Trembling with indignation at any injustice, anywhere. George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, delivered this statement to US Senators today who have accused him of corruption "Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. On her election in 2005, she was the youngest member of the House of Commons.

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Mr Galloway re-entered Parliament in this March as MP for Bradford West and has recently provoked controversy and criticism with his comments on the rape charges against Wikileaks' Julian Assange.ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. Fiery comments such as \"the best thing British troops can do is to refuse to obey illegal orders\" saw Galloway expelled from the Labour Party. Ed Balls lost his seat in what was the biggest shock of an extraordinary night of election results. He was the second Ukip MP after Douglas Carswell, and his loss is a huge blow to Nigel Farage’s party. A huge scalp for the Conservatives, even though he was part of their coalition government. There were suggestions that the SNP vote could be as high as 50 per cent. Margaret Curran had held Glasgow East since 2010 and was the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Nick Clegg's right-hand man, Danny Alexander, lost his seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to the SNP. He lost his seat to the SNP, with the party now holding a 9,076 majority. Husband, father of five children, Scottish of Irish background, honorary Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, Egyptian… Friend of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Benazir Bhutto, Yasser Arafat, Tariq Aziz.

He had briefly been Chief Secretary to the Treasury after the 2010 election, only holding the office for 17 days after resigning due to the disclosure of his Parliamentary expenses claims. Quite right too, old boy. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? A weight lifted off the old shoulders. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Simon Hughes held a key Liberal Democrat seat in London, Bermondsey and Old Southwark, which he held from 1983. However, the well-known Lib Dem MP lost his seat to the Tories, having held the seat in 2010 by 7,560 votes. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Jim Murphy, lost his Renfrewshire East to the SNP, having held the seat since 2005. The hyena can bounce on the lion’s grave but it can never be a lion and in any case, I’m not in my grave.

Laws was a key negotiator for the Lib Dems when the coalition was being formed five years ago. He previously held the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow for Respect between 2005 and 2010, although he unsuccessfully contested Poplar and Limehouse in 2010.

“I don’t begrudge the Labour members here their moment of celebration of course,” he said. But perhaps bearing the last election in mind, when he was in intensive care following an air crash, he said after the result that he felt “pretty good”. Kennedy had led the Lib Dems between 1999 and 2006 and had become something of an elder statesman of the party. Moving on if you are caught pickpocketing in London you go to prison but bankers who squander millions of pounds damaging the British economy remain unpunished. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one - and neither has anyone on my behalf. If we got that tax there would be no deficit, no need for cuts or tuition fees or a times of austerity.He tells of how his phone was hacked and how the press in this country are rotten to the core for hacking the phone of Minnie Dowler, a girl who messages were still being answered long after she was dead giving her parents false hope. George Galloway concludes by saying we should open our eyes to the state of our nation and to reject the state of mediocrity that British politics has become. Lynne Featherstone lost her London seat of Hornsey and Wood Green to the Labour party. But Galloway returned to the political fray by founding the Respect Party and winning Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2005 General Election. He had been an MP since 1983. He conceded defeat ahead of the official declaration and said he would not give any TV interviews. “A Scotsman with the gifts of jab and gab […] as his appearence before the senate showed, Mr Galloway is as pugnacious as ever, and as certain as ever that he is … George Galloway | The State of Britain | Oxford Union - YouTube His pugnacious politics are allied to a warmth, humour and charm that go along way with voters.”, “Never a dull moment is what he promised me when he proposed marriage to me. George Galloway blames 'racists and Zionists' for defeat to Naz Shah in Bradford West The Respect MP's departing general election speech was colourful …

and neither has anyone on my behalf.

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The Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey had been the MP for Kingston and Surbiton since 1997. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. OK, so he came close to being upstaged by a professional comedian – Al Murray aka the Pub Landlord, had also lost in South Thanet. “Galloway is the most charismatic politician in Britain.

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Another huge Lib Dem scalp, with the SNP taking the seat of Ross, Skye and Lochaber from the former leader of the party. He began by railing against the editors of the The Sun and the Daily Mail, sarcastically calling them “geniuses”. If Britain had been invaded and Churchill escaped death then he would have retreated to the hills to organise the British resistance. Davey championed the Lib Dems' role in ensuring the Conservative-led Coalition championed the green agenda. George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. The shadow Foreign Secretary and Ed Miliband's Chair of General Election Strategy, Danny Alexander had been the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South since 1997.

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Between 1987 and 2015, except for a period between 2010 and 2012, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for four constituencies, firstly for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party . Her 2,436 majority was overturned and Labour's Margaret Greenwood won the seat with a 417 majority. Under the Coalition government, the Lib Dem MP was the Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs and for Women and Equalities. He says the Labour party and Tory parties are like two cheeks of the same backside, so close together they don't differ in opinion on any of the big issues such as immigration, benefits, the economy. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Churchill said he would rather everyone be choking on their own blood than to have Great Britain surrender to the Nazi's. The Liberal Democrat Business Secretary lost his Twickenham seat to Tory candidate Tania Mathias. He speaks of his past mentioning that he nearly came to blows with Tony Blair in the corridors of Oxford University, saying that if he invaded Iraq the fall of Baghdad wouldn't be the beginning of the end but would be the end of the beginning.He goes on to say that the United Kingdom could be no more as of September 2014 because of Scotland's hatred for the Tory rule of the UK. George Galloway today accused US senators of manufacturing "the mother of all smokescreens" as he defended himself from charges that he profited from Iraqi oil sales. She lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire to the SNP's John Nicholson. This is how Twitter reacted to the news he would no longer be in the Houses of Parliament. There’s only one George Galloway. His aides admitted defeat several hours before the formal decision was due. The video can be seen here: http://youtu.be/epPD4GYZa_8He outlines that his talk will be about Britain rather than the rest of the world.

He makes this point as there are so many people in Britain that don't understand that any people who have had their homeland invaded and occupied by others feels exactly the same. Football and boxing enthusiast, movie-goer, box-set binger. George Galloway gives his speech on the state of Britain today.SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnionSTAY CONNECTEDTwitter @ http://www.twitter.com/OxfordUnionFacebook @ http://fb.me/theoxfordunionOxford Union Website @ http://www.oxford-union.org/George Galloway opens by graciously thanking the Union and mentioning that the last time he spoke involved an encounter from an enraged student about Hugo Chavez. Some sources around Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, suggest that there are still £100Billion avoided and evaded in income tax every year from the biggest earners and corporations in Britain.