Friday 30th June - Galloway Trucking in Hull (5/8) By Martin J Deane George Galloway Photographs by Ben Gurevitch

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RESPECT is the ghost of Labour past Earlier this evening I was on Look North [regional BBC television]. I was saying that the Labour Party won't be recovered from the Blairites. Britain is not going to get its Labour Party back. That's why we set up RESPECT. RESPECT is now the ghost of Labour past. A shiver runs along the benches In our rampant consumer society, it is inequality that is driving certain increases in certain crimes.

There have been huge failures at the Home Office. The Labour Party is at the forefront of attacks against asylum seekers. There has been an immense amount of Home Office legislation. David Blunkett [former Home Secretary] - now he is surely the only politician to go to court to prove he WAS the father! John Reid is now intent on publishing the addresses of paedophiles. This will probably make paedophile crime worse. Like that city where they attacked the offices of a paediatrician! These moves just divert attention from the real failures. In a democracy you get the government you deserve. I look at these green benches and often I see a shiver running along the benches looking for a spine the run up!

A huge market for these policies The vast majority of the public are not apathetic about politics, they are apoplectic about pathetic politics! The vast majority of people believe the same things about public policy: they think paying three times the subsidy to Britain's railways than was paid to British Rail in the past; most people think it's stupid.

Most people believe in progressive taxation. Most believed that making war on Iraq and following George Bush is a mistake. There is a huge market for these policies. Three cheeks of the same arse I don't know if you can visualize this but the three main parties are really three cheeks of the same arse! They are all anti union, anti redistribution. But don't be despondent. RESPECT is boycotted by the media, we hardly ever get a mention except to put us down. But that's not stopped us growing. I've given thousands of talks like this now.

Zulu - with no happy ending The solution is to leave Iraq. The only argument being put forward for us to stay is that we have to sort it out. It's like a house being raided and destroyed by thieves. They then turn around and say they'll rebuild it for you. Would you want them to stay? Spain has gone, Italy is going. Even Costa Rica is going to take home its sign over the door. Anyone who stays will just get caught up in a bloodbath. Now Bush and Blair are threatening Iran. Iran will be another Iraq! It will be another film Zulu - but with no happy ending! We must withdraw our forces from Iraq or face the consequences.

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