Is that Monty Panesar? The old England spin bowler is stood in a crowd in Parliament Square, with a vacant, million-mile smile. George Galloway is standing in front, talking to the press. Galloway is meant to be revealing the 200 candidates that his new ‘Workers Party’ is putting up at the next election (Panesar is one of them) but instead he’s just laying into Angela Rayner, the House of Lords and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. ‘…Angela Runner, as you might come to call her! …Two cheeks of the same backside! …The largest war machine in the world today!’
Galloway likes talking to the media; these days he is more celebrity than politician. His personal website is split into three sections – ‘THE POLITICIAN’, ‘THE MAN’, ‘THE COMMENTATOR’ – and videos of him debating people get millions of views on YouTube. One, of him telling Blair minister Jacqui Smith that she ‘killed a million people in Iraq’, has been seen 13 million times.
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