

He has some good takes but he seems relatively nuts.

[@Techyena]

Bro’s a broken clock frfr

[@davidtkocz8356]

​@@Techyenayou beat me to it.

[@coolbanana165]

As far as I know the main reason this guy was elected was because Labour had to pull out at the last moment. So there's a good chance Labour will take this seat at the General Election.

[@runagaterampant]

Man I really hate campism.

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

you realize that you are participating it and vaush is a huge campist also...just for a different country/view. if you identify as a socialist you are by defintion a campist, as it is baked into the ideology to not be loyal to one exclusive nation but it cross borders and be in solidarity with a philosophy or political system

[@blobbie8431]

@@TheFamousMockingbirdlol. lmao even.

[@XMysticHerox]

@@TheFamousMockingbird He really isn't. Neither is OP presumably. And very obviously so. Vaushs positions on Israel and Ukraine taken together completely invalidate the idea he is a campist. Which side is he apparently supporting here? And no. Campism is not in any way socialist. It is a purely reactionary idea that rejects actual principles in favor of pseudo nationalism supporting a broad geopolitical "side". Campism is not "in solidarity" with a political system. Certainly not a philosophy. Campists support all sorts of systems. Just look at all the tankies still cheering Russia on despite having a fundamentally different form of government.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@TheFamousMockingbird Please learn what any of these words mean.

[@mochapoke3100]

I remember reading about him and i was like " yoo workers party candidate who actually gives a shit about the genocide?? " then i proceeded to research him and realized he very much does not support ukraine, wants to leave nato and has.. i dont even know what opinions on trans people

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Also supported Sadam Hussain and also Assad and denied his use of chemical weapons against his own people. Also supports China annexing Taiwan.

[@MPostma72]

@@FrserthegreenengineHe gives of "Non-Western imperialism is good actually" vibes.

[@Lotan_]

@@MPostma72 It's not just a vibe. He is fully in support of Russian imperialism.

[@scooby1992]

I end up 100% supporting what he says on some subjects and 100% not supporting him on others . there is no middle ground for me with Galloway .

[@MPostma72]

@@scooby1992 Like they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[@OhNotThat]

31:28 Leftists have A LOT to learn from George Galloway here, this mainstream reported was not only denied any useful soundbites (do u condemn hamas) but also got absolutely humiliated and dominated by George. This was embarrassing for the guy. I would fire him after this utterly shameful display. He controlled the conversation, gave the reporter absolutely nothing to use against him and then walked off fed up with him being so bad. Calling the PM irrelevent to boot, he should have also probably said Rishi (already suitably insulted) "was an irrelevant little man that none should mind or pay much heed to cause in a couple of months he'll be gone anyway". Dude oozes chad and alpha energy. Leftists take note, this is how you deal with hostile reporting, you don't just "answer the questions" lmao.

[@dorianleakey]

Lol, Vaush talking about UK politics as if the US is better, despite your insane system.

[@jeremymr]

I just remember his debate on the Iraq War with Christopher Hitchens, Galloway was PISSED OFF and it was hugely entertaining. The original debate bros!!

[@Earhairy]

"....Galloway was PISSED OFF and it was hugely entertaining." It was hugely entertaining. Galloway wiped the floor with Hitchens.

[@rorysparshott4223]

@@Earhairy He didn't.

[@Earhairy]

@@rorysparshott4223 He did. Hitchens was his usual smug, condescending, bullshitting self.

[@rorysparshott4223]

@@Earhairy ah, so you missed him absolutely schooling George on him literally supporting terrorists then.

[@Earhairy]

@@rorysparshott4223 " ah, so you missed him absolutely schooling George on him literally supporting terrorists then." If you think that the fudge-packing Trot spouting opinionated bullshit amounts to a "schooling", then you keep on believing that. And no, I never missed him. Ever.

[@hamza1947]

You can be socially conservative and economically on the left. Not complicated

[@omp199]

@FartyMcFartypants590 You say, "Agreed," but then proceed to disagree. Being socially conservative and economically on the left is not having one foot in a left-wing camp and one foot in a right-wing camp. You can be 100% on the left and still strongly disagree with the direction in which society is moving.

[@James-ic7vx]

GG is the original Jackson Hinkle

[@horacioelconserjeopina3956]

Funny how Hinckle has more platform than Vaush

[@Techyena]

12:56 based people use “Albion” in reference to the fictional world of the Fable franchise

[@Tribuneoftheplebs]

I'll always think of beautiful sunny Oakvale whenever the word Albion is mentioned.

