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George Galloway: Britain’s Greatest Politician or Worst Ever Gadfly?
Which is it?
Anyone who knows anything about British politics will appreciate that it has produced quite a number of colourful characters in times past.
There was Alan Clark, who was the member of parliament for one of the poshest neighbourhoods in the entire country, (in his second stint) Kensington and Chelsea and wrote a very well received diary, in which he wondered what Thatcher’s privates were like.
And the same fellow also slept with the wife and daughter of a prominent white South African barrister.
There was George Brown, whose drinking habits made Boris Yeltsin look like an absolute novice.
His notoriety stemmed from the fact that during his stint as foreign secretary, his drunkenness was a major source of embarrassment to foreign dignitaries and the Harold Wilson government.
The phrase ‘tired and emotional’ which means being completely inebriated, originated from Brown’s misadventures at home and abroad.
Gerald Nabarro was another colourful character, who despite his limited education, had reinvented himself to something of an aristocratic politician, who drove to parliament in a Rolls Royce.