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Don't do yourself down, that's other people's job
George Galloway unhappy at results
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Your shit's splashed everywhere now
Anytime baby wants to talk like an adult I'll be happy to engage. Until then, off you fuck
Treacle Toes
Time
Oh god...
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Starry Wisdom
You'll have to learn how to talk like an adult first. Start by washing out your filthy mouth with soap
The internets sure is confusing, innit gramps!
rekil
to menny cranks
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Not really, no
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
He's at it again - threatening Murdoch's News UK with legal action after being sacked from his talkRADIO show, following this tweet...
George Galloway sacked by talkRADIO over Israel tweet
George Galloway sacked by talkRADIO over Israel tweet
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Galloway gave me one of the greatest moments of amusements in my life. Remember his hubris about how tough he was, then a Chinese waiter who weighed about six stone kicked the shit out of him.
He is an utter and absolute cunt, always has been, always will be. There is no doubt that his comment was anti-Semitic, he's a murdering bastards of Hamas supporter, what do you expect?
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Starry Wisdom
to be fair i'm not sure you're really in a position to be shouting about murdering bastards, what with the things the british army's doneGalloway gave me one of the greatest moments of amusements in my life. Remember his hubris about how tough he was, then a Chinese waiter who weighed about six stone kicked the shit out of him.
He is an utter and absolute cunt, always has been, always will be. There is no doubt that his comment was anti-Semitic, he's a murdering bastards of Hamas supporter, what do you expect?
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
I'm still confused as to how he acquired the moniker of 'Georgeous George'. Was it one he coined for himself? This is surely the only explanation.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Equilibrium restored
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Was trying to get my head around what Israel had to do with it, then penny dropped that it's because Spurs have historic links to british jews. The vile prick
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
No, no, there were people waving Israeli flags in the Spurs end, honest guv
He actually tried to argue that. The utter arsehole.
Lurdan
old wave
I'm sure Killer B is right, however the nickname "Gorgeous George" also has a history which may have fed into it's application to this cunt. One strand of that history is it's use by various people in wrestling both here and in the US. British wrestling fans of a certain age will recall "Gorgeous George" Gillette, Kendo Nagasaki's flamboyant manager.That makes a lot more sense now.
George Gillette wasn't a wrestler himself, but here he is in a stunt tag team with Nagasaki (the Saddam Hussein of British Wrestling) against Mick McManus and Steve Logan.
So kind of an appropriate nickname for a hustler whose career has seen him alternating between bigging himself up and bigging up the various 'strong men' he has supported.
(Of course the analogy only goes so far. 'Sports Entertainment', such as British wrestling, can be very entertaining. 'Politics Entertainment' is just a repulsive pantomime gloss on exactly the same bollocks as in so-called 'Serious Politics').
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Earliest use I can find via nexis is from a brief mention in the times diary for 9/11/1987 where he scored 3 goals in a press v mps match. The press scored 4. No explanation about the gorgeous bit given
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Thanks for clarifying, as I had no idea!
Lurdan
old wave
Found a use of it in Bill Heaney's column in the Lennox Herald on the 25th September 1987.
(For those having difficulty in keeping track of which Galloway scandal this article might be referring to, this was the week that Galloway, recently elected as a Labour M.P., resigned as General Secretary of War on Want. It followed a press conference to discuss question marks over his handling of the charity's finances during which he'd confirmed that he'd slept with a couple of women during a WoW conference in Greece. Reportedly the "Sex Romp M.P." press coverage this attracted was the first his wife learned of it and they separated not long afterwards).
For all you grapple fans, this article was published a few days after Peter Thornley (the former, but by now unmasked, 'Kendo Nagasaki') won the (GB) World Heavyweight wrestling title. His manager was still "Gorgeous George" Gillette. Coincidence? [Cue eerie music] You be the judge
Galloway himself seems to endorse the notion that the nickname was bestowed because of (his words) the "ostentatious, rapacious heterosexual promiscuity" he engaged in.
