Galloway blasts New Labour
George Galloway showed little sign of bowing out quietly from politics last night, after he publicly attacked the prime minister and New Labour.
Expelled Labour MP George Galloway publicly attacked Tony Blair’s New Labour yesterday, slamming the PM as the “monkey” to “organ grinder” US President George W Bush.
The MP for Glasgow Kelvin also attacked the right-leaning tendencies of Home Secretary David Blunkett.
Mr Galloway was thrown out of the party last week for his anti-government statements during the hostilities in Iraq this year.
In a TV interview on Abu Dhabi TV in May, he accused Mr Blair and President Bush of acting “like wolves.”
A Labour disciplinary committee found him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute and for inciting Arabs to attack British troops.
Speaking at a meeting of the Northampton Stop The War Coalition at the town’s Guildhall last night, Mr Galloway said George Bush was an “imbecile” and called on protesters to join national demonstrations when Mr Bush visits the UK next month.
Mr Galloway blamed a New Labour “clique” for his removal from the party.
He said: “I spent 36 years in a political organisation that was quite literally my whole life.
“I’m upset to be thrown out by this clique who turned it into an anti-Labour Party. Look what they’ve done to it.”
He said of Mr Bush: “This man is a menace to the world and the American people must get rid of him.”
Attacking Mr Blunkett he said: “Such a man as David Blunkett is not fit to be Home Secretary in any government, never mind a Labour government.
“Mrs Thatcher would never have employed a Home Secretary who would have dared to have said the things that David Blunkett has said.”
