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'''George Galloway''' (born ] ] in ]) is a ] ], ] and talkshow host noted for his ] views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. He has been a ] (MP) since 1987 and currently represents ] for the ] constituency. He was previously a ] MP for ] and for ].

Galloway is perhaps best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against ] in the 1990s and early 2000s and to avert the ] of that country. He made visits there in 1994 and 2002. As part of a speech in his 1994 visit in which Iraqi dictator ] was in attendance, he said "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability",<ref> BBC News, 22 April 2003. Retrieved on 8 September 2007.</ref> although Galloway has always claimed that he was addressing the Iraqi people. In his 2002 visit, as war talk and claims of weapons of mass destruction filled the airwaves, he said "we are determined that we are going to do everything we can to stop this rush over the cliff."<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/2170317.stm
|title= Labour MP makes Iraq visit
|publisher=]
|date=] ]
}}</ref>

He was later accused by a U.S. Senate Committee led by ] of personally profiting from abuses of UN ] programme. He combatively countered the charges by accusing Coleman and other pro-war politicians of covering up the "theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth... on your watch" that had occurred under a post-invasion ], committed by "] and other American corporations... with the connivance of your own government."<ref></ref><ref></ref> He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 when a party body decided that similarly strong statements he had made in opposition to the invasion had brought the party into disrepute.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3205889.stm
|title= Galloway expelled by Labour
|publisher=]
|date=] ]
}}</ref>

In January 2004, Galloway made his comeback as a founding member of Respect, a new political coalition to the left of Labour, in association with the ] and other left-wing groups, anti-Iraq war activists such as ], and other figures on the British left such as ] ]. He won his seat in the ], the first time Respect had contested a Parliamentary election. On 3 November 2007, the ] claimed that Galloway had announced he was splitting from Respect after an internal dispute.<ref></ref> Galloway denied this, and together with Respect chair ], Vice Chair ] and sixteen other members of the National Council, issued an invitation to a Respect Renewal conference, organised on the same day and time as the scheduled Respect conference.<ref></ref>

On ] ], Galloway was censured by the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges, which recommended his suspension from the House for 18 days for "his unwillingness to cooperate fully with the Commissioner, and his calling into question of the Commissioner's and our own integrity have in our view damaged the reputation of the House".<ref name="parlcom"></ref> In response, Galloway commented: "Once more and yet again I have been cleared of taking a single penny or in any way personally benefiting from the former Iraqi regime through the oil for food programme or any other means ... What really upset them is that I always defend myself."<ref name="Gallresp"> The Guardian, ] ]</ref> On ], ], during
a debate on the Committee's recommendation, Galloway was ordered out of the House of Commons by the Speaker after making repeated attacks on the integrity of officers of the House.<ref name="Galloway ordered out of Commons">; </ref>

==Early and personal life==
Galloway was born in ], ], grew up in a ] household, and was a keen amateur boxer. He attended Charleston Primary and ], a nondenominational school. Galloway left the ] church for a time but returned to ] belief in his mid-20s, and he is opposed to ], although he supports Respect's ] stance.

He was married from 1979 to 1999 to ], with whom he has a daughter, Lucy. He married ] in 2000: Zayyad filed for divorce in 2005. In May 2007 Rima Husseini, his ] former researcher and, by then ex-partner, gave birth to a son, Zein.

Galloway states that he is a non-drinker from a non-drinking family. "My father didn’t drink alcohol and his father didn’t and my daughter doesn’t. I think it has a very deleterious effect on people".<ref name="noalcohol">{{cite web
| year = 2005
| url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20050807/ai_n14858456/pg_1
| title = I’d like a peaceful life like anyone else, but undoubtedly I rise to the occasion
| format = HTML
| publisher = Sunday Herald
| accessdaymonth = 7 August
| accessyear = 2005
}}</ref>

===Labour Party organiser===
Galloway joined the ] at 13 years old and within five years was secretary of the ] party. His enthusiasm led him to become vice-chairman of the Labour Party in the city of Dundee and a member of the Scottish Executive Committee in 1975. On ] ], he contested his first election campaign in the Scottish district elections but failed to hold the safe Labour seat at Gillburn, Dundee. He was beaten by the ] candidate Bunty Turley, who was a trade unionist running on the campaign slogan "enough is enough" after allegations were made about Galloway's personal and financial behaviour.<ref></ref> Galloway became the secretary organiser of Dundee Labour Party&mdash;the youngest ever Scottish chairman&mdash;in March 1981 at 26 years old.<ref name="nabdun">{{cite news
|year=1981
|title=George Galloway
|publisher=Dundee Courier and Advertiser
|date=] ]
}}</ref>

His support for the ] cause began in 1974 when he met a Palestinian activist in Dundee; he supported the actions of ] City council which flew the ] inside the ]. He was involved in the twinning of Dundee with ] in 1980,<ref>{{cite news
|title=Special Reports: Two views of George: all heart or a pain in the neck
|url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941506,00.html
|accessdate=2005-12-15
|publisher=The Guardian
}}</ref> although he did not take part in the visit of Lord Provost Gowans, ] and three city councillors to Nablus and ] in April 1981.<ref name="nabdun"/>

In 1981, ], then deputy leader of the Labour Party, failed in a bid to remove Galloway from the list of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates following an article Galloway had written in ''Scottish Marxist'' supporting Communist Party affiliation with the Labour Party. Galloway successfully argued that this was his own personal viewpoint, not that of the Labour Party. Healey lost his motion by 13 votes to 5. He once quipped that, in order to overcome a £1.5 million deficit which had arisen in the city budget, he, ] and leading councillors should be placed in the ] in the city square: "we would allow people to throw buckets of water over us at 20p a time."<ref name="dundee-bucket">{{cite news
|year=1981
|title=Remarkable idea to raise funds for city
|publisher=Dundee Courier and Advertiser
|pages=3
|date=] ]
}}</ref>

==Parliamentary career and public profile==
===War on Want===
From November 1983 to 1987, Galloway was General Secretary of ], a British charity that campaigns against poverty worldwide. In this post he was much travelled, especially to areas suffering famine; he wrote eye-witness accounts of the famine in ] in 1985 which were published in the ''Sunday Times'' and the ''Spectator''.<ref name="BBC Const Guide">'] Hillhead' (PA number 263) in "General Election Constituency Guide", ] Data, 1987.</ref>

The '']'' accused him of living luxuriously at the charity's expense.<ref name="wow-living">{{cite web
| year = 2003
| author = Jamie Wilson, Owen Bowcott and Vikram Dodd
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,942233,00.html
| title = Charity, fundraiser or political campaign?
| format = HTML
| publisher = ]
| accessmonthday = April 24
| accessyear = 2003
}}</ref> An independent auditor cleared him of misuse of funds,<ref name="wow-noblame">{{cite web
| year = 2003
| author = ]
| url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/24/ngall124.xml
| title = Leadership of War on Want marked by turbulence and tension
| format = HTML
| publisher = ]
| accessdaymonth = 24 April
| accessyear = 2003
}}</ref> though he did repay £1,720 in contested expenses.<ref name="wow-repay">{{cite web
| year = 2002
| author = Simon Hattenstone
| url = http://politics.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,11660,792915,00.html
| title = Saddam and me
| format = HTML
| publisher = Guardian
| accessmonthday = September 16
| accessyear = 2002
}}</ref> He later reportedly won £155,000 from the ''Mirror'' in an unrelated libel lawsuit.<ref name="mirror-win">{{cite web
| year = 2004
| author = Karen McVeigh
| url = http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=818&id=1386082004
| title = The rise and fall and rise again of 'Gorgeous' George
| format = HTML
| publisher = Scotsman
| accessdaymonth = 3 December
| accessyear = 2004
}}</ref>

More than two years after Galloway stepped down as General Secretary to serve as a Labour MP, the UK government's ] investigated War on Want, finding accounting irregularities from 1985 to 1989, but little evidence that money was used for non-charitable purposes. Galloway had been general secretary for the first three of those years. The commission said responsibility lay largely with auditors and did not single out individuals for blame.<ref name="wow-noblame" />

===Member of Parliament, Glasgow===
Galloway was selected as Labour candidate for the Glasgow Hillhead seat, then held by ] of the ]. He fought for a place on the Labour Party ] in 1986; in a large field of candidates he finished as second from bottom. At the 1986 ] he made a strong attack on the Labour Party's Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor ] for not favouring exchange controls.

