{"id":487,"date":"2006-01-05T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/05\/george_galloway_takes_some_more_time_out"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:39","slug":"george_galloway_takes_some_more_time_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/05\/george_galloway_takes_some_more_time_out","title":{"rendered":"George Galloway takes some more time out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone out there still has time for George Galloway, he&#39;s just taken more time out of representing the East Londoners who voted for him last May by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/4584056.stm\">entering the Big Brother house<\/a>, along with other &quot;celebrities&quot; such as the has-been Michael Barrymore, Faria Alam (famous for having an affair with Sven-Goran Eriksson), Maggot (a rapper with the South Wales rap group Goldie Lookin&#39; Chain), Traci Bingham (ex Baywatch) and &quot;1980s pop star Pete Burns&quot; (who?).  The show is to last three weeks, although if he stays the course, it is unlikely to make much difference to his Parliamentary attendance record; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/george_galloway\/bethnal_green_and_bow#votingrecord\">TheyWorkForYou.com<\/a>, he has attended just 15% of Parliamentary votes (the 11th worst out of 645 members) and spoken in just four debates since the 2005 General Election.  (More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2006\/01\/gg_in_the_bb_ho.html\">Rolled Up Trousers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone out there still has time for George Galloway, he&#39;s just taken more time out of representing the East Londoners who voted for him last May by entering the Big Brother house, along&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george_galloway_and_contempt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42639,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/42639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}