Mick Hartley

It's worth remembering quite how poisonous George Galloway really is. The newly elected MP for Rochdale campaigned on a Gaza Free Palestine ticket, cynically appealing to Rochdale's disaffected Muslim voters – and no doubt to a few hard leftists as well. His party, the Workers Party of Britain, is not only aggressively anti-Israel; it's also strongly pro-Putin. The origins of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they say "are in fact to be found in the aggressive designs of imperialism stretching back many years". You get the picture. 

Now here's Steerpike in the Spectator on the latest poison from Galloway, happily being echoed in official Russian circles:

Step forward George Galloway, the newly-elected MP for Rochdale, who is quoted approvingly at length in Russkaya Gazeta today, giving an ‘expert opinion.’ The quotes appear to be a distilled version of comments which Galloway made on his YouTube channel on Sunday. He suggested to viewers that President Obama could be involved in the Moscow terrorist attack and that the West is ‘lying’ about its involvement. Galloway said:

When the US and the UK and others swiftly tried to re-assure me that it was only ISIS that carried out this mass-murder in Moscow, I knew automatically that they were lying. And now I am working back and here’s what I’m finding. I’m finding, first of all, that no-one, no-one, has explained the unannounced visit of President Barack Obama to meet British political and security officials in 10 Downing Street three days before this terrorist crime was carried out. Working further back, I discover that Victoria Nuland, that harbinger of death, that angel of death, who, if she comes anywhere near you, be sure a civil war is coming in your country. I saw her with my own eyes promise the Russians some nasty surprises in the next few weeks and months. I’m working further back and I discover that the White House spokesman John Kirby announced that American citizens had been warned to stay away from crowded places, including shopping malls and theatres, in the great city of Moscow, the greatest city in Europe, the capital of the largest country on the earth. And I was never that great at mathematics. But I know that one and one makes two. I know that one and two makes three. I know that one and three makes four. And so I have four pieces of evidence in my mind that leads me to believe that the United States, that the Nato allies, and their proxy servant, the state of Ukraine, the remaining state of Ukraine were in fact responsible for this mass murder.

There are no depths to which the man won't sink to get his voice heard.