In the ], Galloway won Glasgow Hillhead from Jenkins with a majority of 3,251. Although now known for his left-wing views, Galloway was never a member of Labour's main leftist grouping of MPs, the ].

===Troubles within the Labour Party===
Asked about a War on Want conference on ], ] during his previous job, the new MP Galloway notoriously replied "I travelled to and spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women, some of whom were known carnally to me. I actually had sexual intercourse with some of the people in Greece."<ref name="channel 4">{{cite web
| year = 2006
| url = http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/12/week_1/02_galloway2.html
| title = A maverick's life
| publisher = ]
| accessdaymonth = 25 December
| accessyear = 2006
}}</ref> The statement put Galloway on the front pages of the ] and in February 1988 the Executive Committee of his ] passed a vote of no confidence in him.<ref name="channel 4"/>

He went on to win re-selection over ] (wife of fellow MP ]) in June 1989, but failed to get a majority of the electoral college on the first ballot. This was the worst result for any sitting Labour MP who was reselected; 13 out of the 26 members of the Constituency Party's Executive Committee resigned that August, indicating their dissatisfaction with the result.<ref name="fnalmanac">''The Almanac of British Politics'' by Robert Waller and Byron Criddle (Routledge, London, Fourth Edition 1991 and Fifth Edition 1996) ISBN 0-415-00508-6 and ISBN 0-415-11805-0</ref>

In 1990, a classified advertisement appeared in the Labour left weekly '']'' headed "Lost: MP who answers to the name of George", "balding and has been nicknamed gorgeous", claiming that the lost MP had been seen in Romania but had not been to a constituency meeting for a year. A telephone number was given which turned out to be for the ] in London, from which Galloway had recently been excluded (he has since been readmitted). Galloway threatened legal action and pointed out that he had been to five constituency meetings. He eventually settled for an out-of-court payment by ''Tribune''.

The leadership election of the Labour Party in 1992 saw Galloway voting for fellow Scot ] for Leader and ] as Deputy Leader. In 1994 after Smith's death, Galloway declined to cast a vote in the leadership election (one of only three MPs to do so). In a debate with the leader of the ] ], Galloway responded to one of Salmond's jibes against the Labour Party by declaring "I don't give a fuck what Tony Blair thinks."<ref name="fnalmanac" />

Although facing a challenge for the Labour nomination for the seat of ] in 1997, Galloway successfully defeated Shiona Waldron. He was unchallenged for the nomination in 2001.

In the ] and ] Galloway was the Labour candidate for the seat of Glasgow Kelvin, winning with majorities of over 16,000 and 12,000 respectively. During the 2001 Parliament, he voted against the ] 27 times. During the 2001-02 session he was the 9th most rebellious Labour MP.

===Expulsion from the Labour Party===
Galloway became Vice-President of the ] (StWC). He is actively involved, often speaking on StWC platforms at anti-war demonstrations. From this position Galloway made many aggressive and controversial statements in opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For these he was expelled from the Labour party. He reportedly said in a ], ] interview with ] that ] and ] had "lied to the British Air Force and Navy, when they said the battle of Iraq would be very quick and easy. They attacked Iraq like wolves...." and added, "...&nbsp;the best thing British troops can do is to refuse to obey illegal orders."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2923849.stm|title=Galloway: I'll fight expulsion|work=]|date=2003-04-07|accessdate=2006-09-18}}</ref> He called the Labour government "]'s lie machine."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://praxsys.net/indiewest/news_page.php?story=1|title=Galloway accuses prime minister of "lying"|date=2003-04-01|work=]|accessdate=2006-09-18}}</ref> His most controversial statement from the interview may have been "Iraq is fighting for all the Arabs. Where are the Arab armies?".<ref>{{cite news|title=Telegraph: Galloway pours petrol on the flames|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/05/wgall05.xml|accessdate=2006-12-16}}</ref>

The ''Observer'' newspaper said in 2003 that the Director for Public Prosecutions was considering a request to pursue Galloway under the ], 1934.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Observer: Politics: MP may be tried as traitor|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,944392,00.html|accessdate=2005-12-15|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref>

On ] ''The Sun'' published an interview with Tony Blair in which Blair said "His comments were disgraceful and wrong. The National Executive will deal with it." Citing Galloway's comments regarding the Iraq war, the General Secretary of the Labour Party suspended him from holding office in the party on ], ], pending a hearing on charges that he had violated the party's constitution by "bringing the Labour Party into disrepute through behaviour that is prejudicial or grossly detrimental to the Party". The National Constitutional Committee held a hearing on ], ], to consider the charges, taking evidence from Galloway himself, from other party witnesses, viewing media interviews, and hearing character testimony from (among others) veteran former Labour MP and ex-minister ]. The following day, the committee found the charge of bringing the party into disrepute proved, and expelled Galloway from the Labour Party forthwith. Galloway called the Committee's hearing "a show trial" and "a ]".<ref>''The Trial: How New Labour Purged George Galloway'', Galloway, George, Bookmarks. ISBN 1-898876-47-9.</ref>

===2005 election===
{{wikinews| Surprise win for RESPECT Party in UK 2005 General Election}}
In January 2004 Galloway announced he would be working with members of the ] and others under the name ], generally referred to simply as Respect. This was despite Galloway having a track record of antipathy toward ]s, and the largest component of Respect is the ], which broadly identifies itself as part of the Trotskyist political tradition.

Some former members of the Socialist Alliance, including the ] and ] groups, objected to forming a coalition with Galloway, citing his political record, and his refusal to accept an ], with Galloway claiming "I couldn’t live on three workers’ wages."<ref>{{cite news | title=Indefatigably yours | url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Indefatigably-yours.2428680.jp | accessdate=2008-05-10 | publisher=The Scotsman }}</ref>

He stood as the Respect candidate in London in the ], but failed to win a seat after receiving 91,175 of the 115,000 votes he needed.

After his expulsion, he had initially fuelled speculation that he might call a snap ] before then, by resigning his parliamentary seat, saying:
{{cquote|If I were to resign this constituency and there was a by-election I can't guarantee that I would win, but I would guarantee that Tony Blair's candidate would surely lose.}}

Galloway later announced that he would not force a by-election and intended not to contest the next general election in Glasgow. Galloway's Glasgow Kelvin seat was split between three neighbouring constituencies for the May 2005 general election. One of these, the redrawn ] constituency might have been his best chance to win, but had his long-time friend ], the first Muslim Labour MP and a strong opponent of the ] in place; Galloway did not wish to challenge him. After the European election results became known, Galloway announced that he would stand in ], the area where Respect had its strongest election results and where the sitting Labour MP, ], supported the Iraq War. On ], despite speculation that he might stand in ], he confirmed that he was to be the candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow.

