In a way I don't think politicians should be interfering in criminal proceedings by publicly condemning someone who has been arrested and and in custody.

My feeling is that just treating it as an unprovoked and serious assault on a 61 year old man that guy should be looking at a decent jail sentence.

However, the fact it seems no politician in this country can offer sympathy for Galloway after he sustains a suspected broken jaw shows the calibre of politicians we have representing us.

Pathetic

When someone was has a very brief flirt with a city and then comes along and stands outside its town hall and declares the city an Israeli free town, Jews not welcome etc. What do truly expect to happen?

Galloway got exactly what he deserved - he incites a potential racial time bomb in a city which he has used for his own ego-trip and then is not seen again. We even have the Palestinian flag flying from the town hall WTF!!

This.

I wonder what the reaction would be if a Muslim attacked any M.P who supported Israel's attacks on Gaza. Pretty sure we would have seen blanket condemnation in the press and in parliament.

It would have been dependant on the attitude and previous behaviour of the person receiving the beating. If they were as arrogant and myopic as Galloway then perhaps the reaction would have been similar - the reaction is about the individual, who many thought had it coming to him

There is also the small matter of course that the case is sub judice, and the defendant has reportedly denied the charges.

Oh that's ok then. lets beat up any politician, especially the over 60s, that we disagree with, and we can all find a politician to disagree with. What a way to go

And FWIW, the flag was raised by the council, not Galloway, in support of the murdered women and children of Gaza. Hey, lets beat up the council too

So if people think an M.P is controversial and 'had it coming' it's ok to subject them to a prolonged vicious assault? If that's the case Tony Blair had better watch out!

Nobody would touch Bliar. He's the Middle East Peace Envoy, and should he be absent from duties even for a short while, well, all sorts of trouble would break out in the ocean of sweetness and light that he has turned the Middle East into. If ever a man earned his wages, it must be him.

Far from me to defend Tony Blair, but don't you think that Middle East Peace Envoy might just be one of the most difficult jobs on the planet?

Or the easiest given that the expectation to be able to make the slightest difference to two millenia's worth of conflict is almost zero - draw the salary and then throw up your hands and declare "They're all fekkin nutters these people".

True!

I don't judge a man on how hard his job is, just on how well he does it. Bliar has basically done fsck all of any significance that I am aware of, unless you count being complicit in buying time for Israel to cement illegal settlements in the West Bank. It is not just me. Wherever I look for opinions, the general consensus is that in seven years he has achieved almost nothing. I was certain his appointment was a mistake but he has had the chance to prove the doubters wrong. If it was too difficult for him he could step down at any time. To be in a critically important job for seven years and achieve basically nothing is what seems pointless to me.

To be fair to him, he is not paid for this role, and doesn't need the stick and vitriol he seems to manage to get from nearly all sides, he could make even more than the millions he does if he sacked his pro bono work, but to me his continuation in the role is as ridiculous as the idea that he was the best candidate in the first place.