There has been a lot of talk about George Galloway in recent days, much of it negative and almost all of it true. But one charge thrown at the new member for Rochdale – winner of a byelection victory last week as sweeping as the triumph he recorded in Bradford West more than a decade ago – is false and unfair.
Start with the accusations that stand up. Galloway poses as a man of the left – his latest vehicle is called the Workers party of Britain.