Amoeba For PM!

Politics is a fickle old business, right enough.

No sooner has George Galloway - the Respect MP - started throwing his weight behind Labour's Ed Miliband efforts to become the country's next Prime Minister - than he changes his mind and describes Ed as a liar and a coward.

Here's a report from the BBC's web site on what has turned out to be a rather guly spat between the two men.

George Galloway: Ed Miliband lied about meeting

Respect MP George Galloway has accused Labour leader Ed Miliband of lying about a meeting between the two men.

Mr Miliband said he had met the MP to talk about a vote on boundary changes.

But Mr Galloway said this was "a lie" and called the Labour leader "an unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba".

Reports of the meeting prompted rumours that Mr Galloway could rejoin Labour. Mr Miliband has denied this and says he does not want Mr Galloway to be an MP.

After 16 years as a Labour MP, Mr Galloway was expelled from the party in 2003 over comments he made on the Iraq war. Since then he has twice defeated Labour to win a seat in Parliament.

Reports of a meeting between George Galloway and Ed Miliband surfaced last week.

Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live, the Labour leader defended the meeting, saying he had met all the leaders of the minor parties, including Mr Galloway, ahead of a key Commons vote in January.

Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the minor parties teamed up to defeat Conservative plans to redraw constituency boundaries.

But in a tweet, Mr Galloway said: "Miliband's claim that he repeatedly pursued me for a one hour meeting about "boundary changes" is, quite simply, a lie."

He added: "I realise now that I showed poor judgement in finally agreeing to meet Miliband. An unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba."

So there you have it - straight from the horse's mouth as it were - George and Ed were best friends for less than a week, but now George thinks Ed is an unprincipled cad with all the leadership qualities of an amoeba.

I just knew it would all end in tears - see post dated 25 April 2013 - 'Come Into My Parlour'