What else does Galloway do for the betterment of humanity? He rakes in large sums of cash from Russian and Iranian state tv.
George Galloway has earned £65,000 in just six months as a presenter and guest for dubious state-run broadcasters.
The Bradford MP is the highest earner of any MP, raking in the cash for his polemics against the West on the Kremlin-backed Russia Today and from LBP TV, a channel run out of the offices of Press TV which is now banned by Ofcom. Galloway still presents two shows for the channel, whose head was appointed directly by Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, but on an unpaid basis.
Through his television work, Galloway has doubled his income. He earns £67,000 as a Member of Parliament, and he declared £25,600 for work on Russia Today, £21,450 from LBP TV and £18,000 from Arab-focused satellite channel Al-Mayadeen TV between January and April (he has yet to declare for May and June).
A friend on Facebook helpfully informed me a few hours ago that
His declared income is released on the Register of Members Interests each year. Last year he made £75,200 from Russia Today, £108,900 from Iranian TV, £108k from Lebanese TV and £67,060 MP Salary.
Over £290k from DictatorTV – more than four times his salary as an MP.
Back to the Huffington Post article.
Galloway hosts two programmes a month for Al-Mayadeen in Beirut, which is funded by anonymous individuals widely believed to be linked to Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah or to Syria’s Assad family members, though this is denied by the channel. He has his return flights and hotel accommodation paid for.
A spokesman for Galloway told Press Gazette: “He does believe in spreading his message as widely as he can – not just through the prism of Parliament.”
When pressed by his local paper the Bradford Telegraph and Argus, the spokesman described the work as “about two shows a week that take about four or five hours of his time, mainly at weekends.”
The issue isn’t the moonlighting, the issue is the nature of the work.
“Is he not allowed to do other things in his spare time? It is not about the money, he does it to get his message out in different ways,” he said.
It’s not about the money? He’s indifferent to that almost £300k a year? And yet they give it to him and he takes it.
Galloway’s involvement with foreign broadcast media has often attracted criticism. He famously asserted on Channel 5 show, The Wright Stuff in 2008, that the boyfriend of an homosexual Iranian asylum seeker had been killed for sex crimes, rather than because he was gay. Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell said at the time that Galloway’s claim was “refuted by every reputable human rights organisation”.
Jeezis, the man is a horror.
Someone should ask Galloway what he thinks of ISIL. He famously applauded some of the insurgent attacks during the Iraq occupation (per his horrible debate with Christopher Hitchens) I’m a bit on the fence about insurgency/counterinsurgency but I don’t like people applauding the murder of anyone, even in warfare.
There was a debate between Hitchens and this clown on Iraq? Ugh, glad I missed that one. “Rooting for injuries” doesn’t come close to my feelings on this…
Galloway works for Russia Today and follows their line. Interesting to see that when Russia flips from communism to fascism, their lapdogs do as well.
Apparently its all the fault of the victims.
Oops, sorry, I didn’t realize it would embed.
George Galloway is the worst example of that egregious category of attention-seekers, Vanity Politicians. The species can best be identified when flouncing out of everyone else’s political parties to set up their own. On their own.
‘Anti-War?’ Really? Wouldn’t it be more honest to call him ‘pro-Jihad?’
But he hates Israel and the US, so the useful idiots think he’s ‘progressive.’