The ensuing electoral campaign in the seat proved to be a difficult one with heated rhetoric.
It was reported by the ] that Galloway had himself been threatened with death by extreme ] from the banned organisation ]. All the major candidates united in condemning the threats and violence.<ref>{{cite news | title=Politics: Election 2005: Galloway told to avoid his home | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4467147.stm | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=BBC }}</ref>

On ], Galloway won the seat by 823 votes and made a fiery acceptance speech, saying that Tony Blair had the blood of 100,000 people on his hands and denouncing the returning officer over alleged discrepancies in the electoral process. When challenged in a subsequent televised interview by ] as to whether he was happy to have removed one of the few black women in Parliament, Galloway replied "I don't believe that people get elected because of the colour of their skin. I believe people get elected because of their record and because of their policies. So move on to your next question."<ref>{{cite news | title=BBC NEWS - ELECTION 2005 - WEBLOG - Paxman v Galloway | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/blog/4519553.stm | accessdate=2006-10-25 | publisher=BBC }}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| first = Joe
| last = Murphy
| title = Racial tension could set East End alight, says MP
| publisher = Evening Standard (London)
|date=2005-04-22}}</ref>

Oona King later told the ] that she found Paxman's line of question inappropriate. "He shouldn't be barred from running against me because I'm a black woman ... I was not defined, or did not wish to be defined, by either my ethnicity or religious background."<ref></ref>

Constitutional Affairs minister ] later criticised Galloway for the "manner in which he won that seat, whipping up racial tensions, dividing some of the poorest people in this country, I think was obscene." Lammy further called him a "carpetbagger."<ref>{{cite web | title=Sour taste as Oona ousted in battle of Bethnal Green | url=http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=6994&grp=66 | accessdate=2007-05-29 | publisher=Black Information Link|date=2005-05-06 }}</ref>

"It's good to be back", Galloway said on being sworn in as MP for Bethnal Green after the May election. He pledged to represent "the people that New Labour has abandoned" and to "speak for those who have nobody else to speak for them."

===Parliamentary participation statistics===
Galloway's participation in Parliamentary activity fell to minimal levels after he was suspended and later expelled from the Labour Party. After speaking in a debate on Iraq on ], ], Galloway did not intervene in any way in Parliamentary debates or ask any oral questions for the remainder of the Parliament and his participation in House of Commons Divisions was among the lowest of any MP (the website "They Work For You.com"<ref>{{cite web | title= "They Work For You.com" | url=http://www.theyworkforyou.com|accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> has more details). Since being elected in 2005, his participation rate has remained low. At the end of 2005 he had participated in only 15% of votes in the House of Commons since the general election, placing him 634 out of 645 MPs - of the MPs below him in the rankings, one is the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, five are ] members who have an abstentionist policy toward taking their seats, three are the speaker and deputy speakers and therefore ineligible to vote, and two have died since the election. Galloway claims a record of unusual activity at a "grass roots" level. His own estimate is that he has made 1,100 public speeches between September 2001 and May 2005.<ref>], ''Broadcasting House'', 22 May 2005, interview with George Galloway.</ref>

In November 2005 Galloway's commitment to Parliamentary activity was again called into question when he failed to attend the Report Stage of the ] in the House of Commons, despite Respect having urged its members to put pressure on MPs to attend.<ref>{{cite web | title= put pressure on MPs to attend | url=http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?ite=912|accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> It was subsequently confirmed that Galloway had been carrying out a speaking engagement in ], ] on the night (Galloway's spokesman asserted the performance was "uncancellable"<ref>{{cite news | title=Special Reports: Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1614944,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Guardian }}</ref>).

Although that stage of the bill failed by two votes, it initially appeared that the government won by a majority of only one, in which Galloway's attendance would have tied the vote. However, even in the case of a tie the vote would not have resulted in defeat for the government, because the vote was on an amendment (tightening the standard on what constitutes incitement to terrorism) and the amendment would not have passed. It would have taken three more "aye" votes to pass the amendment. All the same, Respect later put out a statement stating that it regretted the vote had been missed. The statement further claimed that Galloway had cleared his diary for all the subsequent votes on the bill.<ref>{{cite web | title=RESPECT - The Unity Coalition - News | url=http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=917 | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> Galloway did attend a subsequent debate on the Bill, and voted against<ref>{{cite web | title=The Public Whip | url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-03-10&number=141&display=allvotes | accessdate=2005-10-07 }}</ref> the final reading of the bill, which passed.
The last time he voted in Westminster was ] ]<ref> url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/1405&showall=yes#divisions</ref>
and the last time he spoke in the house was ] ]<ref> url=http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=10218&s=section%3Adebates+section%3Awhall+section%3Alordsdebates+section%3Ani&pop=1How could you retrieve in October 2005 data relating to July 2007?)</ref>

Galloway voted in support of the government's original draft of the religious hatred bill in 2006, which many people had feared would restrict artistic freedom and free speech. .

===Suspension from the House of Commons===
On ] ], following a four-year inquiry, the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges published its sixth report. The committee concluded that there was "no evidence" that Galloway gained any personal benefit from either the former Iraqi regime, or from the ]. It did not examine the bank account of Galloway's former wife or their joint account.

{{cquote|I have not found evidence that Mr Galloway has, directly and personally, unlawfully received moneys from the former Iraqi regime. I have been given evidence by Dr Al-Chalabi of a payment by him of $120,000 to Mr Galloway's former wife, Dr Abu-Zayyad, which derived from a commission payment Dr Al-Chalabi received under the programme. As I do not have access to the bank accounts in question, I do not know whether Mr Galloway benefited in any way from this payment. Nor do I know whether Mr Galloway benefited from a payment of $150,000 to Dr Abu-Zayyad which the US Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations found to have been made by Mr Fawaz Zureikat out of oil contract commission<ref></ref>}}

However, it found that Galloway's use of parliamentary resources to support his work on the ] "went beyond what was reasonable" and recommended he be suspended from the House.

{{cquote|Had these been the only matters before us, we would have confined ourselves to seeking an apology to the House. However, Mr Galloway's conduct aimed at concealing the true source of Iraqi funding of the Mariam Appeal, his conduct towards Mr David Blair and others involved in this inquiry, his unwillingness to cooperate fully with the Commissioner, and his calling into question of the Commissioner's and our own integrity have in our view damaged the reputation of the House. In accordance with precedent, we recommend that he apologise to the House, and be suspended from its service for a period of eighteen actual sitting days. As the House is shortly to go into its Summer Recess, we further recommend that Mr Galloway's period of suspension should begin on ], the day it resumes.<ref name="parlcom"/>}}
In response, Galloway stated "The Committee appear utterly oblivious to the grotesque irony of a pro-sanctions and pro-war Committee of a pro-sanctions and pro-war Parliament passing judgement on the work of their opponents, especially in the light of the bloody march of events in Iraq since this inquiry began four years ago. They describe that as questioning their integrity and bringing Parliament into disrepute. The House would do well to honestly calibrate exactly how its reputation on all matters concerning the war in Iraq stands with the public before deciding who precisely has brought it into disrepute."<ref name="Gallstate"> ], 17 July 2007]</ref> At a press conference following publication of the report, Galloway stated "To be deprived of the company for 18 days of the honourable ladies and gentleman behind me will be painful ... but I'm intending to struggle on regardless... What really upset them is that I always defend myself... I am not a punchbag. If you aim low blows at me, I'll fight back".<ref name="Gallresp"/>

===The next General Election===
On ] ], Galloway confirmed he would stand in ]<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.georgegalloway.com
|title= George Galloway challenges Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar & Canning Town, to a public debate on their visions for the future
|publisher=George Galloway MP’s official website
|date=] ]
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6940517.stm
|title= Galloway to contest next election
|publisher=]
|date=] ]
}}</ref> where the Labour Party has a notional majority of 3,942.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/poplarandlimehouse
|title= ukpollingreport.co.uk » Poplar and Limehouse
|publisher=]
|date=] ]
}}</ref> The Labour candidate will be the current ] MP ]. Galloway said he had planned to stand down from Parliament at the next election, but was prompted to stay on and fight to win the neighbouring ] constituency after he felt he was unfairly suspended from Parliament for 18 days in October 2007.

