George to speak in parliament on Monday night...

prpower · Post by **prpower** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:51 pm

...about democracy in Pakistan. Tune into the parliament channel for some vintage Galloway. I'm guessing from about 19:30 onwards.

Paul.

Post by **faceless** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:03 pm

good spot - you may not post much but you're on the ball when it matters...

Post by **faceless** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:02 pm

I've been cutting back and forth onto the Parliament channel but the debates have been about an Inquiry into Iraq (which was good to hear actually) and Support For Carers. Maybe I missed the Galloway bit, but I don't think so...

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:16 pm

hes just starting ...

Post by **faceless** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:24 pm

nice one Luke - missed those first few minutes though...but capturing the rest now

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:47 pm

that was incredible, geoff hoon is the king of waffle - my heads all kinda mashed up at the moment - i can't work out how he can come out with what he did after what galloway put forwards. and the way they just ended it, though galloway was standing up obviously wanting to put questions towards him. the whole system is bollocks.

they archive these on the parliament site, this would be a good one to put on youtube - with geoff hoons answer, maybe with little pointers if possible to point out the hypocrisy in what he's saying.

crazy

Post by **faceless** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:58 pm

Galloway's speech was excellent and I was wondering how Hoon would respond. The only time he referred to anything that Galloway really said was when he pointed out a single error he'd made.

I'll upload the full 17 minutes that I got. The ending did seem abrupt but it goes to show how that setup works. I didn't hear anyone saying 'Nay' to the request for the house to shut up shop...

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:36 pm

yeah i should have said galloway was excellent, he raised lots of really good points, and that quote from blair about musharaf and pakistan being a model for the future of the islamic world ... like i said, crazy

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:39 am

I just finished watching it. I'm lost for words. That was like a canned email reply from eBay or something! He was just reading what seemed like an extended holiday brochure.

luke · Post by **luke** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:45 am

where did you download it from kate?

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:49 am

luke wrote:where did you download it from kate?

I didn't, I just watched it on the house of commons streaming site.

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Player/?Meeting=7415# and skip to just after 07:40:00

luke · Post by **luke** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:06 pm

thanks

my downloaders doing something, hopefully its not downloading an 8hour long video file ...

luke · Post by **luke** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:07 pm

faceless, if you wanted to upload the full speech i've managed to get it and am just uploading to send space now - should be up in 15 minutes

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:12 pm

nice one luke

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:41 pm

FYI, the text of the speech.

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