[@chrislawuk]

As a Brit I am definitely sympathetic to the Galloway-as-plunger theory. We are desperately in need of some people who nominally believe what they say in Parliament. Even if not everything they say is agreeable.

[@PlaguevonKarma]

"Galloway-as-a-plunger" has been added to my lexicon

[@leikfroakies]

Galloway doesn't believe what he says. He's a grifter like all the rest

[@Lotan_]

>who nominally believe what they say in Parliament >Galloway No wonder the Left is fucking doomed here if people actually fall for this shit.

[@hendrycksputt7165]

You could call him an English Socialist.

[@charlesleroq932]

Except he's Scottish?

[@allergy5634]

He’s not even English

[@marcosa2000]

​@@charlesleroq932 No true scotsman

[@davidtkocz8356]

​@@charlesleroq932for which we apologise profusely

[@Youtubeisntlettingmeuseczech]

@@charlesleroq932 It's a 1984 reference

[@adamsboringvids]

Galloway will be in power for about 3-6 months, make a bit of noise then go back to grifting again. Labour didn’t put up a candidate in Rochdale.

[@nepolana1407]

And that’s the last Rochdale will probably see of him This whole by-election was cursed

[@nepolana1407]

Also no his election won’t change much - he will probably be out by autumn Galloway was in the parliament before and that didn’t go well.

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

@@nepolana1407 galloway was in parliment for like two decades or some shit

[@nepolana1407]

@@TheFamousMockingbird he changed constituencies and parties like 5 times. Last one was Bradford I think?

[@jascu4251]

@@nepolana1407 I wouldn't necessarily bank on him losing at the general election. Its going to be really soon, and the circumstances aren't going to be much different. If it were like Bradford West with a large period of time between by-election and general election I would agree, but with the gap being so small I think its much less clear what will happen

[@AT-AT26]

I think recent times are very different. Populists like him are getting more popular and that election was pre-Brexit. British politics is nothing like it was back then. Not to mention he has big issues like Gaza that he can run on to get a massive Muslim vote that's gotten more and more annoyed by labour

[@BarriosGroupie]

That's a good description of Galloway: he's like Trump but took the path of politics and is a true politician.

[@ethankillion786]

What a disaster for Rochdale. Absolutely vile person.

[@fifiadan]

You get Labour, tories or Gollaway.

[@rorysparshott4223]

@@fifiadan Labour please.

[@Juhz0r]

Critical support to the antics of the campist cat-man.

[@manjackson2772]

you do not, in fact, have to hand it to the narcissistic self-promoter in a stupid hat

[@Feefa99]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@rationalroundhead6739]

Critical support to the redbrown transphobe is still support.

[@keithchalmers7558]

You people think the Scottish National Party are left wing? Hahahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha Crippled councils, impoverished NHS, poor education, unsubsidized travel, rising cost of living... Well done the SNP!

[@Lotan_]

Not to mention the xenophobia that definitely, certainly doesn't exist in their ranks. They did an investigation and found no such thing don't you know!

[@keithchalmers7558]

Yeah they say they welcome everyone including the English and then their supporters are up all night watching videos on Culloden and claiming Scotland was a colony of England rather than the Stewart Kings owning thousands of acres of land in England. I mean how did so many people with Scottish names gain power in the USA if the Scots are so anti colonial?

[@keithchalmers7558]

Yes they often find themselves innocent. Strangely enough!

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Yup

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Congratulations to George Galloway for being the first Russian State-affiliated media personality to be elected to parliament.

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Context, prior to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, Galloway got labelled as "Russian state-affiliated media" by Twitter as a result of him being employed by RT and his strong Pro-Russia/Pro-Putin stance and his constant promotion of anti-Ukraine/Pro-Russia disinformation. Needless to say, George Galloway threw a massive temper tantrum over it and threatened to sue Twitter if they didn't remove the label and begged Elon Musk to step in and outright lied claiming that he had no links to Russia. Even though prior to the label being put on him, he proudly displayed his links to RT in his Twitter bio.

[@Earhairy]

"Congratulations to George Galloway for being the first Russian State-affiliated media personality to be elected to parliament." No, that was Boris Johnson. He put the millionaire son of a former KGB officer into the House of Lords.

