[SoulBoy]

http://lbc.audioagain.com/index.php?sid ... nel_id=361" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I had the misfortune to hear this in my Dad's car this evening. Listen to "Iain Dale talks to Respect MP George Galloway about Julian Assange - 16th Aug 12", jaw dropping moment starts at 4:45


To summarise, Galloway believes that "if someone sleeps with you freely, then falls asleep and wakes up to you doing what they were happy for you do before they went to sleep that isn't a crime, you don't have to ask for consent when you are already in bed and already have had sex with them..."

[Tubby Isaacs]

The man who wanted Luis Suarez deported when he wasn't even charged with a crime, which wouldn't have got a long enough sentence anyway.

Are you sure he said that was right or that Assange might be able to argue that?

[SoulBoy]

I am pretty sure he played the "there but for the grace of God go many of us" card

[Abernathy]

It's a red herring in any case. The reality is that Assange has serious potential charges to answer and is running away.

[hel]

So by Galloway's reasoning, if the bank is happy to give me a mortgage, I can later break in after closing time and help myself to the vault.

[new puritan]

Fair play to Salma Yaqoob for publicly slapping Galloway down.

http://www.leftfutures.org/2012/08/resp ... and-wrong/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mojojojo]

It appears that for George rape's not really rape if the person accused of doing it is seen as on the right side. We know that torture and repression aren't really torture and repression if the enemy is shared already, don't we?

He really has a lot in common with the insane right in America that he hates.

[no Emmett - that doesn't mean that the far left and far right are the same thing, it means that Galloway is a prick]

[Daley Mayle]

Gorgeous George knows exactly what he's doing. He doesn't give a damn what people think about him and is helping Assange by taking the flak for him for a few days. The media's spotlight is now on GG rather than the alleged rapist.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

And it's such a hard job to get George to draw attention to himself...

[Samanfur]

Did anyone else see his other little faux pas?

[mojojojo]

Yes. The man is a prick.

[new puritan]

Kate Hudson's stood down as Respect candidate for Manchester Central, citing Galloway's comments.

http://kate4manchester.org/?p=114" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's a shame because she would have been a strong left-of-Labour candidate (she wouldn't have won, mind - Ed's spad Lucy Powell is a shoo-in). Galloway's complete lack of self-discipline will always hamper that party as much as his public profile helps it.

[Bones McCoy]

Kate Hudson's stood down as Respect candidate for Manchester Central, citing Galloway's comments.

http://kate4manchester.org/?p=114" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's a shame because she would have been a strong left-of-Labour candidate (she wouldn't have won, mind - Ed's spad Lucy Powell is a shoo-in). Galloway's complete lack of self-discipline will always hamper that party as much as his public profile helps it.

That's not "Sidebar" Kate Hudson..