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Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:41 AM Dec 2012

George Galloway is Sexist of the Year, Says End Violence Against Women

By Dominic Gover
December 14, 2012 4:38 PM GMT

Anti-war MP George Galloway has been named Sexist of the Year in a poll carried out by the pressure group End Violence Against Women (Evaw).

Galloway's YouTube rant in defence of sex crime suspect Julian Assange was enough to clinch the award, according to organisers ...

EVAW director Holly Dustin said: ... "There is huge concern that those in power have not yet caught up with our progressive laws on rape which say clearly that a sleeping person cannot give consent to sex ... " ...

Assange himself came third in the poll ...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/415321/20121214/sexist-year-galloway-savile.htm

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