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A brief, hilarious look inside the Big Brother house. Oh, what fun. Although I know if I had the choice I’d never watch. Too excruciatingly embarrassing. I hate that sort of thing. But isn’t it fun to read about.

Sunday Telegraph – Galloway’s got something

If he took himself less seriously you might actually catch yourself feeling sorry for him. I mean, imagine how he must have felt when he swaggered into “the house” only to discover that of his 11 fellow celebrities, only one, a slightly dotty middle-aged actress, knew who he was.

After a couple of days, the indifference got to him and he complained to the actress that none of the other housemates – most of whom, it should be noted, seem to be in their twenties – had asked him what it was like to be an MP. The closest any of them came to showing curiosity was when 22-year-old Chantelle, a professional Paris Hilton lookalike, said: “You work in that place with the green seats, don’tcha?”

Yet once the tears of mirth have dried, what are we left with? A rather sobering reminder of quite how apathetic and/or ignorant large swathes of the voting population are about politics – assuming, that is, that the young celebrities in the Big Brother house are typical of their generation, which I fear they are.

Because hate him or hate him, George Galloway should be fascinating, and well known, to anyone with even the remotest interest in current affairs. And if these young celebrities show no interest in a politician who has sucked up to Saddam Hussein in person, been expelled from the Labour Party and appeared before a Senate inquiry in the States – all pretty colourful stuff – then what chance has a grey and boring politician got of making an impression on them?

It rather vindicates the claim made by Mr Galloway’s aides on Friday – in response to criticisms about his antics from other MPs – that he is “reaching out to a new generation of voters”.

Which brings me to Dave “Spart” Cameron.

Et cetera. Personally, I don’t think the apathetic young are worth reaching out to at all. No point ruining an entire country in order to impress a bunch of uninterested yoots who won’t bother voting anyway. As was proved by John Kerry’s team, btw.