Former British MP and Respect Party leader George Galloway... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and bully boyz than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ...
has revealed that he will run for a seat in the Scottish Parliament in May next year.
The Dundee-born Scot was elected MP in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in 2005, but failed to secure the nearby Popular and Limehouse seat in London's East End as a Respect Party candidate in the May general election this year.
In his column in the Daily Record newspaper, Galloway wrote that he was under "serious pressure"
"I'd need 5 percent of the total Glasgow vote to get elected - somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 votes," he noted, adding, "My friends don't think it's beyond me. Neither do I. What about you?"
George Galloway has been a prominent critic of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country seven years ago. As a former Labor MP, he stood for the anti-war Respect Party in 2005 and won his seat in Bethnal Green and Bow from Labor MP Oona King.