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Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Sneering pomo Euros Dept. Our latest sneering poseur is another Brit, MP George Galloway, who went to a great deal of trouble to avoid meeting a Kurdish refugee.
Mrs Raper, a teacher who lives in north London, first came to prominence when she appeared on BBC'S Question Time and berated Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the columnist, for her anti-war views. "She should be grateful that as an Asian immigrant she has a British passport and not an Iraqi one," she said, to approval from the studio audience.

She turned her sights on Mr Galloway last week when the MP called on British troops not to fight and urged Arab leaders to "stand by the Iraqi people". . . . Mrs Raper was keen to make him hear her views.
And MP Galloway was just as keen to avoid hearing a walking, talking fact which contradicted his fantasy, leading to a cat-and-mouse chase across London worthy of an Ealing Studios production.

(via Damian Penny)