=='Stress Ball' Incident==
On ], ], Galloway was campaigning in London from an open-top bus. While touring central London ahead of the next week's elections, the MP was knocked unconscious, by a rubber ] which was thrown at him from a first floor window of a nearby office building by an office worker. The ball around the size of a tennis ball, hit Galloway on the side of the head, which caused him to become dazed, and due to the force of the throw, lost his balance and hit the other side of his head on a part of the bus.
After receiving ambulance treatment, Galloway began campaigning again, and the person responsible for throwing the ball was charged with assault. <ref>{{cite web | title=George Galloway dazed and bruised by stress ball | url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3798875.ece }}</ref>

==Political views==
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Galloway has a reputation as a ] and advocates ], greater spending on ], and extensive ] of large industries. He opposes ] and supports the ]. He also supports ]{{Fact|date=May 2007}}. In the ], George Galloway supported ],<ref>, ''BBC News'', 25 April, 2007</ref> despite not supporting all their policies, such as ]. ] though has suggested that Galloway is a right-winger like ] for lining up with Ba'athist and Islamic fundamentalist regimes hostile to principles of the left.<ref>{{cite web
|date=] ]
|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1461621,00.html
|title=Following Mosley's East End footsteps
|publisher=]
|accessdaymonth=25 December
|accessyear=2006
}}</ref> Galloway has attracted most attention for his comments on foreign policy, taking a special interest in ], ], Iraq, and the ].

===Views on Iraq and Saddam Hussein===
Galloway opposed the ] and was critical of the effect the subsequent sanctions had on the people of Iraq. He visited Iraq several times and met senior government figures. His involvement caused certain critics to deride him as the "member for ] North". In 1994, Galloway faced some of his strongest criticism on his return from a Middle-Eastern visit during which he had met Saddam Hussein "to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war." At the meeting, he reported the support given to Saddam by the people of the ] and ended his speech with the phrase "Sir: I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability,"<ref>{{cite web | title=http://en.wikiquote.org/George_Galloway | url=http://en.wikiquote.org/George_Galloway | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>{{Verify credibility|date=March 2008}}{{ although Galloway maintains that he was misinterpreted.<ref>Galloways most recent public statement on the matter was in a January edition of BBC Hardtalk in which he states that he was misinterpreted and had in fact spoken of saluting the "Iraqi people".</ref> Galloway's speech was translated for Hussein, and Anasal-Tikriti, a friend of Galloways and a Respect candidate, spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain said: "I understand Arabic and it was taken completely out of context. When he said "you" he meant the Iraqi people, he was saluting their indefatigability, their resolve against sanctions. Even the interpreter got it right and, in Arabic, says salutes the stand of the Iraqi people'." Additionally he reportedly said "hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds" (Arabic for "until victory, until victory, until ]").

In 1999, Galloway was criticised for spending Christmas in Iraq with ], then Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister. In the ], ], hearing of the ] Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Galloway stated that he had had many meetings with Aziz, and characterised their relationship as friendly.<ref>{{cite web | title=Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs | url=http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=232|accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> After the fall of Saddam, he continued to praise Aziz, calling him "an eminent diplomatic and intellectual person." In 2006 a video surfaced showing Galloway enthusiastically greeting ], Saddam's eldest son, with the title of "Excellency" at Uday's palace in 1999.<ref>{{cite news |title=Video Shows British MP Met With Hussein's Son
|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182797,00.html| accessdate=2007-05-16
|publisher=Fox News}}</ref> "The two men also made unflattering comments about the United States and joked about losing weight, going bald and how difficult it is to give up smoking cigars," according to '']''.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Ugly times on way for Gorgeous George
|url=http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=127252006| accessdate=2007-05-16
|publisher=The Scotsman}}</ref>

In a House of Commons debate on ], ], Foreign Office Minister ] said of Galloway that he was "not just an apologist, but a mouthpiece, for the Iraqi regime over many years." Galloway called the Minister a liar and refused to withdraw: " imputation that I am a mouthpiece for a dictator is a clear imputation of dishonour" he said, and the sitting was suspended in consequence of the dispute.<ref> ''Daily Telegraph'', 7 March 2002. Retrieved on 21 March 2008.</ref> Bradshaw later withdrew his allegation, and Galloway apologised for using unparliamentary language. In August 2002, Galloway returned to Iraq and met Saddam Hussein for a second time. According to Galloway, the intention of the trip was to try and persuade Hussein to re-admit ], and the United Nations weapons inspectors into the country.<ref>{{cite web | title=Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, August 9, 2002 | url=http://www.fsrn.org/news/20020809_news.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>
]s petition, sitting on the edge of the ] stage at the 2005 ] rally.]]

Giving evidence in his libel case against the '']'' newspaper in 2004, Galloway testified that he regarded Saddam as a "bestial dictator" and would have welcomed his removal from power, but not by means of a military attack on Iraq. Galloway also pointed that he was a prominent critic of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, as well as of the role of ]'s government in supporting arms sales to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war. Labour MP ] said during the controversy over whether Galloway should be expelled from the Labour Party that "in the mid-1980s there was only one MP that I can recollect making speeches about human rights in Iraq and this was George Galloway."<ref>{{cite news | title=Special Reports: Two views of George: all heart or a pain in the neck (See above) | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941506,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15|publisher=The Guardian }}</ref> When the issue of Galloway's meetings with Saddam Hussein is raised, including before the U.S. Senate, Galloway has argued that he had met Saddam "exactly the same number of times as ] ] met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns."<ref>{{cite news | title=Times Online | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Times }}</ref>

During a ], ], interview at the ] campus Galloway called for a global alliance between Muslims and progressives: "Not only do I think it’s possible but I think it is vitally necessary and I think it is happening already. It is possible because the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries mainly Muslim countries."<ref>{{cite web | title=Iraq News Network - Galloway calls for global unity between Islamic and Left forces | url=http://www.iraq-news.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=461&Itemid=113 | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>

===Galloway and Israel===
While Galloway frequently condemns Israel's military actions, many of Galloway's specific comments regarding Israel have been strongly criticised.

At a ], ] demonstration (and later in a '']'' op-ed),<ref></ref> Galloway stated "Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation!"; to which the ] passed a motion condemning Galloway for this. The NUS motion said Galloway is "clearly not ignorant of Hezbollah’s history of violence and the killing of innocents..."<ref></ref>
The NUS wrote two letters to Galloway, explaining their condemnation for his praise of Nasrallah who "has called for the killing of Jews...worldwide" and "Hezbollah is an organisation with a history of ]." The NUS also noted they are not "accusing of being antisemitic or being a Holocaust denier. What we do condemn is your open support for a leader and an organisation that is antisemitic, terrorist and denies the holocaust."<ref></ref>

In an interview Galloway had with ], Galloway blamed Israel for creating "conditions in the Arab countries and in some European countries to stampede Jewish people ... into the Zionist state". Jones then alleged that the "Zionists" funded Hitler, to which Galloway replied that Zionists used the Jewish people "to create this little settler state on the Mediterranean," whose purpose was "to act as an advance guard for their own interests in the Arab world..."<ref></ref> ] included commentary on the interview that included: "Critically, however, this 21st century ] claims to be pro-Jewish; and has studiously replaced 'The Jews' with new bogeymen, 'The Zionists'," and that the interview is a "perversion of past and present Jewish Zionist life".<ref></ref> Labour Liverpool Riverside MP ], who has been derided by Galloway as “Israel’s MP on Merseyside,” said: “I think this is just another demonstration of George Galloway’s total hostility toward Jewish national identity and self-determination.” ], former Labour MP and president of the ], characterised Galloway's comments as "manipulating many of the facts," and warned that "we must not underestimate the way in which he can influence groups of people who are somewhat naive about the Middle East and Zionism.” Stan Urman, Director of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, a group which represents 856,000 ], said: “How does one explain pogroms in 1912 and 1932 well before the establishment of the State of Israel?... His comments do not stand the test of historical fact.” Galloway told the Jewish News that he " by all those comments," and that ] "has turned the people of ] and ] into one apparently represented by ] and ].”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=1655|title=Galloway Blasts Israel|author=Daniel Kahtan|publisher=TotallyJewish.com|date=] ]}}</ref>

In a series of speeches broadcast on Arab television, Galloway described ] and ] as being "raped" by "foreigners". Ronnie Fraser of the ] interpreted Galloway's statement about Jerusalem to mean that he was referring to the Jewish people, as opposed to the State of Israel.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3122173,00.html|title='Jerusalem raped by foreigners'|author=Yaakov Lappin|publisher=]|date:08.03.05}}</ref> Galloway has consistently argued against confusing anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, and has condemned anti-Semitism in unequivocal terms.

