Is it a bit redundant to point out the duplicity of tyrants and hypocrisy of demagogues when the greater mass of humanity is already firmly aligned against these kinds of quacks?

As George Galloway's electoral victory in Bradford West shows, it is far from clear that voters can recognize evil when it comes up to their house and sticks a letter in their mailbox. His election campaign in a constituency he'd never lived in apparently consisted solely of a one-page note suggesting Galloway would be a better defender of Muslims than his Muslim opponent. Just before the election, the sadly naive Hasan Azfal wrote:

"Can anyone take this seriously? Is his campaign team really that stupid to think Muslims walk into the voting booth with a note on who drinks alcohol and who doesn’t?"

Apparently, it wasn't so stupid. And that appears to be pretty well what happened.

Oddly, not one mainstream media outlet has chosen to so much as mention this letter -- or for that matter, the scurillous sectarian methods of the Labour candidate who got beaten at his own game. Had a local Conservative party candidate put out something equivalent to such a vile bit of correspondence, it's hard to see how they would have avoided a national scandal.

Tribal and theocratic politics has found a home once again in Britain. 

Editor's Note: For those who may not be familiar with Galloway's miserable background, may we suggest the following:

• George Galloway Exposed As A Hypocrite
• The Demagogue
• George Galloway And A One-Sided War
• George Galloway Has Some Explaining To Do
• Galloway's Fascist Friends

Jonathon Narvey is the Editor of The Propagandist