“Would you like a Zoo magazine?”

Absolutely, for the keeping of exotic animals in capotivity is another of my great interests. I so looked forward to reading about gorillas, giraffes and gerenuks.

What a disappointment !!

Only joking Justin!!!

Sexual freedom is something reserved for the elite. Upper class people, provided they stick to the 11th Commandment (“Thou shalt not get caught”) can do more or less what they like. The common people, by contrast, are expected to conform to strict behavioural norms. A lower class peson is only permitted sex outside marriage underneath an upper class person.

For Conservatives, homosexuality is the secret glue that holds upper class men together. A lower class man is only permitted to indulge if he is young and pretty and fancied by an upper class man. That is as it has always been.

The Conservative Party hasn’t changed a bit under Cameron/Gove. It is as odious and repellent as ever.

How does he wish to influence the content of their pages?

Does he wish to ban them? In which case he is no supporter of the free market.

Does he wish to reintroduce the censorship powers of the Lord Chamberlain or impose some kind of media licensing scheme? In which case he is no supporter of free speech.

Or do his connections exposed above suggest he may have some leverage with the the publishers and owners? In which case shareholders, readers and constituents alike will be concerned about the lack of transparency and unclear chain of accountability.

It seems a bit perverse for a Conservative to be attacking a publication which offers an outlet for conservative expression, so either Gove is in the wrong party, he is biting the hands that feeds him or Red Fig Ltd have provided these donations against their will and potentially through ignorance.

Nuts indeed.

“…there are some homophobes in other parties…” – this is the first time that I’ve ever heard a Lib Dem admit to this, so, in that respect well, done.

The Conservative Party has changed – and changed for the better. Your failure to grasp this is one reason why you’re lagging in the polls.

I don’t follow the logic that the way to take a party seriously is to ignore allegations of such financial hypocrisy.

While there are people in the Tory party who have spoken up on gay rights, and there are some homophobes in other parties, the Conservative party has consistently beeen the slowest to fight homophobia and has retained the greatest number of homophobes in its ranks. Any objective assesstment of the Tory voting record will bear that out.

What tough questions is he going to ask?
What is he pledged to actually do?
He is the modern Tory party personified,
window dressing devoid of content.

His oleaginous charm might be disarming to some, and his posing as an intellectual and cultural lluminary will convince the unwary. But make no mistake. Gove is Cheney’s man. His role in the Shadow Cabinet is to ensure that Cameron, Osborne and Hague pursue the objectives of the US military industrial petro-chemical complex.

The more mud we can throw at him the better for this country.