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George Galloway Speaks Out on Being Forced Into Exile After Criticizing Ukraine War
28 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: 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.
Chapter 2: What details surround Galloway's experience at Gatwick Airport?
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.
Chapter 3: How has the political landscape shifted in the Labor 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.
Chapter 4: What motivations drive the current war with Russia?
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.
Chapter 5: Can Galloway's political views influence the Labor Party's future?
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.
Chapter 6: How does Galloway view the impact of anti-terrorism laws on free speech?
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.
And this is precisely the abuse of the word terrorism that you saw in London yesterday, where old ladies, old men, people in wheelchairs, blind people are being arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding up a placard, a little piece of cardboard at their breast. And they are being taken away under terrorism charges. This is the nightmare that is Britain.
Your stature will definitely not be a cause for your being huckled in the way that I was. You are a very big global figure. They wouldn't dare to touch you to get your telephone, to get your laptop. But if they could even do it to me, then I ask you to ponder just who would be safe in Britain from that. So to complete my answer to your first question,
I'm not going back to Britain until I know that that will not happen again, not least because of the health problem that it has given me after the first time. And they will not give me an assurance that it will not happen again. And if you think about it, why would it not happen again?
Because it happened because of my broadcasts and the fact that the British state and the stumer Keir Starmer, who leads it for the moment, at least, don't like what I say on my podcast.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does the Labor Party face in upcoming elections?
Well, I'm still broadcasting every Sunday and Wednesday, and I still have the same point of view. So there's no guarantee whatsoever that the same thing wouldn't happen to me again. My wife couldn't sleep or eat for weeks after it. She's already thin. She lost 10 pounds nearly in weight as a result of the trauma of this occasion.
We knew that it had happened to other people, but we didn't think that we would be regarded as other people because of the position I have over 50 years in politics in Great Britain. But it did happen, and it could happen again.
What did they accuse you of doing wrong? Had you called for armed insurrection against the Stormer government, or what was their claim?
No, I don't even believe in that, never mind call for it. I believe in democracy. I believe in freedom of speech. That's the problem. We are governed by a prime minister and a pygmy cabinet, which rubber stamps every cockamamie scheme he has to take us into war with Russia.
Now, I don't want to go to war with Russia, not for Russia's sake, but for Britain's sake, for the sake of the British people, whose blood and treasure would be burned, and the British people, whose country might disappear into cinders and ash.
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Chapter 8: What is Galloway's perspective on the future of British politics?
underneath their feet if such a war were to take place. So the proximate reason, insofar as one can glean it from four hours of circumlocution, is that I oppose the British government's policy towards Russia. Now, I might be right on that. I might be wrong on that.
But as John Stuart Mill points out, if you deny a point of view the right to be heard, the loser is not the person with that point of view, but the rest of us, because we will not hear what might actually turn out to have been good advice.
But that's not the way these social Democrats, social Democrats, Christian Democrats all across Europe have put the lights out on freedom of speech, lights out on democracy. They're interfering in elections. They're canceling other people's elections. They are throttling free and independent media. They are bankrolling stooge media to try and crowd out.
threatening the social media platforms with sanction and even closure if they don't kowtow to the prevailing orthodoxy. And I'm afraid Britain is in the vanguard of all of that. And again, I make this point. I'm not saying this because I hate Britain, but because I love it. It is an ache for me to be outside of my country all of this time. I have children there. I have a house there.
I have a very keen addiction to the English premiership in football, soccer, you call it. I'm torn from all of that. I'm torn from my family and friends. So it's a dull ache for me. But it's not as painful as another armed arrest. by the anti-terrorism squad would be. So for the time being, it looks like my wife and I are around the world in 80 days.
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Yes, and the most surprising people, people like Lord Hannan, Daniel Hannan, who when he was the leader writer for the Daily Telegraph at the time of the Iraq War, I cost his newspaper 2.1 million pounds in libel damages. But that didn't stop him taking the principled stand of denouncing this misuse of the word terrorism.
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