I'll back Labour if I win Scottish parliament seat, says George Galloway

[frogwoman]

Do you have a link to (or the title?? of) the article in question then, so i can read it for myself - i'd prefer that rather than just the usual rant on here

eta: never mind - found it - but i can't see any mention of Callaghan in the article, just post war nostalgia type stuff basically about the welfare state. it's not very detailed and seems to basically be attacking salmond's policies in regard to scottish nationalism and independence and supporting "old labour"'s policies with a heavy dose of nostalgia, which is not really the impression you gave in your post. (and i'm not defending gg btw, ive got to go to bed now anyway)

 

[Fisher_Gate]

Do you have a link to (or the title?? of) the article in question then, so i can read it for myself - i'd prefer that rather than just the usual rant on here

eta: never mind - found it - but i can't see any mention of Callaghan in the article, just post war nostalgia type stuff basically about the welfare state. it's not very detailed and seems to basically be attacking salmond's policies in regard to scottish nationalism and independence and supporting "old labour"'s policies with a heavy dose of nostalgia, which is not really the impression you gave in your post. (and i'm not defending gg btw, ive got to go to bed now anyway)

Hmmm I think you must be looking at the wrong article. You do need to understand a bit about Labour history to get the references. Atlee and Wilson are entirely defendable inclusions - they were part of the 1945-50 Labour government that established the welfare state that Salmond was born into. Wilson even had a left reputation, resigning from the cabinet over the introduction of prescription charges with Bevan. Callaghan's inclusion is completely incomprehensible - he never had a vaguely left wing bone in his body and presided over some of the most awful aspects of post war Labour in the 1964-1970 and 1974-79 governments. Unless that is of course Galloway wanted to appeal to right wing older Labour supporters ... but that couldn't be possible could it? Willie Ross was Scottish Secretary under Wilson and was unionist to the core - it was he who used the phrase 'Tartan Tories' to describe the SNP. I quite like Andrew Marr's summary of him quoted on Wikipedia -" a stern-faced and authoritarian Presbyterian conservative who ran the country like a personal fiefdom for Harold Wilson". Again one has to ask why Galloway would want to invoke him as a model to Labour voters?

What Alex Salmond will not acknowledge.. he owes it all to Labour
By George Galloway on Mar 28, 11 08:25 AM in

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No matter that all of Salmond's privileged young life was made possible by "Quislings" who elected Clement Atlee, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Willie Ross - and long before Orkney and Shetland's North Sea oil came on stream.

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/geor...Galloway+(The+Daily+Record+-+George+Galloway)

 

[Bakunin]

So does he.

A spoiler would be nice, ta, some of us were trying to eat breakfast.

 

[The39thStep]

According to the Independent George will not be alone in standing on a plaform of 'vote labour fight the cuts' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-fighting-cuts-is-election-theme-2258910.html

 

[JWH]

A spoiler would be nice, ta, some of us were trying to eat breakfast.

I would never recommend watching a Galloway video over a meal.

 

[JWH]

But even worse would be watching a video of Galloway eating a meal.

 

[youngian]

Let Galloway back in the Labour Party. He was expelled for his unswerving opposition to the Iraq War by Blairites who have been confined to the dustbin of history and were also happy to cosy up to former SDP members.