Thursday, January 12, 2006

UK Celebrity Big Brother: George Galloway Loses RESPECT

The Official Channel 4 Big Brother website has yet to publish this, but last night we were treated to the sight of George Galloway and Rula Lenska involved in some kind of Buddhist role play exercise.

It started off with George reading some sort of script, at the end of which George started acting like a cat! Rula then, acting as owner, was egging him on with all the usual cat-owner nonsense.

Now, I missed whether this was a Big Brother task or something, but, as an MP and leader of the RESPECT party, to be seen on telly pretending to be a cat, takes the biscuit, the packet, the barrel, the feckin' biscuit factory!

He did try and inject some machismo into his performance by being all "ferocious jungle predator", staring eyes and all that, but as soon as Rula started stroking him, he started purring! Ye Gods! This was the only time, footage of beheadings and execution aside, where I have had to change channels.

I've kinda admired Gorgeous George for going against the grain as a politician, not being anyones puppet, but any RESPECT I had for him vanished when he threw away his by acting like a cat on a national TV program. His constituents must be holding their heads in their hands; we voted for this dickhead?

That a TV show can make a driven and opinionated politician abrogate all that he stands for says a lot about the times we live in. He will argue that he is doing the image of politicians a favour. I'm not sure his parliamentary colleagues would agree. Maybe there was some Polish poontang to be found at the end of this roleplay rainbow, who knows?

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