Galloway was introduced as “a former member of the British Houses of Parliament” during a live interview with ]i ] television, to which he responded: “I am still a member of parliament and was re-elected five times. On the last occasion I was re-elected despite all the efforts made by the British government, the Zionist movement and the newspapers and news media which are controlled by Zionism.” Mark Gardner, Director of Communications at the ], said, “This is despicable language for a Member of Parliament to use. Suggestions of Jewish media control can only give encouragement to anti-semites of every type". ], Director of Media Relations at ], dismissed Galloway’s allegations about "Zionist control" of the media, adding: “We hope that Al-Jazeera’s premonition of Galloway as a former MP will soon become a reality.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=2144|title=Galloway Under Fire After TV Slur|author=Alex Sholem|publisher=TotallyJewish.com|date=] ]}}</ref>

Galloway expressed support for the Syrian presence of Lebanon 5 months before it ended, telling the '']'' of Lebanon "Syrian troops in Lebanon maintain stability and protect the country from Israel". In the same article he expressed his opposition to UN resolution 1559 which urged the Lebanese Government to establish control over all its territory.<ref>{{cite web
|date=] ]
|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=10758
|title=Galloway declares support for Barghouti in PA election
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|title=Galloway declares support for Barghouti in PA election
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===Galloway's view of Blair and Bush===
At the national conference of the ], on ], ], he apologised for describing George Bush as a "wolf", saying that to do so defamed wolves:
{{cquote|No wolf would commit the sort of crimes against humanity that George Bush committed against the people of Iraq.}}

On ] ], George Galloway gave an interview on ] TV in which he said:
{{cquote|The people who invaded and destroyed Iraq and have murdered more than a million Iraqi people by sanctions and war will burn in Hell in the hell-fires, and their name in history will be branded as killers and war criminals for all time. ] is a ], Falluaja is a ], and Iraq is in flames as a result of the actions of these criminals. Not the resistance, not anybody else but these criminals who invaded and fell like wolves upon the people of Iraq. And by the way, those Arab regimes which helped them to do it will burn in the same hell-fires.<ref>{{cite web | title=MEMRI TV | url=http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=372 | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>}}

On ], ], he appeared on ] to lambast these two leaders and others.
{{cquote|Bush, and Blair, and the ], and ], these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalised capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known. It has killed far more people than ]. It has killed far more people than George Bush. The economic system which these people support, which leaves most of the people in the world hungry, and without clean water to drink. So we're going to put them on trial, the leaders, when they come. They think they're coming for a holiday in a beautiful country called Scotland; in fact, they're coming to their trial....Ancient freedoms, which we had for hundreds of years, are being taken away from us under the name of the war on terror, when the real big terrorists are the governments of Britain and the United States. They are the real rogue states breaking international law, invading other people's countries, killing their children in the name of anti-terrorism, when in fact, all they're achieving is to make more terrorists in the world, not less, to make the world more dangerous, rather than less.<ref>{{cite web | title=MEMRI TV | url=http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=697 | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>}}

On ], ], Galloway was refused entry to ] at ] Airport and was detained "on grounds of national security", where he had been invited to 'give evidence' at a 'mock trial' of Bush and Blair. After being detained overnight, he said Egyptian President ] "apologised on behalf of the Egyptian people", and he was allowed to enter the country. After initial derogatory comments from Galloway and a spokesman from his Respect party regarding Mubarak's pro-western stance and ties to Bush and Blair, Galloway later commented: "It was a most gracious apology which I accept wholeheartedly. I consider the matter now closed" (see
,
).

In an interview with ] for '']'' in May 2006, Galloway was asked whether a ] on Tony Blair with "no other casualties" would be morally justifiable "as revenge for the war on Iraq?". He answered "Yes it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it, but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable, and morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq as Blair did." He further stated that if he knew about such a plan that he would inform the relevant authorities, saying: "I would , because such an operation would be counterproductive because it would just generate a new wave of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiment whipped up by the press. It would lead to new draconian anti-terror laws, and would probably strengthen the resolve of the British and American services in Iraq rather than weaken it. So yes, I would inform the authorities."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5020222.stm|title=Blair attack 'morally justified'|work=]|date=2006-05-29|accessdate=2006-11-26}}</ref> Some news analysts, notably ], took this to be a call for an attack while appearing not to.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2142635
|title=Furious George
|author=]
|work=]
|date=2006-05-30
|accessdate=2006-11-26
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===Views on the July 2005 London bombings===
In the ], on the day of the ] that killed 52 and injured hundreds, and following a visit to the ] in his constituency where many of the victims had been taken, Galloway condemned the attacks strongly, but argued that they could not be separated from the hatred and bitterness felt among Muslims because of injustices in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, including injustices, he said, suffered as a result of British foreign policy:
{{cquote|I condemn the act that was committed this morning. I have no need to speculate about its authorship. It is absolutely clear that Islamist extremists, inspired by the al-Qaeda world outlook, are responsible. I condemn it utterly as a despicable act, committed against working people on their way to work, without warning, on tubes and buses. Let there be no equivocation: the primary responsibility for this morning's bloodshed lies with the perpetrators of those acts... The hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones), in an otherwise fine speech, described today's events as "unpredictable". They were not remotely unpredictable. Our own security services predicted them and warned the Government that if we we would be at greater risk from terrorist attacks such as the one that we have suffered this morning... Despicable, yes; but not unpredictable. It was entirely predictable and, I predict, it will not be the last.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web | title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 7 July 2005 (pt 26) | url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050707/debtext/50707-26.htm | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>}}
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Winding up the debate for the government in the last moments allotted, Armed Forces Minister ] described Galloway's remarks as "disgraceful" and accused Galloway of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood."<ref>{{cite web | title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 7 July 2005 (pt 30) | url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050707/debtext/50707-30.htm#stpa_398|accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> No time remained for Galloway to intervene and he ran afoul of the ] when trying to make a ] about Ingram's attack. He later went on to describe Ingram as a "thug" who had committed a "foul-mouthed, deliberately timed, last-10-seconds smear."<ref>{{cite web | title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 7 July 2005 (pt 31) | url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050707/debtext/50707-31.htm | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> The men had previously clashed over claims in Galloway's autobiography (see ]).

===Galloway and Pakistan===
At the time of the 1999 coup in Pakistan, he wrote, "In poor third world countries like Pakistan, politics is too important to be left to petty squabbling politicians. Pakistan is always on the brink of breaking apart into its widely disparate components. Only the armed forces can really be counted on to hold such a country together... Democracy is a means, not an end in itself and it has a bad name on the streets of Karachi and Lahore." ], ]].

