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to introduce our final speaker the

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greatest voice against imperialism and

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War of our time George

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Galloway almost 25 years ago I stood in

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this

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square with the late and great Mr

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Ben and the the late and also great Bob

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CER right here when the the first bombs

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of the first Iraq War began to

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fall in

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1998 I stood along there opposite

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Downing Street with Tark

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Ali as we chanted no bombs on Baghdad

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when they launched the verminous desert

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fox attack on

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Iraq and of course in

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2003 I marched

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with Andrew and Lindsay at the head of 2

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million people as we

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mobilized a huge sued of British public

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opinion against a war that we all

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suspected would be a

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disaster even before we knew what we

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know

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now we have been right all

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along and the people in that building

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building in their majority have been

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wrong and they're wrong wrong wrong

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again

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now Andrew they might as well set up

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chill cot to now just to save time just

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to save a bit of time because this

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latest War if it happens cannot possibly

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go

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well I believe that we are already

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depriving prime minister Cameron of the

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clear majority which he said at the

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beginning he required before committing

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it committing us to it we may even yet

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be able to deprive him of a majority at

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all and I'll tell you

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why

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because

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MP's

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phones I know because I was in there a

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long time and I was very friendly with

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the staff including the telephone

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operators they tell me MP's phones are

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ringing off the hook with

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constituents asking for the MPS by

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name if you if you haven't done it yet

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it's

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0207

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219

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3,000 ask for your MP by name insist

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upon leaving a message make sure that

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they know that in our tens of thousands

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we are demanding that they say no to war

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on

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Syria I know also from the IT staff in

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there the MP's mailboxes are full and

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emails are bouncing back so many people

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are writing to them and I also know as

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everyone following it closely knows that

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the Ben Cameron War as sadly it will

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become known the Ben Cameron war will

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command nothing like nothing like the

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number of Labor MPS that were being

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predicted in the newspapers only a few

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days

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ago

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because this is a world that doesn't

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even have the support of the daily

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mail it doesn't even have the support of

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the financial

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times and this is an in joke Andrew it

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doesn't even have the support of the

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Observer this time this is a war where

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even right-wing

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personalities like sir Max Hastings

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Peter obor Peter h I Simon Jenkins

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people who know a thing or two about war

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know a thing or two about history know

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that this is ill conceived ill

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intentioned and ill

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fated and if it

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happens if it

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happens support for it will not survive

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the first public relations

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disaster ask not for whom the Bell TOS

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the Bell TOS for every MP that goes into

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the lobby and votes for it whichever

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party they

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represent support will not survive the

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first pictures of the first children

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being carried out from the rubble of the

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first hospital the first housing complex

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bomed in error by our Armed Forces it

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will not survive the first footage I'm

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sorry to tell you of the first British

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pilot in the hands of the Savages of

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Isis and Al-Qaeda and I I'm even sorer

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to say as someone running to be mayor of

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this city it will not survive the first

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atrocity which these Fanatics will seek

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to carry out here on the Streets of

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London so for for all of these reasons

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this war must be opposed we're opposing

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it and we need those people over there

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to oppose it too

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congratulations to all of you for coming

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here my last point my very last point is

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this and it's an advertisement thank God

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for the stop the war Coalition without

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the stop the war Coalition none of these

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these protests would have been possible

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so if you are here tonight and you

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haven't joined or like me you haven't

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paid this year for the stop the war

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Coalition do it join it make it bigger

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make it stronger because I'm sorry to

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tell you this won't be the last time

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we'll have to be on the Streets of

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London thank you very much

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[Applause]

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indeed

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thanks very much