Despite saying I don't want to hear anything about him again, I thought I'd just mention something about "Respect" MP George Galloway that I found out today.

Flushed - and buoyed - by his success against the US Senate this week, he's abandoning the constituency he was so grateful to for electing him just 17 days ago to go on a lecture tour of Ivy League Universities, at $5000 a pop.

Nice work if you can get it.

Have to say, it does show great respect for his voting public, swanning off for months at a time. Wonder how many people in Bethnal Green & Bow feel respected by their AWOL MP.