to introduce our final speaker the
greatest voice against imperialism and
War of our time George
[Applause]
Galloway almost 25 years ago I stood in
this
square with the late and great Mr
Ben and the the late and also great Bob
CER right here when the the first bombs
of the first Iraq War began to
fall in
1998 I stood along there opposite
Downing Street with Tark
Ali as we chanted no bombs on Baghdad
when they launched the verminous desert
fox attack on
Iraq and of course in
2003 I marched
with Andrew and Lindsay at the head of 2
million people as we
mobilized a huge sued of British public
opinion against a war that we all
suspected would be a
disaster even before we knew what we
know
now we have been right all
along and the people in that building
building in their majority have been
wrong and they're wrong wrong wrong
again
now Andrew they might as well set up
chill cot to now just to save time just
to save a bit of time because this
latest War if it happens cannot possibly
go
well I believe that we are already
depriving prime minister Cameron of the
clear majority which he said at the
beginning he required before committing
it committing us to it we may even yet
be able to deprive him of a majority at
all and I'll tell you
why
because
MP's
phones I know because I was in there a
long time and I was very friendly with
the staff including the telephone
operators they tell me MP's phones are
ringing off the hook with
constituents asking for the MPS by
name if you if you haven't done it yet
it's
0207
219
3,000 ask for your MP by name insist
upon leaving a message make sure that
they know that in our tens of thousands
we are demanding that they say no to war
on
Syria I know also from the IT staff in
there the MP's mailboxes are full and
emails are bouncing back so many people
are writing to them and I also know as
everyone following it closely knows that
the Ben Cameron War as sadly it will
become known the Ben Cameron war will
command nothing like nothing like the
number of Labor MPS that were being
predicted in the newspapers only a few
days
ago
because this is a world that doesn't
even have the support of the daily
mail it doesn't even have the support of
the financial
times and this is an in joke Andrew it
doesn't even have the support of the
Observer this time this is a war where
even right-wing
personalities like sir Max Hastings
Peter obor Peter h I Simon Jenkins
people who know a thing or two about war
know a thing or two about history know
that this is ill conceived ill
intentioned and ill
fated and if it
happens if it
happens support for it will not survive
the first public relations
disaster ask not for whom the Bell TOS
the Bell TOS for every MP that goes into
the lobby and votes for it whichever
party they
represent support will not survive the
first pictures of the first children
being carried out from the rubble of the
first hospital the first housing complex
bomed in error by our Armed Forces it
will not survive the first footage I'm
sorry to tell you of the first British
pilot in the hands of the Savages of
Isis and Al-Qaeda and I I'm even sorer
to say as someone running to be mayor of
this city it will not survive the first
atrocity which these Fanatics will seek
to carry out here on the Streets of
London so for for all of these reasons
this war must be opposed we're opposing
it and we need those people over there
to oppose it too
congratulations to all of you for coming
here my last point my very last point is
this and it's an advertisement thank God
for the stop the war Coalition without
the stop the war Coalition none of these
these protests would have been possible
so if you are here tonight and you
haven't joined or like me you haven't
paid this year for the stop the war
Coalition do it join it make it bigger
make it stronger because I'm sorry to
tell you this won't be the last time
we'll have to be on the Streets of
London thank you very much
[Applause]
indeed
thanks very much