“Not only was I not invited,” Galloway continued, “I haven’t even been told why not, despite requests going back more than three weeks. The organisers haven’t even been polite enough to respond. Obviously it’s not not only standards lacking in our schools, but manners.”

He added: “I’ve supported the NUT in parliament and beyond, unlike the two MPs on the platform. This is clearly planned as a cosy get-together where the shocking and alarming truth about the state of our schools isn’t going to be addressed. I am deeply disappointed, not for me but for the parents and school-age children of Bradford.”

www.georgegalloway.net/galloway-locked-out-of-education-debate/

watching Question Time I really despair at the quality of British parliamentarians. I find Australia has far more diverse and intelligent talent in politics even if they do have funny accents.

That could be because of very different circumstance- one country that has untold mineral wealth and a reasonably manageable population, the other that is now producing little except in the financial sector.

George Galloway seems so very normal to me (as does Denis Skinner)with practical and sane solutions.

I think David Dimbleby comes across as pretty weary as a host.