[Osem]

George has enjoyed and fully exploited the luxury of being an erudite but nonetheless loose political canon for years. I doubt he'd act in quite the same way if he was heading a major party vying for power with all of the attendant national/international responsibilities, media scrutiny, political pressures, forced compromises, conflicts of interest, internal rivalries etc. etc. Galloway is little more than an entertaining (at times) sideshow and Milliband is the really big loser here followed closely by Galloway's new constituents.