Monday, 26 April 2010
Past and Present
In its last days before George Galloway bankrupts it in the libel courts, Harry's Place dredges up Ricky Tomlinson's ancient connection to the National Front. No one can be in any doubt that he has changed his mind. Unlike them and their fellow Euston Manifesto types where Stalinism (including the utterly unyielding Straight Left variety behind Harry's Place), fellow-travelling or Trostkyism is concerned. And unlike their Henry Jackson Society allies when it comes to Pinochet, Marcos, Papa and Baby Doc, apartheid South Africa, and that last's Rhodesian satellite, among a host of others. Indeed, at least one of those allies still campaigns for the restoration of apartheid South Africa.
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Rather difficut to bankrupt, through libel action, a blog now registered in the United States. Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteBut your hero, Galloway, quoted in 2002: "If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life."
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/16/iraq.interviews)
By all means find evidence Gorgeous George has recanted, but - er - it probably does not exist.
"Bankrupts it"? I thought Galloway was suing a private individual over a joke made on the Socialist Unity blog? Aside from the individual concerned being one of a large number of contributors to the group blog Harry's Place, what does this action have to do with them?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 7:49, he never said it, as I expect that you know.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 9:25, everyone who is anyone knows about this one. If you don't, then you are not anyone. Harry's Place is singing its swansong.