Reply #48: Before I saw Galloway speak myself, I had heard

[Henny Penny]

some of the allegations about his past and I believed them, because in those days I trusted the establishment(I was just a kid then). But after hearing him speak I thought "this guy seems pretty angry, but what he says is right"! And I looked a bit closer...

I remember the War on Want allegations but like all the other stuff the establishment has thrown at him... they were unfounded.

"But always, always the questions. In that same year, 1987, he faced inquiries over his financial stewardship at the charity War on Want, where he had been general secretary for four years.

He was exonerated - after volunteering to repay some contested expenses: beyond, he stressed, the repayment required by auditors. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4539429.stm

Its a bit depressing to think how easy it is to get mud to stick though.