A client came into the office today. I offered him a drink, as I do. On bringing it into his meeting, one of the guys from my company decided to pipe up with, “oh can I get one of those too, Kat?” It really winds me up when people do that. In that position, I can hardly say, “make your own bloody coffee, you lazy arse. I’m not your servant.” Not that it’s something I often do say but they wouldn’t ever have the cheek to request it, if there wasn’t a client right in front of us.

This was actually meant to be a rare political rambling from me but it’s not like I’m talking about breaking news or anything. Basically, the whole George Galloway investigation sort of annoys me. Mainly because Galloway himself bothers me. More than bothers me, I don’t like him. I don’t like the way he went about winning his seat from Oona King*, I don’t like his form of sensationalism or how he pushes for publicity in the form of controversy.

I don’t know whether they’re right about him making money from the oil for food programme and seeing as the Daily Telegraph lost £150,000 for libel, I don’t think I’d want to commit to anything right now.

Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy some quality bitching between him and The Mirror's Christopher Hitchens though.

Galloway on Hitchens: “A drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay who has metamorphosed from a butterfly back into a slug leaving a trail of slime.”

Hitchens on Galloway: “A short-arsed, sub-Leninist East End carpetbagger, so far up the posterior passage of a murderous dictator that one can hardly glimpse his Gucci buckles.”

I probably need to stop getting my knowledge of current events from “Have I Got News For You”.

*George Galloway used to be a member of the Labour party before leaving with a great deal of noise over the Iraq war and formed RESPECT. Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway’s constituency, was Labour before the last election. He ousted eight-year incumbent, Oona King, only the second female, black MP in the country. It’s mostly considered that he specifically chose to run in that constituency because King, as a staunch supporter of Blair, had lost some support from voters – again over the war – and a number of people in the Muslim community were unhappy about having a woman of mixed race as their MP. When this was brought up in an interview with him, he replied with, “Blacker faces than hers died in the war.”

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