Comments on: Fuck Galloway and fuck Respect

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:48:00 +0000

It’s looking virtually certain that I’ll be voting for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance on May 5th, as it’s the only one left after I’ve eliminated the other contenders on the grounds of being generally loathsome on one level or another.

Which suits me fine – it’s not as if anyone other than the Tories is going to win anyway, so I might as well enjoy myself.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:30:00 +0000

I’m trying to remember what the SWP’s line on drugs has been over the years and I have a vague recollection that they’ve often been quite authoritarian on the whole thing too but on the grounds that they stop the workers from understanding their true place at the foot of capitalist oppression, or somesuch.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:26:00 +0000

Sounds like he's channeling Tom Watson.

By: Shuggy

Shuggy — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:20:00 +0000

King of the tosspots as you say. I don't think Galloway has any real interest in drugs; he's just playing to the conservative religious voters in Bethnal Green because I certainly don't remember him having much to say during the heroin explosion in Glasgow in the 1980s (I've had the misfortune to have Galloway as my MP for most of my adult life) You'll have read his remarks to Johann Hari when he asked him about Aziz - what a dick (Galloway, that is).