Interesting discussions...

[mrph]

The Labour Party, the Conservative Party and allegations of homophobia...

For what it's worth, I have to agree with the Conservatives on this one. They've changed. I still have a number of very major disagreeents with their policies, but IMO it's a few years too late for Labour to take this particular tack...

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[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Labour demonstrate their "support" for LGBT by addresing parades.

Conservatives demonstrate their support by having already had a "lifelong batchellor" as Prime Minister in the 1970s. We've already had our first gay prime minister. He was Edward Heath. Read between the lines! "Lifelong Batchellor" in the 1970s..?

We currently have two openly gay shadow ministers on the Conservative front bench.

With Labour, it's all about talking, speeches and spin. With the Conservatives, it doesn't matter about your background. Male, female, gay, black, white, Old Etonian, grocer's daughter, whatever - it doesn't matter in the Conservative party. What matters for Conservatives is what you can achieve, not what you can talk about. Conservatives like me firmly believe that everyone can acheive on their own merits, without being pigeon-holed into minority categories. Frankly the Labour insistence that each person be categorised into "black", "gay", "disabled", "upper class" or whatever is demeaning to all concerned.