18 Comments

• Jonathan 9th Oct '07 - 12:34pm

  Do you think he’s seen the writing on the wall in Cornwall?

• Angus Huck 9th Oct '07 - 12:43pm

  “You mean the one that syas ‘Lib Dems win all 6 seats’?”

• Stephen Gilbert 9th Oct '07 - 12:50pm

  http://doughty.gdbtv.com/player.php?h=f151a9e78df204f64113d58f6017ce9e

  More on the post from Angus.

  At least two of the current Conservative candidates don’t even have homes in Cornwall – that is if you don’t count their second homes…..

• Jonathan 9th Oct '07 - 1:05pm

  I think the very first ‘writing on the wall’ (for King Belshazzar) translated as “you have been weighed in the scales and found wanting; your kingdom will be divided”.

  Some may think this is a particularly apt description of the Lib Dems’ reign in Cornwall…

• Chris 9th Oct '07 - 4:03pm

  That’s one less homophobic MP on the green benches.

• welsh and proud to be a liberal 9th Oct '07 - 4:58pm

  Murray, the Tory candidate in Breeds area, is a fiesty woman and is getting plenty points and sorry to say she deserves sucess – local,lives there, councillor, salt of earth and so on. As for the Tory women elsewhere they are Londoners with second homes which we will drive home to the death. Sarah Newton in Truro is a toffee nosed londoner and has a £700,000 second home. She has only just returned to cornwall after 25 years away. We understand her daddy has dozens of second homes south of falmouth. Fodder for the cornish voters when the time comes and housing becomes a painful cost. Caroline Righton
  is hardly here and has no roots for Cornwall except tenuous business and media failures in falmouth.
  The N cornwalls torys’ mummy in law lives in mid cornwall.
  The tories hardly exist in cornwall and are in-fighting so come on and give it a good go- all is not lost.

• David Morton 9th Oct '07 - 7:39pm

  I wasn’t very happy that he kept his front bench job while voting as he did on section 28 but I think “Homophobic” is a bit strong.

• Alex Wilcock 9th Oct '07 - 9:51pm

  Well, “genuinely homophobic” or “cynically appealing to homophobic votes” – I don’t know the man, so I don’t know which is true, but either way I was very glad when he was belatedly sacked from the Shadow Cabinet (as I was criticised for calling for at the time)…

  But I wish him well out of Parliament, and I hope the next Lib Dem selected is, well, a Liberal.

• Chris 10th Oct '07 - 10:34am

  And he voted against adoption. I don’t think homophobic is too strong at all, and I’m glad to see the back of him. Totally concur with the comment that the next Lib Dem selected in his seat will hopefully actually be a liberal.

• Duncan Borrowman 10th Oct '07 - 1:05pm

  Caroline Righton?
  What the same one that I used to work with in Camden and then in the Trocadero Centre off Piccadilly Circus?
  Cornish roots or dyed roots?

• Greg Lowis 10th Oct '07 - 1:08pm

  As I recall, he also voted against equal age of consent. IMHO no, homophobic isn’t too strong, so let’s bring on not just another Lib Dem, but a Liberal one this time.

• David Morton 10th Oct '07 - 3:03pm

  I wrote to CK at the time saying he should have been sacked from the front bench over section 28 if he didn’t resign. I just think Homophobic is over used as a word. I may be wrong on this occassion.

• mindstar 11th Oct '07 - 2:56am

  It wasn’t homophobic of him. Liberalism is defined by more than attitudes towards sex.

• Dan E 12th Oct '07 - 8:58am

  Mindstar, that’s of course true, but liberalism means an attitude which allows other peole to make their own choices as long as they don’t violate the rights of other people to make their own choices, and clearly Breed was against allowing homosexuals to make their own choices.

  Probably his religious views and his position as a lay preacher have affected his voting patterns, but though liberalism is for religious freedom, a true liberal can distinguish his political and religious views, and support a legal right for people to make their own choices, even if he wouldn’t approve those choices from his religious point of view.

• Malcolm Lidbury 26th Feb '08 - 12:46pm

  Just google it…..

  and find out just how HOMOPHOBIC it is in Cornwall under the Lib Dems…

  search:- Gay Cornwall homophobia

• ColinW 26th Feb '08 - 2:43pm

  Glad the awful Breed is going. We don’t want any more religious bigots representing our party. I detest the way these believers in imaginary friends bring their superstitious crap into politics. No more @rsewipes please.

• Hywel Morgan 26th Feb '08 - 4:23pm

  “Probably his religious views and his position as a lay preacher have affected his voting patterns”

  Alan Beith and Roger Roberts seem to manage.

• Malcolm Lidbury 11th Apr '08 - 9:06pm

  We just need to get rid of Lib Dem Andrew George Mp in Cornwall next…

  …and if you want to know why, just watch this video about Institutional Homophobia towards gay youth in Liberal Democrat Cornwall.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7eGX-Rux0

  It is from the youths own youtube channel