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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

"This is for Gaza" – UK's George Galloway returns to office to challenge pro-war elites

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Click here for the full interview with George Galloway: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/george-galloway-returns-to-office?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web See Katie LIVE TONIGHT in-person or on Zoom: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laughs-for-good-tickets-793162168397 For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: "F you!" – Morning Joe gets desperate https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/f-you-morning-joe-gets-desperate?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web “This is for Gaza!” announced the veteran British politician George Galloway in his victory speech, shocking the UK establishment with his win in Rochdale to rejoin the country’s parliament nearly forty years after his first election. He addressed his words to Kier Starmer, the leader of the UK Labour Party: “You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging, and covering for the catastrophe in occupied Palestine.” Galloway explains that the parties in the UK aren’t much different than the Democrats and Republicans: you have Rishi Sunak and his Conservative Party, who send weapons to Israel and prolong the proxy war in Ukraine, and then you have Starmer and the Labour Party, who are in complete lockstep. After Biden waited until the very end of his State of the Union address to even mention the crisis in Gaza and Trump recently called for Israel to finish the job, the Uniparty is alive and well in both our countries. And like everyone brave enough to speak out against the War Party and its genocide in Gaza, Galloway gets accused by good narrative-following Twitter users of spreading hate speech. However they, and the entire UK media, were largely silent when George was viciously assaulted by a pro-Israel supporter. He describes the harrowing attack and shares the origin story of how it led to his iconic hat. Subscribe to hear the full interview with MP George Galloway on his relationship with former Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn, the immediate goals of the Workers Party, and the smears and lies that he most wants to debunk. Thank you for supporting independent media. 00:00 Intro 03:13 The Four Food Groups of News 19:51 Something funny 22:00 George Galloway interview 27:53 Rishi Sunak is MAD 31:23 The Hat origin story 34:50 Spanking Kier Starmer 38:27 Running to help Gaza 44:55 UK's role in Ukraine 48:04 BREAKING: Leak from Germany 52:05 Jeremy Corbyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to useful idiots.

0:05.0

I'm your host Katie helper.

0:09.0

And I'm Erin Mattet.

0:10.0

Hey everybody, thank you for joining us.

0:11.0

It's great to have you here.

0:12.0

Our website as always is Useful Idiots,

0:14.4

Podcast.com.

0:16.6

This week we have George Galloway,

0:19.5

the veteran peace activists and longtime member of Parliament in the UK who's just returned

0:27.1

with a stunning victory on the back of outrage over the genocide in Gaza.

0:34.5

He's now returned to Parliament,

0:36.1

and he's once again acting as a thorn

0:39.2

in the side of the pro-war establishment.

0:40.9

So we're gonna talk to him about his return to office and a lot more.

0:44.1

So excited to talk to him. His great Scottish accent. Not to objectify him.

0:51.3

All right. Well, any, there are no movies you saw because you don't really do pop culture.

0:57.0

I think last we spoke, I had already seen all the nominees, so.

1:01.0

Oh, I will say that I will recommend the zone of interest. It's a great movie.

1:04.5

It's up for best picture. It's German, but it's up for best overall picture not foreign

1:08.8

film. And what's so interesting about it is that it's about a family and it's a

1:14.8

fictional true story about the family that lives next to the Auschwitz basically.

1:20.3

They're a Nazi family and they live next to Auschwitz and they act like everything's normal and so a lot of people are drawing the comparison to

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