The government of Pakistan had earlier bankrolled his Asian Voice publishing company (see below).

===Record on LGBT issues===
In 1994 Galloway voted in support of the equalisation of the ] for ] (which was then 21 years) with that for ] at 16 years.<ref> Division 136</ref> and then voted against a reduction of the homosexual age of consent to 18.<ref> </ref> He voted in favour of permitting unmarried and gay couples to adopt children.<ref> </ref> Critics have claimed that his involvement in the leadership of Respect - which made no explicit mention of gay rights in its 2005 election manifesto<ref>{{cite web | title=Galloway’s Party in Gay Rights Row | url=http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005nov/2202.htm | accessdate=2006-01-07 }}</ref> and accepted donations from certain Islamic, homophobic sources<ref>{{cite web | title=Gay group tells Galloway to cut ties with donor | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,9061,1650526,00.html|accessdate=2006-01-07 }}</ref> - raise questions about commitment to those issues, as does his rather poor voting record in parliamentary divisions, 80% of which he missed, during the 2001-5 parliament while still a Glasgow MP.<ref></ref> However, Respect's 2005 conference which Galloway took part in, resolved that explicit defence of equal rights and calls for the end to all discrimination against ], ], ] and ] people would be made in all of its manifestos and principal election materials.<ref> Respect Conference Resolutions passed at 2005 conference (Resolution 31).</ref>

Galloway's assertion on '']'' chat show (13 March 2008) that the executed boyfriend of gay Iranian asylum seeker ] was a sex offender rather than a homosexual<ref>Tony Grew ''Pink News'', 14 March 2008. Retrieved on 29 March 2008.</ref> received criticism from ] among others.<ref>Peter Tatchell ''The Guardian'' website , 28 March 2008. Retrieved on 29 March 2008.</ref> Galloway also claimed on '']'' that the case of gay rights in Iran was being raised by those who support a war with Iran.

==Corruption allegations and other controversies==
===Mariam Appeal===
In 1998 Galloway founded the ], intended "to campaign against sanctions on Iraq which are having disastrous effects on the ordinary people of Iraq". The campaign was named after Mariam Hamza, a child flown by the fund from Iraq to Britain to receive treatment for ]. The intention was to raise awareness of the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of other Iraqi children due to poor health conditions and lack of suitable medicines and facilities, and to campaign for the lifting of the ] that many maintained were responsible for that situation.

The fund received scrutiny during the ], after a complaint that Galloway used some of the donation money to pay his travel expenses.<ref>{{cite web | title=Galloway cleared on appeals fund | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3847287.stm | accessdate=2006-10-12 }}</ref> Galloway said that the expenses were incurred in his capacity as the Appeal's chairman. Although the Mariam Appeal was never a registered charity and never intended to be such, it was investigated by the ]. The report of this year-long inquiry, published in June 2004,<ref>{{cite web | title=The Mariam Appeal | url=http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/investigations/inquiryreports/mariam2.asp | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> found that the Mariam Appeal was doing charitable work (and so ought to have registered with them), but did not substantiate allegations that any funds had been misused.

A further Charity Commission Report published on ] ] found that the Appeal had received funds from Fawaz Zureikat that originated from the Oil For Food programme, and concluded that: "Although Mr Galloway, Mr Halford and Mr Al-Mukhtar have confirmed that they were unaware of the source of Mr Zureikat’s donations, the Commission has concluded that the charity trustees should have made further enquiries when accepting such large single and cumulative donations to satisfy themselves as to their origin and legitimacy. The Commission’s conclusion is that the charity trustees did not properly discharge their duty of care as trustees to the Appeal in respect of these donations. They added: "The Commission is also concerned, having considered the totality of the evidence before it, that Mr Galloway may also have known of the connection between the Appeal and the Programme".<ref>http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/investigations/inquiryreports/mariam.asp</ref> Galloway responded: "I've always disputed the Commission's retrospective view that a campaign to win a change in national and international policy&mdash;a political campaign&mdash;was, in fact, a charity."<ref></ref>

===Oil for Food===
====''Daily Telegraph''====
On ], ], the '']'' published an article describing documents found by its reporter ] in the ruins of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. The documents purport to be records of meetings between Galloway and Iraqi intelligence agents, and state that he had received £375,000 per year from the proceeds of the ]me. Galloway completely denied the story, and pointed to the nature of the discovery within an unguarded, bombed-out building as being questionable. He instigated legal action against the newspaper, which was heard in the High Court from ], ].<ref>HQ03X0206, George Galloway MP vs. Telegraph Group Ltd.</ref>

On ], Justice David Eady ruled that the story had been "seriously defamatory", and that the ''Telegraph'' was "obliged to compensate Mr Galloway ... and to make an award for the purposes of restoring his reputation". Galloway was awarded £150,000 damages plus costs estimated to total £1.2 million. The court did not grant leave to appeal; in order to appeal in the absence of leave, the defendants would have to petition the House of Lords.

The libel case was regarded by both sides as an important test of the Reynolds qualified-privilege defence.<ref>{{cite web | title=Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Ltd and Others UKHL 45; 4 All ER 609; 3 WLR 1010 (28 October, 1999) | url=http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1999/45.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> The ''Daily Telegraph'' did not attempt to claim justification (a defence in which the defendant bears the onus of proving that the defamatory reports are true): "It has never been the ''Telegraph's'' case to suggest that the allegations contained in these documents are true".<ref>{{cite news
|title=UK: Politics: Galloway wins Saddam libel case
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4061165.stm
|accessdate=2005-12-15
|publisher=]
}}</ref> Instead, the paper sought to argue that it acted responsibly because the allegations it reported were of sufficient public interest to outweigh the damage caused to Galloway's reputation. However, the court ruled that, "It was the defendants' primary case that their coverage was no more than 'neutral reportage' ... but the nature, content and tone of their coverage cannot be so described."

The issue of whether the documents were genuine was likewise not at issue at the trial. However, it later transpired that the expert hired by Galloway's lawyers, a forensic expert named Oliver Thorne, said "In my opinion the evidence found fully supports that the vast majority of the submitted documents are authentic."<ref>url=http://www.lgc.co.uk/news_story.asp?strareano=47_2&intelement=6518</ref> He added "It should be noted that I am unable to comment on the veracity of the information within the disputed Telegraph documents, whether or not they are authentic."

The ''Telegraph'' lost their appeal on ], ], the same day as Galloway's ''Big Brother'' eviction, and on ], ], the newspaper announced it would not be seeking leave to appeal.

====Others====
The '']'' also published a story on ], ], stating that they had documentary evidence that he had received "more than ten million dollars" from the Iraqi regime. However, on ], ], the ''Monitor'' reported<ref>{{cite news | title=Galloway papers deemed forgeries: csmonitor.com | url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0620/p01s03-woiq.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=Christian Science Monitor }}</ref> that their own investigation had concluded the documents were sophisticated forgeries, and apologised. Galloway rejected the newspaper's apology, asserted that the affair was a conspiracy against him, and continued a libel claim against the paper.

The ''Christian Science Monitor'' settled the claim, paying him an undisclosed sum in damages, on ], ].<ref>{{cite news | title=UK : Politics: Galloway accepts libel damages | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3549679.stm | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=BBC }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Guardian Unlimited: Special reports: Galloway wins damages for Iraq libel | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1174073,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Guardian }}</ref> It emerged that these documents had first been offered to the ''Daily Telegraph'', but they had rejected them. The documents' origin remains obscure.

