| As the traditional panto season begins to wind down, George
Galloway, renegade politician, rebel without a fringe and self-admitted fanny magnet has
bravely become a contestant on C4’s Celebrity Big Brother. George, who hasn’t
really made that many appearances in that other long running farce, Westminster, since
being elected on a Respect ticket back in May 2005, told The JT :
"My official reason for taking part in this bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping exercise
in voyeurism for the millions of drooling imbeciles out there who will text C4 into
profit, is to use the opportunity to engage with people directly about politics. The real
reason is that there’s been no coverage of me in the papers for the last few weeks
and I’m starting to doubt if I exist." |
It is thought that George will "engage" with people while
in the Big Brother House by trying to shag Rula Lenska and going for a frankly ill-advised
midnight swim with Michael Barrymore. Meanwhile, the ordinary party workers for Respect
and the Bethnal Green constituents who voted for George told The JT:
George and the one "House"
(arf) he won’t be appearing in anytime soon. |
"Here’s us thinking we
were involved in building a genuine left-alternative to Labour Party hegemony when it now
transpires we we’re all just extras in George’s movie. How funny is that?" Elsewhere
on planet politics, SNP part-time supremo, Alec Salmond, wooed the Greens this week as
part of his colour-coded strategic attempt to form a coalition at Holyrood next time
around.
It is thought that if this latest attempt to convince himself and others that
conditions for a SNP partnered coalition are likely to obtain after the next Holyrood
election, Mr Salmond this week will turn his attentions to the Pinks, the Yellows, and any
other colour he can think of, before concluding that he’s only kidding himself. |
