Poll: Which party will get your vote in the General Election?
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I just do not understand this Labour attack on Chris Grayling's comments about the B+B couple.
He says it shows the "Conservative party hasn't changed" and they are "flying in the face of equality" - what?? All Labour are doing are prioritising the 'equality rights' of one group above another (that of gays above Christians). It is disgusting.
He says it shows the "Conservative party hasn't changed" and they are "flying in the face of equality" - what?? All Labour are doing are prioritising the 'equality rights' of one group above another (that of gays above Christians). It is disgusting.
Care to post an opinion?
The Tories planning to do something that Labour should have done years ago (as found by parliamentary enquiries and ignored by Labour), in a catastrophe that shows the dangers of government regulation creating a moral hazard, and how governments must be held accountable for interference when it makes matters worse.
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I see no reason to have quoted me asking someone that posted a bare link, to offer an opinion on the matter when you've done no such thing...
Apologies, edited to make it clearer (I thought I'd multiquoted before)
Would it be an idea to reset the poll on this thread a few times between now and the election? With the old results stored in a post maybe
May give a good indication on how things are changing. Polls in the papers are all over the place at the moment.
May give a good indication on how things are changing. Polls in the papers are all over the place at the moment.
Maybe we should start again when Parliament is dissolved next week:
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It's also just been on News at Ten.
Do you really need me to? You know where i stand policticly
Labour are responsible for every ill that has befallen the country from the global financial crisis to the wet summer and cold winter. Under the Conservatives it will be all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. That about sum it up?
Not that I necessarily disagree with paying out to the victims of Equitable Life (tbh I don't understand the case and cba reading up on it), but you all realise that the proposed £1bn payout will probably have to be financed with more government debt right? increasing the deficit. No doubt some think we can finance this (and everything else) by not paying "benefit scroungers" but somehow I think the reality is quite different to this narrow point of view.
Personally I just hope that the weather is good on May 6th and there's a big turnout.
When it becomes a B&B. When you start running a business that serves the public you give up your right to impose your petty bigotry on your customers. You don't get to turn people away because their black and you don't get to turn them away because they are gay. Don't like it? Stop running a business.
I don't think this says much about the Tories, although it is a rather disturbing sentiment from a man that's positioned to be our next Home Secretary. I'd hope for rather better from such a man.
Surely the issue here is forcing your opinion on someone else rather than bigotry against gays.
Businesses have the right to refuse service to anybody at the end of the day, if they choose to turn away business because they dont like gays, its only hurting their own pockets, its not hurting the gays.
Because being denied service never harmed anyone at all. "No Irish, No Black, No Dogs" ring any bells? Because I'm sure no Blacks or Irish were in the least bit harmed by that.I see no reason to prefer the freedom of bigots to impose their bigotry on others over the freedom of other people to lead normal lives without undue intrusion.
Yes, we do. Sorry.
More to the thread at hand, I doubt Grayling's comments will have any particular impact on their election hopes unless some other high ranking Tories put their foot into the same cowpat.
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