If He Was Made of Chocolate He Would Eat Himself . . .

George Galloway, former Labour MP until his expulsion from the Labour Party and now leading member of the Respect Unity Coalition, has released a statement to inform his Glasgow Kelvin constituents that he he won't be standing at the next General Election in the newly merged Glasgow Central constituency. The typically self-effacing George had the following to say: “I won’t be standing as a candidate in that constituency because to do so would mean that I’d be contesting against Mohammad Sarwar (presently the Govan MP) who, as well as being a close friend, is Britain’s first Muslim MP,” said Galloway. “I introduced Sarwar to politics and I’m not going to do anything which might result in his removal, particularly if it allowed the SNP to take the seat.” " . . . introduced to politics"? Such humility from George nails the lies of his critics who label him Gorgeous George. Further on his statement, he writes: “I’ll still be very much involved in campaigns and I do intend to return to mainstream politics there in the future, although I have nothing planned.” "There" being Scotland, and perhaps a wee hint of an indication that Galloway has his eyes on regaining his membership card in the post Tony Blair Labour Party. And there was all you cynics out there who presumed that the shotgun marriage between Galloway and the Socialist Workers Party was nothing more than cynical political horse trading between Galloway, who is using the SWP as the bodies on the ground to do the canvassing and to provide the organisation to organise the meetings and rallies, etc, and the SWP leadership who is using Galloway as the face, leading voice and charisma - and christ they need the charisma - of their final attempts to locate the missing million and half marchers from last year who should have gravitated towards them in their capacity as one of the leading organisations in the Stop the War coalition.