GEORGE Galloway has come out in support of a Scottish independence referendum.
The ex-Labour MP, who formerly led the now-defunct Unionist All for Unity party, has said he now supports the "right of Scots to self-determination" having been opposed to it his entire political life.
In 2021, he pledged to "tackle the scourge of separatism" when All for Unity launched their Scottish Parliament election manifesto.
But in a surprise post on social media on Monday, he appeared to have completely changed his tune, adding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "pitiful" and that Britain had become a "cesspit".
He posted on Twitter/X: "We support the right of the Scots to self-determination. Eleven years after they last did so, we believe the time for another referendum is close.
"Given the collapsing authority of the British state the pitiful prime minister Starmer the moral decline of British society the result cannot easily be predicted. Britain has become a cesspit."
When one user replied "things must be really bad", Galloway responded with "they are".
Following the collapse of All for Unity, Galloway has been leading the Workers Party of Britain since founding it in 2019.
Originally from Dundee, he made a surprise return to politics when he won the Rochdale by-election following the death of Labour’s Tony Lloyd, but he subsequently lost the seat at the General Election.
He had dedicated his win in Rochdale to Palestine. In his victory speech he said: “Keir Starmer: this is for Gaza."
Last year, when he called a press conference to mark his return to Parliament, he said he was not “going to fight against the SNP in here”, saying his involvement in Scottish politics was over.
He said while he was “not a supporter of the SNP” he thought the party had been “outstanding on the Gaza question, at least by comparison with the two big parties of the state”.