[@geedee1264]

Bingo

[@jmantime]

Sunak looks like an enemy NPC from the 1997 video game 007 Goldeneye and George Galloway look like Oddjob 🤣😂🤣😂

[@Loonkleclip]

Galloways victory says nothing about labor because lanor wasnt even running this race

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

labor does suck though, starmer is absolute trash

[@leikfroakies]

​@TheFamousMockingbird That's not true. There is a co-ordinated misinformation campaign from dipshit Corbyn simps to make Labour look worse than they are

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Labour was still on the ballot for people to vote for, the candidate got thrown out of the party for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza which made people even less inclined to vote for him.

[@leikfroakies]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 Labour literally called for a ceasefire. You're just lying

[@leikfroakies]

@TheFamousMockingbird Nope. Starmer is doing pretty good. Just annoying the momentum cult that everybody hates

[@shelovinthecrew]

easily one of the worst people you know

[@wombata8077]

This guy denied the massacres in Bucha..

[@davidtkocz8356]

Shamefully.

[@needbettername8583]

Things I like about George Galloway: The fact he calls out Israel for their war crimes. His anti Scottish independence stance. The fact he annoys the conservatives in the country. Things I hate about him: The fact he appears to be paid by Russia Today. His stance on Ukraine. The fact he fools a lot of leftists with this crap, and it turn just helps the right wing in his message. He's a terrible cat. To he fair to him he fights hard, sadly a lot of it is bullshit but the guy does fight. We dont have any other politicians who do that. Seriously, we're kinda fucked over here. Send help.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

As an American I view Scottish Independence as positive? What do you not like about it?

[@crimzonclotta]

MOATS has some crazy shit on it... They had this former head of transport cop who was just advocating vigilante justice against extinction rebellion climate protesters blocking your car.. i don't think Top GG cares about the environment too much! I find it weird he denied the bear would invade Ukraine, but though he fights for Muslims and wins a lot of hearts he does seem to be proud of knowing when The cat is gonna sponsor a strike somewhere (then will still advocate Iran's side and probably praise their courage and indefatigability!)

[@bahreal]

this is some of the best discourse I've heard in awhile. appreciate ya.

[@grahamjones5400]

George Galloway is just an old fashioned tankie.

[@atthebridge]

As a Gen X Scot I've been familiar with 'Gorgeous George' since the 80s. I lost faith in the man personally nearly 40 years ago. He is what he's always been, someone who loves the sound of his own voice and loves being in the public eye. He enthusiastically courts controversy but rarely actually achieves anything, often in fact he ends up discrediting the causes he supports. That said he isn't financially corrupt, if he'd chosen to he could have been a frontline politician, a cabinet minister, with all that involves. And he's also always been right more often than he's wrong. Just never trust the man. Should be fun having him (briefly) in parliament though.

[@davidtkocz8356]

Not financially corrupt? I do believe he was forced to pay back a couple of thousand quid from some charity he was in charge of back in the eighties or nineties. I wouldnt trust him as far as I could kick him tbh.

[@RHLW]

[In Jason Statham voice]... The thing to understand about Gorgeous George, is he's more of a blunt instrument than a precision tool.

[@leoartolson4658]

Conservative socialism is actually pretty based. Not only does It puts forth workers rights and the economic interests of the people, but it also wishes to conserve cultural tradition and moral virtues as well.

[@davideddy2672]

George Galloway and Nigel Farage - both grifters!

[@AmySavage6]

As an outsider looking in I doubt he'll do much for his costituents. If I understand correctly in UK the MPs are expected to actively push for their constituency and advocate for local issues in the backroom politics. In that local sense I doubt he'll achieve much of anything.

[@Paul-lr1nk]

Iran would be a very different country, if not for the British and American intervention, c/o MI6/ CIA

[@MoneyRedRum]

He is a socialist. Thats doesn’t mean he is neoliberal. They are distinct politically and socially.

[@TheDethBringer666]

Galloway's proof politics isn't about all that boring policy stuff, just being a good shit talker and making life a lil more tolerable for the everyman

[@inbb510]

Socrates hated democracy for a reason.

[@stephaniestephers4586]

At around 37, 38 minutes in you could hear birds.

[@ofanichan]

I love birds

[@amadfook3r]

i think this just kinda proves how little vaush knows about uk politics or even just politics in general. unsuprising.

[@UFOhunter4711]

Typical sepp

[@amadfook3r]

@@UFOhunter4711??? i dont know what a "sepp" is?