In January 2004, a further set of allegations were made in '']'', a newspaper in Iraq. The newspaper claimed to have found documents in the Iraqi national oil corporation showing that Galloway received (through an intermediary) some of the profits arising from the sale of 19.5 million barrels (3,100,000 m³) of oil. Galloway acknowledged that money had been paid into the Mariam Appeal by Iraqi businessmen who had profited from the UN-run programme, but denied benefiting personally, and maintained that, in any case, there was nothing illicit about this:
{{cquote|It is hard to see what is dishonourable, let alone "illicit", about Arab nationalist businessmen donating some of the profits they made from legitimate UN-controlled business with Iraq to anti-sanctions campaigns, as opposed to, say, keeping their profits for themselves.}}

The report of the ] published in October 2004 claimed that Galloway was one of the recipients of a fund used by Iraq to buy influence among foreign politicians. Galloway denied receiving any money from Saddam Hussein's regime. The ] had begun an investigation into George Galloway but suspended it when Galloway launched legal action. On ], it was announced that this investigation would resume.

====U.S. Senate====
=====Allegations=====
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In May 2005, a U.S. Senate committee report<ref>{{cite news | title=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_05_05_psi_report.pdf | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_05_05_psi_report.pdf | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=BBC }}</ref> accused Galloway along with former ] minister ] of receiving the right to buy oil under the UN's oil-for-food scheme. The report was issued by the ], chaired by Senator ], a ] from ]. The report cited further documents from the Iraqi oil ministry and interviews with Iraqi officials.

Coleman's committee said Pasqua had received allocations worth {{convert|11|Moilbbl|m3}} from 1999 to 2000, and Galloway received allocations worth {{convert|20|Moilbbl|m3}} from 2000 to 2003. The allegations against Pasqua and Galloway, both outspoken opponents of U.N. sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, have been made before, including in an October report by U.S. arms inspector ] as well as in the various purported documents described earlier in this section. But Coleman's report provided several new details. It also included information from interrogations of former high-ranking officials in U.S. custody, including former Foreign Minister ] and former Vice President ]. Among the claims is that there is new evidence to suggest that the Mariam Appeal, a children's ] charity founded by Galloway, was in fact used to conceal oil payments. The report cites Ramadan as saying under interrogation that Galloway was allocated oil "because of his opinions about Iraq."

]
'']''<ref>{{cite news | title=How they forged case against Galloway:21May05:Socialist Worker | url=http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6511 | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=Socialist Worker }}</ref> reported what they say is evidence that the key Iraqi oil ministry documents regarding oil allocations, in which Galloway's name appears six times (contracts M/08/35, M/09/23,<ref>{{cite web | title=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence.jpg | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence.jpg | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> M/10/38, M/11/04,<ref>{{cite web | title=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence_2.jpg | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence_2.jpg | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref> M/12/14, M/13/48<ref>{{cite web | title=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence_4.jpg | url=http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Galloway_Evidence_4.jpg | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref>) have been tampered with. They published a copy of contract M/09/23 and allege that George Galloway's name appears to have been added in a different font and at a different angle to the rest of the text on that line. In these documents (relating to oil allocations 8-13), Galloway is among just a few people whose nationality is never identified, whilst Zureikat is the only one whose nationality is identified in one instance but not in others.<ref>See for the original and full version of the oil voucher accounting forms.</ref> ''Socialist Worker'' is a publication of the Socialist Workers Party, which at the time was in alliance with Galloway in RESPECT - the Unity Coalition.

=====Galloway's response=====
On ] ], the committee held a hearing concerning specific allegations (of which Galloway was one part) relating to improprieties surrounding the Oil-for-Food programme.<ref>http://hsgac.senate.gov/audio_video/051705video.ram video</ref> Attending Galloway's oral testimony and enquiring of him were two of the thirteen committee members: the chair (Coleman) and the ranking ] (]).<ref></ref>

Upon Galloway's arrival in the US, he told Reuters, "I have no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neo-con George Bush". Galloway described Coleman as a "pro-war, neo-con hawk and the lickspittle of George W. Bush", who, he said, sought revenge against anyone who did not support the invasion of Iraq.

In his testimony, Galloway made the following statements in response to the allegations against him:<ref>{{cite news | title=Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Times }}</ref>
{{cquote|Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader, and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one - and neither has anyone on my behalf. Now I know that standards have slipped in the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.}}

He questioned the reliability of evidence given by former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, stating that the circumstances of his captivity by American forces call into question the authenticity of the remarks. Galloway also pointed out an error in the report, where documents by ''The Daily Telegraph'' were said to have covered an earlier period from those held by the Senate. In fact the report's documents referred to the same period as those used by the ''The Daily Telegraph'', though Galloway pointed out that the presumed forgeries pertaining to the '']'' report did refer to an earlier period.

Galloway also denounced the invasion of Iraq as having been based on "a pack of lies" in his Senate testimony. The U.S. media, in reporting his appearance, emphasised his blunt remarks on the war. The British media gave generally more positive coverage; TV presenter ] said Galloway "quite frankly put the pride back in British politics" when introducing him for a prime time talk show.<ref>{{cite news | title=Galloway and the mother of all invective | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1486417,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Guardian }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=UK ovation for U.S. showdown MP - May 19, 2005 | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/19/galloway/ | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=CNN }}</ref>

The transcript of Galloway's evidence to the Senate was added to the Senate Committee's website but removed approximately 24 hours later, with the observation that "Mr Galloway did not submit a written statement".<ref></ref><ref>http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=48343</ref><ref></ref>

=====Alleged false or misleading testimony=====
A report by the then-majority ] staff of the ] Committee on Investigations published in October 2005 asserted that Galloway had given false "or misleading"<ref></ref> testimony under oath when appearing before them. The report exhibits bank statements it claims show that £85,000 of proceeds from the Oil-for-Food Programme had been paid to Galloway's then-wife Amineh Abu-Zayyad. Galloway reiterated his denial of the charges and challenged the U.S. Senate committee to charge him with perjury. He claimed Coleman's motive was revenge over the embarrassment of his appearance before the committee in May.<ref>{{cite news | title=UK : UK Politics: Galloway challenges US senators | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4374534.stm | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=BBC }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=RESPECT - The Unity Coalition - News | url=http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=905 | accessdate=2005-12-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=America, United States, Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1841396,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Times }}</ref>

===Controversies at university debating societies===
On ] ], '']'' reported that Galloway was in a fracas at the ]. He was there to discuss his book
({{cite book | title=] Handbook | year=2006 | id=ISBN 1-84072-688-1 | last=Galloway | first=George | publisher=]}}).
His views on ] in ] were barracked by the audience, whom he described as "hunting, shooting and fishing types" and from the "rugby club". Three former ] students who met him afterwards and disputed this description, allege that Galloway said: "I don’t represent anyone’s views. I represent me. I don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks."<ref></ref> and: "You are confusing me with someone who gives a fuck". When the students tried to get Galloway to apologise, he asked for them to be removed from the room, but they left of their own accord.<ref></ref>
Before the Union appearance, he had granted ''Oxford Student'' newspaper journalist Imran Jina an exclusive interview in which he claimed he would be well-received by his audience.
His comments have been criticised by several MPs, including ], who said: "there’s no need to swear"; and ], who said: "If he wishes to be respected by anyone other than ] he should apologise."

On ] ] in a ] at the ], ], ], speaking in proposition of the motion "That this house believes the ] is the greatest crime since ]", Galloway controversially stormed out after being accused of collusion with dictators by the opposition speaker; Irish ] and ] ]. Galloway confronted Gregg directly and insisted that he withdraw the allegations. After Gregg, a former member of ] and the ], refused to withdraw the comments, Galloway left the auditorium and abandoned the debate. Many of the audience of 500 walked out in sympathy with the MP. Galloway threatened legal action and informed Gregg that his ] would contact him the following morning. He also remarked that Gregg would probably be able to afford the lawsuit with an abundance of counterfeited money. The debate continued and the motion was defeated by those present by a clear margin.

