Galloway or the highway

The representative in Parliament of many of us who usually get on at Aldgate tube in the morning is covering himself in glory again I see. What planet is this guy on?

“Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony”.

Hang on a minute. I should be grateful that I am at least being defended from American hegemony while our friendly terrorists, “with the lightest and most basic of weapons”, are busy trying to blow up me and my neighbours. Now, like many of the people who get on at Aldgate tube of a morning, I am an average office–working stiff of no particular intellect, wealth or significance and not a member of the political elite like Mr Galloway. Hence, I am not privy to what is really going on the world and am no doubt unaware of all the clever schemes and conspiracies by which those of the elite may continue to get bloody rich at the expense of the rest of the world, so that they can ride around in a Bentley rather than getting on the damn tube. But I have an intuitive, dumb grasp of who my friends are and the act of attempting to reduce my person to its component parts via the medium of high explosive puts you outside that category. Incidentally, I haven’t seen George on the tube lately.