Oh sorry Teribus
I have only just read your posting about Galloway!

First about Glasgow,
Yes the Glasgow Labour Party is a hard school for budding Labour Party politicos.
But there is another Glasgow tradition which may have influenced Galloway...the great anti war tradition in the horror of the first World War and the agitation against the war led by John McLean.And of course there was the strikes and sit ins of the 1970s in Glasgow and on the Clyde.
To get a musical taste of the revolutionary period in the Great War Mudcatters should listen to Alistair Huletts wonderful CD "Red Clydeside"....Perhaps GG has been a listener!
As for GG having no substance then his work for the anti war movement,his battles inside the Labour Party on Iraq and his subsequent ejection from the party,his humiliation of the US senate committee,his win in East London and his victory over the Telegraph would tend to contradict your view...but there again as a right winger you would take that view wouldnt you?
I mean if Galloway was a man of no substance he could have stayed in the Labour Party and have had a safe and quiet political life.How much better,if a little uncomfortable for us at times for GG to take the anti war and socialist path!!
Cheers George!
Albert