In a 2016 interview given during his unsuccessful run at becoming Mayor of London he offered an explanation of his past behaviour.
Galloway’s odds to be the next mayor are 33/1, which were his starting odds in the Bradford West by-election that he won. He’s nothing if not resilient – he’s been through libels, slanders, physical assaults, being taken hostage – and he’s hinted at being sexually abused as a child. How does he feel about allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring?
‘There’s absolutely no reason to imagine that it’s not still happening. There has been a coverup, that’s obviously true. Amongst the English ruling class in their public school system sexual dysfunctionality has been prevalent for generations. The buttoned up, sexually frustrated upper class character hides a lot of dark impulses. It’s not a coincidence that corporal punishment as a sexual practice is known in France as le vice anglais.’ I notice that his Arabic accent is better than his French.
What I’ve just told you I haven’t ever told anybody before – not my parents, not my wife
Does he remember the abuse he suffered? The details shock me, and for a minute I feel like I’ve gone from interviewer to therapist, watching his eyes mist up. ‘I remember it like it was five minutes ago. I was 12, and a Colonel called me in to his office. He told me to strip with another boy. He hooked his stick under my genitals, placed his right hand under my genitals, and then seriously sexually assaulted both me and the other boy. What I’ve just told you I haven’t ever told anybody before – not my parents, not my wife.’
‘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.’
Politicians who are victims of child abuse can develop a relentless pursuit of justice, an obsession with righting a wrong – Gerry Adams comes to mind. Could the abuse have had a political effect on Galloway? ‘It would be that it intensified my hatred for powerful people imposing themselves on less powerful people. Some might think it has something to do with my attitude to the military. He had the Colonel’s regalia. He was acting as a member of the elite, representing the queen. I joined Labour a year after it happened.’
‘There’s absolutely no reason to imagine that it’s not still happening. There has been a coverup, that’s obviously true. Amongst the English ruling class in their public school system sexual dysfunctionality has been prevalent for generations. The buttoned up, sexually frustrated upper class character hides a lot of dark impulses. It’s not a coincidence that corporal punishment as a sexual practice is known in France as le vice anglais.’ I notice that his Arabic accent is better than his French.
What I’ve just told you I haven’t ever told anybody before – not my parents, not my wife
Does he remember the abuse he suffered? The details shock me, and for a minute I feel like I’ve gone from interviewer to therapist, watching his eyes mist up. ‘I remember it like it was five minutes ago. I was 12, and a Colonel called me in to his office. He told me to strip with another boy. He hooked his stick under my genitals, placed his right hand under my genitals, and then seriously sexually assaulted both me and the other boy. What I’ve just told you I haven’t ever told anybody before – not my parents, not my wife.’
‘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.’
Politicians who are victims of child abuse can develop a relentless pursuit of justice, an obsession with righting a wrong – Gerry Adams comes to mind. Could the abuse have had a political effect on Galloway? ‘It would be that it intensified my hatred for powerful people imposing themselves on less powerful people. Some might think it has something to do with my attitude to the military. He had the Colonel’s regalia. He was acting as a member of the elite, representing the queen. I joined Labour a year after it happened.’
Not sure I care to say what I think about that particular explanation.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
tbf when he took on the US Congress was
If only watching a bunch of cunts put a microphone in front of an argumentative leftie
i remember that, and while I fully accept that the guy's a dingus, it was a satisfying show.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
“If only watching a bunch of cunts put a microphone in front of an argumentative leftie” should be Lewis Capaldi’s second album title
likesfish
You can't park here sir
I think even died in the wool Torys were grinning when they heard, the yanks really don't do adversarial politics they expected George to turn up and be cowed and apologetic
.
Didn't really turn out like thatGalloway: The man who took on America
didn't achieve anything but looked amazing
.Didn't really turn out like that
Galloway: The man who took on Americadidn't achieve anything but looked amazing
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