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Before the war against Iraq the leadership of the anti-war movement had been taken over by the Socialist Workers Party.

In it's oposition to the war in Iraq the Socialist Workers Party had gone as close to supporting Ba'athist fascism as it dared and had formed a working alliance with the Muslim Association of Britain, which, along with the usual misogyny and homophobia of such organisations, also believed that Muslims who decided that there was no God deserved to die for the crime of free thought.

At first glance, Respect - the Unity Coalition (the name under which the Muslim Association of Britain and the SWP have united) offered the best chance the far left has ever had of winning a parlimentary seat. One million people demonstrated in London against the war last year - two, if you believe the march organisers.

Following his expulsion from the Labour party Galloway has become Respect's unique selling point. His pinched face adorns its propaganda, and the uninitiated might believe that Respect is simply the George Galloway Party.

The Green Party have rejected all invitations to form an electoral pact with Respect on the grounds that "it did not want to throw away years of building an open, democratic organisation to ally with people who weren't too keen on openness or democracy".