George Galloway has been sacked as a columnist on the Scottish political magazine Holyrood after he refused to retract his widely condemned remarks about the rape charges facing Julian Assange.
Holyrood editor Mandy Rhodes said the Respect party MP’s remarks that Assange was guilty of just “bad manners” by failing to ask permission to have sex with a sleeping woman, had left her “frankly gobsmacked”.
Rhodes said she had not always agreed with Galloway’s views but had respected his integrity. However, she said it was impossible for him to continue his column following his remark that having sex with a sleeping woman was “not rape as anyone with any sense can possibly recognise it” if she had already had sex with that man. – (Guardian service)