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now on Friday the cross party

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euroskeptic group Grassroots out held a

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rally in Westminster to coincide with

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the final day of the European Council

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Summit attendees were promised a special

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guest speaker but when that was revealed

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to be former respect MP and London Marl

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candidate George Galloway some people in

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the audience were decidedly unamused

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Adam Fleming was at the event and spoke

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to some of the people who left early why

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are you walking out before it's

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finished in hearing the last speaker

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George Galloway what's wrong with him

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why are you leaving it's not finished

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yet George Gallow what's wrong with him

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I'll never sit uh in a room with a man

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like George Galloway I don't want him

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anyone Christian

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of this torpedo the camp this is torpedo

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as far as I'm concerned I'm not staying

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to hear George gway how did do you feel

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when they said the name George Galloway

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I I didn't want to stay I said

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immediately to my husband we must go

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guys why why you leaving early um I

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don't like um what I've just seen on the

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stage not not what what happened before

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but I think in any form of association

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with George Galloway is Holy

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inappropriate and I think a lot of

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people here feel the same way whichever

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side of the argument there

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are and George Galloway joins me now

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rather conveniently um George Galloway

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it seems your unveiling wasn't quite the

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Triumph that Grassroots

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not for the first time you've misled me

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uh by asking me to come in and talk

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about the referendum but instead wanting

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to talk about me I'm sure we haven't

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misled hang on hang on hang on I'm sure

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we hav you no I won't hang on if you had

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told me that I was coming in that I was

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coming in to discuss me I would have

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said there are much bigger issues that

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the British people are occupied by than

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six or however many Vox pops you had

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this is going on to the issue as you say

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of the referend

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let's talk about the

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reference I want you to answer this you

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want to defend you know what you're

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doing here I don't want to defend me at

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all you're not my judge you're not fit

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to be my judge well thank you very much

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all I'm trying to say is are you going

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to be a benefit to this campaign if

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there are people that are going to walk

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out ask me to come in to this studio I

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didn't ask you you told me you wanted to

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hear my views on the referendum of the

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European Union so can we move on to that

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please well are you happy to link arms

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to use the prime minister's expression

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with others that you that you do not

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agree with I don't link arms with

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anybody

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you binary it's a binary Choice you're

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in or you're out the last fellow you had

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on who said he wouldn't share a platform

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with me claimed £40,000 off the taxpayer

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to he's horses in a stable right why do

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I really want to link arms with him no

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but if he can bring any no voters into

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the polling booth and if I can bring any

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no voters into the polling Booth I hope

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that that will be enough so this issue

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what we were trying to say about this

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whole interview is that this issue as

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far as you're concerned is bigger than

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people's P Than

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People ex you know Tony Blair is for yes

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does that mean that anybody uh who's for

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yes is associated with Tony Blair it's

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such childish discourse right except

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that political bedfellows can sometimes

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lead people to say are is one being

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authentic about the issue if for example

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you said about Nigel farage his Aid

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smear should disqualify him from any

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civilized company henceforth but you're

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going to put that aside in order to

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campaign for this issue which you think

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is bigger it's bigger than all issues it

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will affect the lives the future of all

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of our people for the rest of time so

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what do you say to those people who

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obviously don't feel it is bigger than

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their personal antipathy towards you

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well more fool them I hope they're not

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going to vote for the European Union

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because they don't like me that would be

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a very foolish and childish thing to do

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but are you worried that you might be

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turning off some people who would like

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to support grass you asked me to come

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here presumably because you thought I

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had something that some people might be

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interested to hear yes and we will get

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on to it but it is important isn't it if

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you're trying when we get on to it we're

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almost finished the interview how do you

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know might have you on here for another

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10 15 minutes I very much that you're

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right I'm not going to have you on for a

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105 minutes but if you're going to

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convince people of an argument they've

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got to believe in the big players that

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are there stop this please stop this you

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misled me into coming in here today and

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every question you've asked has been

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about me I'm campaigning amongst my 1

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million followers on social media on the

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radio on the television on platforms on

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the streets for Britain to leave for a

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series of important reasons to which you

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have not yet turned I will get to it if

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you would just answer the one question

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then but I don't when you ever wanted to

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talk about you childish it's so tabloid

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it's so daily maill God forbid we should

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ever be tabloid here at the BBC are you

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and Nigel farage going to be able to

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attract and keep enough support for this

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campaign that you say is important

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enough to override any other personality

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or politics I don't know because the

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public haven't voted yet but I am

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convinced that Britain should leave so

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is Boris Johnson for his own reasons so

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is Nigel farage for his own reason what

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is the overriding reason for you

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campaigning because I believe in

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democracy I believe that Britain should

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control its own events who comes into

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our country who can be told to leave our

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country what our foreign policy should

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be what our Economic Policy should be

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should be decided by the British people

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in a British Parliament it's not rocket

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science have you always held that

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position I have always believed that we

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should out 1975 I campaign but a lot of

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people in the labor party at that time

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also campaign what I'm saying now was

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Orthodox in the labor party and I cling

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to the Views about the EU of Mr Ben but

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the last STW for me yes was Greece was

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the crushing of democracy in Greece

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which told me and not to tell Jeremy

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Corbin and John McDonald that if they

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attempted to implement the kind of

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policies which they believe are

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necessary and I agree then they will be

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crushed underfoot by the EU bureaucracy

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and by the power of the European so you

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have returned to the issue of workers

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rights which was actually what the basis

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of Labor's division in

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1975 so are you disappointed that

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somebody like Jeremy Corbin isn't

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pushing harder to actually look at that

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issue well I think that the prime

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minister's negotiation was flannel it

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was uh smoke and mirrors if Jeremy

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Corbin had been going into those

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negotiations he would have raised far

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more fundamental

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issues I know why given the domestic

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balance of forces within the British

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labor party why Jeremy Corbin has been

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frankly hobbled on this question but I'm

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clinging to the view I took under the

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leadership of Tony Ben and I'll continue

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to do it with all my breath if anyone is

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persuaded by it I'll be happy there you

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go you had your say then finally on the

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issue George Galloway