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I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself

From the East London Advertiser FORMER East End politician George Galloway could soon be rivalling Andrew Lloyd Webber – by penning a musical. The ex Bethnal Green and Bow Respect MP said that amongst the projects he’s working on is a musical about his musical heroine Dusty Springfield. Mr Galloway was unsuccessful in his campaign…

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From the East London Advertiser

FORMER East End politician George Galloway could soon be rivalling Andrew Lloyd Webber – by penning a musical.

The ex Bethnal Green and Bow Respect MP said that amongst the projects he’s working on is a musical about his musical heroine Dusty Springfield.

Mr Galloway was unsuccessful in his campaign to win the new parliamentary seat of Poplar and Limehouse after pledging to only stand in the neighbouring seat for just one term.

Since then he has been working on a number of projects and continued his extensive tour of speaking engagements.

Writing in his Daily Record column Mr Galloway reminisced about his musical influences. He said: "The star who shines brighter than all the rest on this trip down memory lane is Dusty Springfield – as fresh today as a spring field should be. And, as it happens, one of the many projects on which I’m working – with Scots writer Ron McKay – is a stage Musical, eponymously entitled Dusty."

He is also planning another trip to Hollywood to discuss a film project and said film director Oliver Stone is interested in it.

He jetted off to Tinseltown just after May’s General Election for talks about making a documentary about the situation in Gaza.

12 responses to “I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself”

  1. Ronnie Avatar
    Ronnie

    He may consider to be editor of Big Brother.

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  2. David Ellis Avatar
    David Ellis

    I wish I’d done a hundredth of what galloway has done against imperialist wars, for the east end, for the palestinians and what he is going to do with these new projects.

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  3. alf Avatar
    alf

    I wish I had a hundredth of his time to do this and more. Workers both in public and private sector do not even have time to breath.
    It is the movement that one builds up to allow others to participate in, that enables more of us to contribute, without relying on the whims of individuals.
    George may be in a position to have the time to do this but many of us are trying to find time just to stand still.
    Projects of the few or movements involving the many?

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  4. bristolred Avatar
    bristolred

    I think George should play the lead role himself. I’d pay money to see that. Even in a recession.

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  5. skidmarx Avatar
    skidmarx

    Just wishin’ and hopin’ he hasn’t left you all in the lurch?

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  6. shug Avatar
    shug

    Maybe,it should be entitled Galloway in Stone.The daliances of the well heeld.

    Springfield,what a pair of lungs,dont think you will hear them from the minaret,but you never know,George may have some influence.

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  7. Raphie Avatar
    Raphie

    Rumour in Scotland is that there will be a “dance of the lycra cats” in the musical!

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  8. Liam Avatar
    Liam

    Tsk Raphie.

    It looks like he may have other irons in the fire.

    “I stopped outside Parliament a few days ago to pick up a friend of mine, a former Labour MP. Despite entreaties, I refused to go in. My mentor, former Kilmarnock MP Willie McKelvey, once told me that there is nothing so “ex” as an ex-MP. The only way I’d re-enter that building would be in triumph, having been elected. Some interesting offers are arriving in that regard. I’ll keep you posted.”

    http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2010/07/commons-touch.html

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  9. Neil Williams Avatar
    Neil Williams

    One things for sure George always enjoyed being an MP and was a bloody good one compared to the average lap dog type in New Labour let alone the rest. I really dont blame George for taking “time out” as its unlikely we will see any real fight back until next summer when the cuts really start to bite.
    We must remember George never left the Labour Party, he was thrown out, and I think his heart is still in their somewhere on the left ofcourse (whats left of it which isnt much). Just because yoy are thrown out of the Labour Party due to the Iraq War does not mean you cannot rejoin and I wonder if this is an option Goerge is considering?
    Many of us have had to consider “what now” but I really cant see any future in whats left of a very very small Left in the Labour Party which even now wont use the word Socialism (see David Milliband recent speech). But for George and Salma may be this is a way forward for them (either in Parliament or Scoottish Parliament, London Assembly etc) as the Respect bubble has burst and no amont of tinkering in going to inflate it again while Labour is in opposition.
    If Respect had any life left it would have put out a call to other Socialist Parties, the Greens and trade unionists to call a coference to oppose this ConDem governents cuts in some from of united front. Instead it still sees itself, despite all the evdence, as “The Left alternative” and thus is party to blocking the creation of a united Left opposition to this governmnet rather than leading the way which it could have done.

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  10. bill j Avatar
    bill j

    George re-join the Labour Party? Come on! They’d never allow it!

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  11. David Ellis Avatar
    David Ellis

    Neil: I agree with you that George is entitled to `time out’ as you call it and that he was expelled from the Labour Party for principled reasons. That approach is in sharp contrast to the rather po-faced nature of some of the contributions here not to mention the original blog. However, you spoil it a bit with what comes across as mischievous conjecture regarding Galloway, Salma and the Labour party. I would say that if Galloway was able to get back in the Labour Party on the basis that he be allowed to campaign as vigorously as he always has against the war in Afghanistan and the UK’s support for Israel then that would hardly be a step backward.

    I cannot agree with your attack on Respect though. Respect does not see itself as THE left alternative but one leaver to be used to prize open the strangulating grip of the pro-imperialists from around the neck of the labour movement. Getting sucked into the sectarian swamp that you seem unable to live without would not be a way forward for opposing the ConDem cuts and neither would it be a united front but an unprincipled lash up. It is the sects, not Respect, who are the biggest obstacle to a principled, unified fight back against this government. Respect is not the only answer but neither has its bubble burst as you suggest though it surely will if it gets involved in embarrassing projects like NO2EU or TUSC. I believe London and National meetings have determined to proceed with the Respect project and that is welcome news indeed provided of course that Respect’s primary orientation is to the labour movement on a principled basis and not to the sectarian wreckers.

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  12. skidmarx Avatar
    skidmarx

    Respect does not see itself as THE left alternative but one leaver
    Trying really really hard not to be po-faced, might I suggest that you turn off the lights on your way out?

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