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George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Respect Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West. After becoming known in Scottish politics, he became General Secretary of the London-based charity War on Want in 1983, remaining in post until 1987 when he was elected as a Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead. From 1997, Galloway represented its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin, and remained as the MP for the seat until 2005. In October 2003, Galloway was expelled from Labour, having been found guilty by the party's national constitutional committee of four of the five charges of bringing the party into disrepute.〔Matthew Tempest ("Galloway expelled from Labour" ), theguardian,com, 23 October 2003〕 Although a number of Labour MPs opposed the Iraq War, Galloway was the only one to be expelled from the party for his statements concerning the conflict. In 2004, he became a member of Respect - The Unity Coalition, later known as the Respect Party (eventually becoming its leader by late 2013),〔Helen Pidd ("Who is the leader of the Respect party these days?" ) theguardian.com (The Northerner Blog), 28 October 2013〕 and was elected as MP for Bethnal Green and Bow at the general election the following year. After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Poplar and Limehouse in 2010, where he came third, with 17.5% of the vote,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election 2010 - Poplar & Limehouse )〕 he returned to Westminster at the Bradford West by-election in 2012. Galloway was defeated at the 2015 general election, after a campaign in which he was accused of making false statements about the Labour candidate, Naz Shah, and was reported to the police for allegedly breaking election law. Early in his career Galloway was an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but he has been accused by David Aaronovitch and Christopher Hitchens of changing his mind about the Iraqi leader when it became Western policy not to support him.〔Christopher Hitchens ("Unmitigated Galloway" ), ''Weekly Standard'', 30 May 2005, p.1-3. This essay is reprinted in Simon Cottee & Thomas Cushman (eds.) (''Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left'' ), New York & London: New York University Press, 2008, p.140-50, 144-46, 149. The text of Galloway's book differs in reprints.〕 Galloway visited Iraq in 1994 and delivered a speech to Saddam Hussein, which ended with the statement: "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." He has maintained that he was addressing the Iraqi people in the speech. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations' Oil for Food Program. Galloway supports the Palestinian side of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, taking an anti-Zionist stance, and was involved in the Viva Palestina aid convoys. Galloway abruptly withdrew from a debate at Oxford University in 2013, after he discovered the other speaker had joint British-Israeli citizenship.〔Warren Murray and Sam Jones ("George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" ), theguardian.com, 21 February 2013〕 Galloway was described by Tom Happold of ''The Guardian'' in 2005 as being "renowned for his colourful rhetoric and combative debating style." ''The Spectator'' awarded him Debater of the Year in 2001. ==Early life and career== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Galloway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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