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¡°It¡¯s a scandal for people like me who have a certain public influence to be stopped by armed police at the British airport!¡± said George Galloway, a former Labour MP who repeatedly advocated for China¡¯s war in September, in a show.

Galloway was emotional in the opening remarks of his "The Mother of All Talk Shows" that day. He revealed that he and his wife were detained by the police at London Gatwick Airport for nine hours on September 27th after arriving in the UK from Moscow via Abu Dhabi recently. During this period, their mobile phones and laptops were confiscated, and the police also asked him about his views on Russia and China, but did not give a reason for his detention.

According to the Independent newspaper, Garvey said he came to Britain to attend an event and deliver a speech in London, which was expected to be attended by a Chinese ambassador.

According to the London police, the police detained Galloway and his wife, Putri Gaiatri Pertivi, under the Anti-Terrorism Act, and then allowed them to leave.

George Galloway on podcast show about what happened to him

In his opening monologue on Peak Talk Show, Galloway said angrily that police had asked him what he thought of Russia and China.

¡°At an airport in Britain, they used armed police to detain me and her in public without trying to explain the reason for the detention,¡± he told the audience, ¡°if they could detain me at the British airport under the counter-terrorism law, what would you say?¡±

He revealed that the police¡¯s questions were ¡°extremely widespread¡± and even asked his wife¡¯s nails painted in the colour of the Palestinian flag.

¡°If they feel that they can catch me, it is not worthy to be a counter-terrorist police officer, not even the door of the military intelligence five is not enough!

¡°There was only one reason to keep us there under that law: to obtain the content of our communications, to confiscate our phones and laptops, and to hack into our private communications and try to exploit our private communications!¡±

¡°People like me who have a certain public influence will be stopped by armed police at the British airport.¡±

"I was detained with my wife for nine hours," he said. "I missed the activities I was going to attend in London, and then I had to drag my tired body back by train. I had no mobile phone, no laptop, no contact with the outside world, no talk to my family, companions, friends and any lawyers."

¡°We can confirm that on Saturday, September 27, the counter-terrorist police at Gatwick Airport intercepted a 70-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman under Chapter 3 of the 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act.¡±

Both were not arrested and were eventually allowed to leave.

The bill gives police, immigration officials and customs officials the power to intercept persons to verify whether the intercepted persons are engaged in ¡°hostile activities that threaten the national security or economic well-being of the UK.¡±

Now 71-year-old Garvey, a former Labour House member, has served in the British Parliament for 30 years; he is a well-known chairman and media person, hosts television and radio programmes on multiple platforms, and has more than 830,000 followers on social media platform X.

George Galloway's Social Platform Page

And Galovey, a famous British leftist figure with a firm anti-war and anti-imperialist stance, has repeatedly publicly spoken for China, Russia and other Third World countries, and can be said to be a clear stream of Western politics.

For example, during the "revision wave" of Hong Kong in the previous years, Galovei's next speech was a spark and blood. he criticized the entire West for trying to use this to weaken China, as long as it can divide China and hinder China's development, they will write big articles.

When extremists in Hong Kong attacked and destroyed the Legislative Council with extremely violent methods, and even raised the colonial British-Hong Kong flag in the building, he bluntly said that it was a provocation involving the British government and funded by foreign countries. "Do you have the ability to try smashing the Parliament in Britain and then raising the Russian flag?"

On the topic of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Galloway still dares to say it, pointing out that the source of the dispute lies in NATO. His own Twitter account was even labeled as "Russian official media."

In March 2023, when he talked about China's * achievements and the hypocrisy of Western * in "Peak Talk Show", he said that he came to Beijing again after 25 years and found that China had undergone earth-shaking changes. In terms of specific * practice, galloway believes that the Chinese concept of people's * in the whole process is very convincing. It is the most extensive, truest and effective *, while the * system of western countries is flashy.

In February, he criticized the West¡¯s unreasonable blackmail of Xinjiang in CGTN¡¯s commentary ¡°First Voice.¡±

¡°The West doesn¡¯t like Chinese people or Muslims much, but they love Chinese Muslims,¡± said Galovei, adding that people won¡¯t be fooled again by Western ¡°New Signs¡± because ¡°trick me once, you¡¯re bad; lie me twice, I¡¯m stupid.¡±

The Observer Network.

Extended reading

On the first day of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly, on the 23rd, U.S. President Donald Trump said that climate change and global warming were "a scam". he also mentioned that China has made a lot of wind power generation equipment, but China itself is "not willing to use wind power".

Trump speaks at the UN General Assembly

Judging from the video of the speech, Trump's speech mainly talked about the status and role of the United Nations, NATO's performance in the Ukrainian crisis, and issues such as energy and climate change.

In many occasions in the United States, Trump has repeatedly claimed that "China is not willing to use wind power", he reiterated this statement in a speech at the United Nations. he said that although China is an important producer of wind power equipment, it only exports equipment, but the country is not willing to use wind power.

In this regard, CNN pointed out that China has a large number of land and offshore wind power plants, and China's wind power plant capacity growth is much faster than the United States. reports citing the data released by the National Energy Agency in January said that China's wind power plant capacity in 2024 is about 5,2 million kilowatts, an increase of 18,0%.

The fact is the opposite: China owns more wind farms and installed capacity than any other country, and there are more wind farms planned to build than any other country.

Regarding the global response to climate change, Trump called the Paris climate agreement unfair to the United States, which demands that the United States ¡°pay $1 trillion.¡±

The United States has never spent or pledged to spend $1 trillion on the Paris Climate Agreement, and under former President Biden, the United States has pledged $11.4 billion annually to international climate financing programmes, but the U.S. actual spending is less than that because of insufficient funding from the U.S. Congress.