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2016-03-31 Britain
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Farewell, George Galloway
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[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] It takes an achingly long time for the British to see a lickspittle of mass murderers for what he is. For years, you jump up and down shouting ‘look at what he’s done!’ All but a handful ignore you. But he’s a character, the rest cry. He’s not like those poll-driven, focus-group--tested on-message politicians, who speak in soundbites. He is passionate about his beliefs.
So he is, you reply, and that’s the problem. Since the marches against the Iraq war of 2003, I have written against  George Galloway
... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ...
. He has supported Baathist regimes it is fair to describe as fascist: Saddam Hussein’s Sunni Arab dictatorship in Iraq after it had gassed the Kurdish ethnic minority, and Bashir al-Assad‘s Shia Arab dictatorship as his terror provoked revolution.
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This is the leader of the British anti-war movement, is it? A man whose commitment to pacifism in no way inhibits him from endorsing the practitioners of genocide? This is the tribune British Muslims elected first in the East End of London and then in Bradford, is it? A man who has supported regimes that have murdered more Muslims than NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
and Israel have ever managed? This is the inspiration left-wing journalists lauded as the model for all their comrades to follow, is it? A man who must treat accusations of rape apology and Jew baiting as a habitual part of his political life.
Apparently so. For years, Galloway was treated with an indulgence that, like a cardiogram, revealed the sicknesses at the heart of the liberal-left.
Slowly, his supporters have edged away. There are no pieces from the white left in the Guardian and what’s left of the Independent defending Galloway these days. You should not expect to see them because contrition is not a British virtue. Instead we edge away from an embarrassment, who has brought shame on us. Nothing needs to be said. No apologies need to be offered. We know what to do without needing to be told. Quietly, so quietly that we hope no one will hear us, we make our excuses and leave.
British Muslims, who twice returned Galloway to Parliament in London and Bradford, are tiptoeing to the exit too. In the sectarian war between Sunni and Shia, Galloway, Corbyn and Milne have decided to make their excuses for Assad, and his Russian and Iranian backers. This is not a smart political move because the overwhelming majority of British Muslims are Sunni. But then the first point to grasp about the far left is that, like the far right, it is astonishingly stupid before it is anything else.
According to the latest polls for the race to be London Mayor Galloway’s support stands at 1 per cent. As the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 per cent, his actual support could be minus 2 per cent, which is where it deserves to be in my humble opinion.
As his popularity has vanished, Galloway has vanished too. He attended the first mayoral hustings, and brayed and barked as he had always done in the past. But as he realised that his candidacy was going nowhere he did what he had never done before and stepped out of the limelight. He wasn’t at the Pride hustings, while the leaders of other minor parties, Women’s Equality and Ukip, were on stage to make their case. He wasn’t at the Patchwork Foundation hustings or at the LBC mayoral hustings either. 
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