"This one event has given me a lower opinion of the electorate than any other in my lifetime."

Same here, but then again ...

Where I will be moving to and voting next time is Croydon Central, where Geraint Davies narrowly lost his Labour seat. Davies has made some spectacular public relations cockups in recent years, and he paid dearly for it last night. Clearly the electorate there were no longer prepared to have such a chump as their representative (although they might have just swapped one chump for another, we have to see).

So, sometimes the electorate does listen, but I suspect in Bethnal Green and Bow there were more factors involved, I am sure most of these will be coming out in the next few weeks.

Galloway ran a particularly vile campaign, he and his associates used tactics that, whilst legal, were certainly abusive of the democratic system, like getting certain religious institutions to favour the vote.

It is not so much the opinion of the electorate that matters, but how that opinion has been coerced and manipulated.

Oh, don't mollycoddle the bastards. They were allowed to vote how they wanted, and they chose Galloway. Nothing he may have done to manipulate them lets them off the hook for that.

Galloway reminds me of a latter-day Manson figure trying to bring about "Helter Skelter" and leading the brown people into the revolution to overthrow their white oppressors.

He actually campaigned in Bangladesh!

Sheesh.