There were two other minority parties elected in 2005, Dr Richard Taylor (Health Concern - Wyre Forest) and George Galloway (RESPECT - Bethnal Green and Bow).
Following the publication of the Al Mada article, a US Senate report accused him, along with the British Respect MP, George Galloway, of receiving the right to buy oil under the UN's oil-for-food scheme.
These hearings covered certain corporations and several well-known political figures, including Russia's Vladimir Zhironovsky and drew significant media attention for the combative appearance of British Member of Parliament George Galloway, an anti-Iraq-War member of the RESPECT The Unity Coalition (Respect), a then-new British political party, who vigorously denied the subcommittee's allegations against him and claimed they were politically motivated.
Supporters campaigned for the then Labour Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, Oona King, but King was defeated by George Galloway, the Respect candidate,
In April 2003, after being provided documents by a former Iraqi General, several news organizations (including the Monitor) reported that George Galloway was accused by a U.S. Senate Committee led by Norm Coleman of personally profiting from corruption within the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
-- Not the leader of Respect at this tine. --> George Galloway and the then Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell to refer to the 2003 UK–US extradition treaty.
George W. Bush | George Washington | George H. W. Bush | George | George Bernard Shaw | Order of St Michael and St George | George Gershwin | George Orwell | George Harrison | George Clooney | George III of the United Kingdom | George Frideric Handel | David Lloyd George | George Washington University | George Lucas | Saint George | George III | George Michael | George Pataki | George Clinton | George S. Patton | George IV of the United Kingdom | George Soros | George V | George Balanchine | George Armstrong Custer | George Jones | George II of Great Britain | George VI | George Mason University |
Other parties to stand in the 2005 election in the Red Rose County included a number of independents, including Craig Murray, George Galloway's RESPECT The Unity Coalition, the English Democrats Party and David Braid's Clause 28 party.
During a June 2007 interview, after an argument over whether or not Hamas was a terrorist organization, the British politician George Galloway evicted Klein and Rusty Humphries from his office and turned them over to Parliament police, claiming the two had breached security by falsely presenting themselves as reporters.
George Galloway, the Respect MP ended the conference in which he urged people to build for a planned international demonstration on March 18, 2006.
Watson has also turned his hand to political satire with his Watson's Wind Up show which was recorded on Fridays at the Glasgow Film Theatre and broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland; the popularity of this led to Watson performing satires of Scottish politicians such as Cathy Jamieson, George Galloway and Charles Kennedy on Offside.
His appointment to this inquiry was criticised in parliament by William Hague, Claire Short, George Galloway, and Lynne Jones on the basis that Gilbert had once compared George W. Bush and Tony Blair, to Roosevelt and Churchill.
By the time of the 2008 Greater London Authority elections, the Socialist Workers Party had left the coalition amid an acrimonious dispute with George Galloway and instead contested the elections as the Left List with Lindsey German as candidate (coming eighth).
In the course of the dispute, the SWP expelled three members who sided with Galloway: Kevin Ovenden and Rob Hoveman, who both worked for George Galloway, and Nick Wrack, who was nominated for the position of National Organiser.
Neither party won a seat or did as well as Respect did in the 2004 elections, but 'Respect (George Galloway)' outpolled Left List.
Both the Respect Renewal faction, as 'Respect (George Galloway)', and Left List stood in the 2008 London Assembly elections.