UK Elections sabotaged by Homophobia

The UK elections have seen the main parties throw everything at the wall to get the vote. After thirteen years of a Labour government Britain is set to hit the polls in May. The main politicians keep smiling, keep up their TV debates and keep sending out their messages and promises of a ‘New Britain’.

 

I was never totally a Labour supporter after all the empty promises about cleaning up false expenses claims and the way the Labour Government took us into the war in Iraq, I was ready to look elsewhere, I seriously cant look elsewhere for a new government as The Liberal Democrats feel too unsure and the Conservatives have been consistently hard to believe, but now with their underlying homophobia, I am dead set against them.

 

David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party and recently he fumbled his way through a couple of interviews when the ‘Gay’ issue came up. Once he asked for the interview to be terminated as he got befuddled and tied up in his own words.

 

Nick Clegg the leader of the Liberal Democrats said that David Cameron has aligned himself with "nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny climate change exists and homophobes" within the European Parliament during the Leaders' Debate.

Later in the debate, Gordon Brown weighed in and said that David Cameron had aligned himself to "right-wing extremists" in the European Parliament.

 

On the website Politics.co.uk it’s stated – Senior Labour figures have expressed their anger after David Cameron failed to sack a junior shadow defence minister who compared the dangers of gay sex to the dangers of the front line.

Julian Lewis had explained he opposed lowering the age of consent for gay sex from 18 to 16 for the same reasons those aged under 18 in the armed forces were not sent to the front line in places like Afghanistan.

In a letter to a constituent, he wrote: "There is a seriously increased risk of HIV infection arising from male homosexual activity.

Home secretary Alan Johnson quickly called on Mr Lewis to resign after extracts from the letter, seen by politics.co.uk, were published.

 

 

More worrying, this week Conservative election candidate for Ayrshire North and Arran Philip Lardner was suspended for stating on his website that gay people were ‘not normal’.

 

It’s also had stated on his website that he “supported homosexual’s right to live the lives they want in private. But I will not accept that their behaviour is 'normal' or encourage children to indulge in it”.

Mr. Lardner then launched a lengthy defence of Section 28, which banned local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light but was later repealed. The website was then cleared of the offending article.

 

Mr Lardner had been reinstated to the party in 2008 after a previous suspension over claims he made racist comments by portraying former leader of white-rule Rhodesia, Ian Smith, as a hero.

 

Any government that alludes to coming into power who have issues with gay people frankly scares me to death. This issue actually might sway the people of Britain into voting Labour and Gordon Brown back into the premier seat, and rightly so, no society should have any discrimination against anyone’s sexual preference. We pride ourselves on our democratic process.

 

I don’t want to live in a country where men and women in power don’t think homosexuals are ‘normal people’.

 

The UK like any society have gay men and women in major leagues sports, in the forces, in the government, in the health sector, in the media and in power and to exclude them by sinister backhand jibes is despicable.

 

I hope the Conservatives have a good look at themselves after this election, I hope they have learned the lesson that we are a progressive people in the UK and not a group of homophobic slimy name – calling backward, intolerable people.