George Galloway's interview on GMB will have reminded many on the left of how they treated Corbyn, but that won't work here...
Right, so first they came for Jeremy Corbyn and they threw the kitchen sink at him, they launched their chicken c…
George Galloway's interview on GMB will have reminded many on the left of how they treated Corbyn, but that won't work here...
Right, so first they came for Jeremy Corbyn and they threw the kitchen sink at him, they launched their chicken coups, they briefed against him in the press, they misappropriated funds, they stood against the will of the membership and for themselves, such is the state of the Labour Party, both then and now, the biggest barrier for change in this country as it purports to represent ordinary working class people, yet when those policies were put forward by somebody, they sought to destroy them at all costs.
In no small way were the media not involved in that as well, they were the drivers of it, daily attack articles, interviews with opponents within the party and the slightest whiff of a scandal and well, it was on the hour every hour news.
And so it now is, that George Galloway appears to be the next perceived threat to the status quo, having hammered his mainstream opponents in Rochdale back in March, now having announced a raft of parliamentary candidates and local council candidates, the Workers Party of Great Britain is building from the ground up, doesn’t have those internal saboteurs that Corbyn did have to contend with, yet the media are coming for him, as they did Corbyn before. Well for numerous reasons, Galloway is no Corbyn, but if the media think he’ll take an on air monstering lying down, they’ll quickly learn how very much he isn’t like Corbyn and how he possibly doesn’t need to be either.
Right, so George Galloway on Good Morning Britain got subjected to what was a distinctly Corbynesque attack from both Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid, both seemingly looking to land a gotcha on a guy who simply won’t take it rather than actually ask him anything of any real pertinence or relevance, though of course these interviews always start nicely, they began by talking about Galloway’s vision for his party, to replace Labour to actua..
