{"id":925,"date":"2005-05-18T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=925"},"modified":"2021-11-26T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T12:24:43","slug":"925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/925\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gorgeous&#8217; George Galloway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><s>http:\/\/www.680news.com\/news\/international\/article.jsp?content=w051785A<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> Link expired so here&#8217;s the actual footage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UK politician faces questions from senators\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QVdYp2GDC-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Gorgeous&#8217; George Galloway is a man with whom I do not see eye to eye. He is basically a communist, and I do not like communism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I do respect him personally. He defeated the Daily Telegraph in a libel case, defeated Tony Blair by overturning a huge Labour majority and convinced the voters of Bethnal Green that he should represent them in Parliament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So he went to the US Senate and turned the tables on his accusers. They had, he said, committed a &#8216;schoolboy error&#8217; in stating that he had personally received money out of the Iraqi &#8216;oil for food programme&#8217;. I watched him live on BBC TV yesterday for a full 20 minutes. It was a barnstorming performance and despite what you may hear from other media sources he wiped the floor with Senator Coleman who looked stunned and could only think of a rebuttal after he had had time to consider it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>George, I REALLY disagree with your views on most things but like your party&#8217;s name you have my respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.680news.com\/news\/international\/article.jsp?content=w051785A Update: Link expired so here&#8217;s the actual footage: &#8216;Gorgeous&#8217; George Galloway is a man with whom I do not see eye to eye. He is basically a communist, and I do not like communism. However, I do respect him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/925\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-updated-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}