Some suspect that he's really neither left wing nor right wing but just in politics for himself. Personally, I think George Galloway is an appalling opportunist, who chose Bethnal Green and Bow as a seat in order to exploit the racial tensions there; someone who slips this way and that, someone who avoids serious debate by resorting to facile mud-slinging and ridiculous hyperbole. [1] I would not call him an idiot as he is a political opportunist and carpet bagger. [2] Unlike most politicians he is not afraid to speak his mind assuming he believes what he says.