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Wasn’t it already shit to begin with?

Well and truly dead? Not, I hope, undead? Shouldn’t someone hammer a stake through its heart, just to make sure?

“Everything Galloway touches turns to shit.”

David:

If George is involved, you can pretty much assume it has a bad stink, from the Miriam Fund to Viva Palestina, but surely you’re not suggesting that Respect was established for the good of anyone other than George’s need to remain in elected office for another term.

Surely the best answer for this “courageous and indefatigable” left-wing party is a Crusade on the Holy Land:

http://seismicshock.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/carole-swords-promotes-pro-crusader-article/

Oh yes, that’s amazing.

“RESPECT IS DEAD”

It’s hard to resist a *meanwhile* on this one

Well, yes, it is a risk we run…

Perhaps Hamas, Hizbullah or Press TV can save them with a donation? Or Yvonne Ridley could go on the game to raise a few bob… (shudders)

Maybe there should be a convoy from Gaza to Britain to deliver aid to Galloway? Viva Respect or something similar…

Carole Swords must be encouraged (by whatever means necessary) to go to Gaza immediately. Then denied an exit permit permanently and informed categorically that in the event of kidnap nothing will be done to effect her release as she is an irritating nonentity.

There she may experience the difference in treatment towards Christians in Israel and that of her new chosen home Gaza.

In her piety and Christian worship sooner or later she will fall foul of the hard men of Hamas. By then she will have lost her novelty value and no longer even be hostage worthy.

Carole Swords will meet them and they will take her name as an exemplar and show her how to fall on them.

Carole Swords will meet them and they will take her name as an exemplar and show her how to fall on them.

So it’s Carole Swords to the sword and George Galloway to the gallows. Anything suitable to put poor old Gordon out of his misery?

She sounds like a good old East End Character. Dickensian, even. Does she do the knees-up at family dos?

David,

HAHA…….give Galloway a break today. He is probably in sackcloth and ashes today after the election results came back in Lebanon. Hezbollah goes down in defeat.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/06/hezbollahs_defeat_a_victory_for_obama.php

[Nelson Muntz] Ha ha [/Nelson Muntz]

Yes, but it’s not the only one.

The SDLP seems pretty much finished as of today.

And the Tory figure was a pathetic twenty-eight per cent of thirty-five per cent, while the Labour and Lib Dem figures were utterly laughable. That these people continue to enjoy lavish State funding and privileged media access, both at best at the margins of legality, is at once a complete mystery and an enormous scandal. As the newest member of the Government (or as good as) might put it, “You’re fired”.

Lindsay – that 35% figure is irrelevant to your argument, in fact completely misleading. It’s the ones who bothered to vote. What the rest thought or preferred we’ll never know. That’s how democracy works.

I do hope the Gorgeous One is not going to be dethroned.

The loss of entertainment would be a tragedy.

“Britain’s got Talent”

And don’t you forget it.

Can someone persuade Galloway to join the BNP?

“So it’s Carole Swords to the sword and George Galloway to the gallows. Anything suitable to put poor old Gordon out of his misery?”

Well, he’s up to his oxters in the Brown stuff and sinking every minute…

This is reflected in the drop in annual income from £210,093 to £36,237.35 and expenditure from £202,608 to £40,1515.16

Dodgy maths. I presume that comma shouldn’t be one figure to the right, otherwise it would be a near-doubling rather than a decrease, so which of those four figures shouldn’t be there?

Are they saying expenditure has actually gone up to £401,515.16!?!

What’s George been up to?

He’s always been a comma chameleleon.

“Everything Galloway touches turns to shit.”

Or supplements his Westminster salary.

David Lindsay is back. I wondered if he could give us a brief on the BPA’s performance in the recent elections?

Sackcloth – he appears to be suggesting that those of similar views (so, errr, Neil Clark) should run as independents at the next election rather than under the BPA banner.

Whatever happened to you prediction that the BPA would win MEP seats in the double figures at this election just gone, Mr Lindsay? I was sorely distressed not to see a BPA row on my ballot paper in London. Does this make you more utterly laughable than Labour?

I was surprised GG didn’t put himself forward for MEP, actually. He’s not got a hope in hell of winning a Parliamentary constituency next time, after all. And we know what kind of freaks, extremists and weirdos get elected in the Euros.

Galloway, hoisted by his own leotard.

“Galloway, hoisted by his own leotard.”

Oooo, that wedgie’s gotta hurt.

The BPA was driven out of existence by the systematic activities of the Electoral Commission (it is far from unique in having suffered that fate), which after a while, and especially after I had undergone major emergency surgery, with no one else in a position take on that wretched body’s reams of daily correspondence of the most threatening and unpleasant kind, was simply too much to endure any longer. As I say, this is far from an unusual case.

But what we stood for, and stand for, has never been more glaringly necessary: the patriotic, morally and socially conservative, entirely non-Marxist Left now urgently needs to be organised. There used to be something like that called “the Labour Party”. But it no longer exists. So we need to get our people into Parliament, so that they can eventually coalesce. That was how all four of the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, the Labour Party and (albeit at an exaggerated pace) the SDP were created.

I am right in asuming that David Lindsay is a few sandwiches shy of a picnic?

*assuming* sp.

Well, if that is how you define anyone who wants to fight for the universal and comprehensive Welfare State. For the strong statutory and other (including trade union) protection of workers, consumers, communities and the environment. For fair taxation. For full employment. For the partnership between a strong Parliament and strong local government. For co-operatives, credit unions, mutual guarantee societies, mutual building societies and similar bodies. And for every household to enjoy a base of real property from which to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

And if that is how you define anyone who wants, on that basis, to give a voice to all those whose concerns are ANY ONE OR MORE of rural, monarchist, cautious and organic with regard to constitutional change, Eurosceptical, Unionist, pro-Commonwealth, academically selective, economically patriotic, morally and socially conservative, explicitly Christian, conservationist rather than environmentalist, and foreign policy realist. These are traditional causes of the British Left, inseparable from the battle against poverty, ignorance, illness, idleness and squalor.

I hope that you enoyed having three parties out of three. Three parties opposed to all of the above. All three of them collapsed on Sunday night. The highest scorer among them took only twenty-eight per cent of thirty-five per cent. And the other two did quite considerably worse even than that.

Speaking of Galloway’s constituency, if he doesn’t stand again, then John Howe, late of ther No2EU list in London, should give it a go. He used to be agent there. For Peter Shore. Winning back Peter Shore’s seat for a properly social democratic, patriotic movement? Now there is a prize indeed.

Thanks for this – it made my day!

David – have you ever considered seeking professional help?