George Galloway takes seat in Commons

The Respected MP, who is in the Commons for the party for a second time, arrived in the chamber at 3:30pm on Monday, flanked by the longest serving MP, Sir Peter Tapsell, and Bradford MP Gerry Sutcliffe.

Galloway’s entrance to the chamber seemed particularly popular with Tories, who filed into the government benches ahead of his arrival – and a few of them cheered once Galloway had signed the formal register of MPs.

Labour, by contrast, were subdued – they will have Galloway sitting on their side of the House in the years to come.

“There’s an army mustering in the North and in the great industrial and post-industrial cities of this country, an army of discontented, alienated people who feel that this place has let them down, it has failed the country and it has failed the people,” he told reporters outside Parliament.

“I notice that New Labour is terrified of any further by-elections and I can understand why because this concept that I have coined, it’s rather rude, that three cheeks of the same backside pretty much sums them up as far as most people in the country are concerned.”

Galloway also warned that the war in Afghanistan was becoming a disastrous military situation which is becoming like Vietnam 1968″.

Britain’s newly-elected member of parliament (MP) said he is the “Robin Hood” of British politics after he scored a dramatic win in Bradford West.

Galloway secured a 10,000-plus majority in the Bradford West by-election last month, and compared himself to the folklore outlaw and said he was the “most inquired-into individual in British politics”.

Respected leader swept from fifth place at the 2010 general election to a commanding victory for the ex-Labour anti-war campaigner against his former party on a swing of 36.59 percent. Galloway won 18,341 votes to the 8,201 for Labour candidate Imran Hussain.

He described it as “the most sensational result in British by-election history bar none”.

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