Galloway hits out at 'sour grapes'

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Anti-war politician George Galloway has accused Oona King, the Labour MP he defeated at the General Election, of "sour grapes" and said it was he, not she, who suffered from intimidation during the campaign.

Mr Galloway, who won Bethnal Green and Bow for Respect in one of the biggest upsets of the night, disputed a claim by Ms King that the campaign had been dirty. He told BBC News 24: "Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? "She was the loser of the election and it's sour grapes.

"In fact, in so far as there was intimidation in Bethnal Green and Bow, I was the victim of it as a simple look at the press cuttings will make clear. "I was the one who was locked in a room with bearded fundamentalists who threatened to string up a rope and hang me for apostasy." Ms King, who is black and has a Jewish mother, has spoken of being abused as a "yid" and a "Jewish bitch" on the campaign trail.

Mr Galloway also said he had never asked the chairman of the appeal he set up to help an Iraqi leukaemia sufferer where he got his money from. Fawaz Zureikat's involvement in the Mariam Appeal was the subject of questions put to Mr Galloway at a recent US senate permanent sub-committee hearing in Washington. The committee is investigating allegations that Mr Galloway was allocated millions of barrels of cut-price oil by Saddam Hussein's regime under the UN oil-for-food programme.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-5084701,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

[Kipling]

1. Meow!

Bitchy!
I doubt there's much to it. Two or three whiney racist shits who had too much Guiness.

[Taxloss]

2. "I've been more intimidated than you!"

Both parties ought to be ashamed of themselves. This is precisely where communalism gets you - into dangerous and violent race politics.

[Vladimir]

3. To be fair, the loonies of

Hizb-u-Tahria would have probably been around anyhow (we saw them around Slough as well, and probably in a number of other places), as well as the lets-pelt-holocaust-victims-with-eggs scum. The media machine that followed this race just shone a nice spotlight on their activities, and so naturally the extremists had a field day exposing themselves...

[sweetheart]

4. Oona king, you supported the war

It was a bad decision and you were wrong, and you lost... duuuhhh!!!

Does it take rocket science to figure that out?