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Labour campaign is worthy of Goebbels, claims Galloway |
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Ben Russell and Nigel Morris
The Independent15 April 2005
George Galloway launched the left-wing Respect coalition's campaign with attacks on Labour over Iraq and the decline of manufacturing industry. The firebrand former Labour MP condemned his former party yesterday as "a government of liars", likening them to the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels.
He lambasted ministers for failing to shore up the crisis-hit MG Rover carmaker and called for "punitive" corporation taxes on firms such as Tesco, which posted record profits last week. Respect also backs a rise in the national minimum wage and the abolition of university tuition fees.
It is putting up 25 candidates next month and backing anti-war Labour MPs and independent candidates critical of the invasion of Iraq. Mr Galloway said: "The war showed we have a government of liars who will stop at nothing when they are decided on a course of action. It's a spin machine that Goebbels would have been proud of. If you don't punish Tony Blair for Iraq why shouldn't it be Syria, Iran, Cuba, North Korea next - or somewhere else on the ever-lengthening 'axis of evil'."
He mocked the three main parties as "Tweedledee, Tweedledum and Tweedle-Dee-and-a-half."
Mr Galloway, standing against the Blairite loyalist, Oona King, in Bethnal Green and Bow, also drew parallels between the Prime Minister and Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe.
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