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From where did he acquire the moniker “Gorgeous George”, anyway? He’s not exactly pretty, is he? Or maybe I just don’t see it.
 
MrCurry said:
From where did he acquire the moniker “Gorgeous George”, anyway? He’s not exactly pretty, is he? Or maybe I just don’t see it.
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It dates from his time at war on want where he boasted about the amount of (exploitative) shagging of (vulnerable) women while at a conference in greece I think. Around the same time as the allegations of financial impropriety. Nice story.
 
Proper Tidy said:
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Interesting in that he was a UKIP supporter and is, unlike the peaky blinder hat wearing CPGB students who regularly pop up in West Brom, from here and working class.

Shame on Galloway for leading young people like this, who want to change things and have politically recognised the dead end of the right into the dead end of Stalinism
 
Is the Williamson/Resistance Fest lot on board with this or have we seen the first split of the new revolutionary movement?
 
MadeInBedlam said:
Is the Williamson/Resistance Fest lot on board with this or have we seen the first split of the new revolutionary movement?
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There was a naive if well meaning post from a Socialist Party supporter on Twitter who was calling for a united front/coaltion of the left outside the Labour party. I'd imagine that despite the overwhelming list of issues facing the working class that the first thing this new united left would do would be to split over the question of imperialism , which of course wouldnt be on the overwhelming list of issues facing the working class .
 
Proper Tidy said:
It dates from his time at war on want where he boasted about the amount of (exploitative) shagging of (vulnerable) women while at a conference in greece I think. Around the same time as the allegations of financial impropriety. Nice story.
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I think you've improved it slightly ;) I don't doubt he used his 'charisma' (lol) and 'personailty' in the task of persuading people to have sex with him, but the sex at the WoW conference wasn't presented as exploitative. The issues raised then were adultery (it did catalyse the end of his marriage), and propriety, at a time when 'being a bit of a lad' wasn't seen as a very good look for ambitious newly-elected Labour MPs. His Greek adventures were raised at a press conference to discuss serious allegations of financial irregularities inside WoW. Gorgeous was ahead of his time in confirming that it had happened and attempting to front it out. Today it might be different, but at that time the resulting picture of someone with multiple question marks over their conduct and their judgment, not to mention a 'marmite' level public persona, didn't do his ambitions for high office any good at all.

The nickname was coined by his enemies and intended to mock him. It stuck. What came next was interesting. Gorgeous, to an extent successfully, tried 'reclaiming' it. He suggested that rather than implying he was a ridiculous publicity seeking clown, it had been bestowed on him because of his 'voracious' sexual appetite. He attempted to personify 'virile socialism'. I say 'to an extent successfully' reclaim it, because to this day the nickname is mostly used against him to imply he's a fucking wanker, rather than some Putin-style manly role mode, not least by many of those who have had the misfortune to have to deal with him.

Flash forward to 2016 and his bid for Mayor of London. By now 'virile socialism' isn't entirely the PR advantage it once was, particularly in London, and in a contest to replace Boris 'Mr Sexual Etiquette' Johnson as Mayor. Once again 'Gorgeous' attempts to get ahead of things in dealing with this. He gives an interview in which he claims his 'rapacious heterosexual promiscuity' is a consequence of childhood sexual abuse.

‘It scarred me for the rest of my life and until now, in unexpected ways. One of them is quite bizarre: I have had a lifelong fear of being gay and this led me into ostentatious, rapacious heterosexual promiscuity. I pursued women even when I had women already, good ones. I pursued other women to prove to myself and to others that I was as straight as could possibly be. It made me from that day onwards want to be Jack the lad, always chasing girls. That’s maybe why I became “gorgeous George”. My womanising is because of the abuse.’
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Where do you even start with this ?

My working assumption is that when a politician's lips move they are lying about something. Nonetheless I certainly can't say whether or not this claim, which he explicitly linked to the then hot topic of VIP paedophile networks, was untrue. What I can say is that, true or not, the way he attempted to deploy it, and particularly the suggestion that it made past bad behaviour 'understandable' - and in this context implying 'relateable' - was both despicable and IMO an insult to victims of abuse. Once again he was attempting to be one step 'ahead of the curve' as opposed to those others - Watson, Goldsmith, Danczuk, Mann etc etc - who were also attempting to exploit the issue of child sexual abuse for political advantage.

I guess some people will focus on how unfair it is that Eton Toff Boris should seemingly remain untouched by the consequences of his behaviour, while poor old working class George remains somewhat enmired in scandal. Is it right to hold Gorgeous to a higher standard than Boris ? Well myself I'd be more than happy to hang both these scumbags from lamp standards of exactly the same size.
 
Lurdan said:
I think you've improved it slightly ;) I don't doubt he used his 'charisma' (lol) and 'personailty' in the task of persuading people to have sex with him, but the sex at the WoW conference wasn't presented as exploitative. The issues raised then were adultery (it did catalyse the end of his marriage), and propriety, at a time when 'being a bit of a lad' wasn't seen as a very good look for ambitious newly-elected Labour MPs. His Greek adventures were raised at a press conference to discuss serious allegations of financial irregularities inside WoW. Gorgeous was ahead of his time in confirming that it had happened and attempting to front it out. Today it might be different, but at that time the resulting picture of someone with multiple question marks over their conduct and their judgment, not to mention a 'marmite' level public persona, didn't do his ambitions for high office any good at all.

The nickname was coined by his enemies and intended to mock him. It stuck. What came next was interesting. Gorgeous, to an extent successfully, tried 'reclaiming' it. He suggested that rather than implying he was a ridiculous publicity seeking clown, it had been bestowed on him because of his 'voracious' sexual appetite. He attempted to personify 'virile socialism'. I say 'to an extent successfully' reclaim it, because to this day the nickname is mostly used against him to imply he's a fucking wanker, rather than some Putin-style manly role mode, not least by many of those who have had the misfortune to have to deal with him.

Flash forward to 2016 and his bid for Mayor of London. By now 'virile socialism' isn't entirely the PR advantage it once was, particularly in London, and in a contest to replace Boris 'Mr Sexual Etiquette' Johnson as Mayor. Once again 'Gorgeous' attempts to get ahead of things in dealing with this. He gives an interview in which he claims his 'rapacious heterosexual promiscuity' is a consequence of childhood sexual abuse.



Where do you even start with this ?

My working assumption is that when a politician's lips move they are lying about something. Nonetheless I certainly can't say whether or not this claim, which he explicitly linked to the then hot topic of VIP paedophile networks, was untrue. What I can say is that, true or not, the way he attempted to deploy it, and particularly the suggestion that it made past bad behaviour 'understandable' - and in this context implying 'relateable' - was both despicable and IMO an insult to victims of abuse. Once again he was attempting to be one step 'ahead of the curve' as opposed to those others - Watson, Goldsmith, Danczuk, Mann etc etc - who were also attempting to exploit the issue of child sexual abuse for political advantage.

I guess some people will focus on how unfair it is that Eton Toff Boris should seemingly remain untouched by the consequences of his behaviour, while poor old working class George remains somewhat enmired in scandal. Is it right to hold Gorgeous to a higher standard than Boris ? Well myself I'd be more than happy to hang both these scumbags from lamp standards of exactly the same size.
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Yeah I know that wasn't how it was presented at the time, that it was old fashioned morality about extra martial affairs. It's just my own view now in 2020, which is why I put the brackets in
 
George is brilliant at being George but doesn't know when to shut and is about as trustworthy as a snake.
 
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