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Galloway thrown out after clash in Commons

Press Assoc, Iraqi Solidarity News (Al-Thawra) | 23.07.2007 21:02 | Iraq | Other Press | Repression | London | World

Respect MP George Galloway was thrown out of the Commons chamber after repeatedly clashing with Speaker Michael Martin.


Respect MP George Galloway was thrown out of the Commons chamber after repeatedly clashing with Speaker Michael Martin.

Mr Galloway was "named" and ordered out after a series of warnings about his angry denunciation of the Commons watchdog over a motion to suspend him from the House for 18 days over his financial links to Saddam Hussein's regime.

The maverick anti-war MP had been speaking for more than an hour as he sought to defend himself against the move. In fiery exchanges, he accused the Standards and Privileges Committee of hypocrisy and of acting "unjustly" as Mr Martin admonished him for attacking the "good character" of its members.

He faces suspension after the watchdog accused him of damaging Parliament's reputation over links to an Iraq children's charity. MPs are to vote on his punishment later and are certain to suspend him.

Opening the debate, Mr Galloway told the Commons: "Once the Parliamentary Commissioner had decided, as he decided, not once but six times in his report, that he found no evidence in a four-year investigation, described by the committee as of unprecedented length and complexity, of any personal gain by me in this whole story, this became a dispute about the funding of political campaigns.".

He continued: "Being lectured by the current House of Commons on the question of the funding of political campaigns is like being accused of having bad taste by Donald Trump, like being accused of slouching by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"This House stands in utter ill repute on the question of the funding of political campaigns."

During Mr Galloway's speech, Mr Martin intervened repeatedly to warn him to stick to the content of the report

But Mr Galloway hit back: "Having told me you would protect me, we are now getting to the stage where you are going to have to throw me out of Parliament prematurely."

As he was ordered from the chamber, he shouted that he would continue his speech outside for anyone who wanted to hear it.

Press Assoc, Iraqi Solidarity News (Al-Thawra)
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I suggest caution about anything the above news source states

24.07.2007 00:02

The use of the workd "maverick" is the first alert here.....go to their site and look at their "Who we are" area and you quickly see the slant of these guys. In all of their What We Face points - it sall about sectarian and ethnic violence....not one word against the occupation....!! or against the UK US brutalising of their country....interesting.

How about this for the first para in their 'The Situation We Face' section;

In August 2005, the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) published a report, which brought to light the growth of armed gangs, child prostitution and kidnapping inside of Iraq and how children as young as 13 are being forced into prostitution.


It goes on in this vain.

The main attacks are from the Iraq uprising against the military occupation by the US and UK, not against each other, as the occupation would have us believe. Check out Medialens.org for some great analysis in their alerts section.

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fuck galloway the evil idiot

25.07.2007 14:53

Galloway will say anything to stay the darling sweetheart of the pacifist left, his words are nothing but evil empty bullshit, he is authoritarian nut job . the only good thing about him is his is orating skills which one can only assume were lacking during this, hopefully his last, confrontation with the "man"

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