===Sectarian attack at airport===
On ] ] Galloway claimed that he was the victim of a ] attack at ].<ref>{{cite web
| year = 2007
| url = http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=911832007
| title = Galloway tells of mob attack
| publisher = '']''
| accessdaymonth = 11 June
| accessyear = 2007
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| year = 2007
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6740775.stm
| title = Probe into Galloway attack claims
| publisher = ]
| accessdaymonth = 11 June
| accessyear = 2007
}}</ref> He believes that his attackers were on the way home from attending an ] ] in ] and that they attacked him because he is a ] fan (Celtic is generally the team supported by Catholics).<ref>{{cite web
| year = 2007
| url = http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52505&in_page_id=34
| title = Galloway in sectarian belly attack
| publisher = '']''
| accessdaymonth = 11 June
| accessyear = 2007
}}</ref> However, no arrest was made in connection with this.

===Support for Soviet Union===
Galloway once stated "I am on the ] left... If you are asking did I support the ], yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe."<ref>Simon Hattenstone ''The Guardian'', September 16, 2002.</ref></blockquote>.

==Publishing/media activities==
===''Asian Voice''===
Galloway has been involved in several ]. He owned ''Asian Voice'', which published a newspaper called ''East'' from 1996. It later transpired that the Pakistan Government was funding Galloway's company Asian Voice to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds. "Documents show that the Pakistan government agreed an initial budget for the weekly newspaper of £547,000. According to a memorandum dated ] ], the Pakistan government proposed to "covertly sponsor" the publication, with money allocated to "the Secret Fund of the High Commissioner for Pakistan in the UK as a special grant for the project".<ref name="Pakistan">{{cite web
|year = 2003
|url = http://www.hvk.org/articles/0403/242.html
|title = Why the MP went begging to Pakistan
|format = HTML
|publisher = The Telegraph
|accessdaymonth = 14 May
|accessyear = 2007
}}</ref> The Commons Committee cleared Galloway of any wrongdoing in this matter.<ref>] 4/24/03]</ref>

===Autobiography===
His autobiography, ''I'm Not The Only One'', was published on ] ]. The book's title is a quotation from "]" by ]. Armed Forces Minister ] applied for an interim interdict to prevent the book's publication. Ingram asserted that Galloway's text, which stated that Ingram "played the flute in a sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist ] band", was in bad faith and defamatory, although Ingram's lawyers conceded that for a year as a teenager he had been a member of a junior Orange Lodge in Barlanark, Glasgow, and had attended three parades. The Judge, Lord Kingarth, decided that he should refuse to grant an interim interdict, that the balance of the arguments favoured Galloway's publisher and that the phrase "sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist" was fair comment on that organisation. Although Ingram was not and never had been a flute-player, the defending advocate observed that "playing the flute carries no obvious defamatory imputation ... it is not to the discredit of anyone that he plays the flute." The judge ruled that Ingram should pay the full court costs of the hearing.<ref>{{cite news
|title=George Galloway - Minister fails to stop Galloway sectarian claim
|url=http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=818&id=476962004
|accessdate=2006-12-14
|publisher=The Scotsman
}}</ref>

===''Celebrity Big Brother''===
In January 2006 Galloway appeared on the ] of the reality show for three weeks. He was seen dancing in a ]<ref>. BBC News. 27 January 2006.</ref> and imitating a cat drinking milk.<ref>. BBC News. 27 January 2006.</ref>

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On ] ], Galloway started broadcasting on Britain's biggest commercial radio station, the ]-owned ] and two weeks later started a simultaneous broadcast on ], TalkSPORT's Edinburgh based sister station.

Billed as "The Mother Of All Talk Shows", Galloway starts every broadcast by playing the theme from the '']'' cartoon series. UTV said that Galloway was pulling in record call numbers and the highest ever ratings for its weekend slots, even pulling in more than the station's ''Football First'' programme.

===''The Real Deal''===
On ] ], Galloway started presenting a television programme known as ''The Real Deal'' on ], a channel aimed at the Asian community in Britain available on Sky channel 171. After ] ] this show is back again and is hosted on the ] channel.

===Mazher Mahmood===
In March 2006 Galloway claimed in a statement that ], an undercover reporter for the '']'' who uses a disguise as a ] to frame celebrities, targeted him in an alleged sting operation. Galloway claims that Mahmood and an accomplice tried but failed to implicate him in illegal party funding, and to agree with ] statements. Galloway wrote to the ] commissioner and the ] about the incident. He also released photographs of Mahmood and revealed other aspects of his activities.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The ''News of the World'' lost a ] action to prevent publication of photographs of Mahmood.<ref></ref>

===''Fidel Castro Handbook''===
Galloway also published the ''Fidel Castro Handbook'', a biography of the ] in 2006 (MQ Publications. ISBN 1-84072-688-1).

===Friction Books===
In 2005 Galloway established Friction Books,<ref>http://www.frictionbooks.com/</ref> an imprint for fiction and non-fiction, with longstanding associate ] <ref></ref>. Though Friction claimed its purpose was to publish ''"books that burn, books that cause controversy and get people talking"'', it only released the ] novel ''An Easy Thing'' <ref></ref>.

===''Big Brother's Big Mouth''===
Galloway acted as the guest presenter for the ] companion programme to the 2007 edition of ], ''Big Brother's Big Mouth'', from ] to ] ].

===TV and film appearances===
* '']'' (numerous appearances) - Panelist answering questions
* As a policeman, in ] "]", ] ]
* '']'' (2007)
* ''The Friday Night Project'' (2007)
* ''30 Greatest Political Comedies'' (2006) (TV)
* ''The Wright Stuff'' - Panelist
* ''The Late Late Show'' (1 programmes, 2006)
* ''Richard & Judy'' (2 programmes, 2006)
* ''Tubridy Tonigh'' (2006)
* '']'' (23 episodes, 2006)
* ''Have I Got News For You'' - Panelist(2003)

From ]] Galloway has a column in the '']'' giving his views on Scottish politics.

==Galloway as an orator==
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Galloway is widely viewed as an adept wordsmith and debater. For example, according to the '']'' he is "known, even in the highly articulate world of British politics, for his memorable turns of phrase",<ref>{{cite news | title=News / World / Europe / Britain's Galloway turns into media hero | url=http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/19/britains_galloway_turns_into_media_hero/ | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Boston Globe }}</ref> whereas '']'' finds that he has "the gift of the Glasgow gab, a love of the stage and an inexhaustible fund of self-belief."<ref>{{cite news | title=Times Online | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616897_2,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Times }}</ref> '']'' finds him "renowned for his colourful rhetoric and combative debating style"<ref>{{cite news | title=Special Reports: Bagdhad, Washington, South Shields | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,9061,1501189,00.html | accessdate=2005-12-15 | publisher=The Guardian }}</ref> and the ''Spectator'' once awarded him Debater of the Year. Sometimes this general acknowledgement of Galloway's rhetorical capacity is accompanied by criticism that he is evasive (Scotsman, "ducked the question"<ref>{{cite news
|title=George Galloway - Galloway bluster fails to convince Senate
|url=http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=818&id=540962005
|accessdate=2005-12-15
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==External links==
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===General===
*. Official George Galloway website.
*. Official party website
*. The previous Official party website.
*. Official George Galloway MySpace.
* Unofficial forum, high quality downloads and massive archive of Galloway on radio and TV, where other sites come to stock up.
*. George Galloway media downloads (including talkSPORT shows).
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* Article by Christopher Hitchens:

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*''The Scotsman''. . ], ].
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*Watson, Richard. . '']'', ], ].
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*New Worker. 1998 interview
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*Link to full video recording of hearing in this BBC News report:, ], ], ]
* Crooks & Liars: audio and video
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