British turkeys vote for Christmas (with more stuffing, please)
The saddest thing about yesterday’s local elections, and that for London Mayor, is that most people voted, somewhat predictably, from an utterly myopic perspective we could term the Dodo Mentality. Did people vote against Labour on the basis of how the party has eroded our civil liberties? No. Phoney war on terror? No. Licking Dubya’s arse? No. Attacking and occupying Iraq? No.
They voted against Labour only for the things that it is arguable Labour can’t be solely blamed for, if at all: the credit crunch, the food crisis pushing up the price of basic foodstuffs, the unaffordability and current unavailability of mortgages. I have many reasons not to vote Labour. Most of them are in the first paragraph above; none are in this one.
tags: blacks, Boris Johnson, Chelsea, clown, congestion charge, Conservatives, democracy, elections, environment, gays, General Election, global warming, greed, Ken Livingstone, Labour, local elections, political correctness, politics, poor, rich, sheep, SUVsThe Home Office must stop deporting Iranian gays and lesbians
The Home Office claims a gay person can return to Iran and avoid persecution by being ‘discreet’. Old queens in positions of power within the civil service are obviously harking back to the good old pre-1967 days here in the UK, when the only chance of getting a gay date was via a public toilet pick-up. With the exception of Quentin Crisp and Joe Orton, homosexuals were, for the most part, very discreet in those times. They lived secret lives, looking for love under cover of darkness, often suffering from depression, self-hate and other nasties as a consequence of our then-society’s persecution and stereotyping of same-sex relationships and behaviours.
tags: asylum seekers, bisexuals, death, freedom, gays, Home Office, human rights, immigration, Labour, lesbians, persecution, torture
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