George Galloway likes to stand in elections to go maintain his political profile in the UK, which is currently confined to the Russian media, while Joti Brar clearly believes that the link will boost the flagging fortunes of the CPGB-ML. But how long this marriage of convenience will last is another matter altogether.

Apart from support for Farage's Brexit Party they have little else in common while they are poles apart on immigration and freedom for Kashmir. Galloway has long been in favour of immigration controls while the Brarites have always advocated the "open door". George has, in the past, been a champion of Kashmiri independence while the Brarites never go beyond the Indian communist formula of full rights within the Indian Union...

Guy Burgess
Eton & Cambridge