his room in Belfast we're joined now by
the leader of the respect party member
of parliament George Gallup a George
Galloway assume you think you should be
included as well well i never thought
i'd say this but i agree with nigel that
Nigel Nigel Dodds I mean the the reality
is there's simply no logic or
rationality to this new schema which has
emerged you either have a debate between
the only two people who could emerge as
prime minister or you have a debate
involving all the parliamentary parties
you cannot possibly justify having the
Welsh nationalists and the Scottish
nationalists but not the Northern
Ireland unionists and I don't believe if
you're going to have them that you can
justify leaving us out after all I've
been elected six times to Parliament
been there almost 30 years twice as a
respect candidate we represent a lot of
people and we have exactly the same
number of MPs as the Green Party does
and until very recently far more than
you Kip had so I mean you either have to
have it one way or the other so if
they're going to parade the Seven Dwarfs
whether it's at the o2 or not I want the
chance to stride that stage two well
you're coming up we've got we've got
lawyers working on it now are you coming
on as this evening duty all right I
suppose one of the considerations maybe
you're quite right the Greens have only
got one MP and you have one MP in
yourself but I suppose the Greens will
be running a lot more candidates than
than respect well no one's asked us how
many candidates we are running and I do
that yes kindly all right how many 25 at
the moment and we hope it will be
considerably more and if I could get on
the stage and the leaders debate I
assure you we'd get a right few voice so
it's just not fair this scheme that has
come forward but neither is it logical
or rational and won't stand up to any
court examination in my view and you
said I think they're that you are you
have consulted lawyers
the legal action is a possibility of not
a probability during other way
absolutely yes all right we'll leave it
there thanks for joining us thank you um
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