George Galloway Speaks Out on Being Forced Into Exile After Criticizing Ukraine War
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Why was George Galloway detained by the anti-terrorism police?
George Galloway, thank you very much for doing this. I'm sitting in London, in the city of London right now. I'm an American. You're a citizen of the country I'm sitting in, but you're not in this country. You're in another country. Why are you there and when are you coming back?
Well, it's a long and difficult story. It started last month when my good wife and I were detained but not arrested by the anti-terrorism police at Gatwick Airport in London. Now, ponder that piece of Kafkaesque framing. You are not under arrest, but you are not free to leave, they said, these pistol-packing anti-terrorist cops. They said, you have no right to silence, and if you refuse to answer any of our questions, you will automatically be guilty under the Terrorism Act of an act in defiance of that very serious act. And the policeman joked, good luck ever getting on an airplane again.
What does Galloway say about the current state of the Labour Party?
Now, to complete the framing, I'm 71 years old, seven times elected Member of Parliament, a member of the British Parliament across five decades, the leader of a British political party, the Biggest broadcaster in Britain, not nearly as big as you, but the biggest British broadcaster in Britain, broadcasting to the largest audience every single week. I'm one of the best known people in the country, and I've got armed anti-terrorist police telling me I'm not under arrest, but I am not free to leave. And of course, it quickly turned out that the purpose of the pool, the detention, was speech.
What motivates the ongoing conflict with Russia according to Galloway?
My podcasts, my broadcasts, my tweet output, my Facebook output. That's the Britain that we now have today. And we spent four hours in my case, five hours in my wife's case, in two separate rooms surrounded by armed police officers being questioned about our political views. And in my wife's case, her fingernail, which is painted rather nicely in the Palestine colors. Now, if you had told me eight weeks ago that such a thing was even remotely possible, I would not have believed you. There is no more patriotic British citizen than me. In the last decade, Mr. Carson, I fought two major battles for the British state. 2014, the Spectator said, my speeches saved the Union. when Scotland's separatist referendum looked very much like it was going to succeed.
And 2016, I was one of the leading figures in the Brexit movement trying to win Britain's independence. And so here I am sitting in a police station in Gatwick Airport with armed men questioning me on my political views. So The trauma of all that, to be honest, being outside of the country is the least of it. If I tell you, and nobody knows this except you and me and whoever watches, it literally broke my heart. I now have a cardiologist. I'm a man who never lost a day through illness at work in my entire life. And now I have a heart condition, arrhythmia, which the consultant cardiologist, a very fine one, tells me is of recent provenance. So you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that these cops actually broke my heart.
First of all, let me just commend you for your very long string of good calls. You were against the Iraq war, you were against Scottish recession, and you were for Brexit. So I don't think there are many people who can say they're right in all three. But I'm confused as to why a 70-year-old former member of parliament would be considered a terror threat. And what was the pretext for doing this to you? Do you know?
Well, the terror act through which I sat in its passage and opposed every line precisely because of the possibility of its abuse in this kind of way allows the police to seize your documents, seize your telephone, your laptop, seize everything, only at the port. They would need a warrant to do it anywhere else in the country, and they'd be very unlikely to get one in regard to me. But they saw the opportunity of stopping me under that act and divesting me of my whole life. Everything, my parliamentary correspondence, my legal correspondence, my personal family pictures, my political correspondence, the members of my party, the membership list of my party, and they took it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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Why was George Galloway detained by the anti-terrorism police?
0:00–1:04
2
What does Galloway say about the current state of the Labour Party?
1:04–1:48
3
What motivates the ongoing conflict with Russia according to Galloway?
1:48–10:35
4
How does Galloway view the implications of his detention on free speech?
10:35–20:03
5
What are the health impacts Galloway experienced due to his situation?
20:03–39:44
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How does Galloway assess the political landscape in Britain today?
39:44–39:49
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