Do you share the very real pain of the disability lobby groups about George Galloway MP referring to someone with whom he was arguing as a window-licker? Maybe you do. I have never heard the term used except as a mild admonition to someone who had just done or said something stupid. For others, it seems to have a darker charge, for gorgeous George was inundated with complaints. Some chap from the mental health charity Mencap said that he was ‘appalled’ and that ‘hate crime and bullying are a daily reality for many disabled people’. Are they? Every day? Or is Mr Mencap overstating the case a tad? Even if they are I am not sure what this has got to do with Galloway’s lazily flung insult. It is a terrible thing to confess, but for the second time in a week I find myself on the same side as possibly the worst person in the British Isles.
Rod Liddle
Could political correctness finally get Galloway?
issue 01 September 2012
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