Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Private Eye Podcast.

I'm Helen Lewis sitting in for Andy in the chair this week and joining me are Jane

Mackenzie, Ian Hislop and Adam McQueen.

This week we're going to kick off with gorgeous George, George

Galloway, the newly minted MP for Rochdale. I have to say that I greeted his

return with the kind of groan of oh no back again but then I saw to remember that he's got an enormously large

greatest hit sort of back catalog in. Can you remember when he first kind of crossed your

consciousness? Well it was so long ago, I think he was a member of the Labour Party.

Obviously, I'm going way back here, but that was before various permutations in which he was always on the border of being sacked by the

Labour Party or there was some reason successive Labour leaders wanted to get rid of him

or found him incredibly embarrassing and then he moved and it was respect.

I think it was next after that and then it was the workers party.

There was respect and then respect split as kind of sects on the left

tend to do and then there was a sort of offshoot of respect which was basically just George and

then I think he fell out with himself as well and that was the end of that and now yes it's the workers

party not the workers revolutionary party they were different but the workers party

there are a lot of marriages along the way all almost as many marriages as as political

parties but there have been periods where George Galloway's not only his

marital life but his sex life became massive news. I mean George went on a

charitable mission to Mikonos and admitted that he had a huge amount of heterosexual sex with people on

Mikkinos and I thought well that's amazing that really is a first.

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