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September 22, 2012 11:58 am

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Former Respect leader Salma Yaqoob tells the Guardian:

“George is also very keen to be in Labour, and this is the irony – he’s always said to me if you have an approach [from Labour] just make sure that I can come back in,”

There are few things in life we can say there’s zero chance of, but George Galloway being allowed back into the Labour Party is surely one of them…

As for Yaqoob herself, seemingly Labour aren’t the only party to have expressed an interest in the past, with the Guardian reporting:

“Yaqoob did not deny the possibility that she will join another party. All three main parties have approached her.”

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  • NT86

    Belated April Fools?

  • AlanGiles

    I wonder if Ms. Yaqoob is just mischief making?. I can’t see why or how Galloway would return to Labour.

    As for her getting offers from the three main parties – it just tends to confirm what many of us have been saying for years – there is little difference between them, and politics these days is just a mere game of “Buggins Turn” – or a game anyway.

    • http://twitter.com/redrenie24 Renie Anjeh

      Agreed. The idea the Tories approached her makes me laugh. It has got to be made up.

      • AlanGiles

         Nice to see we can agree amicably at times, Renie

    • aracataca

      The Greens and now it seems Mervyn King are different though aren’t they Alan?
       

      • AlanGiles

         I don’t quite see your point, Bill. Perhaps you could make yourself a little plainer?. Unless, in your hurry to have another pop at me, you have posted on the wrong thread?. This one is about George Galloway and Ms Yaqoob.  As far as I know Ms Y isn’t considering joing the Greens – she has bigger fish to fry and what the hell has Mervyn King got to do with it?

  • http://twitter.com/labourbird labourbird

    Why would any political party want Galloway or Yaqoob as a member is beyond me!!

  • http://twitter.com/petewilson89 Pete Wilson

    Yaqoob really got offers from the Conservative Party? Sounds like a mischief and ego stroking to me. Naturally the Liberal Democrats are happy to grab anyone of note, particularly if they can’t outflank Labour on the left.

    • Guest

      They made Sayeeda Warsi a Baroness and party chairman for a while  for good PR so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36919381 David Moss

         But Warsi is a reactionary conservative, so that makes perfect sense.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Homfray/510980099 Mike Homfray

          However, when I was in Kirklees, Warsi was known locally as an immigration solicitor who did a lot of work defending largely Pakistani and Indian clients facing deportation. I don’t think she was active in any party then.

  • Daniel Speight

    Would I be thrilled if Gorgeous George was the Labour MP for Bradford? Not particularly. 

    Put another way though. Would there be Labour MPs I dislike more than him if he were?

    Well let’s think. Blears of course,  that’s a no brainer. Jack Straw for sure. I guess Murphy, Byrne, Flint, Twigg and Hain. I better not  put in any of the 2010 retirees as the list would get too long.

    So welcome back George. Blair is off on the after-dinner speech circuit and God knows where Gordon is. Sit right at the back and try not to be noticed too much.

  • Chilbaldi

    She is on the wind up here, and self-publicising. With regard to both her and George.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.blott Matthew Blott

    All three main parties have approached? That would be the Conservatives, the Labour Party and Ukip then?

  • Redshift1

    I think now more than ever Galloway wouldn’t be allowed back in the party. Yaqoob on the other hand…

    • http://twitter.com/waterwards dave stone

      And don’t forget Mayor Rahman.

      For me it all comes down to values, there is no need to exclude anyone who wants to join, or insist on continued exclusion, if they share Labour’s values.

  • robertcp

    I agree on Galloway but I cannot see why Yaqoob would be a problem.   She comes across as the sort of person who would have joined Labour years ago if it had not been for Blair and Iraq.  

  • http://twitter.com/Ceilidhann Kayleigh Anne

    I really don’t see how this would work. Galloway’s too much of a self publicist looking for an ego platform and rejoining Labour would force him to be part of a collective instead of a one man show. I still think he’ll go the Tommy Sheridan route with a new off-shoot Solidarity style party or a return to rambling for money. Maybe him and Sheridan will team up for a Fringe Festival comedy chat show. Yuck.

    But yeah, Galloway can rejoin Labour over my dead body. He made his bed, he can go lie in it. I have no desire to have my values lumped in with a dictator loving misogynist cat boy.

    • AlanGiles

       We only have Ms Yaquoob’s word for it that he wants to, and, in all honesty, I would tend to take what she says with a good deal of circumspection. I ffind it difficult to believe, for example she has been approached by the Conservatives.

    • AlanGiles

       We only have Ms Yaquoob’s word for it that he wants to, and, in all honesty, I would tend to take what she says with a good deal of circumspection. I ffind it difficult to believe, for example she has been approached by the Conservatives.

  • mzvarul

    if he’s allowed back in i shall  be out in no time

  • mzvarul

    if he’s allowed back in i shall  be out in no time

  • Carolekins

    Crikey!  Whatever next.  George – you’ve disqualified yourself with all your recent comments/behaviour.

  • http://twitter.com/rob_marchant Rob Marchant

    I’m sorry, the Tories have approached Yaqoob? Do me a favour, Guardian.

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