Tag Archives: lithuania

Mark Pack

Ed Davey condems Tory alliance with “extreme right wingers and homophobes”

By Mark Pack | Fri 2nd October 2009 - 8:40 am

A follow-up to Wednesday’s post about the Conservative MEPs’ alliance with Valdemar Tomaševski, a homophobic Lithuanian MEP, with Ed Davey now commenting:

This is yet more evidence of the shameful way that Cameron has taken the Tories out of the centre-right mainstream of European politics, and allied them with a lunatic fringe of extreme right wingers and homophobes.

Cameron has been at pains to portray his party as one of modern, ‘liberal Conservatives’. It is hard to see where this fits in with an alliance with parties which support homophobic laws such as this.

Posted in News | Also tagged , and | 5 Comments
Andrew Reeves

Opinion: Conservatives are complete hypocrites on LGBT issues as Section 28 raises its ugly head again

By Andrew Reeves | Sun 27th September 2009 - 7:45 pm

Do you remember Section 28, Clause 28 or even Section 2A? That awful piece of legislation introduced by the Conservatives back in 1988 prevented the promotion of homosexuality in schools. Thankfully it was repealed in Scotland on 21 June 2000 and then across the rest of the UK on 18 November 2003 – although living in Kent in 2004 was bad enough when the Conservative controlled County Council introduced their own mini-version of Section 28!

To be precise, the Act said; “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching …

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged and | 16 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Roland
    @Tristan Ward - "So, assuming there are no tax loopholes, what is the point of earning another £1 if the government take away 83p of it?" Depends on ...
  • David Warren
    It's a great pity that we only have one candidate who is eligible for this key role!...
  • John Kelly
    I guess we knew it but nonetheless it is disappointing that year after year the autumn Conference these days is always on the south coast - reinforcing the sout...
  • Tristan Ward
    @PM "The big divide is between {property owners} and renters. If you are serious about tacking inequality we’d need to factor in the economic benefits ...
  • Tristan Ward
    @Roland "whilst the salary was taxed at 98% there were other ways (before 1979) of taking the monies tax free". I'm not really sure what your point is. ...