[@UFOhunter4711]

@@amadfook3r yanks

[@Gothicgamer-rz2rx]

Who said George galloway doesn't like the West he is a socialist he's wanting the better for the West I'm a British communist and I want the better for the West and of course United Kingdom the workers off the Western world are being destroyed George Galloway wants to help them I would say that's very much loving the West if he wants to help the workers of the West specifically British and United Kingdom workers

[@zombieoverlord5173]

You have a Z in your pfp. You are not a Comnunist

[@Gothicgamer-rz2rx]

@@zombieoverlord5173 Google cpgb ml george galloway has worked with them before they are a British communist party and they are pro-russian and of course communist many Fighters fighting for Russia are notable communists including many of those in the novorossiya that's being luhansk and Donetsk most of those people are communists the Communist Party in Russia heavily and openly supports the special military operation so clearly you have not done research you are one of those liberals so please before speaking to me and saying nonsense like that do your research and clearly you're not a Galloway fan because if he was you would know that there are pro Russians that are communists but you definitely did not do your research and that lack of research just made you look stupid

[@Gothicgamer-rz2rx]

@zombieoverlord5173 there's communists fighting for Russia and Russia waves the victory flag which is obviously communist and galloway whose a socialist supports russia along with every communist party I know

[@redmed10]

Campism is a pejorative common in left-wing circles for the belief that the world is divided into large, competing political groups of countries ("camps") and that people should support one camp over the other camps.[1] A campist is someone who holds this belief. Unlike nationalists, campists do not support any countries for "innate" reasons, such as ethnicity. Instead, campists support their camp for ideological reasons, because they believe their camp promotes their ideology, such as socialism or anti-imperialism. Campism is an application of lesser of two evils to global power politics: A first-campist or second-campist believes their camp, for all its flaws, is better than its opposition.[2]

[@faelirra]

Galloway: The majority voted for me Any interviewer worth their salt would have responded with: 60.3% of Rochdale voted against you, not for you.

[@fuzzylogiceire]

To which he could easily reply that even greater percentages didn't vote for the other candidates.

[@hazyhayley7488]

There’s a real chance that Rishi Sunak will call the election after the budget is announced this Wednesday. Aiming for a May 2nd election. Parliament will be dissolved and he’ll most likely lose his seat. The only reason he won was because labours candidate fucked up and was removed from the ballet. He’s just a grifter, he hasn’t had an affect on labours poll lead. He’ll be gone soon. For the record, Starmers position was made clear when the assault on Gaza started. He made his position clear in parliament from the start. The media wants to muddy the waters.

[@jonathanaarhus224]

Hitchens was also a campist, just a "first campist" i. e. someone who thinks supporting the west is based and socialist. It's a Troskyist tendency.

[@midwinter78]

The one thing I that can cheer me up over this is that was a by-election protest vote in what's almost certainly an election year. Electorates have a habit of using and dumping people like Galloway - I mean he has a poor reputation regarding the people of places he gets elected to, he uses and dumps his electorates. There's some redrawing of seat boundaries so technically he can't keep his seat _anyway_ but I'd put money on him not being in Parliament after the General Election.

[@jascu4251]

They do, but usually there is a period of time between the by-election and general election. In this case the two elections are going to be months apart, and very little is likely to change during the intervening period. I'd say he has a significant chance of retaining this seat (if I were to bet, probably around a 60% chance)

[@Windrunner007]

Tbh yeah his positions are bad but his delivery is fantastic. Like in sheer rizz he’s up on most british politicians. If i met this guy at a larp (i almost said “bar” but let’s be real here) i would probably like him.

[@crimzonclotta]

Lifetime tee total, like Trump.. top GG looks suspiciously like the guy on the "Birra Morreti" Italian beer company logo though (maybe he expects to be talked about at the pub, though nobody knew if he would be secretly Muslim and prohibit alcohol though he now keeps reiterating as he has done that he's Roman Catholic!). his hat is a German Homburg hat, not a fedora like my initial guess I think which are kinda italian-jewish (he *is accomodating of Jewish guys as long as they are anti Israel it basically seems). Once I asked the askdelphi online moral AI philosopher "should you wear a hat indoors," and it said "it's rude" 🤣 so I asked it "should you wear a hat indoors if you have a scar" and it answered "it's discretionary"

[@coffeemaenad7455]

37:47 I love the way he says "BUT NO. You cannot call for violent Jihad". But daddy, I waaaaant violent Jihad, daaaaaaaddy, mummy said I could!

[@creekroad]

Having multiple comms to different demographics is nothing new. All parties have always done it. I get the feeling Vaush doesn’t approve of Galloway.

