Where is GG now?

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There's been a complete lack of anything from GG since Thursday. No interviews on the news channels or anything else... I wonder where he is?

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George Galloway heads stateside for new career
By Zoe Keown

FORMER Scots Labour MP George Galloway is hoping to launch a new career in Hollywood presenting documentary films. Keen to follow in the footsteps of left-winged film maker Michael Moore, Galloway is set to tackle the Palestinian troubles in Gaza.

He said: “I’m off to California on Saturday to speak to people in the film business about a long-standing idea I’ve had to do a Michael Moore type treatment of the Palestinian conflict. Think of Fahrenheit 9/11 but about Palestine and the siege on Gaza and the settlements on the West Bank and so on.”

As an admirer of Moore’s work, Galloway was keen to stress that he did not want to copy his work. He added: “He’s sensationally successful. I’m a great admirer of his work. I don’t want to copy him but to emulate him in the way he tackles issues. The story is attractive and controversial. I like trying to do things that have never been done before.”

Galloway – who campaigned for the creation of a Palestinian state – said meetings with movie executives have already been lined up and he hoped to raise between £2m and £4m for his project. He said: “In 2005 I got quite friendly with Sean Penn and Warren Beatty. I’m going to go and see them, I hope, and several other film people on the production and directorial side. I’ve got a potential director — he’s quite famous — me, as a known person in the United States, Britain and throughout the Arab world, and we’ve got the story.”

Speaking about the results of the recent election, it’s clear that British politics haven’t left the MPs heart. He said: “I was very disappointed. It’s quite a wrench, especially with a hung parliament — that would have been a very interesting thing to be involved with.”

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So what happened with 'Rebel Radio', I wonder?

[luke]

hopefully this will be just one project among others, the article says 'films' but it sounds like its just a one off on palestine. i doubt he's actually moving to america - he's got his children here, so hopefully the radio station will still happen

[modern]

yes and with the flotilla due to embark soon, he will be kept quite busy...

Head of the Arab League or Mayor of Tower Hamlets anyone?!!!

[Colston]

He didn't show for the result declaration by all accounts....

http://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/galloway-and-griffin-two-scumbags-routed/

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Here's a post from his Daily Record blog, printed today.

It was an honour to serve you.. and I never sold out
George Galloway
May 10, 10

My 23-year stint in the House has been ended. I was well beaten by a man you've never heard of, which makes it even more painful, and I doubt you'll hear much of him in the next Parliament either.

I started out beating the late, great Roy Jenkins in Glasgow Hillhead. After my expulsion by Tony Blair over the Iraq war, I became the first left-of-Labour MP elected in England in 60 years, snuffing out Blair Babe Oona King's career. At this election, we tried to win by creating a three-constituency "microclimate". It proved unsuccessful, although we did poll nearly 30,000 votes. Perhaps I should have quit while I was ahead. Or maybe I'll be back, somewhere, somehow. Only God knows.

I'm back on Press TV Thursday and Sunday nights (Sky 515) and back on Talksport radio soon, too. And of course, I'm here in the Record every Monday. I'm speaking in California at the weekend, my son turns three, more children on the way, Godwilling, too. So don't feel sorry for me - it's been marvellous!

Nothing became Gordon Brown's election campaign like its ending. He hit his stride only in the last few days - as he would put it, he was at his best when he was at his most "Labour". His "old-time religion" preaching a couple of days before the election is how he will want to be remembered. Perhaps it would be churlish to point out that the young girl sobbing about her mother's struggle to live on the wages of a cleaner in central London, which so moved Gordon, was actually cleaning his own Treasury office.

New Labour has lost millions of voters and hundreds of thousands of members since 1997, and almost 100 Westminster seats last week. I don't need to rehearse the reasons - you have heard them from me often enough. It is a measure of people's fear of the Tories that the losses were not even worse. In London, in Scotland, and other traditional fastnesses, Labour folk circled the wagons hoping they could stop the Tories. Alas, it appears it was not to be.

The two public school toffs, Clegg and Cameron, are, as the Americans say, "making out", and later today may achieve full coitus. It is a grisly, peculiar tango. One wants to join the euro, the other to "Save the Pound". One wants to give an amnesty to more than a million illegal immigrants, the other leads a party deeply infused with racist anti-immigration instincts. One wants to abandon Trident based nuclear weapons. The other loves the Bomb, in the words of Ike and Tina, "like a schoolboy loves his thing".

Vince Cable, says an emergency budget and immediate "savage cuts" are "dangerous and irresponsible". Gideon Osborne considers it an article of free market faith. A fair voting system, that sacred cow of liberalism for 100 years, looks like being butchered in exchange for, er ... what exactly? To paraphrase St Thomas More: it profiteth a man nothing to sell his soul, even for the whole world. Are the Lib Dems really going to do it for a "Pupil Premium" and the Chief Secretaryship of the Treasury? The new Tory-Lib Dem government (how strange it feels to write those words) will try to make you pay for the sins of others, too.

The turmoil in Greece, where workers are revolting at the idea of paying for something they didn't do, may be the cloud no bigger than a man's hand which heralds great storms. The "PIIGS" - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain - could start to collapse like dominoes and create an economic Tsunami. Not being in the Eurozone will not protect us if it happens. Some of you may stand up against such an injustice. If you do, you'll always find a friend in me.

SALUTE TO THE BRAVEST
Nowadays, most people think Victory in Europe means an away win at football. But exactly 65 years ago, the continent erupted in joy at the end of an era of mass murder and total war. Britain, which had stood alone, now stood triumphant. Churchill saluted his US and Soviet allies and called for European Union - in part so that this could never happen again. Those who served, at the front or at home, saved us all from a fate worse than death - eternal bondage, slavery to fascist barbarism, the death of all that is good.

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That's interesting to hear he's back on talkSPORT soon - he'll probably be able to say more now that he's not an MP.

[Colston]

Love you GG!!

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