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My Problem With Galloway 

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24.01.2025

Photograph Source: UK Parliament – CC BY 3.0

A golem is a figure from Jewish folklore. An entity fashioned from dirt and mud, endowed with a life force by some sinister mystic or magician and set into motion toward an evil and interminable end. Generally speaking – as a modern and rational human being – one probably shouldn’t believe in golems and yet, having said that, how else could one possibly explain the existence of George fucking Galloway?

For the Galloway is surely a creature fashioned from dirt and mud, endowed with a lifeforce of grotesque and fang-toothed malevolence that has somehow managed to concentrate every atavistic aspect of the prehensile, decaying Stalinist left.

For instance. The spirit of those old trade-union leaders of Victorian times, who made tub-thumping speeches demanding women know their place and remain shackled to the kitchen sink – who saw women entering the work force as a threat to the wages and position of the working-class male labouring in factory or pit – is very much alive in the ghastly Galloway. Only here it bubbles up into the realm of sexual politics where the issue of autonomy of labour crosses over into the autonomy of bodies.

The Galloway in this day and age – in all his rotund, tumescent glory – addressed a whole generation of modern women in order to uplift them, to explain to them in rather terrifying detail how, if they’d first had sex with a male partner, then their bodily autonomy was thereby relinquished. ‘Not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion’, opined ‘gorgeous’ Geroge with a roguish chuckle.

As a hard-lining man of stern Catholic bent, the Galloway in this guise was defending another Very Important Man, Julian Assange, who had allegedly penetrated without a condom a woman while she was sleeping, and penetrated (again without a condom) another woman; both women having made their consent to sex dependent on the fact that he first use protection.

But such trifling trivialities were obviously obsolete to a man of George Galloway’s erect, upright bearing – the hay that all these liberal, harpy feminists were making against Very Important Men on the left Fighting the Good Fight – could only ever be conceived as a CIA conspiracy designed to bring this or that Very Important Man........

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