[@lutonsolidarity]

Galloway - and I am only referring to his politics, not his egregious self-serving moral compass - belongs to a tradition now almost completely dead in the UK. He only appears as a weird, populist anomaly because he is the last of his kind. Once upon a time though, his sort of USSR supporting, socially conservative views were bread and butter in the Labour left - Arthur Scargill (you'd have to be at least 45 and from the UK to know the name) was of similar ilk. If you're looking for a hero or a substitute for independent working class action, Galloway wouldn't pass a purity test. Not on coalition building, nor loyalty, nor... well it's pretty obvious how many litmus tests he would fail. If you accept that this unreconstructed Catholic, national chauvinist, self serving, etc. Has given both Labour and the Tories a bloody nose over Gaza and Labour's craven imperialism generally, and that's all he's likely to do - well then job done. As an anarchist (and here I will point out that I am also middle aged, a Trade union rep, a former member of class war, etc. not an armchair commentator who believes that KZbin comments constitutes "activism") I am unconcerned with being "represented." I don't need a hero, nor a saviour. Galloway is exactly what anyone who has followed his career thinks he is. So what? On one fault line and on one alone he was worth casting a vote for - which I might add is considerably easy to do in the UK (in my experience) when your nearest polling centre is usually a short stroll away.

[@jascu4251]

This is interesting stuff, I think this is part of a wider trend of post-industrialisation - but there's something else going on too - because parallel to the case of people like Galloway is the case of people like Brendan O'Neill and Spiked (previously Living Marxism) who have their own storied history of this kind of stuff, but one which is anti-intellectual and venerates a kind of idealised version of "the working class" and moved into culture war stuff really early (maybe even as early as the 70s) But I think with that latter group theres a kind of domestic campism (we hate liberals) more so than international campism (we hate the west), which sees them align with conservatives on many things (as does Galloway too of course) But Britain is a curious case in general, as I think its peculiarly resistant to "populism" in a way that the US and much of Europe isn't (One could point to Brexit, butI think thats more complex and the fact that the "anti-establishment" excitement generated by Brexit just completely dissipated afterwards shows this I think)

[@lutonsolidarity]

@@jascu4251Blimey, living Marxism. Weird bunch, the RCP. But anyway. I'm not sure I'm convinced that Britain is resistant to populism. Rather, up until now, the Tories have been very successful at channelling populist sentiment into voting for them, even in the face of "anti-establishment" parties to their right. From the BNP to UKIP (and whatever Farage's latest debacle calls itself), the Tories have survived every insurgent upstart and probably always will by just stealing their clothes. The UK has dredged up many an authoritarian windbag from Mosley to to Enoch Powell, right the way to Farage, yet the party of government always gets the last laugh. I think Brexit is a case in point. On the one hand, Cameron made a major fuck up by calling it in the first place - on the other, the issue fatally divided Labour and greatly aided the death of the Corbyn leadership (the fact that Corbyn is a nice feller but useless as a hard nosed party leader didn't help matters any) and led to yet more Tory years.

[@jascu4251]

@@lutonsolidarity I think the UK is maybe closer to Japan than it is to the US or European countries in terms of how people vote (basically people just vote for the same party every time in Japan). I think in Britain there's a kind of deferent know your place culture which is at odds with populism, and while yes, populist figures are thrown up from time to time, they tend to run out of steam quite quickly, and at the end of the day the Conservatives win again - but really more on a sense of being 'the natural party of government' rather than any populist excitement or energy. There's a sense of political conformity which I think only Japan shares (though there its much more pronounced than in the UK) In most countries Farage would have taken the open goal that Brexit presented, and rolled into a steamroller of a movement, especially when currently there is a major dearth of enthusiasm for either of the major parties. But he has been unable to do any of this, anything unrelated to Brexit he hasn't been able to generate enthusiasm or energy for. I think this "thats nice dear" small c conservatism and conformity has mostly acted as a natural break on any populism, and ever, for the most part, the idea of voting for the main opposition party much of the time!

[@davidpryle3935]

My word, this is interesting stuff ! Could Galloway’s mixture of social conservatism and left wing economics be described as similar to blue labour ?

[@jascu4251]

@@davidpryle3935 I would say not, I don't think they're similar. Blue Labour doesn't have left wing economics, and is closer to regular UK conservatism than what Galloway is selling - its actually less socially conservative AND less economically left wing. For a US analogue, Joe Manchin might be a better comparison. Blue Labour is kind of like "The tories have the right idea they're just not very good at it and also we're not posh"

[@khangtien2421]

And he just lost his seat

[@MyGraveDancer]

This dude is just horrible. And I don't know how Vaush can say his politics are more consistent and that stuff about pretzels, after just reading that stuff about russian intervention in Syria.

