"Mr Blair, this defeat is for Iraq"

[TyeDye75]

George Galloway fired several shots at Mr Blair after his surprise victory in Bethnal Green.

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He said: "Mr Blair, this defeat is for Iraq and the other defeats that New Labour has received this evening are for Iraq. All the people you have killed and all the loss of life have come back to haunt you and the best thing that the Labour Party can do is sack you."

Mr Galloway said New Labour had "plumbed new depths" in the election campaign and described the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as "in the grip of a corrupt political culture".

He was surprisingly lenient towards his rival Ms King saying his campaign had not been against her, but against Mr Blair.

"The defeat was not her defeat this evening, it was a defeat for Tony Blair," he said. He wished her well in her future Parliamentary career and said he was sure she would return to Government.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=636007

[eridani]

1. I understand he used to demonstrate against Thatcher--

--for providing arms to Saddam. Can't find links going back that far, though.

[oblivious]

2. There is some justice after all.

They tried every trick in the book, and then some, to discredit Mr Galloway. Nice to see the voters saw through it.