Galloway stood in the

Galloway stood in the Scottish Parliamentary election on the PR-based Glasgow regional ‘list’ in May 2011. He picked up 6,972 votes, which was short of the 10,000 to 12,000 which he himself had estimated he would need to secure election. (Galloway’s estimate was accurate: the Greens won a Glasgow list seat with 12,454 votes.)In that election he directed much of his campaign at Celtic supporters, leafletting Parkhead. He promised that “anti-Irish-Catholic bigotry” would be the first issue he would take up if elected to Holyrood.In his attitude to acquiring a political power base, it is a matter of different strokes for different folks