[@Lotan_]

Because Vaush's anglophobia isn't "performative". His support is. Idk why anyone is still thinks that he wants to see anything other than this country burn when he makes his contempt for it, and the people who live here, clear everytime he talks about it.

[@geedee1264]

Lol you Brit snowflakes, he's made more derogatory jokes about France in a week than Britain in five years, you like a bit of francophobia don't you lads

[@barakizrael8218]

....man you are something...so according to your logic - trump stirring shit up is funny and interesting?

[@StrikingAlexa]

Hes a grifter and always has been

[@Peter-iq9yy]

Im from his old constituency in bradford west, very happy to say that you can pull that 'israel free zone' bullshit anywhere outside israel, because as it turns out israel does not occupy Bradford West

[@geedee1264]

It was Israeli goods he was talking about, I know George is a wanker but please get it right

[@crimzonclotta]

One of Galloway's maxims is that land masses of neighbouring countries are very underlooked/underweighted, defining aspects in geopolitics.. I don't know if that is a "campist" analysis, he does have some good fundamental analysees.. i think he is keen on some sort of channel tunnel between Britiab and Northern Ireland since Brexit made them look at transport issues a lot more.. i don't know if he wants to give N Ireland back to the Irish if it came to it (or would say so just to Irish curry favour with Irish supporters), but then build that link instead and not lose Scotland at any cost as the border issues would be insane amongst other things. He's not so "bonkers" there as some might say... In the age of the dinosaurs and ice age you could cross to England from France though, so unions with europe very important by his own maxim of "land masses" even though he had *his reasons for Brexit

[@run2cat4run]

23:40 feeling depressed with the state UK is in but got new fund hope for the Workers party now 😭

[@dorianleakey]

Only halfway through, but there is some great footage of Galloway object to people being asked to stay indoors during a heavy storm and being seen out and about boasting how wrong the storm lockdown was, when he was 200 miles from the storm.

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

Good or bad it’s likely George will only remain as an MP till late March because the PM with no mandate will likely call an election after the budget is announced this or next week.

[@Lotan_]

Vaush once again proving he knows fuck all about Britain. 39:15 Oh of course, the direct parallel isn't comparable, as always.

[@tonyholmes962]

Grew up with him. Watched him up close over the years. Well done you have far as well as insight.

[@TomisaLami]

What is a campist?

[@charlesleroq932]

Someone who is supposedly on the left, but will support any regime which isn't in the western imperial core. In their heads, it's more about which team to support, rather than a proper analysis of power. It's is a hangover of the cold war. So, more than simply being against the war in Iraq, for instance, they are pro Saddam for standing up against the united states. But then when Russia does its own invasion, they are pro Russia in spite of NATO. If you have heard the term "tankie", that is pretty much another word for them.

[@TomisaLami]

@@charlesleroq932so like Second Thought ?

[@MrGksarathy]

​@@TomisaLamiExactly like No Thought.

[@fifiadan]

@@charlesleroq932your description is one sided. I’m sure they’d argue that the only way to effectively support leftism is to oppose the capitalist power structure and that deciding to instead be a both sides Andy you are simply playing into the hands of that which you claim to oppose so in effect you are a neutered arm of capitalism.

[@charlesleroq932]

@@fifiadan That's what they might say, but the regimes they trumpet are most certainly not anti-capitalist.

[@JohnDeBrazen]

The way Labour MPs have been briefed into pretending they didn’t have a candidate in Rochdale even though they still had a candidate with Labour next to his name

[@Eyclonus]

Sounds like Modern post-Blair Labour

[@joshuaswart8211]

Realistically, they didn’t have a candidate in Rochdale. The candidate they would have had received no campaign support from Labour. That’s huge.

[@AT-AT26]

@@joshuaswart8211 It was like less than 2 months I think from the vote that he got dropped. A lot of people barely even knew and voted for him anyway so he got near 10% of the vote. Then Galloway and the independent got the rest

[@leikfroakies]

That's a technicality. He was Labour on the ballot paper but they pulled all support and made it clear he would sit as an independent

[@JohnDeBrazen]

@@leikfroakies we know, but technically there was someone on that ballot with Labour on there. Novara were blasting them for this

[@jaymarshall845]

Having already been haunted by Galloways cat, I couldn't take my eyes of Vaushs face during the whole thing 🤣 it's so unnerved

[@modestproposal9114]

Galloway will be focused on Palestine in Parliament. This is crucially needed as Labour MPs are cowed on the issue.