Rayguns, rayguns, rayguns!

Slightly old hat I know but it comes to something when Britain's august mainstream media commentators are little more articulate than comment box trolls. Before discussing the result of the Bradford West bye-election everyone has to swear that George Galloway is wrong and bad and probably smells and you definitely disagree with him. George Galloway is an egotist? No, next thing you'll be telling me he's a self-serving opportunist. Galloway has very unpopular views, which, in the case of withdrawing from Afghanistan, say, or opposing government austerity, most people agree with. Galloway courts the muslim vote? It's almost like there's equal and direct suffrage where every vote counts as much as the next. Galloway likes dictators? So do most people, especially when the price is right, just ask David Cameron or Tony Blair.

Well good gosh blimey!

Galloway by 10,000 in Bradford West. Who expected that? Obviously he doesn't mean the same to me today as a few years ago and the result probably won't disabuse him of the notion that it's all just him, superstar politician, but this is a good thing. The House of Commons is better for George Galloway being in it (though he's much better use to the cause getting out and about the country, like he did before the Iraq war). This is a good thing.

This, on the other hand is a bad thing:





Virtually everything is 'fundamentalist' according to our overlords these days. Shame on the Guardian for putting out filth like this, for going along with the racist smears.