Could political correctness finally get Galloway?

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. Over the last seven days Galloway has annoyed almost all of the people in Britain who deserve annoying: first the stupid wing of the feminist movement who objected to his comments on rape, and now every other bien-pensant liberal monkey for his use of a term which I had thought was a perfectly reasonable term for someone who seems to be a bit thick.

Galloway made his remark on Twitter, natch, and the actual phrase he used in respect of a political adversary was ‘windae-licker’ — but the Scots demotic does not, apparently, lessen the gravity of his hate crime. It may even worsen it, as the phrase is used quite a lot up there, apparently. Galloway was immediately bombarded by scores of the politically correct and self-righteous, demanding he apologise and didn’t he know that there were many disabled people in Bradford who would be wounded, perhaps scarred, by his grotesque terminology.