George Galloway, yet another Commons cad "Yes, it is true that George and I have married," she told a newspaper. The service was on Saturday in a hotel in Amsterdam. The couple, who according to Galloway have known each other "for about six months," were photographed beaming as they arrived at his £1.4 million home in south London earlier this week. The young bride looked particularly happy - and who wouldn't be over the moon about snagging a man 30 years their senior, who once dressed up as cat while a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother, licking an imaginary bowl of cream from the hands of Rula Lenska? What else might have enamoured the new Mrs Galloway? Perhaps it was her husband's courage, his strength, his indefatigability - qualities that the MP once told Saddam Hussein he admired in him. Or maybe it was his wonderful way with words. Here he is, in the late 1980s, explaining how much he had enjoyed attending a conference in Mykonos: "I travelled and spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women, some of whom were known carnally to me. I actually had sexual intercourse with some of the people in Greece. Yep, what's not to like? Still, Galloway is not the first politician to be an unlikely hit with the ladies thanks to his bombastic charm, and nor will he be the last. In Italy there is the oleaginous Silvio Berlusconi, in France the pint-sized Nicolas Sarkozy (Carla Bruni is his third wife), while in India in 2009, 86-year-old governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari was forced to resign after a tape emerged of him cavorting with three women. Meanwhile, over in Cuba, Fidel Castro is said to have slept with 35,000 lucky ladies. "I don't think he would have stayed on as long as he did if not for all the incredible women he had access to as president," said a former Cuban official. And while you can understand the attractions of a president, a JFK or a Bill Clinton, one finds it rather difficult to see the appeal of the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, aka John Hemming. He is about to have a second child with his mistress Emily, though he is still married to Christine, the mother of three other mini-Hemmings. Christine, who once claimed her errant husband had enjoyed around 26 lovers during their marriage, was last year found guilty of stealing Emily's cat, Beauty. "Politicians are quite good at working with their tongues," said Mr Hemming in a jolly email yesterday, "and I wonder if that organ perhaps is the one that attracts women to politicians - if indeed women are attracted to politicians any more than any other group of people." This country has a rich history of political lotharios. Alan Clark, whose honeymoon was crashed by an ex-girlfriend, is perhaps the most famous philanderer of them all, having once seduced both a mother and her two daughters (though not, thankfully, at the same time). David Mellor resigned from the Cabinet in 1992 after his affair with the "actress"" Antonia de Sancha was revealed. Twenty years on, the details of the toe-sucking, and the Chelsea shirt he wore as they made love, are still burned on the mind of all those who were unfortunate enough to read them in the red tops. Then there is John Major, who enjoyed a four-year affair with Edwina Currie when he was a whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. The former Prime Minister later described it as "the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed." Chris Huhne left his wife for a colleague. Lembit Opik, a former Lib Dem MP, currently has a 21-year-old girlfriend with platinum blonde hair and a fondness for skintight frocks. The 46-year-old has previously stepped out with Cheeky Girls, weather girls and even Page 3 girls. And we must not forget Mike Hancock, the Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South, who has, over the years, seduced a councillor and a constituency secretary. The Brian Blessed lookalike, who is a sprightly 64, was last week accused of sending "sex texts"" to a 36-year-old mother who had asked him for help with some noisy neighbours, although he denies any inappropriate behaviour. He also had a four-year relationship with a Russian woman 39 years his junior who worked in his office. For reasons of fairness it should be noted that while the majority of political philanderers are Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, there are some caddish members of the Labour party, too. Step forward Lord Prescott, who had a two-year affair with his secretary when he was known as plain old John (just imagine the women he could attract with his posh new title). Ken Livingstone loves women almost as much as he loves newts, having sired five children by three different females. But a list of Labour lotharios is not complete without a mention of the late, great Robin Cook. The former foreign secretary, who had the appearance of a shrivelled nectarine, took five lovers before finally fleeing wife Margaret for his secretary. Women, of course, are far more forgiving of physical unattractiveness than men, and if politics is showbusiness for ugly people, then perhaps our MPs have simply been canny enough to capitalise on that. "Power is an aphrodisiac," says Edwina Currie, when I phone to ask her about the attraction. "There is no better chat-up line than 'come up and see my statutory instruments."" "It is a truism in poltics," continues the former cabinet minister, "that if you can convince yourself then you can convince other people. That is quite clear when you see the amount of extraordinary women on the arms of exceedingly ordinary men. But they figure it out eventually. That is why these MPs are such repeat offenders. The girls realise that Lembit isn't going to become the prime minister, and that Galloway isn't going to become president either. Still, we wish the newlyweds all the best.