Section 28, Dirty Tricks and the “gay” vote.
I’m reluctant to mention this as I’m not too comfortable with the Conservatives targeting the “Gay vote”. Couldn’t care less about them targeting people who happen to be Gay to vote for them, the more the merrier I say. But I’m a gut individualist who doesn’t like the idea of Identity Politics. As you can imagine I support people voting on whether the policies of a political party will be good for them and their country, not whether the government is proffering tax subsidised goodies and perks to their particular group.
Were the Tories right to apologise about Section 28. Absolutely, the government should not interfere in peoples lives, between the sheets or outside them as long as it doesn’t harm anybody else. And if Homosexuals wanted to point out to kids – look, this happens, there’s nothing wrong with you if you feel this way, and if you need to talk to someone about it you can do here, then the Conservatives were wrong to block this. Yet at the same time I also suspect that it wasn’t Homosexuals who were giving out helpful advice, but the Homosexual lobby who were pushing an agenda, which is a very very different thing. To them I would say the same thing that I say to the Government – don’t interfere in peoples lives.
We move on to Labour’s divide and conquer technique. Saying the party is rammed with Homophobes. I’m sure the Conservative party has Homophobes, but if you think it is confined to a section of the Tory party you are very much mistaken. I also suspect that if you stuck a gay person in a room of Conservative “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” they would be treated with a damn sight more courtesy and respect than a Labour Working Men’s Club in an old pit town. This is yet another attempt by Labour to create “issues”, slander the opposition, and create a belief that you need the state to look after you because you are incapable of looking after yourselves.
I suspect that Homosexuals, like every other strata of the population will be looking at the economic record of Labour and casting their vote accordingly. The Conservatives don’t really care anymore what you get up to between your own sheets, but they do want you to be able to afford the damn sheets in the first place. Thanks to Zanu Labours economic policy this is less likely. Like “Mr 10%”, this another blatant attempt to shore up what Labour see as a crumbling core vote. And as Ian dale says, Gay people have their own eyes and they can see what you’ve done to this country.
I found a great quote on the comment section of Ian dale's piece...
It's all clear to me now. I can't believe I didn't see it before.'The Tories plan to cut the number of UK homosexuals by 10%, whereas Labour is committed to investing in homosexuality. There will, in fact, be a 0% rise in total spending on all things homosexual under a Labour government. Labour has brought forward capital spending related to homosexuality, to help homosexuals through this downturn which, of course, started in America.
Labour is seeking to help the most homosexual members of society, whereas the Tories would do nothing. They are the 'do nothing party'.
I hope the leaked government memo above helps clarify the situation for all of you. It certainly worked wonders for me.
P.S. Reading the Labour apologists' posts has been a great source of amusement. I thought such pent-up frustration and bitterness was the preserve of the opposition, not the incumbent government? Ah well, best to get some practice in, eh?








