10/06/2005 03:04:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

Excitingly, I'm currently sat in the "computer node" in the Humanities department, trying to kill 2.5 hours. At six o'clock tonight, I will be meeting the one and only George Galloway. And thankfully, there is only one of him.

I'm not quite sure what's going to happen yet - should I go for another "Kilroy" style owning, or should I listen to him appreciatively? If I get the opportunity to have my photo taken with him, should I make the "pistol" hand gesture, like I did with Kilroy, or should I just do the standard "thumbs up and smile"? I really can't make my mind up whether I like this (horrible?) man or not.

The trouble is, he's anti-war, which is good, but then he's a bit of a Saddam apologist. I mean, he really was practically best mates with Saddam- the same Saddam who massacred, or owned around 5000 Kurds at Hallabjah. Worse still, he prevented everyone's favourite World Affairs Correspondent, John Simpson, from getting an interview with Saddam. Saddam told John that to get an interview, he should get Galloway to say that he's cool with it. (This isn't a lie, see The Hard Road to Baghdad by John Simpson, chapter 44: "Face to Face").

But then, he did go in front of some sort of US Senate inquiry and verbally kick the crap out of them- getting the "there was no WMD" message on Fox News of all places. But anyway.

He's got an annoying accent.

Remember the election night interview with Jeremy Paxman? He stormed off about "Paxo" presented the facts: he'd jumped on the racial tension bandwagon to get elected on an anti-war ticket, kicking out of Parliament one of the few black, female MPs.

And everyone know real democracy has minorities represented, whether the people want them there or not!

So, the question is: should I like this man?

I guess we'll find out later tonight when I post a "what happend" sort of thing on either here or Canned Ham, depending on how politic'd up what I write is. I have a horrible feeling I might have to join the "RESPECT" party to get in, which is worrying- why would I want to be associated with an organisation that has one of the most contrived acronymns in modern history?

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