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George Galloway, the controversial MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, is coming under increasing criticism from his constituents for appearing on Channel Four's Celebrity Big Brother, and rightly so. To say that he is in a house with celebrities however, all depends on one's definition of 'famous'. For me it is simply a house full of people who have little left to play for and thus are trying to raise their almost non-existent profiles through the fading magic of Big Brother. Jim Fitzpatrick, a fellow London MP, perhaps hit the nail on the head when he recently accused Galloway of being a "C-list politician with an A-list ego who has chosen a 'celebrity graveyard' over his constituents".

It is no surprise then that his constituents are up in arms over this apparent abandonment and are starting to voice their unrest with a little help from the Internet. The majority of Galloway's constituents are Muslim and feel that by entering the Big Brother house, their MP has gone against many of their values and traditions. One particularly discontented constituent has now set up a website called: Why isn't he at work? at which visitors are able to sign a petition for his eviction, and see how much George Galloway's stay in the house has cost the taxpayer so far. This website is proving to be quite a success, with the owner claiming that it has received over 25,000 hits since it was set up last Friday. On another website, pledgebank.com, a correspondent promised to write to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to complain about the conduct of the MP, if 100 others would as well.

Big Brother may be watching, but more importantly for Mr Galloway, so are the constituents who voted him into office, and can hold him accountable and kick him out of a job as effectively as the rest of the population can boot him out of the BB house!