SIR – If anybody needs any proof that George Galloway doesn't understand quite what the fuss is about, all anybody needs to do is to look at his Twitter account.

Rather than apologise for acting as judge and jury and coining a truly bizarre turn of phrase (what exactly is “bad sexual etiquette”?), all he has done is launch a defense which consists of attacking those who disagree.

What he's failed to realise is that this is not about Assange at all – it is about unprompted comments Galloway believed he was justified in making.

Galloway should be brought to task for what he’s said. This isn’t only a slight against women, it’s an insulting and derogatory opinion that he is still attempting to defend, which casts all of us in his constituency as bigoted, unthinking, unfeeling idiots.

My kudos to the Respect leader for distancing herself from these odious politics, because this isn’t about the Respect Party either – these are the voluntary opinions of one man.

I fear that if Galloway does offer an unequivocal apology (which seems unlikely), it will be through clenched teeth, and what’s worse – an honest poisonous opinion, or an insincere and unwilling apology?

Charlotte Lydia, Little Horton Green, Bradford