Galloway refuses to apologise as Respect falls apart around him

[struggle4progress]

Thursday, 13 September 2012 9:08 AM
By Ian Dunt

... The Respect MP cast aspersions on Salma Yaqoob, the widely-admired leader of the party who walked out earlier this week in disgust at Galloway's description of allegations against Assange as bad "sexual etiquette".

"I have no doubt that we'll see her back in politics soon, wearing a different cap, and that might explain some things," he told members of his constituency in Bradford yesterday ...

The comments seem to imply that Yaqoob is aiming for a position with the Labour party.

Galloway also refused to apologise for the Assange comments and insisted the allegations against the Wikileaks founder were part of a "set up" by the US government ...

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/09/13/galloway-refuses-to-apologise-as-respect-falls-apart-around

[a geek named Bob]

1. how's that demonizing of assange working for you?

[struggle4progress]

2. The present thread concerns a certain Mr Galloway, whose boorish and insensitive remarks

have manifestly offended a large number of his female constituents, with consequent splintering harm to his party, which Mr Galloway chooses to address by further boorish remarks

[a geek named Bob]

3. okay

I gotta say...

Your anti-assange posts were fun. I missed them.