HE intervention by George Galloway, MP, into the controversy surrounding the Glasgow Govan Labour candidacy selection is as egregious as it was predictable.
While the democratic selection process in Govan resulted in the election by due process of Mike Watson, MP, Mr Galloway faced the prospect of a similar process in the new Kelvin constituency.
Despite the nomination of a challenger by party branches and affiliated organisations, his acolytes denied Labour Party members a vote on the candidacy and declared him elected.
The man who, in his present Hillhead constituency, was trounced in a members' ballot, then bailed out by block votes, described this travesty as ``very convincing''.
If anyone ``has no credibility and must not be allowed to stand'' it is the man who simpered about the ``indefatigability'' of Saddam Hussein before the smirking mass-murderer himself. Even Saddam Hussein's subjects got a ballot paper, if only with one name on it. Kelvin Labour Party members didn't even get a vote!
Mike Watson met his challenge and won by the rules. George Galloway ran away and hid behind the same rules he now denounces. We need no lectures on democracy from such a source, let alone crass and cynical demagoguery inflaming spurious racial division. And Mohammed Sarwar needs this type of advocacy like a hole in the head.
Stewart MacLennan,
64 Terregles Avenue,
Glasgow.
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